Stats, stats, and more stats

Google Analytics

Gary has sent out, and now Nicole is sending out, quarterly reports of the usage of our website from Google Analytics to some folks in the library. Now everyone who is interested can see the cumulated reports on the G drive in the “Google Analytics” folder.

Entryway

Security gates
If you don’t normally come through the front door, be sure to take a look at our new security gates. They are thinner and more attractive than the old gates and, together with some nice plants, grown from cuttings and nurtured by Nga and Tessie, really dress up the front entrance. We’ve requested some design changes to the new front doors but that project is still moving forward. We still hope to have the new doors installed by the end of the calendar year.

New front doors, security gates

The new front doors for the library are custom built items. Facilities is just going out on bid for them and once the contract is awarded it will be almost a month before they are delivered to campus and a little while longer for installation. Facilities hopes to have them in place before the end of the year. However, our new security gates will be installed soon. Javad is working with the vendor to schedule that installation.

COM Phx Topping Out

On Oct 5, the construction crew placed the final beam on the Health Sciences Education Building (aka HSEB) which will also house the AHSL Phx.

More photos are HERE.

Welcome Heather!, 4th floor

Welcome Heather!

Heather Hershey is our newest Clinical Education Librarian. Heather is a librarian at the Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center in Phoenix. Our third and fourth year students rotate through the clinical departments at Good Samaritan and Heather works with Sally Harvey to support their information needs.

What’s up with the 4th floor?

1. Ongoing noise complaints. We think one reason that we get so many complaints about people talking on the 4th floor is because of the dividers. A small group will be sitting on one side of the dividers. They may get a little noisy and they don’t realize that someone else is just on the other side of the divider, trying to study quietly. There are financial, logistical and ownership issues to work through on this. However, this week we negotiated permission to remove the “screens” that hang on the metal uprights. This will open up the floor a little and create more of a study hall atmosphere. It will give us a chance to experiment and see if the noise levels decrease in an open area. At the moment it’s too expensive to remove the uprights and Facilities is exploring options to sell or surplus them. Tessie has removed all of the screens in the center of the room. Run upstairs and take a look.

2. The College of Medicine would like to use the 4th floor for office space. We, and others, would like to see it used as “educational space.” That means study rooms, large and small, meeting rooms, classrooms, seminar rooms, etc. This discussion has gone on for two years and the final decision may depend on who gets money to renovate the floor first. If we should lose this race we will concentrate on creating desirable study space on the third floor. If we can find a way to retain use of the 4th floor we’ll do our best to make it a useful educational space for the benefit of the entire campus.

Please let me know if you have any questions.