| | | Title: | Head, Reference | | Rank: | Professor | | Dept./Unit: | Reference | | Library: | Kornhauser Health Sciences Library | | | Phone: | 852-8534 | | Fax: | 852-1631 | | Email: | Send an e-mail | | Building: | Library and Commons Building | | Campus: | Health Science | | | | Education:
| Degree | Major | School | Graduate Date | | MLS | library service | Rutgers | 1970 | | BA | history | SUNY Stony Brook | 1969 |
| | | | Job Description: | | Staff Information Desk helping patrons and answering telephone inquiries and email requests for assistance with reference questions, research work and using library resources including the OPAC and Internet accessible information resources
Teach instructor-requested classes on accessing the biomedical literature, searching MEDLINE on Ovid, and using MINERVA, the University's (Voyager) online public access catalog
Give library tours and orientations
Design library instruction handouts
Plan, publicize and conduct “house calls” and workshops on how to use MINERVA and MEDLINE for the Health Sciences campus
Act as library liaison to the School of Nursing | | | | | Selected Publications & Presentation: | Minick, Genevieve, and Michel Atlas. What’s the best strategy for bipolar disorder during pregnancy? Journal of Family Practice 56(7): 665-668 August 2007
Gordon, Lauren, Netra Thakur, and Michel Atlas. 2007. What hormonal contraception is most effective for obese women? Journal of Family Practice 56(6): 471-3. June 2007
Atlas, Michel C., Felix Garza, and Ren Hinshaw. Use of Laptop Computers in an Academic Medical Library. Medical Reference Services Quarterly 26(2): 27-36 Summer 2007
Atlas, Michel C. Library Anxiety in the Electronic Era OR Why Won’t Anybody Talk to Me Anymore: One Librarian’s Rant. Reference & User Services Quarterly 44(4): 42-47 Summer 2005
Atlas, Michel C. Retraction Policies of High Impact Biomedical Journals. Journal of the Medical Library Association. 92(2): 242-250 April 2004
Atlas, Michel C. Emerging Ethical Issues in Instructions to Authors of High Impact Biomedical Journals. Journal of the Medical Library Association. 91(4): 442-449 October 2003
Atlas, Michel C., Elizabeth M. Smigielski, Judith L. Wulff, and Mary T. Coleman. Case Studies from Morning Report: librarians’ role in helping residents find evidence-based clinical information. Medical Reference Services Quarterly 22(3): 1-14 Fall 2003
Atlas, Michel C. Ethics and access to teaching materials in the medical library: the case of the Pernkopf Atlas. Bulletin of the Medical Library Association
89(1): 51-58 January 2001
Atlas, Michel C. First year medical students impressions of the Internet. Medical Reference Services Quarterly 20(1): 11-25 Spring 2001
Atlas, Michel C. Ethics and access to teaching materials in the medical library. Medicine and Law 19(3): 463-473 2000
Atlas, Michel C. The rise and fall of the mediated searcher. Bulletin of the Medical Library Association 88(1): 26-35 January 2000
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