Friday, June 27, 2008
Budget
You may have heard that the legislature has finally passed a budget for the coming year. Although this eases our worries about having ANY money to work with in early July it still leaves some open questions. The budget that was passed spares the universities from any really terrible cuts and is the better of the two budgets that were being debated. It approves about $1 billion in borrowing among the three universities for building maintenance and construction. Now the Board of Regents knows that they have to cut about $50 million from the budget for ASU, NAU and UA. They will have to decide how it is to be distributed. Then President Shelton, with advice from others, will decide how the cut is to be distributed among the Colleges. Finally the Colleges will decide how the cut will be distributed among departments. I will let you know as soon as we hear how the library will be affected.
Friday, June 20, 2008
Furniture
Some of you may have noticed a lot of furniture arriving this Friday afternoon. The law library offered us first choice on furniture that they don’t need. We have taken 90 upholstered wooden chairs, some stacking chairs and several tables. Some of the chairs will replace worn furniture in the group study rooms. The stacking chairs may be used in the staff lounge. Some round tables may free up other tables for use in group study rooms. Thanks to Linda and Javad for checking out the furniture and overseeing its move.
USPHS Meeting, SLA Meeting
US Public Health Service Meeting
Pat and Annabelle presented both a paper and a poster at the national convention of the US Public Health Service held in Tucson last week. Their topic was the Pima County Community Health Task Force, a coalition of the Pima County Health Department, the Pima County Board of Supervisors, the Pima County Public Library, the AHSL, the UA National Women’s Health Center of Excellence and the Colleges of Nursing and Public Health.
The poster showed the vision and mission and what each of the collaborators contributes as well as progress to date. The presentation described the history of the collaboration, where we are now, and our plans for moving forward.
Special Libraries Association
When a panelist dropped out at the last minute, Sandy got herself on a panel at the Special Libraries Association annual meeting in Seattle. The panel, titled "Embedded Librarianship: Background & Overview" was a discussion of libraries that have “co-located” librarians with their user groups as we have in Public Health, Pharmacy and Bio5. (photo credit to Jennifer!)
Pat and Annabelle presented both a paper and a poster at the national convention of the US Public Health Service held in Tucson last week. Their topic was the Pima County Community Health Task Force, a coalition of the Pima County Health Department, the Pima County Board of Supervisors, the Pima County Public Library, the AHSL, the UA National Women’s Health Center of Excellence and the Colleges of Nursing and Public Health.
The poster showed the vision and mission and what each of the collaborators contributes as well as progress to date. The presentation described the history of the collaboration, where we are now, and our plans for moving forward.
Special Libraries Association
When a panelist dropped out at the last minute, Sandy got herself on a panel at the Special Libraries Association annual meeting in Seattle. The panel, titled "Embedded Librarianship: Background & Overview" was a discussion of libraries that have “co-located” librarians with their user groups as we have in Public Health, Pharmacy and Bio5. (photo credit to Jennifer!)
Monday, June 16, 2008
A photo tour of Pharmacy & Public Health
Ever wonder where, exactly, Mari, Jennifer and Annabelle are when they're over in Pharmacy and Public Health? Here's a quick photo tour to see them.
Start out by walking up the "mall" toward Bio5 and you'll see the College of Pharmacy.
Head up the stairway on the northwest corner of the building (the first one you see).
Go in the door on the second floor (it's three flights up!)
Once inside, turn right and go through this door.
Staying to the right you'll soon spot Jennifer's cube.
And here's Jennifer!
After seeing Jennifer you can head across the building to the bridge that connects the College of Pharmacy to the College of Public Health. Once you cross the bridge you'll see a sign on your right.
Bear to the right, the a quick left after you pass the mailboxes and you'll come to Annabelle's office.
And here's Annabelle!
Here are two of our remote liaisons conferring with each other about some important matter.
And across the aisle from Annabelle's office is Mari's cube. Mari's on vacation so I'll get some photos when she returns.
Start out by walking up the "mall" toward Bio5 and you'll see the College of Pharmacy.
Head up the stairway on the northwest corner of the building (the first one you see).
Go in the door on the second floor (it's three flights up!)
Once inside, turn right and go through this door.
Staying to the right you'll soon spot Jennifer's cube.
And here's Jennifer!
After seeing Jennifer you can head across the building to the bridge that connects the College of Pharmacy to the College of Public Health. Once you cross the bridge you'll see a sign on your right.
Bear to the right, the a quick left after you pass the mailboxes and you'll come to Annabelle's office.
And here's Annabelle!
Here are two of our remote liaisons conferring with each other about some important matter.
And across the aisle from Annabelle's office is Mari's cube. Mari's on vacation so I'll get some photos when she returns.
LSA, Liaisons
LSA
Everyone who attended the end of year LSA Social last Wednesday was thrilled with the variety of morning treats. It was also a chance to thank outgoing officers Paula and Jeanette for their two years of service. We recognized Mary R. and Javad for their work over the year and welcomed Amanda and David H. as new officers. Thanks to LSA for keeping us involved with good works outside the library, for recognizing, congratulating or comforting staff members with cards or flowers and for organizing some really outstanding parties every year!
More visibility!
The latest issue of Lo Que Pasa is out with an article on our liaison program. The electronic version sent out to everyone has the first paragraph (and a link). The full story can be seen at: http://lqp.arizona.edu/node/276
Everyone who attended the end of year LSA Social last Wednesday was thrilled with the variety of morning treats. It was also a chance to thank outgoing officers Paula and Jeanette for their two years of service. We recognized Mary R. and Javad for their work over the year and welcomed Amanda and David H. as new officers. Thanks to LSA for keeping us involved with good works outside the library, for recognizing, congratulating or comforting staff members with cards or flowers and for organizing some really outstanding parties every year!
More visibility!
The latest issue of Lo Que Pasa is out with an article on our liaison program. The electronic version sent out to everyone has the first paragraph (and a link). The full story can be seen at: http://lqp.arizona.edu/node/276
Friday, June 6, 2008
Pogoe, Interlibrary Loan
Pogoe (pronounced Pogo-E)
The AHSL Geriatrics and Gerontology health topics page is this month’s featured website on the Pogoe website: www.pogoe.org Pogoe is the Portal of Geriatrics Online Education. Carol Howe created and maintains this page – great work Carol! Here is the text that accompanies the link to our page,
(http://www.ahsl.arizona.edu/topics/geriatrics/ )
This month’s featured site is the Geriatrics and Gerontology Web Page, hosted by the Arizona Health Sciences Library at the University of Arizona with support from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation and the Arizona Geriatric Education Center. This continuously updated website features the most recent evidence-based articles and other resources addressing major geriatric syndromes such as frailty, deconditioning and incontinence. “PubMed Alerts” – pre-formulated and automatically updated searches on key aspects of these syndromes are provided. The website also contains information on broader topics such as aging demographics, health literacy, clinical trials recruiting older patients, consumer resources, and professional associations.
Spotlight on Interlibrary Loan
Two years ago the four health sciences colleges asked the library to remove the fees that we charged for Interlibrary Loan. A plan was put into place, procedures were changed in the department and several bookkeeping changes were made. The first year was difficult financially, but the ILL budget is now balanced. Kathy, Jennifer and Laura have all contributed to making the ILL operation as efficient as possible. Last year ILL borrowed 4,214 items for our users and supplied 2,802 copies via document delivery. We also supplied 11,548 articles and books to other libraries. If you do the math you’ll see that the ILL staff is very busy! Thanks to Kathy, Jennifer, Laura and their student workers for providing this service to our users and to those at other libraries.
The AHSL Geriatrics and Gerontology health topics page is this month’s featured website on the Pogoe website: www.pogoe.org Pogoe is the Portal of Geriatrics Online Education. Carol Howe created and maintains this page – great work Carol! Here is the text that accompanies the link to our page,
(http://www.ahsl.arizona.edu/topics/geriatrics/ )
This month’s featured site is the Geriatrics and Gerontology Web Page, hosted by the Arizona Health Sciences Library at the University of Arizona with support from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation and the Arizona Geriatric Education Center. This continuously updated website features the most recent evidence-based articles and other resources addressing major geriatric syndromes such as frailty, deconditioning and incontinence. “PubMed Alerts” – pre-formulated and automatically updated searches on key aspects of these syndromes are provided. The website also contains information on broader topics such as aging demographics, health literacy, clinical trials recruiting older patients, consumer resources, and professional associations.
Spotlight on Interlibrary Loan
Two years ago the four health sciences colleges asked the library to remove the fees that we charged for Interlibrary Loan. A plan was put into place, procedures were changed in the department and several bookkeeping changes were made. The first year was difficult financially, but the ILL budget is now balanced. Kathy, Jennifer and Laura have all contributed to making the ILL operation as efficient as possible. Last year ILL borrowed 4,214 items for our users and supplied 2,802 copies via document delivery. We also supplied 11,548 articles and books to other libraries. If you do the math you’ll see that the ILL staff is very busy! Thanks to Kathy, Jennifer, Laura and their student workers for providing this service to our users and to those at other libraries.
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