Thanks, Thanks and Shredding

Thanks to Mary, Dave and Amanda
Our Collection Services team has continued to do an amazing job this year. Despite flat budgets and constant price increases, they have kept our collection healthy and accessible and kept the budget balanced. On Tuesday I met a doctor on our faculty who said, “I don’t know how you do it but I rely so much on your collection and I find just what I need even with all of your budget cuts.” Collection Services has had to make some tough choices but have managed to meet most reasonable requests from our faculty. This has not been easy! Thank you!

Thanks to Nga
Nga has been very busy with a variety of projects. Last year she checked over 6,000 volumes of electronic journals against our print holdings. Nga has discovered missing issues and supplements. In some cases we can supply the missing items to the publishers who can add them to the digital versions. Nga also works on indexing some of the items in our special collections. In one case she is transcribing a print index so that we can make it available to scholars online. Thanks to Nga for all of this background work!

Convenient shredding
There is now a shredder located in the IS Desk Staff office on the second floor. There is also a new shredder in the library office.

Congratulations to Jose and Amanda

Congratulations Jose!
I am very happy to announce that Jose Solorzano has been awarded the 2010 Arizona Health Sciences Center (AHSC) Georgia Reynolds Dedicated Service Award. The award was established to recognize and honor dedication to the Arizona Health Sciences Center (AHSC). Classified staff and appointed personnel are nominated for the award by coworkers or supervisors from the University Medical Center, the UA College of Nursing, the UA College of Pharmacy, the UA College of Medicine, and the UA Zuckerman College of Public Health. Nominees must be employed at the Arizona Health Sciences Center for at least 15 years and show excellence in service to AHSC and the community to be eligible. Jose was honored at the AHSC awards ceremony on Friday May 7 when Chris Tisch, last year’s winner, presented the award on behalf of the AHSC Staff Advisory Council. Please join me in congratulating Jose.

Congratulations Amanda!
I am also very happy to announce that Amanda Escalante will be graduating from Pima Community College this weekend. Amanda has earned her AA degree in Liberal Arts and plans to go forward for a BA in Psychology. Please join me in congratulating Amanda.