Editor!
Congratulations to Carol who has been named editor of the Arizona Geriatrics Society Journal!
Exhibit and Reception
Please join me next Thursday, June 2nd in the Java City area for a reception honoring Dr. James C. Dunn. The reception runs from 2 – 4 PM with a formal presentation at 3 PM. It is being held in conjunction with our exhibit, “Opening Doors: Contemporary African American Academic Surgeons.”
Showing posts with label Carol. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Carol. Show all posts
Friday, May 27, 2011
Friday, January 28, 2011
Congratulations, Committees, Due Date
Congratulations Carol, Pat and Gary
Carol, Pat Auflick and Gary have coauthored a paper that was published in the January 2011 issue of the JMLA: Journal of the Medical Library Association. The article titled, “Upward evaluation at the Arizona Health Sciences Library” describes our supervisor evaluation process and relies on survey data that you supplied. The journal can be read online at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3016658/
Committee Appointments
We are still looking for volunteers rather than draftees for the “Transforming Services”, “Marketing and Promotion” and the “Emergency and Disaster Preparedness Plan” committees. Please let Joan, Sandy, Jeanette, Cindy or me know which committee you'd like to join.
Due Date for Supervisor Evaluations
The deadline for turning in your supervisor evaluations is Friday, March 11, 2011. Please turn yours in to your supervisor’s supervisor before that if you can. Thank you!
Carol, Pat Auflick and Gary have coauthored a paper that was published in the January 2011 issue of the JMLA: Journal of the Medical Library Association. The article titled, “Upward evaluation at the Arizona Health Sciences Library” describes our supervisor evaluation process and relies on survey data that you supplied. The journal can be read online at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3016658/
Committee Appointments
We are still looking for volunteers rather than draftees for the “Transforming Services”, “Marketing and Promotion” and the “Emergency and Disaster Preparedness Plan” committees. Please let Joan, Sandy, Jeanette, Cindy or me know which committee you'd like to join.
Due Date for Supervisor Evaluations
The deadline for turning in your supervisor evaluations is Friday, March 11, 2011. Please turn yours in to your supervisor’s supervisor before that if you can. Thank you!
Friday, September 24, 2010
Congratulations Carol, Strategic Planning, 4th Floor, Outlook
Congratulations Carol
Carol has had an article reviewing an online learning module published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. The citation is:
Howe, C. L. (2010). Review: Health care decision-making WebCT module for medical students. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 58(9), 1788-1790. doi:10.1111/j.1532-5415.2010.03026.x Congratulations Carol!
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1532-5415.2010.03026.x/abstract;jsessionid=EA85BBE59B62FE6D6C17F9C28BCEB555.d02t02
Strategic Planning
The Administrative Team has met twice to review and discuss the reports from the strategic planning teams. It’s obvious from the reports that several committees need to be formed. We’re also discussing which departments, committees or individuals should be involved in carrying out which of the Goals and Objectives and what the timeline should be for each one. The goal of the ATeam is to have the strategic plan in place so that everyone can write his or her own goals and objectives for 2011 based on the large plan.
4th Floor
Jeanette and Gary met with Dr. Crist on Tuesday, along with representatives from the Interprofessional Education Steering Committee and the Clinical & Translational Science Award proposal team to present our case for the 4th floor. The three groups are asking Dr. Crist to allow us to collaboratively create a mix of meeting spaces from single-person study rooms to conference rooms to a classroom and a large gathering area, along with a few offices. This proposal is still in direct competition with a request to fill the floor with the offices of the COM Dean and now UA Healthcare. However, we are cautiously optimistic that Dr. Crist is leaning strongly in our favor. Even if he accepts our plan there will be a long road ahead as we look for funding and work with architects to design a space that will be attractive and useful for everyone involved.
Outlook
As new computers have been installed, the users of those machines have been moved over to Outlook for email and calendar. Jose is planning to move everyone over before December 31. He will also plan to do at least one training session. We may do one training when about half the staff are moved over and another later as it is best to get the training when you are actually using the software. Most people find that they can use the basic functions of Outlook without training, but some guidance will help us to use more of the capabilities and to understand how the program works.
Carol has had an article reviewing an online learning module published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. The citation is:
Howe, C. L. (2010). Review: Health care decision-making WebCT module for medical students. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 58(9), 1788-1790. doi:10.1111/j.1532-5415.2010.03026.x Congratulations Carol!
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1532-5415.2010.03026.x/abstract;jsessionid=EA85BBE59B62FE6D6C17F9C28BCEB555.d02t02
Strategic Planning
The Administrative Team has met twice to review and discuss the reports from the strategic planning teams. It’s obvious from the reports that several committees need to be formed. We’re also discussing which departments, committees or individuals should be involved in carrying out which of the Goals and Objectives and what the timeline should be for each one. The goal of the ATeam is to have the strategic plan in place so that everyone can write his or her own goals and objectives for 2011 based on the large plan.
4th Floor
Jeanette and Gary met with Dr. Crist on Tuesday, along with representatives from the Interprofessional Education Steering Committee and the Clinical & Translational Science Award proposal team to present our case for the 4th floor. The three groups are asking Dr. Crist to allow us to collaboratively create a mix of meeting spaces from single-person study rooms to conference rooms to a classroom and a large gathering area, along with a few offices. This proposal is still in direct competition with a request to fill the floor with the offices of the COM Dean and now UA Healthcare. However, we are cautiously optimistic that Dr. Crist is leaning strongly in our favor. Even if he accepts our plan there will be a long road ahead as we look for funding and work with architects to design a space that will be attractive and useful for everyone involved.
Outlook
As new computers have been installed, the users of those machines have been moved over to Outlook for email and calendar. Jose is planning to move everyone over before December 31. He will also plan to do at least one training session. We may do one training when about half the staff are moved over and another later as it is best to get the training when you are actually using the software. Most people find that they can use the basic functions of Outlook without training, but some guidance will help us to use more of the capabilities and to understand how the program works.
Friday, February 5, 2010
Election, Discussion, Retrieval, Spirit
Brooke elected!
Brooke has been elected President of SABL (Southern Arizona Biomedical Librarians) for 2010. Congratulations Brooke!
Carol speaks!
Carol has been invited to participate in a panel discussion at a pre-conference symposium at the annual meeting of the Medical Library Association in Washington, DC in May. The symposium is about “informationist” programs – librarians with subject expertise who work closely with clients. Carol has been asked to take part in the panel on clinical informationists. Other panelists will represent Johns Hopkins, Vanderbilt and the NIH library.
MeSH Rebounds!
Mary Holcomb has been working with UAL staff for over a year to get the MeSH headings in the Innovative catalog to function correctly. Finally the problem was identified and corrected and now MeSH headings can be used to search the catalog with reliable results. Mary has also had a new MeSH feature turned on in the Serials Solutions A-Z list. When you go to eJournals ( http://zp9vv3zm2k.search.serialssolutions.com/?V=1.0&L=ZP9VV3ZM2K&N=100&S=T_AZ&C=A ), you now have a choice of selecting " a subject category" or "a medical subject category," the latter of which uses broad MeSH headings to search the electronic journal holdings.
Go Cats!
No, we in the office are not too lazy to take down the ornaments hanging from the ceiling. If you look carefully, a small basketball and UA Wildcats basketball posters have joined the red and blue globes. Our holiday decorations have been converted to a show of team spirit and will stay up through basketball season.
Brooke has been elected President of SABL (Southern Arizona Biomedical Librarians) for 2010. Congratulations Brooke!
Carol speaks!
Carol has been invited to participate in a panel discussion at a pre-conference symposium at the annual meeting of the Medical Library Association in Washington, DC in May. The symposium is about “informationist” programs – librarians with subject expertise who work closely with clients. Carol has been asked to take part in the panel on clinical informationists. Other panelists will represent Johns Hopkins, Vanderbilt and the NIH library.
MeSH Rebounds!
Mary Holcomb has been working with UAL staff for over a year to get the MeSH headings in the Innovative catalog to function correctly. Finally the problem was identified and corrected and now MeSH headings can be used to search the catalog with reliable results. Mary has also had a new MeSH feature turned on in the Serials Solutions A-Z list. When you go to eJournals ( http://zp9vv3zm2k.search.serialssolutions.com/?V=1.0&L=ZP9VV3ZM2K&N=100&S=T_AZ&C=A ), you now have a choice of selecting " a subject category" or "a medical subject category," the latter of which uses broad MeSH headings to search the electronic journal holdings.
Go Cats!
No, we in the office are not too lazy to take down the ornaments hanging from the ceiling. If you look carefully, a small basketball and UA Wildcats basketball posters have joined the red and blue globes. Our holiday decorations have been converted to a show of team spirit and will stay up through basketball season.
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Teaching and teaching!
WeSearch
Last week Pat and Annabelle again taught the We Search students and SIRLS Knowledge River mentors. The students, from Sunnyside High School, learned about finding reliable health information and created their own digital stories about a personal healthcare experience.
Prologue
On Wednesday AHSL librarians took over the “Prologue” - orientation for incoming College of Medicine students. Annabelle took on the classroom session – co-teaching with Dr. Sean Eliot about the principles and practice of Evidence-based medicine. Meanwhile the other half of the student group was in our lab, searching for the answers to their first clinical questions with help from Mari, Carol and Sandy. After an hour the groups switched places. Sandra Martin and I observed both sessions and it was great to see the new students so engaged in learning. They got a wonderful introduction to library resources and to our staff.
Last week Pat and Annabelle again taught the We Search students and SIRLS Knowledge River mentors. The students, from Sunnyside High School, learned about finding reliable health information and created their own digital stories about a personal healthcare experience.
Prologue
On Wednesday AHSL librarians took over the “Prologue” - orientation for incoming College of Medicine students. Annabelle took on the classroom session – co-teaching with Dr. Sean Eliot about the principles and practice of Evidence-based medicine. Meanwhile the other half of the student group was in our lab, searching for the answers to their first clinical questions with help from Mari, Carol and Sandy. After an hour the groups switched places. Sandra Martin and I observed both sessions and it was great to see the new students so engaged in learning. They got a wonderful introduction to library resources and to our staff.
Friday, August 29, 2008
Lots of news!
Nuñez to testify!
Annabelle will join Jana Bradley, Director of the UA School of Information Resources and Library Science (SIRLS), to testify before Congress in Washington on September 11 at 10 AM. They will testify as witnesses at the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities of the Committee on Education and Labor of the U.S. House of Representatives hearing on "Examining the Role of Museums and Libraries in Strengthening Communities." This bipartisan hearing will examine the role that museums and libraries play in strengthening communities and will look at the Knowledge River program which recruits Native American and Latino students to SIRLS and includes community outreach to teens to address health concerns in Tucson.
Carol also helping to govern!
Carol has accepted an appointment to the Arizona Governor’s Health Care Workforce Plan committee. She has already attended a meeting in the Governor’s Conference Room in Phoenix.
PHRILS & PILS
Don’t miss the new exhibits in the cases in 2101. They highlight the AHSL liaison programs in the Colleges of Public Health and Pharmacy. The exhibits were created by Jennifer and Annabelle.
Libraries or Librarians
Here’s a blog posting from Scott Plutchak, Director of the Lister Hill Library at the University of Alabama – Birmingham. You may agree or disagree but he has some interesting ideas about the core values of the library. The date of his post is August 27, 2008. If it’s been replaced with a newer post you’ll find his piece in his Archives on the left side of the page.
http://tscott.typepad.com/
Tribal Librarian’s Gathering
On Monday, September 29, the AHSL will be hosting a gathering of Tribal Librarians from around the state. A busy program is planned and there will be a variety of exhibitors. More details to come as we get closer to the date. Info at: http://phoenixfriends.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/you-are-invited-to-the-6th-annual-tribal-librarians-gathering/
From the College of Pharmacy Newsletter regarding incoming Vice President Dr. William Crist:
“Crist and his staff will occupy space on the second floor of Drachman Hall in the pharmacy wing, where continuing education and communications are currently located. Individuals presently housed in that space will be relocated.”
Annabelle will join Jana Bradley, Director of the UA School of Information Resources and Library Science (SIRLS), to testify before Congress in Washington on September 11 at 10 AM. They will testify as witnesses at the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities of the Committee on Education and Labor of the U.S. House of Representatives hearing on "Examining the Role of Museums and Libraries in Strengthening Communities." This bipartisan hearing will examine the role that museums and libraries play in strengthening communities and will look at the Knowledge River program which recruits Native American and Latino students to SIRLS and includes community outreach to teens to address health concerns in Tucson.
Carol also helping to govern!
Carol has accepted an appointment to the Arizona Governor’s Health Care Workforce Plan committee. She has already attended a meeting in the Governor’s Conference Room in Phoenix.
PHRILS & PILS
Don’t miss the new exhibits in the cases in 2101. They highlight the AHSL liaison programs in the Colleges of Public Health and Pharmacy. The exhibits were created by Jennifer and Annabelle.
Libraries or Librarians
Here’s a blog posting from Scott Plutchak, Director of the Lister Hill Library at the University of Alabama – Birmingham. You may agree or disagree but he has some interesting ideas about the core values of the library. The date of his post is August 27, 2008. If it’s been replaced with a newer post you’ll find his piece in his Archives on the left side of the page.
http://tscott.typepad.com/
Tribal Librarian’s Gathering
On Monday, September 29, the AHSL will be hosting a gathering of Tribal Librarians from around the state. A busy program is planned and there will be a variety of exhibitors. More details to come as we get closer to the date. Info at: http://phoenixfriends.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/you-are-invited-to-the-6th-annual-tribal-librarians-gathering/
From the College of Pharmacy Newsletter regarding incoming Vice President Dr. William Crist:
“Crist and his staff will occupy space on the second floor of Drachman Hall in the pharmacy wing, where continuing education and communications are currently located. Individuals presently housed in that space will be relocated.”
Thursday, July 3, 2008
Welcome April, Carol's Appointment, Stacks & Flashlights
New Clinical Education Librarian
I’m happy to announce that April Aguiñaga, of the Maricopa Integrated Health System, has applied for and been granted an appointment as a Clinical Education Librarian. April joins these librarians who work with our students, residents or faculty in supporting our educational mission: Sally Harvey and Lora Robbins from Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center, Phoenix, Becky Birr, also from the Maricopa Integrated Health System, Phoenix, Kathy Zeblisky from Phoenix Children’s Hospital, Phoenix, Marni Ditmar and Bruce Chandler from Tucson Medical Center and Kathleen Carlson from the Arizona State University Downtown Phoenix Campus.
Carol’s work
As many of you know, Carol has spent half of her time working on the Reynolds grant through the Section of Geriatrics in the College of Medicine. Her part of the project has been so successful and has brought in so many compliments that she was given an appointment as Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine, in the College. As of July 1 Carol will be paid directly by the Geriatrics Section for this appointment for the duration of the grant. We will continue to pay her for the remaining 51% of her library time.
Stacks project
As part of our efforts to insure that library space is used to the best advantage of our user community, we are working on a project to review our stack space. After rearranging the 3rd floor stacks during the move from the 4th floor, we have found that some areas of the collection are “tight” and some are packed more loosely. Collections cannot be too tight as we are still getting some paper subscriptions and we sometimes need to do some shifting.
It’s become clear that students like to have a variety of study spaces available. So we have started identifying journal titles that we own in print and electronically. Some of these print volumes are candidates for removal from the stacks. At first, this will help the shelving situation. Eventually we hope to carve out some small spaces in the stacks where study tables can be placed. Currently Collection Services staff are identifying titles that can be removed and the IS Desk staff are pulling the print volumes.
Flashlights
We’ve just purchased four emergency flashlights. They plug into the wall and come on automatically if the power goes out. They are located in these areas: Information Desk, Annabelle and Jennifer’s office, Interlibrary Loan, near the Bookeye scanner, and in the Administrative Conference Room in the office.
I’m happy to announce that April Aguiñaga, of the Maricopa Integrated Health System, has applied for and been granted an appointment as a Clinical Education Librarian. April joins these librarians who work with our students, residents or faculty in supporting our educational mission: Sally Harvey and Lora Robbins from Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center, Phoenix, Becky Birr, also from the Maricopa Integrated Health System, Phoenix, Kathy Zeblisky from Phoenix Children’s Hospital, Phoenix, Marni Ditmar and Bruce Chandler from Tucson Medical Center and Kathleen Carlson from the Arizona State University Downtown Phoenix Campus.
Carol’s work
As many of you know, Carol has spent half of her time working on the Reynolds grant through the Section of Geriatrics in the College of Medicine. Her part of the project has been so successful and has brought in so many compliments that she was given an appointment as Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine, in the College. As of July 1 Carol will be paid directly by the Geriatrics Section for this appointment for the duration of the grant. We will continue to pay her for the remaining 51% of her library time.
Stacks project
As part of our efforts to insure that library space is used to the best advantage of our user community, we are working on a project to review our stack space. After rearranging the 3rd floor stacks during the move from the 4th floor, we have found that some areas of the collection are “tight” and some are packed more loosely. Collections cannot be too tight as we are still getting some paper subscriptions and we sometimes need to do some shifting.
It’s become clear that students like to have a variety of study spaces available. So we have started identifying journal titles that we own in print and electronically. Some of these print volumes are candidates for removal from the stacks. At first, this will help the shelving situation. Eventually we hope to carve out some small spaces in the stacks where study tables can be placed. Currently Collection Services staff are identifying titles that can be removed and the IS Desk staff are pulling the print volumes.
Flashlights
We’ve just purchased four emergency flashlights. They plug into the wall and come on automatically if the power goes out. They are located in these areas: Information Desk, Annabelle and Jennifer’s office, Interlibrary Loan, near the Bookeye scanner, and in the Administrative Conference Room in the office.
Friday, June 6, 2008
Pogoe, Interlibrary Loan
Pogoe (pronounced Pogo-E)
The AHSL Geriatrics and Gerontology health topics page is this month’s featured website on the Pogoe website: www.pogoe.org Pogoe is the Portal of Geriatrics Online Education. Carol Howe created and maintains this page – great work Carol! Here is the text that accompanies the link to our page,
(http://www.ahsl.arizona.edu/topics/geriatrics/ )
This month’s featured site is the Geriatrics and Gerontology Web Page, hosted by the Arizona Health Sciences Library at the University of Arizona with support from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation and the Arizona Geriatric Education Center. This continuously updated website features the most recent evidence-based articles and other resources addressing major geriatric syndromes such as frailty, deconditioning and incontinence. “PubMed Alerts” – pre-formulated and automatically updated searches on key aspects of these syndromes are provided. The website also contains information on broader topics such as aging demographics, health literacy, clinical trials recruiting older patients, consumer resources, and professional associations.
Spotlight on Interlibrary Loan
Two years ago the four health sciences colleges asked the library to remove the fees that we charged for Interlibrary Loan. A plan was put into place, procedures were changed in the department and several bookkeeping changes were made. The first year was difficult financially, but the ILL budget is now balanced. Kathy, Jennifer and Laura have all contributed to making the ILL operation as efficient as possible. Last year ILL borrowed 4,214 items for our users and supplied 2,802 copies via document delivery. We also supplied 11,548 articles and books to other libraries. If you do the math you’ll see that the ILL staff is very busy! Thanks to Kathy, Jennifer, Laura and their student workers for providing this service to our users and to those at other libraries.
The AHSL Geriatrics and Gerontology health topics page is this month’s featured website on the Pogoe website: www.pogoe.org Pogoe is the Portal of Geriatrics Online Education. Carol Howe created and maintains this page – great work Carol! Here is the text that accompanies the link to our page,
(http://www.ahsl.arizona.edu/topics/geriatrics/ )
This month’s featured site is the Geriatrics and Gerontology Web Page, hosted by the Arizona Health Sciences Library at the University of Arizona with support from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation and the Arizona Geriatric Education Center. This continuously updated website features the most recent evidence-based articles and other resources addressing major geriatric syndromes such as frailty, deconditioning and incontinence. “PubMed Alerts” – pre-formulated and automatically updated searches on key aspects of these syndromes are provided. The website also contains information on broader topics such as aging demographics, health literacy, clinical trials recruiting older patients, consumer resources, and professional associations.
Spotlight on Interlibrary Loan
Two years ago the four health sciences colleges asked the library to remove the fees that we charged for Interlibrary Loan. A plan was put into place, procedures were changed in the department and several bookkeeping changes were made. The first year was difficult financially, but the ILL budget is now balanced. Kathy, Jennifer and Laura have all contributed to making the ILL operation as efficient as possible. Last year ILL borrowed 4,214 items for our users and supplied 2,802 copies via document delivery. We also supplied 11,548 articles and books to other libraries. If you do the math you’ll see that the ILL staff is very busy! Thanks to Kathy, Jennifer, Laura and their student workers for providing this service to our users and to those at other libraries.
Friday, March 7, 2008
Congrats Carol! + other news
Congratulations to Carol
Carol has been accepted to the Biomedical Informatics Course jointly sponsored by the National Library of Medicine and the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA. Acceptance comes with a full scholarship that covers all expenses for the seven-day course. Carol will be attending the September session.
Small Classroom
Between April 28 and June 27 there will be no computers in the small classroom. The computers in there are on loan from the College of Medicine with the understanding that they are pulled each year for use in student testing. Classes that require computers will have to be limited to the large classroom.
Carol has been accepted to the Biomedical Informatics Course jointly sponsored by the National Library of Medicine and the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA. Acceptance comes with a full scholarship that covers all expenses for the seven-day course. Carol will be attending the September session.
Small Classroom
Between April 28 and June 27 there will be no computers in the small classroom. The computers in there are on loan from the College of Medicine with the understanding that they are pulled each year for use in student testing. Classes that require computers will have to be limited to the large classroom.
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