Thank you Tessie!
Thanks to Tessie for organizing the staff picture, rounding up those of us who couldn’t be here for it and for putting together the nice collage. The photo will be useful for various promotional publications.
Welcome back Yamila!
Yamila El-Khayat a former Knowledge River Institute intern at AHSL and now a SIRLS graduate, has joined the outreach staff for a few months to participate with Annabelle and Brooke on the 3 border projects we are a part of:
-- Frontera Collaboration (with Texas and New Mexico academic libraries, and Pan American Health Organization)
--Promotoras project (aka Komen project)
--US-Mexico Border Centers of Excellence Consortium.
Yamila’s work is supported with grant funds.
New carpet smells
The new carpet tiles do not use any glue to hold them to the floor. There are small adhesive patches that hold them together. However there is still an odor generated from the carpet itself. The smell in my office has been less noticeable every day and, after two weeks, is not too bad. Expect to smell the new carpeting as it is put down in your area. Let the office know if you think you might need some accommodation.
Friday, April 9, 2010
Friday, March 26, 2010
Downtown Phoenix Medical Campus Building Approved
I (Jacque) received this yesterday!
Dear Coalition Member,
Congratulations!
Your work on behalf of the Downtown Phoenix Medical Center Health Science and Education Building (HSEB) has paid off. Several weeks ago, we asked you to contact members of the state legislatures’ Joint Committee on Capital Review (JCCR) and ask them to schedule a review of HSEB so that construction could begin. We’re happy to report that your voice was heard - earlier this week, JCCR gave a favorable review of HSEB, allowing construction to officially move forward! 2,000 new jobs will be created during the construction phase of HSEB and when complete, HSEB will provide space to train nurses, doctors, pharmacists and medical professionals that are critically needed in Arizona.
Thank you for taking the time to contact members of JCCR and for supporting HSEB – we know you are busy. If you have a moment, we would encourage you to send a quick e-mail to members of the JCCR thanking them for giving HSEB a favorable review. Let them know that you appreciate their decision and that this building will create valuable new jobs for Arizonans and provide new facilities to train medical professionals that will impact our quality of life.
Read about HSEB in The Arizona Republic and The Phoenix Business Journal.
HSEB Quick Facts
• HSEB is a tri-university project.
• Construction of HSEB is expected to begin in mid-April.
• HSEB will allow the College of Medicine-Phoenix to grow its class size to at least 120 medical students per year from its current 48 per year.
• HSEB will provide space for training 80 advanced pharmacy students at UA's College of Public Health and College of Pharmacy.
• HSEB will support over 2,000 nursing students at the ASU College of Nursing and Health Innovation and Department of Biomedical informatics.
• HSEB will assist with the start-up of NAU's Health Professionals Program.
Contact information for members of the Joint Committee on Capital Review below:
Russell Pearce rpearce@azleg.gov 602.926.5760
Paula Aboud paboud@azleg.gov 602.926.5262
Amanda Aquirre aaguirre@azleg.gov 602.926.4139
Sylvia Allen sallen@azleg.gov 602.926.5219
Jorge Luis Garcia jgarcia@azleg.gov 602.926.4171
Chuck Gray cgray@azleg.gov 602.926.5288
Al Melvin amelvin@azleg.gov 602.926.4326
Kirk Adams kadams@azleg.gov 602.926.5495
John Kavanagh jkavanagh@azleg.gov 602.926.3020
Rich Crandall rcrandall@azleg.gov 602.926.3020
David Lujan dlujan@azleg.gov 602.926.5829
John McComish jmccomish@azleg.gov 602.926.5898
Nancy McLain nmclain@azleg.gov 602.926.5051
David Schapira dschapira@azleg.gov 602.926.3028
Krysten Sinema ksinema@azleg.gov 602.926.5058
Steve Pierce spierce@azleg.gov 602.926.5584
Dear Coalition Member,
Congratulations!
Your work on behalf of the Downtown Phoenix Medical Center Health Science and Education Building (HSEB) has paid off. Several weeks ago, we asked you to contact members of the state legislatures’ Joint Committee on Capital Review (JCCR) and ask them to schedule a review of HSEB so that construction could begin. We’re happy to report that your voice was heard - earlier this week, JCCR gave a favorable review of HSEB, allowing construction to officially move forward! 2,000 new jobs will be created during the construction phase of HSEB and when complete, HSEB will provide space to train nurses, doctors, pharmacists and medical professionals that are critically needed in Arizona.
Thank you for taking the time to contact members of JCCR and for supporting HSEB – we know you are busy. If you have a moment, we would encourage you to send a quick e-mail to members of the JCCR thanking them for giving HSEB a favorable review. Let them know that you appreciate their decision and that this building will create valuable new jobs for Arizonans and provide new facilities to train medical professionals that will impact our quality of life.
Read about HSEB in The Arizona Republic and The Phoenix Business Journal.
HSEB Quick Facts
• HSEB is a tri-university project.
• Construction of HSEB is expected to begin in mid-April.
• HSEB will allow the College of Medicine-Phoenix to grow its class size to at least 120 medical students per year from its current 48 per year.
• HSEB will provide space for training 80 advanced pharmacy students at UA's College of Public Health and College of Pharmacy.
• HSEB will support over 2,000 nursing students at the ASU College of Nursing and Health Innovation and Department of Biomedical informatics.
• HSEB will assist with the start-up of NAU's Health Professionals Program.
Contact information for members of the Joint Committee on Capital Review below:
Russell Pearce rpearce@azleg.gov 602.926.5760
Paula Aboud paboud@azleg.gov 602.926.5262
Amanda Aquirre aaguirre@azleg.gov 602.926.4139
Sylvia Allen sallen@azleg.gov 602.926.5219
Jorge Luis Garcia jgarcia@azleg.gov 602.926.4171
Chuck Gray cgray@azleg.gov 602.926.5288
Al Melvin amelvin@azleg.gov 602.926.4326
Kirk Adams kadams@azleg.gov 602.926.5495
John Kavanagh jkavanagh@azleg.gov 602.926.3020
Rich Crandall rcrandall@azleg.gov 602.926.3020
David Lujan dlujan@azleg.gov 602.926.5829
John McComish jmccomish@azleg.gov 602.926.5898
Nancy McLain nmclain@azleg.gov 602.926.5051
David Schapira dschapira@azleg.gov 602.926.3028
Krysten Sinema ksinema@azleg.gov 602.926.5058
Steve Pierce spierce@azleg.gov 602.926.5584
Global Health Exhibit
Now on display in the Java City area of the Library (Room 2101) through May 31 is In Small Corners: Capturing Moments of Global Health, an exhibit of photographs presented by the Global Health Forum (GHF). The Global Health Forum is a College of Medicine student club, promoting awareness of health and medicine transcending borders, cultures, and languages. GHF presents the exhibit in conjunction with the Department of Family and Community Medicine and the Arizona Health Sciences Library. Photographs were solicited from any student, faculty or staff member at the Arizona Health Sciences Center. CoM second year students Shreya Patel and Emily Wilkinson served as coordinators for the exhibit.
Space, Carpet, and Book
Space Committee
On Monday the Space Committee met with Vice President Crist to share their thoughts about library space. Dr. Crist was very supportive of the idea of insuring that the library supports the educational mission of the campus. He asked Gary to form another committee with a faculty co-chair to submit a report in the next 2-3 months on how library (and other) space can be used to support inter-professional education. Dr. Crist seems committed to the idea that an overall plan should be developed for the library building and that projects not be taken on individually.
New carpet project
New carpet will be installed in 2101, the Java City area, beginning on Tuesday, March 30. This should take about a week. Work on the rest of the 2nd floor and the 3rd floor will probably start around April 12.
Book Donation
Medical Education has been shaped for over 100 years by the Flexner Report, which inspired the current system of premedical education focusing on chemistry, biology and physics. Today many are questioning this premise. Dr. Joseph Alpert has given the library a copy of Donald Barr's Questioning the Premedical Paradigm (Johns Hopkins, 2010), which addresses these issues. The book has been cataloged and will be on the shelf shortly at W 18 B268q 2010.
On Monday the Space Committee met with Vice President Crist to share their thoughts about library space. Dr. Crist was very supportive of the idea of insuring that the library supports the educational mission of the campus. He asked Gary to form another committee with a faculty co-chair to submit a report in the next 2-3 months on how library (and other) space can be used to support inter-professional education. Dr. Crist seems committed to the idea that an overall plan should be developed for the library building and that projects not be taken on individually.
New carpet project
New carpet will be installed in 2101, the Java City area, beginning on Tuesday, March 30. This should take about a week. Work on the rest of the 2nd floor and the 3rd floor will probably start around April 12.
Book Donation
Medical Education has been shaped for over 100 years by the Flexner Report, which inspired the current system of premedical education focusing on chemistry, biology and physics. Today many are questioning this premise. Dr. Joseph Alpert has given the library a copy of Donald Barr's Questioning the Premedical Paradigm (Johns Hopkins, 2010), which addresses these issues. The book has been cataloged and will be on the shelf shortly at W 18 B268q 2010.
Friday, March 19, 2010
Congratulations to Mary R. & Pat, Annabelle speaks, contribution, conference
Congratulations Mary R. and Pat!
The Student Union Advisory Council is recognizing Mary Riordan and Pat Auflick for their service to the refugee community. This is a Service Award in the Special Recognition category.
They will be recognized on the Student Unions' web site, on the Student Union Memorial Center information screens, in a Daily Wildcat advertisement and in a press release. A link to the Lo Que Pasa article about them was sent out on Wednesday.
At the end of the year they will receive an invitation to a reception held to celebrate the accomplishments of all honorees.
Here is some text from the nomination: Pat and Mary have led efforts to provide health information to refugees in Tucson. They created web pages and a handout of web resources on health information in foreign languages spoken by refugees resettled in Phoenix and Tucson. They arranged for library school and local high school students to help Tucson refugees find answers to health questions at a refugee health fair. They recently hosted the first national webinar on Foreign Language Health Resources for Refugees.
The work that Pat and Mary are doing helps support local and state groups (RISP-Net, the Refugee Integration Service Providers Network in Tucson, the Pima County Community Health Task Force (PCCHTF) and the Arizona Refugee Resettlement Program Conference.) A webinar on Foreign Language Health Resources for Refugees that they created and presented attracted a national audience. Recently they have helped medical librarians in other parts of the country find sources of health information in languages such as Hindi, Somali, Kirundi and others. This work has brought attention to the University from across the country in the medical library and healthcare communities.
Annabelle speaks!
Annabelle has been invited to participate in a panel discussion at a 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. Annabelle has been asked to take part in the panel on public health. You may remember from a February update that Carol will be participating in the clinical informationist panel at the same symposium.
Thank you Dr. Taylor
This week the library received a $1,000 donation from Dr. Preston J. Taylor. Dr. Taylor began making housecalls in Tucson in 1956. In the 1980’s he joined the College of Medicine faculty and retired in 1995. He visits the library weekly and has told us that he loves the atmosphere in the library. His unrestricted gift will be used to augment our collection.
Scholarly Communications conference/4 Corners Directors meeting
Jeanette and Gary attended a meeting in Albuquerque last week titled, “Evidence-based scholarly communication; empowering information professionals to unlock translational research for our communities.” Jacque was going to drive to the meeting but was turned back by heavy snows and closed highways in northern Arizona! We took advantage of the gathering to have a 4 Corners Directors meeting before and after the meeting. The conference covered topics ranging from copyright and the NIH Open Access policy to a workshop on how to create an “elevator speech.”
The Student Union Advisory Council is recognizing Mary Riordan and Pat Auflick for their service to the refugee community. This is a Service Award in the Special Recognition category.
They will be recognized on the Student Unions' web site, on the Student Union Memorial Center information screens, in a Daily Wildcat advertisement and in a press release. A link to the Lo Que Pasa article about them was sent out on Wednesday.
At the end of the year they will receive an invitation to a reception held to celebrate the accomplishments of all honorees.
Here is some text from the nomination: Pat and Mary have led efforts to provide health information to refugees in Tucson. They created web pages and a handout of web resources on health information in foreign languages spoken by refugees resettled in Phoenix and Tucson. They arranged for library school and local high school students to help Tucson refugees find answers to health questions at a refugee health fair. They recently hosted the first national webinar on Foreign Language Health Resources for Refugees.
The work that Pat and Mary are doing helps support local and state groups (RISP-Net, the Refugee Integration Service Providers Network in Tucson, the Pima County Community Health Task Force (PCCHTF) and the Arizona Refugee Resettlement Program Conference.) A webinar on Foreign Language Health Resources for Refugees that they created and presented attracted a national audience. Recently they have helped medical librarians in other parts of the country find sources of health information in languages such as Hindi, Somali, Kirundi and others. This work has brought attention to the University from across the country in the medical library and healthcare communities.
Annabelle speaks!
Annabelle has been invited to participate in a panel discussion at a 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. Annabelle has been asked to take part in the panel on public health. You may remember from a February update that Carol will be participating in the clinical informationist panel at the same symposium.
Thank you Dr. Taylor
This week the library received a $1,000 donation from Dr. Preston J. Taylor. Dr. Taylor began making housecalls in Tucson in 1956. In the 1980’s he joined the College of Medicine faculty and retired in 1995. He visits the library weekly and has told us that he loves the atmosphere in the library. His unrestricted gift will be used to augment our collection.
Scholarly Communications conference/4 Corners Directors meeting
Jeanette and Gary attended a meeting in Albuquerque last week titled, “Evidence-based scholarly communication; empowering information professionals to unlock translational research for our communities.” Jacque was going to drive to the meeting but was turned back by heavy snows and closed highways in northern Arizona! We took advantage of the gathering to have a 4 Corners Directors meeting before and after the meeting. The conference covered topics ranging from copyright and the NIH Open Access policy to a workshop on how to create an “elevator speech.”
Friday, March 5, 2010
Strategic planning, Leave balances, Java City
Strategic planning – Values
What’s happening with the values statements? The Administrative Team met last Friday and again this past Wednesday. We have taken all of the comments and come up with a close to final version. Later today or early next week you’ll have one more chance to comment via an online survey. Next week we hope to send out a draft mission statement for you to look at. Please check with any ATeam member if you have questions.
Your leave balances
There are two ways to find out your vacation and sick leave balances. One is on your online paystub and the other is on your online timesheet. SOME of the balances on the paychecks are not correct right now. We are working with payroll on this. However the balance on your timesheet should be correct. Sign on the UAccess and go to “My Timesheet”. At the bottom of the screen you’ll see: “Balances – click to view”. Remember that the balances on your timesheet change instantly when you enter leave time on the sheet – even if you haven’t taken the leave yet.
Java City
On Monday I met with Craig Eickmeyer and Glenda Hughes who are the managers in charge of Java City. We’ve heard concerns from students about Java City’s shorter hours.
Craig and Glenda explained that they track their sales very carefully and that sales drop off drastically after 2 PM. They also said that they’ve had to cut back on costs since sales have been declining in general. They are trying to tailor their menu to students’ pocketbooks and appetites and will soon be doing a survey of their customers. They hope to increase sales and then increase hours. I explained to them how to find out when spring break and other down times will occur and also told them about the plans to re-carpet.
What’s happening with the values statements? The Administrative Team met last Friday and again this past Wednesday. We have taken all of the comments and come up with a close to final version. Later today or early next week you’ll have one more chance to comment via an online survey. Next week we hope to send out a draft mission statement for you to look at. Please check with any ATeam member if you have questions.
Your leave balances
There are two ways to find out your vacation and sick leave balances. One is on your online paystub and the other is on your online timesheet. SOME of the balances on the paychecks are not correct right now. We are working with payroll on this. However the balance on your timesheet should be correct. Sign on the UAccess and go to “My Timesheet”. At the bottom of the screen you’ll see: “Balances – click to view”. Remember that the balances on your timesheet change instantly when you enter leave time on the sheet – even if you haven’t taken the leave yet.
Java City
On Monday I met with Craig Eickmeyer and Glenda Hughes who are the managers in charge of Java City. We’ve heard concerns from students about Java City’s shorter hours.
Craig and Glenda explained that they track their sales very carefully and that sales drop off drastically after 2 PM. They also said that they’ve had to cut back on costs since sales have been declining in general. They are trying to tailor their menu to students’ pocketbooks and appetites and will soon be doing a survey of their customers. They hope to increase sales and then increase hours. I explained to them how to find out when spring break and other down times will occur and also told them about the plans to re-carpet.
Friday, February 26, 2010
Congratulations to David Howse!
David 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. Admission is very competitive and acceptance comes with a full scholarship that covers all expenses for the seven-day course. David will be attending the spring session. He will be joining Sandy, Jacque and Carol as graduates of the program.
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