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!
Showing posts with label Gary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gary. Show all posts
Friday, January 28, 2011
Friday, August 27, 2010
Shelving, IPE
Shelving projects
Dave has proposed a solution to several problems and the ATeam has asked him to move forward on planning. The library owns many items that should hang on walls – paintings and plaques – that cannot be displayed for a variety of reasons. Dave has proposed a solution involving the “annex” shelving in Collection Services. As part of this process some of the titles currently shelved there will move up to compact shelving. In addition, some of the older indexes from the reference area on the 2nd floor will move to compact shelving and some will be discarded. Additional study tables will move into the “new” space on the 2nd floor. We are just in the beginning of the planning for these projects.
Interprofessional Education
Sandy and Gary have been invited to serve on a newly formed AHSC Interprofessional Education Steering Committee. The group met for the first time this morning and is charged with planning and guiding programs that will teach AHSC (and Law and Social Work) students to work together as teams as they will have to do after graduation.
Dave has proposed a solution to several problems and the ATeam has asked him to move forward on planning. The library owns many items that should hang on walls – paintings and plaques – that cannot be displayed for a variety of reasons. Dave has proposed a solution involving the “annex” shelving in Collection Services. As part of this process some of the titles currently shelved there will move up to compact shelving. In addition, some of the older indexes from the reference area on the 2nd floor will move to compact shelving and some will be discarded. Additional study tables will move into the “new” space on the 2nd floor. We are just in the beginning of the planning for these projects.
Interprofessional Education
Sandy and Gary have been invited to serve on a newly formed AHSC Interprofessional Education Steering Committee. The group met for the first time this morning and is charged with planning and guiding programs that will teach AHSC (and Law and Social Work) students to work together as teams as they will have to do after graduation.
Friday, August 6, 2010
WeSearch, Four Corners
WeSearch
This year AHSL again coordinated and presented the WeSearch Institute in collaboration with the UA School of Information Resources and Library Sciences (SIRLS). Annabelle and Yamila worked with Sandy Littletree from SIRLS to provide a week of training for local high school students. Here is an update from Annabelle.
“I just wanted to give you a brief update on last week's activities. As you know we wrapped up the WE Search Institute week last Friday (7/30) with a wonderful celebration event held here at AHSL. First and foremost I would like to acknowledge and thank Javad, Tessie, Katie, Valerie, and Mary R for helping us get us through the week. Principally with patron and visitor traffic flow with respect to the fourth floor. We had approximately 20 family and friends of the students and program supporters attend the event to hear the presentations, meet the mentors, and learn about WE Search.
This year we will be partnering with Desert View High School, the other Sunnyside Unified School District high school. Our main contact at Desert View is Richard Montaño who recruited seven exceptional 11th and 12th graders. We have a few students who identify as American Indian, a key component of the program we lacked in the last two years. We have three great KR Mentors as well - Azul Gomez, Natalia Phillips-Portillo, and Andrea Goodrich.
. . . Here are a few highlights [of the weeks schedule]:
- We worked on public speaking and presentation skills for their health topic powerpoints.
- We focused on evaluating health information websites, as well as searching for health information resources related to Hispanic and American Indian health.
- We discussed health disparities in Hispanic and American Indian communities.
- We toured two Tucson neighborhoods with distinct SES characteristics. (To illustrate issues around health disparities.)
- We looked at community resources for health fair planning and community development. (They will take an active role in the Refugee Health Fair in October.)
- We toured the following information environments:
Mary Givins - Teen Librarian, Martha Cooper Branch Library
Aaron Valdivia - Branch Manager, El Pueblo Branch Library [Guest Lecturer]
Lynn Flance - Librarian, VA Hospital
Merlin Spiller- Arizona State Museum
Joe Labuda, Library Director - Pima County Community College West Campus
Alexandra "Alex" Rivera, Outreach Librarian - UA Main Library (UAL)
Roger Myers, Special Collections - University or Arizona Libraries (UAL)”
Thanks to everyone involved for a really great effort that lays the groundwork for these students to have a productive and educational year.
Four Corners
Last week Gary, Jacque, Jeanette and Yamila attended a meeting of the Tribal Connections Four Corners (TC4C) group in Gallup, NM. Before the meeting, Jeanette and Yamila visited the Hard Rock community on the Navajo reservation in Arizona. It was quite a drive from the Albuquerque airport to Hard Rock and back to Gallup. However it sounds as if some good relationships were formed. Yamila and Jeanette have been invited back. AHSL is helping the community with their walking club project with support from the TC4C and the Midcontinental Regional Medical Library (RML) in Salt Lake City.
The Gallup conference was supported by the RMLs at UCLA, Houston Academy of Medicine and the University of Utah. The purpose of the meeting was to review the accomplishments of the TC4C collaboration and to plan for the future. We heard from an excellent panel of a doctor, health educators and a librarian who work on the Navajo reservation, at the Indian Health Service (IHS) and the Laguna, NM public library. We also visited the HIS Hospital in Gallup that includes a hogan and sweat lodge used in traditional Navajo healing.
This year AHSL again coordinated and presented the WeSearch Institute in collaboration with the UA School of Information Resources and Library Sciences (SIRLS). Annabelle and Yamila worked with Sandy Littletree from SIRLS to provide a week of training for local high school students. Here is an update from Annabelle.
“I just wanted to give you a brief update on last week's activities. As you know we wrapped up the WE Search Institute week last Friday (7/30) with a wonderful celebration event held here at AHSL. First and foremost I would like to acknowledge and thank Javad, Tessie, Katie, Valerie, and Mary R for helping us get us through the week. Principally with patron and visitor traffic flow with respect to the fourth floor. We had approximately 20 family and friends of the students and program supporters attend the event to hear the presentations, meet the mentors, and learn about WE Search.
This year we will be partnering with Desert View High School, the other Sunnyside Unified School District high school. Our main contact at Desert View is Richard Montaño who recruited seven exceptional 11th and 12th graders. We have a few students who identify as American Indian, a key component of the program we lacked in the last two years. We have three great KR Mentors as well - Azul Gomez, Natalia Phillips-Portillo, and Andrea Goodrich.
. . . Here are a few highlights [of the weeks schedule]:
- We worked on public speaking and presentation skills for their health topic powerpoints.
- We focused on evaluating health information websites, as well as searching for health information resources related to Hispanic and American Indian health.
- We discussed health disparities in Hispanic and American Indian communities.
- We toured two Tucson neighborhoods with distinct SES characteristics. (To illustrate issues around health disparities.)
- We looked at community resources for health fair planning and community development. (They will take an active role in the Refugee Health Fair in October.)
- We toured the following information environments:
Mary Givins - Teen Librarian, Martha Cooper Branch Library
Aaron Valdivia - Branch Manager, El Pueblo Branch Library [Guest Lecturer]
Lynn Flance - Librarian, VA Hospital
Merlin Spiller- Arizona State Museum
Joe Labuda, Library Director - Pima County Community College West Campus
Alexandra "Alex" Rivera, Outreach Librarian - UA Main Library (UAL)
Roger Myers, Special Collections - University or Arizona Libraries (UAL)”
Thanks to everyone involved for a really great effort that lays the groundwork for these students to have a productive and educational year.
Four Corners
Last week Gary, Jacque, Jeanette and Yamila attended a meeting of the Tribal Connections Four Corners (TC4C) group in Gallup, NM. Before the meeting, Jeanette and Yamila visited the Hard Rock community on the Navajo reservation in Arizona. It was quite a drive from the Albuquerque airport to Hard Rock and back to Gallup. However it sounds as if some good relationships were formed. Yamila and Jeanette have been invited back. AHSL is helping the community with their walking club project with support from the TC4C and the Midcontinental Regional Medical Library (RML) in Salt Lake City.
The Gallup conference was supported by the RMLs at UCLA, Houston Academy of Medicine and the University of Utah. The purpose of the meeting was to review the accomplishments of the TC4C collaboration and to plan for the future. We heard from an excellent panel of a doctor, health educators and a librarian who work on the Navajo reservation, at the Indian Health Service (IHS) and the Laguna, NM public library. We also visited the HIS Hospital in Gallup that includes a hogan and sweat lodge used in traditional Navajo healing.
Friday, January 22, 2010
Strategic planning, publication
Strategic Planning
The Administrative Team spent a very productive day and a half working with our facilitator, Rick Forsman, to design a strategic planning process. We will use the All Staff meeting on Feb. 4 and another about two weeks later to begin this process. Watch for an email before the Feb. 4th meeting with a document for you to comment on. The ATeam is looking forward to working with you on this multi-part plan.
Articles on library space
In the latest issue of the Journal of the Medical Library Association I coordinated the publication of six articles describing how health sciences libraries have recently lost or been asked to give up space. You can find my introduction and the six articles (including one about our experience with the fourth floor) in the printed journal or online in the Case Studies section at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/pmc/issues/183881/
The Administrative Team spent a very productive day and a half working with our facilitator, Rick Forsman, to design a strategic planning process. We will use the All Staff meeting on Feb. 4 and another about two weeks later to begin this process. Watch for an email before the Feb. 4th meeting with a document for you to comment on. The ATeam is looking forward to working with you on this multi-part plan.
Articles on library space
In the latest issue of the Journal of the Medical Library Association I coordinated the publication of six articles describing how health sciences libraries have recently lost or been asked to give up space. You can find my introduction and the six articles (including one about our experience with the fourth floor) in the printed journal or online in the Case Studies section at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/pmc/issues/183881/
Friday, October 23, 2009
Research support, Harmony
AHSL support for research
Many of you know that we have been distributing surveys as part of a campus wide project to determine the support that various units give to research. This process lasts a full year but we just heard that, during the first quarter, 82% of our surveys were returned (that’s an excellent return rate.) In addition, 27% of AHSL use was in support of funded research. This is a measure of our value to the campus and is also an excellent number.
Recognition for our “artists”
The 2009 issue of Harmony, the humanities magazine of the College of Medicine has been issued. The library is well represented. Jennifer Lee has three poems in this issue, Tessie has three photographs, Gary has one photograph and Stef Walz has a piece of visual art. Take a look if you can find a copy of the magazine. All of the contributors have copies.
Many of you know that we have been distributing surveys as part of a campus wide project to determine the support that various units give to research. This process lasts a full year but we just heard that, during the first quarter, 82% of our surveys were returned (that’s an excellent return rate.) In addition, 27% of AHSL use was in support of funded research. This is a measure of our value to the campus and is also an excellent number.
Recognition for our “artists”
The 2009 issue of Harmony, the humanities magazine of the College of Medicine has been issued. The library is well represented. Jennifer Lee has three poems in this issue, Tessie has three photographs, Gary has one photograph and Stef Walz has a piece of visual art. Take a look if you can find a copy of the magazine. All of the contributors have copies.
Friday, April 17, 2009
Article published
Congratulations to Sandy and me. We’ve had an article published in the April 2009 issue of the Journal of the Medical Library Association. The article is called, “Embedded librarians: one library’s model for decentralized service” and describes the library liaison model at the AHSL. If you can’t wait to read it, the library, as well as many librarians, have subscriptions. It should appear in Pubmed Central soon at:
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/tocrender.fcgi?action=archive&journal=93
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/tocrender.fcgi?action=archive&journal=93
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