February 2022 | Issue 399

The Medical Center Library & Archives annually collects facts, figures, and accomplishments of the Library and staff members and produces an annual snapshot. Take a look at some the highlights from the work completed in 2021.

Read about the activities of the Medical Center Library & Archives in our recently released 2021 Snapshot!

How can I get assistance?
Our Service Desk (Level 2R) is open Monday–Friday, 8:00a–5:00p. You may still contact Library staff through our chat function between 9a and 5p, Monday through Friday. Library staff are available to meet with faculty, staff, and students by phone, email, and WebEx or Zoom. Library classes are all held online.

Is the Seeley G. Mudd building accessible?
Access to the Medical Center Library & Archives requires a Duke Health badge. Non-Duke individuals do not have access to the building at this time. All patrons and staff using the facility are expected to follow Duke's policies. No food is currently allowed.

What spaces in the Library are available?
Library study rooms, cubicles, and open spaces are available Monday – Thursday: 8 am – 10 pm; Friday: 8 am – 5 pm; and Saturday – Sunday: 10 am – 10 pm. Reservations are still required for group study spaces and cubicles. Once reserved, you will only need to check-in at your space and not at the Lobby Desk. Any open tables, soft seating, PIN stations, and computers are all available for use without reservation. 

How can I get a book?
Book stacks (Level 1) are open and available for individual browsing with no reservation required. To borrow books, enter your Duke NetID and password in the self checkout machine in the Reading Room on Level 1. If you prefer to have a book pulled for you and made available for pick up, that will remain an option as well. Simply place a hold in the online catalog for the book you need.

How can I return a book I have borrowed?
Please return books to the book drop located to the left of the Library's front entrance.

Can I make requests for Interlibrary Loan items? 
Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery Services are available to fill routine article requests. Older and more obscure articles may be more difficult to acquire. Book borrowing may be limited with delays.

If you are a Duke clinician, faculty, or staff member and have an urgent request for a full-text article(s) related to direct patient care or COVID-19, please alert us in the notes field on the request form.

Please note: Access to Document Delivery/Interlibrary Loan Services is not available to affiliates or to other libraries.

How can I get materials for a class I am teaching?
The Library has strong digital collections for teaching and learning. If you need assistance identifying online materials for a class you are teaching, please reach out to your Library Liaison. If you need to place an item on e-reserve, please see our Course Reserves page.

Can I renew library materials online?
If you need to renew items, you may do that online using your Duke NetID and password. If you have any issues or concerns about renewing library materials, please contact Anu Moorthy, Associate Director for Content & Discovery, 

Are printers and scanners available?
Printers and scanners are available for use with no reservation required. See Computers & Equipment for more information.

If you have questions or concerns, please contact Megan von Isenburg, Associate Dean for Library Services & Archives, at megan.vonisenburg@duke.edu. or complete our feeback form.

Library study rooms, cubicles, and open spaces are available Monday – Thursday: 8 am – 10 pm; Friday: 8 am – 5 pm; and Saturday – Sunday: 10 am – 10 pm for Duke Health badge holders. Reservations are required for group study spaces and cubicles. Once reserved, you will only need to check-in at your space.  Any open tables, soft seating, PIN stations, and computers are all available for use without reservation. 

Designated spaces are located on all levels of the Library.  To ensure you will have a place to work, reserve a space before you arrive. You will receive a confirmation email with a code once you make the reservation.

You will need to check in at the reserved space  within 15 minutes from the reservation start time. Seats that are not claimed will be released. For more details on reservable space policies and procedures, see https://mclibrary.duke.libcal.com/reserve/seats.

Lucy Waldrop, Associate University Archivist, Medical Center Archives

The Duke University Medical Center Archives (DUMCA) actively collects official records of the departments and divisions of the Duke University Medical Center (DUMC) and the Duke University Health System (DUHS). These include a variety of materials providing evidence of business, interests, and activities through the years. By collecting, preserving, and making  materials accessible that provide evidence of day to day operations, Archives serves as the institutional memory of the DUMC and DUHS. Guided by our collection development policy, we strive to document the intellectual, administrative, social, cultural, and visual history in order to provide evidence of past actions and an understanding of the structure and history of the DUMC and DUHS.

The following archival categories include materials added in 2021 as both new collections and additions to existing collections.

	Personal Papers Also called manuscript collections, personal papers are records created and originally kept by an individual covering all aspects of daily life. Bruce R. Donald Papers Helen Rearden Nursing Memorabilia Joseph W. Beard Papers Louanne Watley Nursing Memorabilia Onyekwere E. Akwari Papers Robert H. Jones Papers Garnett H. Kelsoe Laboratory Notebooks Paul L. Modrich Laboratory Notebooks
	Administrative Records These documents are preserved because they facilitate the operations and management of an agency even though they may not relate directly to programs that help the agency achieve its mission. Administrative records are common to most organizations and include routine correspondence or interoffice communications; records relating to human resources, equipment and supplies, and facilities; reference materials, routine activity reports, work assignments, appointment books, and telephone logs. Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development Records Davison Society Records Department of Community and Family Medicine Records Department of Medicine Records Department of Surgery Records Duke Chapter of the Asian Pacific American Medical Student Association Records Duke Chapter of the National Student Nurses' Association Records Duke Chapter of the Student National Medical Association Records Duke Chapter of White Coats for Black Lives Records   Duke Hospital Records Duke Immune Profiling Core Records Duke Med for Social Justice Records Duke Med Pride Records Duke Midwifery Program Records Eugene A. Stead, Jr. Physician Assistant Society Records Medical Center Library Records Office of Creative Services and Marketing Communication Records Office of Curricular Affairs Records   Physician Assistant Program Records Student Affairs Records Student-Faculty Shows Collection
	Oral Histories These are interviews that record personal recollections of past and historical events of individuals. Oral histories are often comprised of audio or video, transcripts, and other materials that provide context for the interviews. Ann J. Brown Carla W. Brady David L. Simel Diana B. McNeill Eddie L. Hoover John A. Bartlett Joseph Gerald Reves   Joseph O. Moore Kevin L. Thomas Marilyn J. Telen Nancy B. Allen Nelson Jen An Chao Pamela S. Douglas Paul R. Newman Richard McCann Rodger A. Liddle Stacey R. McCorison Thomas M. Bashore Walter Pories
	Collections A “collection” is what archivists call an artificial collection. This means that the materials were not collected or collated originally, but rather, were pulled together over time by archivists attempting to create a collection around a singular topic. Photograph Collection Publications Collection Subject Files Collection

To peruse the holdings at the Medical Center Archives, visit our Collections Listing. For more information, email dumc.archives@mc.duke.edu or contact us online.

Megan von Isenburg, Associate Dean for Library Services & Archives
Anu Moorthy, Associate Director, Content & Discovery

Several changes are coming to the journal collections at Duke.

Duke University libraries have been working together to renegotiate large "Big Deal" packages with Elsevier, Springer, and Wiley. Negotiations are still underway, but we expect that there will be journal cancellations and other changes starting in early 2022. These large "Big Deal" packages of journals function something like a cable or streaming package, where many titles are included for one annual sum and continued access is contingent on continued subscription.

We are making changes to both packages and directly-subscribed titles based on data for journal usage, impact, and costs with goals to meet research needs, maximize budgets, and foster a sustainable scholarly publishing environment. Please see our current list of journal cancellations and additions for 2022. To read more about the scholarly communications landscape, including open access, please see the Scholarly Communications section on our Website.

In addition to these larger modifications to our subscriptions, it is common for there to be changes to journal access at the beginning of every new year. For example, a journal may change platforms when the professional society that publishes it begins working with a commercial publisher or even switches publishers. These transitions can mean that newer content from the journal is on a different site. Among the hundred or so journals changing platforms this year, Neurosurgery and the Journal of the American College of Surgeons are two such journals that have changed publishers. For the most current and complete access, be sure to start your search for journal articles from our Library Website and let us know if you are having trouble finding or accessing journals.

Please email us at mclibrary-collections@duke.edu if you have questions or feedback, or if you're experiencing difficulties in accessing our collections. We are here to help you identify and access the information you need!

Steph Hendren, Research & Education

Duke users can access Kanopy from their TV and other devices to stream award-winning feature films, short films, documentaries, foreign films, and more for free. Below are some films from Duke's collection that focus on the African-American experience. Descriptions are excerpted from Kanopy.com. Find other video streaming services on the Duke University Libraries Research Databases page.

Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band
70 mins

From child prodigy to "Boggie-Woogie Queen" to groundbreaking composer to mentoring some of the greatest musicians of all time, Mary Lou Williams never ceased to astound those who heard her play. But away from the piano, she was a woman in a "man's world," a black person in a "whites only" society, an ambitious artist daring to be different, and one who struggled against the imperatives of being a star.

Not Just a Game: Power, Politics, and American Sports
62 mins

This powerful documentary, based on Zurin's bestselling book The People's History of Sports in the United States, is a fascinating tour of the good, the bad, and the ugly of American sports culture. It traces how American sports have glamorized militarism, racism, sexism, and homophobia, while excavating a largely forgotten history of rebel athletes who fought for social justice beyond the field of play.

Out in the Night: Criminalization of Race, Gender Identity and Sexuality 
77 mins   

Under the neon lights, four young African-American lesbians are violently and sexually threatened by a man on the streets of New York City. They defend themselves against him and are charged and convicted in the courts and in the media as a "Gang of Killer Lesbians."

Stuart Hall: Through the Prism of an Intellectual Life
80 mins

In this recently discovered and newly restored video of one of Stuart Hall's most famous lectures, he speaks with dazzling precision about the responsibilities of intellectuals and educators in the face of undemocratic structures of power, injustice, racism, and inequality.

I Am a Man: Black MasMasculinity in America
57 mins

This award-winning documentary links everyday black men from various socioeconomic backgrounds with some of Black America's most progressive academics, social critics and authors to provide an engaging, candid dialogue on black masculine identity in American culture. It features interviews with bell hooks, Michael Eric Dyson, John Henrick Clarke, Dr. Alvin Poussaint, MC Hammer, and others.

The Souls of Black Girls
52 mins

Daphne Valerious' award-winning documentary explores how media images of beauty undercut the self-esteem of African-American women. She surveys dominant white, light-skinned, and thin ideals of beauty that circulate in the culture, and talks with African-American girls and women about how images affect the way they see themselves. Commentaries are included from rapper/activist Chuck D, actresses Regina King and Jada Pinkett Smith, and others.

We are excited to announce the addition of NEJM Evidence to our collection. This new, monthly digital journal is focused on clinical study design and decision-making.

Lucy Waldrop, Associate University Archivist, Medical Center Archives

The Duke University Medical Center Archives is happy to announce that the collection of papers of Dr. Onyekwere E. Akwari (1942-2019), a Nigerian-American and the first African-American surgeon on the faculty at Duke University, has been processed and is open for research.

The collection documents the professional career and personal activities of Akwari and includes but is not limited to; correspondence; printed materials; datebooks, memorabilia, scrapbooks, certificates, and other personal papers; building plans; audiovisual materials; meeting minutes and agendas, photographs; newspaper clippings; publications; reprints; textiles; artifacts; and electronic records pertaining to Akwari's personal and professional interests and activities. Major subjects include the Society of Black American Surgeons (SBAS) and St. Titus Episcopal Church in Durham, NC.

In 1960, seventeen African countries emerged from colonial rule, and the African Scholarship Program of American University (ASPAU) awarded scholarships to enable highly qualified African secondary school graduates to obtain first degree training at United States institutions of higher learning. In 1962, shortly after Nigeria declared its independence from British rule, Akwari made the decision to leave his home country and travel to the US for university after receiving a scholarship through the ASPAU.

Akwari received his undergraduate degree from the University of Washington in 1966, where he served in student government. He received his medical degree in 1970 at the University of Southern California School of Medicine, where he served as class president in his freshman year and student body president in his senior year.

Akwari joined the general surgery training program at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, where his general surgical clinical focus was complex abdominal surgeries, and his research focus was neural and hormonal regulation of gastrointestinal motility. During his surgical residency, he provided six of his siblings with assistance to immigrate to the United States to obtain their undergraduate educations.

During a 6-month leave from the Mayo Clinic, Akwari implemented an Emergency Medicine Residency Program at the Martin Luther King/Drew Medical Center for the Southeast Health Region of Los Angeles County, California. Dr. David C. Sabiston, Jr., who was visiting Mayo Clinic as the 1977 Balfour Professor, was prompted by Akwari's research and clinical acumen to recruit him to the Duke University Medical Center as an Associate Professor of Surgery.  At the time, Duke only had two other African-American professors on faculty, and Akwari would be the second on the academic tenure track.

Akwari held an active surgical practice at Duke until he was struck with a chronic illness in 1995. Despite his illness, he remained a faculty member until his death in 2019. He served on Duke's Medical School Admissions Committee, Faculty Governance Academic Council, Athletic Council, and other Medical Center and University Committees. An advocate for expanding and celebrating diversity at the University, Akwari supported the introduction of women's and minority studies programs at Duke and hosted gatherings for fellow "first" African Americans at Duke.

Among Akwari's accomplishments was the formation of the Society of Black Academic Surgeons (SBAS). Along with three other African-American surgeons, he organized SBAS in 1989 to support the racial integration of academic surgical departments in the post-civil rights era.

Over the course of his career, Akwari published over 150 articles and book chapters and presented at 73 national and international meetings. He was a member of the American Surgical Association and Alpha Tau Boule' section of Sigma Pi Phi, a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada, past head of the surgical section of the National Medical Association. He also served on committees of the American College of Surgeons and the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract. His Duke awards include the University Scholar/Teacher of the Year Award, the Raymond Gavins Distinguished Faculty Award, and the Golden Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching Clinical Sciences. The inaugural Duke Classic of Duke Men’s Basketball was dedicated to Akwari, posthumously.

Many of the materials contained in this collection relate to Akwari’s community and family life in Abia State, Nigeria, including regalia, photographs of major events such as weddings and funerals, records of property held by his family, business requests, and funeral programs for friends and family members. Other materials record Akwari’s immigration and life after moving to the United States. Among these materials are travel documents, correspondence, family papers, event programs and correspondence, photographs, and various records related to his membership at St. Titus Episcopal Church.

A significant portion of the collection also pertains directly to Akwari’s medical and educational career. This includes publications, board materials, subject files, surgical slides, correspondence, assorted uniforms and university regalia, records for Duke Athletics, and images and recordings for university events. Also included are records connected to the foundation and maintenance of SBAS, such as photographs, event and workshop programs, meeting transcripts, correspondence, and video recordings.

This collection should be of note to researchers interested in studying the development of surgical medicine and diversity efforts at Duke University, as well as the larger history of African Americans in the United States medical field. This collection should also be of note to researchers interested in both studies of Nigeria and the African immigrant experience in the United States in the twentieth century.

To learn more about these materials, visit the Finding Aid  or contact the Medical Archives staff.

We offer a variety of online classes on research and searching topics every month. All classes are free and offered virtually, though registration through our Website is required. In addition to these classes, you can also request an online session for yourself or a group or schedule an appointment for a research consultation.

Victor Gordon, Associate Director for Administration

Welcome to our Library Students!

Congratulations to the following librarians on their promotions and reappointments.

• Sarah Cantrell: Promotion to Librarian
• Steph Hendren: Promotion to Senior Assistant Librarian
• Beverly Murphy: Reappointment to Librarian
• Lucy Waldrop: Promotion to Associate Librarian

Sarah Cantrell, Associate Director for Research & Education and Liaison to Graduate Medical Education, co-authored the following articles:

McDaniel CG, Commander S, DeLaura I, Cantrell S, Leraas HJ, Moore CB, Reed CR, Pahl KS, Tracy ET, "Coagulation Abnormalities and Clinical Complications in Children With SARS-CoV-2: A Systematic Review of 48,322 Patients," J Pediatr Hematol Oncol, Dec. 3, 2021.

Walsh C, Lewinski AA, Rushton S, Soliman D, Carlson SM, Luedke MW, Halpern D, Crowley M, Shaw R, Sharpe J, Alexopoulos AS, Alishahi Tabriz A, Dietch JR, Uthappa DM, Hwang S, Ball Ricks KA, Cantrell S, Kosinski AS, Ear B, Gordon AM, Gierisch JM, Williams JW, Goldstein KM, "Virtual Care for the Longitudinal Management of Chronic Conditions," VA ESP Project #09-009, 2021.

Samantha Kaplan, Research & Education Librarian and Liaison to the School of Medicine, has co-authored the following article:

Parker, LE, Kramer, RJ, Kaplan, S, & Landstrom, AP, "One Gene, Two Modes of Inheritance, Four Diseases: A Systematic Review of the Cardiac Manifestation of Pathogenic Variants in JPH2-encoded Junctophilin-2," Trends in Cardiovascular Medicine, Dec. 1, 2021.

Beverly Murphy, Assistant Director, Communications & Web Content and DUHS Hospital Nursing Liaison, has co-authored the following article:

Michelle Shi Min Ko, Pei-Fen Poh, Katrina Yi Ching Heng, Rehena Sultana, Beverly Murphy, Regina Wan Leng Ng, Jan Hau Lee, "Assessment of Long-term Psychological Outcomes After Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Admission: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis," JAMA Pediatrcs, Jan. 18, 2022.

Farewell to Barbara Dietsch

Victor Gordon, Associate Director for Administration

In November 2021, the Medical Center Library & Archives bid bon voyage to Barbara "Barb" Dietsch, who had spent 12 years working in Electronic Resources & Acquisitions in the Content & Discovery department. Thankfully, we do not have to look far to find Barb since she has taken a role as an Electronic Resources Management Specialist at the Duke University Libraries. Despite the interoffice address showing her workplace as Smith Warehouse off Buchannan Boulevard, she is happy that her new "gig" lets her work from home four days a week.

Barb has over 20 years of library experience and has worn several different hats over the years. When she was hired in 2010, she served as an Acquisitions Manager - checking in print journals, which were dwindling in numbers at the time. As our staff turned over and various tasks were reassigned, she became a cataloguer and worked in collections development.

Barb enjoyed picking out books for the Engel Collection, which offers a broad range of cultural and informative reading, including books of general and scientific interest not usually found in a medical library. To enhance this collection, she used the New York Times Book Review, stories she heard on NPR while driving to work from Bahama, and source titles of popular interest that connected science, history, medicine, and public health. Some of the most recent and popular volumes in the Engel Collection are there because of Barb.  

As Barb starts the next chapter of her career at Duke, we wish her the best in her new endeavors! We hope to continue working with her as a familiar colleague in the Duke library system.  

Lesley Skalla, Research & Education

Embase has ventured into the world of preprints by now providing article preprints from medRXiv and bioRXiv.

Preprints are early versions of manuscripts that are shared on public preprint servers prior to peer review and publication. 

The benefit to you is earlier access to biomedical information including randomized controlled trials which might be included for systematic reviews as grey literature. Keep in mind that preprints are not peer-reviewed and therefore should be used with caution. 

Embase clearly identifies an article as a preprint on the publication record. When doing searches, you can use the filter on the left hand side to limit Publication Types to “Preprint” or limit the Journal Titles to “medRXiv” and “bioRXiv.”

If you only want to search for preprints, you can add the limit [preprint]/lim to your search (e.g., COVID-19 AND [preprint]/lim).

Be aware that if you have existing Embase email alerts, preprints will be included unless you modify the preprint settings in your saved email alert. 

More details can be found in the November 2021 Embase Release Notes. If you have questions or would like to know more about preprints, please Ask a Librarian!

To highlight Black History Month, we are featuring a few books focusing on the African-American experience. Reviews are excerpted from Amazon.com.

African American Folk Healing
Stephanie Mitchem

Folk practices like curing a nosebleed by holding a silver quarter on the back of the neck, treating an earache with sweet oil drops, or wearing plant roots to keep from catching colds, are woven into the fabric of black culture. Within many African American families, these kinds of practices continue today and shape the concepts about healing that are diffused throughout many African American communities.

African American Women Chemists
Jeannette Brown

African-American chemist Jeannette Brown presents a wide-ranging historical introduction to the presence of African-American women in the field of chemistry. This book contains sketches of the lives of some of these women from the earliest pioneers up until the late 1960's when the Civil Rights Acts were passed and greater career opportunities began to emerge.

African American Alternative Medicine: Using Alternative Medicine to Prevent & Control Chronic Diseases 
Eric J. Bailey

This book focuses on the African-American health belief system and the treatment strategies often used and documented. It includes a cultural-historical view of alternative medicine's use within the African American community and shows how important it has been as an integral part of African-American culture.

If you need an article or a book not available at Duke, we've got you covered. Our Document Delivery/Interlibrary Loan (ILL) Service can find and share articles and print books from other libraries with Duke Health faculty, staff, and students. Simply complete a request form to get started.

Articles are generally available within 1-4 days and will be emailed to requestors as PDFs. Physical books can take longer, especially given library closures and shipping delays related to COVID-19.

Duke Health faculty, staff, and students no longer pay for this service. To expand access to articles outside our subscriptions, the Medical Center Library & Archives is subsidizing costs via an extended pilot program. Requestors may be asked to pay copyright fees if there are any associated with the request.

ZScaler, an Internet and Web gateway security tool, is being implemented across Duke Health. Users are reporting barriers to accessing Library resources when ZScaler is running on their Duke computers. For example, it may appear that Duke does not have access to a resource when we actually do.

We are working with DHTS on a strategy to allow access to Library resources. Full implementation is expected by March 1st. In the meantime, access to library resources while ZScaler is running can be difficult. We apologize for these ongoing problems.

Please report access problems to us via our "Report an Access Issue" form. If you need additional assistance, please email us at mclibrary-collections@duke.edu.

The Medical Center Library & Archives offers online training on a variety of topics. Request an online session for yourself or a group, schedule an appointment for a research consultation, or register for a class.

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