Furloughs
I have no additional information on furloughs in the coming fiscal year (July 1, 2009 – June 30, 2010) beyond what you have seen in the memo from the President and Provost
( http://president.arizona.edu/prescomm_more.cfm?f_ID=97 ) which stated that all employees on state funding will be required to take five furlough days during the year. I’ll pass along any other information as soon as I receive it.
University support
On behalf of LSA, David Howse contacted Human Resources to see if they could present a session for library staff on layoff procedures, policies and support. HR will not be doing group information sessions relating to how staff might prepare for potential layoffs, or better understand HR policies during this economic crisis. They will, however, be available for individual appointments to answer questions and discuss issues unique to any staff member. If you have questions or concerns you can call HR for an appointment at 626-2600. HR is located off the main College of Medicine Lobby, the last door on the right before you enter UMC.
Stairway resurfacing
Beginning early Monday morning facilities staff will begin resurfacing the exterior stairway entrance to the library. They will be applying a non-skid surface. They expect the project to take a week to complete. We will be posting signs.
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Showing posts with label safety. Show all posts
Friday, February 6, 2009
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, May 4, 2007
SIRSI, Public Safety, 4th floor
Sirsi to Innovative
The Main Library has offered to split the cost with us to move off of our SIRSI library system onto the Innovative Interfaces, Inc. (triple I) system that they use. We had investigated paying for this ourselves several years ago and couldn’t afford it. This offer, along with money coming from the new student library fee, makes this project more affordable. Many staff from Resources are working with SIRSI, Innovative and staff from the Main Library to lay the groundwork for this change. There are many decisions to be made quickly if we are to reach our goal of moving over before the Fall semester.
Public Safety
Many of you were able to attend the presentation by Officer Romero of the UAPD yesterday. Officer Romero gave us advice and tips on how to deal with inappropriate behavior. Some of the many key pieces of advice were:
>If you feel in danger or uncomfortable, do not hesitate to call UAPD
>911 dialed on a campus phone will connect with UAPD, on a cell phone you’ll get TPD
>Practice good customer service – the nicer we are to unruly people, the harder it is for them to continue to act out and the harder it is for them to claim that we provoked them
4th Floor
Before Officer Romero arrived we had a quick discussion about the 4th floor. I met last week with Facilities Management and they made several suggestions. One was to limit access to the 4th floor after 6 PM to College of Medicine students.
Some of the suggestions made in our group discussion yesterday were:
>Limit access after 6 PM to AHSC Graduate Students
>Leave the purple room open to all who want quiet study, limit the rest of the floor to COM graduate students (COM physiology undergrads seem to cause many of the problems.) COM students would self-enforce with AHSL staff as backup.
>Experiment by making the 4th floor COM only during Board study times – coming up
>Several suggestions were offered for limiting physical access to the 4th floor.
No final decisions have been made. I will be discussing options with the College of Medicine. If you have any comments or suggestions, please share them with me.
The Main Library has offered to split the cost with us to move off of our SIRSI library system onto the Innovative Interfaces, Inc. (triple I) system that they use. We had investigated paying for this ourselves several years ago and couldn’t afford it. This offer, along with money coming from the new student library fee, makes this project more affordable. Many staff from Resources are working with SIRSI, Innovative and staff from the Main Library to lay the groundwork for this change. There are many decisions to be made quickly if we are to reach our goal of moving over before the Fall semester.
Public Safety
Many of you were able to attend the presentation by Officer Romero of the UAPD yesterday. Officer Romero gave us advice and tips on how to deal with inappropriate behavior. Some of the many key pieces of advice were:
>If you feel in danger or uncomfortable, do not hesitate to call UAPD
>911 dialed on a campus phone will connect with UAPD, on a cell phone you’ll get TPD
>Practice good customer service – the nicer we are to unruly people, the harder it is for them to continue to act out and the harder it is for them to claim that we provoked them
4th Floor
Before Officer Romero arrived we had a quick discussion about the 4th floor. I met last week with Facilities Management and they made several suggestions. One was to limit access to the 4th floor after 6 PM to College of Medicine students.
Some of the suggestions made in our group discussion yesterday were:
>Limit access after 6 PM to AHSC Graduate Students
>Leave the purple room open to all who want quiet study, limit the rest of the floor to COM graduate students (COM physiology undergrads seem to cause many of the problems.) COM students would self-enforce with AHSL staff as backup.
>Experiment by making the 4th floor COM only during Board study times – coming up
>Several suggestions were offered for limiting physical access to the 4th floor.
No final decisions have been made. I will be discussing options with the College of Medicine. If you have any comments or suggestions, please share them with me.
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