CUMC
L IBRARY & C OMPUTING N EWS
VOLUME 14, NUMBER 1
JANUARY 2015
Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library
Columbia University Medical Center
AMAZING THINGS ARE HAPPENING HERE!
R ESOURCE S POTLIGHT
NLM HARRY POTTER EXHIBIT COMING TO HSL
Being Mortal
Medicine and What Matters
In the End
By
Atul Gawande
In Being Mortal, bestselling author
Atul Gawande tackles the hardest
challenge of his profession: how
medicine can not only improve life
but also the process of its ending.
Gawande, a practicing surgeon,
addresses his profession’s ultimate
limitation, arguing that quality of
life is the desired goal for patients
and families. Gawande offers examples of freer, more socially
fulfilling models for assisting the
infirm and dependent elderly, and
he explores the varieties of hospice care to demonstrate that a
person's last weeks or months may
be rich and dignified.
Full of eye-opening research and
riveting storytelling, Being Mortal asserts that medicine can comfort and enhance our experience
even to the end, providing not
only a good life but also a good
end.
MLK DAY HOURS
On Martin Luther King’s Day,
Monday, January 19, 2015
The library will be open
regular hours,
8:00 AM - 11:00 PM
“In 1997 J.K Rowling introduced the world to
Harry Potter and a literary phenomenon was
born. Millions of readers have followed Harry
to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry where he discovers his heritage, encounters new plants and animals, and perfects his
magical abilities. Although a fantasy story, the
magic in the Harry Potter books is partially based
on Renaissance traditions that played an important role in the development of Western
science, including alchemy, astrology, and natural philosophy. Incorporating the work of
several 15th- and 16th-century thinkers, the
seven-part series examines important ethical
topics such as the desire for knowledge, the
effects of prejudice, and the responsibility that
comes with power. This exhibition, using materials from the National Library of Medicine,
explores Harry Potter's world and its roots in
Renaissance magic, science, and medicine.” (NLM Web site) Visit the online exhibit
and learn more at the NLM Web site:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/harrypottersworld/exhibition.html
This exhibition is brought to you by the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of
Health and is curated by Elizabeth J. Bland.
The exhibition will be on view at the Augustus
C. Long Health Sciences Library on the lobby
level of Hammer Health Sciences Building—
Teaching and Learning Center from January
19th to February 28th, 2015. It is free and
open to the public.
Please join us for an interactive presentation
exploring Harry Potter's world and its roots in
Renaissance science, magic, and medicine with
Joel A. Klein, PhD, on Wednesday, January
28, from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM. Refreshments
will be served. Costumes are encouraged!
For more information and registration,
please go to:
http://library.cumc.columbia.edu/harry-potters-world
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AMAZING THINGS ARE HAPPENING HERE!
MOVING TO EXCHANGE E-MAIL?
If you were contacted recently regarding CubMail disabling or receiving an Exchange email account and have concerns or questions,
here is a quick review that should help:
Messages addressed to your “[email protected]” account can still
be received, however you must have it set to forward to your Exchange “[email protected]” account. Visit:
http://cuit.columbia.edu/cuit/manage-my-uni and select the UNI Mail Forwarding link to set or double-check this.
Account space in CubMail will be removed, you will be notified by
email of the time frame though it is usually 31 days after CubMail is
set to be disabled. This means that any emails or other account data
you still have in CubMail will be deleted.
data since forwarding was set up, or you chose an option in forwarding to not keep copies of messages in CubMail; either way you may
not need to worry about downloading them.
If there are contacts, sent items, or other folders and data you want
to save from your CubMail account, see instructions on our website:
http://cumc.columbia.edu/it/howto/email/cub.html for Windows computers
http://cumc.columbia.edu/it/howto/email/cubmac.html for Macintosh.
Your Exchange email account will use a different password than
your UNI. The myPassword website at:
https://mypassword.cumc.columbia.edu can be used to instantly change or
troubleshoot problems with your Exchange login, similar to the Manage My UNI website. It is fine to use the same password for both
Exchange email and your UNI account, just keep in mind that they
won’t automatically synchronize if you change either in the future.
Information on why the move is happening is at:
http://cumc.columbia.edu/it/howto/email/upgrade.html.
To decide whether you need to download or otherwise save information from CubMail, consider when you first set up forwarding to
Exchange. Whatever was forwarded was sent to your Exchange account; check Outlook on your computer if it was set up to connect to Please contact us with any other questions or suggestions, we realize
Exchange, or log in to the Outlook Web App at:
https://
that email is one of the most important services used by CUMC facmail.cumc.columbia.edu/owa to see what messages and folders are there.
ulty, students and staff.
Chances are your messages are either duplicates of CubMail
FINDING YOUR OFFICE PROGRAM CODE
CUMC students are eligible for a free, full version of Microsoft
Office for Windows or Macintosh via the Microsoft Student Software
Portal: http://cuit.columbia.edu/cuit/software-downloads/microsoft-studentsoftware-portal.
If you don’t install the program soon after downloading, or need to
find your product key or other license information for it in the future, simply log back in to the software portal at:
http://columbiait.onthehub.com, select the Your Account/Orders link
in the upper right, and look for the program under the Order Details heading.
A Help link in the upper right of the portal has more answers to
common questions, as well as information on contacting support.
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CUMC Library & Computing News covers research & tech issues relevant to members of the Columbia University Medical Center community.
It is edited by Anca Meret ([email protected]) with tech content on page 2 provided by Kristin Mullane Shimada ([email protected]).