Writing and recording

News Articles

Yamila published two news items in the RML Newsletter, Lattitudes.  The first is about her trip to Chicago for the Radiological Society of North America conference on behalf of the Pacific Southwest Regional Medical Library.  You can read it at:

http://nnlm.gov/psr/newsletter/2012/12/13/reflections-on-the-rsna-2012-annual-meeting-in-chicago/

The second is a report on the 10th Annual Promotoras and Community Health Workers Conference, called, "Reflecting on the Essence of a Promotor."  You can read it by following this link: 

http://nnlm.gov/psr/newsletter/2012/12/20/reflecting-on-the-essence-of-a-promotor/

Recording studio?

Last summer during the meetings of the Library of the Future Task Force we heard that faculty members are being asked to create more and more online content, either for distance education students or for their on-campus classes.  Most often this is audio in the form of podcasts or tutorials with voice over screen shots or Powerpoint presentations.  After meetings with technical and educational staff from all of the AHSC colleges and BioCommunications, we are exploring the possibility of creating a small recording studio in the library for the use of AHSC faculty and students.  The most likely location would be one of the three rooms across from the IT Help Desk that used to be audio-visual listening/viewing rooms.  Don’t expect anything to happen quickly as there are a lot of details to work out.

Building, Money & Announcement!

4th floor progress

Workers from Facilities Management have almost finished clearing out the old dividers on the fourth floor.  Work was stopped during the exam study period.  I think the room already looks more inviting. The new study furniture for the floor was ordered this week.  We are waiting for a confirmation from the vendor to find out when it will be delivered.  I expect it to arrive in late January.  We hope to have a small ribbon cutting in early February.

Budget

No real news to report yet.  However, as I mentioned at the All Staff meeting, the Library Administrative office staff and Collection Services all contributed to putting together a notebook of budget information for the University Administration.  Yesterday Cindy, Anoma Phanthourath and I met with three of the senior financial officers of the university to discuss strategies for improving our budget situation.  Although they could not provide immediate answers they were very open to our presentation and promised some action in the next month or two.  We are “cautiously optimistic”.

Promotion!

Many of you remember Sandra Martin who visited us for several weeks a few years ago.  Sandra was participating in the National Library of Medicine/Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries Leadership Fellows program.  Sandra has just been appointed Director of the Shiffman Medical Library at Wayne State University in Detroit.