Showing posts with label Interlibrary Loan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Interlibrary Loan. Show all posts
Monday, February 21, 2011
New Scanner
The new BookEye4 scanner finally arrived last week in ILL to replace the earlier model that was purchased over a year ago and never worked properly. It is a welcome enhancement to the unit’s scanning operation. The scanning software that is installed on the machine is designed to work with the ILLiad application, so it’s not feasible to use the scanner for other library digitization projects at this time. Purchase of additional scanning software is being explored.
Friday, August 20, 2010
KRI students, Sarah, Furniture, ScienceDirect, ILL
Welcome to new KRI students
Please join me in welcoming our three interns from the SIRLS Knowledge River Program. Diana Almader-Douglas, Sara Tankersley, and Jamie Navarette will be working in various departments around the library, visiting other local libraries and attending the annual meeting of the Medical Library Association thanks, in part, to a grant from the National Library of Medicine.
Congratulations Sarah!
Congratulations to Sarah on her new job at the Downtown branch of the Pima County Public Library! We are sad to lose Sarah but happy that we have obtained an exemption from the hiring freeze and will be able to fill this vacancy.
Furniture reupholstering
Thanks to the new student fee money we have been able to reupholster 18 more chairs including two from the Information Desk.
Science Direct interruption
Access to ScienceDirect titles was down for about 24 hours and has had an impact on the libraries and our users. Mary and Dave worked with Steve Bosch at UAL (the main campus library) and Elsevier to get access turned back on. It appears that things are stable once again, but we're checking to be sure all options for pdf and html full text have been restored properly.
Interlibrary Loan
Our users may see a bit slower service in ILL while Kathy Tower is on vacation. Everyone is pitching in, including Nga, but demand has increased pretty dramatically with our faculty and students returning for the new school year. The ScienceDirect problem also resulted in many ILL requests for journals we license through ScienceDirect that normally users would have been able to access themselves.
Please join me in welcoming our three interns from the SIRLS Knowledge River Program. Diana Almader-Douglas, Sara Tankersley, and Jamie Navarette will be working in various departments around the library, visiting other local libraries and attending the annual meeting of the Medical Library Association thanks, in part, to a grant from the National Library of Medicine.
Congratulations Sarah!
Congratulations to Sarah on her new job at the Downtown branch of the Pima County Public Library! We are sad to lose Sarah but happy that we have obtained an exemption from the hiring freeze and will be able to fill this vacancy.
Furniture reupholstering
Thanks to the new student fee money we have been able to reupholster 18 more chairs including two from the Information Desk.
Science Direct interruption
Access to ScienceDirect titles was down for about 24 hours and has had an impact on the libraries and our users. Mary and Dave worked with Steve Bosch at UAL (the main campus library) and Elsevier to get access turned back on. It appears that things are stable once again, but we're checking to be sure all options for pdf and html full text have been restored properly.
Interlibrary Loan
Our users may see a bit slower service in ILL while Kathy Tower is on vacation. Everyone is pitching in, including Nga, but demand has increased pretty dramatically with our faculty and students returning for the new school year. The ScienceDirect problem also resulted in many ILL requests for journals we license through ScienceDirect that normally users would have been able to access themselves.
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.
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