NYT, Carol and the LAC

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Congratulations Carol

An article in the New York Times refers to work that Carol did.  She is the anonymous “medical librarian” mentioned in the article.  The story also links to an article in The Journal of the American Geriatrics Society for which Carol is a co-author.

http://newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/24/hiring-an-end-of-life-enforcer/?_r=0

Library Advisory Committee

Our Library Advisory Committee will hold its first meeting of the year on Monday.  We have faculty and student representatives from each of the AHSC colleges on the committee.  They serve as a vehicle for communication with the colleges and offer feedback from the students and faculty members that we serve.  Our new student representative from the College of Pharmacy has already distributed a survey to classmates asking about the library.  We’ll hear the results on Monday.

Lights! Camera! Action! Chairs! Tables!

Recording Studio

We are partnering with BioCommunications on planning and constructing the new mini-recording studio (any ideas for what we should call this room?) which will be created in the first AV listening room as you enter Java City.  BioComm has worked up the specifications for equipment and will handle ordering it.  Facilities Management will be taking out the counter and repainting the inside of the room to provide good color balance for videos.  Professional lighting will be installed as well as a high definition camera and computer controls.  We already have people who want to sign up to use the room.  Once the equipment is ready for use BioComm will offer some training for our staff so that we can answer basic questions.  Anything beyond basic questions will be handled by BioComm.

After EPIC

We are getting price quotes for new study cubes for the 4th floor and new study tables for the 3rd and 4th floors.  With those in hand we will be ordering chairs for the new tables and to replace many of our older, deteriorating chairs.  I think we will be asking for volunteers in the future to form teams to deploy our new chairs and to redistribute some of the other chairs that have wandered around the building.

More EPIC

The EPIC “command center” is scheduled to cease operations on the 4th floor on Friday, November 29.  After that all EPIC help desk questions will go to UAHN staff in their regular offices.  The schedule calls for computers to be removed during the week of December 2nd and for the walls to come down the following week.  We have asked for 20 of the tables to be gifted to us to be used for student study.

The College of Medicine accreditation team will be here in mid-January.  Our goal is to have the 4th floor useful for study and looking nice before the visit!  There are 24 of the new study cubes currently at the UA warehouse.  We are hoping to have these installed on the 4th floor beginning in the third week of December.  We also hope to purchase 24 additional cubes (using the rent money from EPIC) that will be installed at the same time.  The remainder of the floor will be filled with study tables, also to be purchased with EPIC rent money.