EPIC Update

EPIC training is scheduled to end around October 25th.  During the following week phones will be installed to convert the 4th floor into a “command center” for the EPIC launch.  At 3 AM on November 1st (Halloween night!) EPIC will “go live”.  The command center will be in operation 24/7 through the month of November.  About 150 employees will be there at one time or another to provide help desk services to UAHN.  Security guards will be stationed at the front door during hours when the library is closed.  We will be meeting with UAHN soon to discuss plans for their exit from the floor!

New Guide, Happy Anniversary!

NIH Policy Guide

Many of you know that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) now requires all NIH funded researchers to make their research publications available to the public through PubMed Central.  Joan has developed a guide to help researchers understand how to submit their articles.  The campus Institutional Review Board (IRB) staff has already publicized the guide through an email to all researchers.  You can see this extensive guide at http://azhin.org/nihpublicaccess

AZHIN’s 20th Anniversary

2013 is the 20th anniversary of the Arizona Health Information Network.  AZHIN is a consortium of over 30 hospital, clinic and academic libraries around the state that originally joined together to provide MEDLINE access.  Over the past 20 years AZHIN has evolved into an organization that not only jointly purchases access to electronic information but also provides web and authentication tools to it’s members and employs a librarian, Brooke Billman, to train members, to troubleshoot and to negotiate with vendors.  AZHIN has won awards and is a major force in ensuring that healthcare providers around the state have access to the latest and most reliable biomedical information.  Today AZHIN members, including founder Rachel Anderson, will be meeting at the Arizona Inn for a celebratory luncheon.

New baby, Yamila, Dave, Hawaii and a gift

Congratulations to Jennifer and Jim Martin!
Jennifer gave birth to a baby girl at 1 AM this morning.  Details later!

Yamila explains it all

Last week Yamila presented a webinar on the Affordable Care Act on behalf of the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records.  There were 119 people signed up – the largest attendance that the State Library has ever had for a webinar.  They are putting links up on their website so that others can view the presentation.  A representative of the state library said, “Yamila did an exemplary job in putting together the information and presenting it clearly. We are very grateful for the knowledge, skills, and abilities which she brought to bear in creating and presenting this webinar and others like it.”

Dave recognized

Dave’s work on the “Prescription for Health” video digitization project was recognized in Sombrero, the official publication of the Pima County Medical Society (PCMS) (Aug-Sept 2013, 46:7 p. 11).  The PCMS created a 30-minute television show for public access cable television that ran from 1983 until 1997.  Dave worked with BioCommunications to organize the digitization of 218 of the 284 known episodes.  You can search these episodes by date, topic or speaker and watch them online.  See http://ahsl.arizona.edu/spec-coll/pcms-pfh for the indexes.

Voyage to Health

Take a few minutes to visit this new exhibit that describes the Pacific voyages of native islanders, gives insight into native culture and has examples of medicinal herbs and plants from the College of Pharmacy collection.  Although small, this is a fascinating exhibit and the AHSL exhibits committee has done a great job of supplementing the NLM-provided banners with items in the display cases.

“New” map cases

Thanks to the main library we now have two new map cases.  Although gently used they are just what we need to store flat materials such as blueprints, some older diplomas, and other large format items.