New Guide, Happy Anniversary!

NIH Policy Guide

Many of you know that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) now requires all NIH funded researchers to make their research publications available to the public through PubMed Central.  Joan has developed a guide to help researchers understand how to submit their articles.  The campus Institutional Review Board (IRB) staff has already publicized the guide through an email to all researchers.  You can see this extensive guide at http://azhin.org/nihpublicaccess

AZHIN’s 20th Anniversary

2013 is the 20th anniversary of the Arizona Health Information Network.  AZHIN is a consortium of over 30 hospital, clinic and academic libraries around the state that originally joined together to provide MEDLINE access.  Over the past 20 years AZHIN has evolved into an organization that not only jointly purchases access to electronic information but also provides web and authentication tools to it’s members and employs a librarian, Brooke Billman, to train members, to troubleshoot and to negotiate with vendors.  AZHIN has won awards and is a major force in ensuring that healthcare providers around the state have access to the latest and most reliable biomedical information.  Today AZHIN members, including founder Rachel Anderson, will be meeting at the Arizona Inn for a celebratory luncheon.

New baby, Yamila, Dave, Hawaii and a gift

Congratulations to Jennifer and Jim Martin!
Jennifer gave birth to a baby girl at 1 AM this morning.  Details later!

Yamila explains it all

Last week Yamila presented a webinar on the Affordable Care Act on behalf of the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records.  There were 119 people signed up – the largest attendance that the State Library has ever had for a webinar.  They are putting links up on their website so that others can view the presentation.  A representative of the state library said, “Yamila did an exemplary job in putting together the information and presenting it clearly. We are very grateful for the knowledge, skills, and abilities which she brought to bear in creating and presenting this webinar and others like it.”

Dave recognized

Dave’s work on the “Prescription for Health” video digitization project was recognized in Sombrero, the official publication of the Pima County Medical Society (PCMS) (Aug-Sept 2013, 46:7 p. 11).  The PCMS created a 30-minute television show for public access cable television that ran from 1983 until 1997.  Dave worked with BioCommunications to organize the digitization of 218 of the 284 known episodes.  You can search these episodes by date, topic or speaker and watch them online.  See http://ahsl.arizona.edu/spec-coll/pcms-pfh for the indexes.

Voyage to Health

Take a few minutes to visit this new exhibit that describes the Pacific voyages of native islanders, gives insight into native culture and has examples of medicinal herbs and plants from the College of Pharmacy collection.  Although small, this is a fascinating exhibit and the AHSL exhibits committee has done a great job of supplementing the NLM-provided banners with items in the display cases.

“New” map cases

Thanks to the main library we now have two new map cases.  Although gently used they are just what we need to store flat materials such as blueprints, some older diplomas, and other large format items.

Congratulations!, Building changes?

Congratulations Sandy!

The College of Nursing has approved a joint appointment for Sandy as an Adjunct Instructor.  This is in recognition of all of the support she provides to nursing students through classes and one on one assistance.

Possible small renovation projects

Two projects are being discussed but have not been decided upon.

Veterans’ Center in the library

The Board of Regents and the AHSC are both interested in providing better service for Veterans who are continuing their education at UA.  The Veterans Education and Transition Services program has student veterans’ center in the student union on main campus.  They would like to be able to offer counseling, assistance and a place for vets on the AHSC to meet.  We are exploring creating, using “office landscaping” type walls (like those in the EPIC training classrooms on the 4th floor) to create a small area in Java City.  The new “room” would be just past the 3 group study rooms across from the ITS Help Desk.  This is still in the early planning stages and would be funded by the VETS program.

Recording studio

Last December I mentioned that we are looking at creating a small recording studio in the library.  This project is starting to move forward supported by one-time temporary funds.  Last summer during the meetings of the Library of the Future Task Force we heard that faculty members are being asked to create more and more online content, either for distance education students or for their on-campus classes.  Most often this is audio in the form of podcasts or tutorials with voice over screen shots or Powerpoint presentations.  After meetings with technical and educational staff from all of the AHSC colleges and BioCommunications, we are exploring the possibility of creating a small recording studio in the library for the use of AHSC faculty and students.  The most likely location would be the first of the three rooms across from the IT Help Desk in Java City.  We have a price on the equipment but still need to work out many details such as how the room will be reserved, how much support BioComm and the library staff will be expected to provide, how faculty and students will be trained to use the room, etc.

Authors!

Library authors had two articles published in the July issue of JMLA: The Journal of the Medical Library Association.  Nicole’s article describes our iPad lending program.  Gary and Jacque provided a section on the Phoenix library in an article describing four new approaches to library space.

Both articles are available at PubMed Central.

Feeling the HEAT

The HEAT Building

Yesterday Gary met with Angie Souza, Assistant Dean for Planning and Facilities, to discuss the planning process and timeline for the Health Education and Advanced Technology Building.

Negotiations are underway with an architectural consulting firm for a contract to begin on September first.  Dr. Garcia, the new Vice President for Health Sciences, will be starting work on September first and it will be his decision whether or not to push forward with the building.  The AHSL’s planning will continue on two fronts – brainstorming “big picture” ideas and listing specific needs such as how many offices and other types of space are needed.  If the building is going to move forward the architects will meet with us to discuss our needs.  If the building is cancelled the entire AHSC will likely begin looking closely at space.  In that case our brainstorming and specific needs will still be useful as we will be looking at the future allocation of space in the building.

Water and VIPs

H2O

We now have a new water fountain, with water bottle filler, on the first floor.  Come and have a drink on us!

New VPHS

On Thursday Gary was one of a group to meet with Dr. Joe “Skip” Garcia, the new Vice President for Health Sciences.  Gary had about three minutes to talk about the library.  He mentioned the liaison/embedded librarian program, the Outreach program and the HEAT building.  He also talked about his new reporting relationship to the Dean of Libraries and explained that this would provide opportunities to collaborate on projects of interest to the entire campus.

Senator

On Wednesday Gary visited Phoenix with members of the Arizona Telemedicine Program.  He met State Senator Gail Griffin from Hereford (near Sierra Vista) and offered her the services of the library.

Diana returns!

Diana Almadar-Douglas, who worked in our Interlibrary Loan Department while she was in library school, will be returning to us for one year.  Diana has spent the last year as an NLM Associate Fellow, working at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, MD.  She is taking advantage of their 2nd year internship program to work at AHSL.  She will start with us on September 2nd.

From the NLM website:

Diana Almader-Douglas

University of Arizona, Tucson, 2011

Diana Almader-Douglas received her MA in Information Resources and Library Science from the University of Arizona, Tucson, in 2011. Ms. Almader-Douglas was awarded a Knowledge River Scholarship, which focuses on educating information professionals on issues pertaining to Latino and Native American populations. While completing her degree, she was employed as a Graduate Assistant at the Arizona Health Sciences Library, where she provided document delivery and reference services. During her program, she also worked as a student affiliate at the Southern Arizona VA Health Care System’s medical library, where she provided reference services and assisted with collection development projects. Ms. Almader-Douglas earned a Master of Arts degree in Counseling from Webster University in 1998. As a licensed professional counselor, she assisted state-funded behavioral health recipients throughout her career. Ms. Almader-Douglas’ undergraduate degree is from Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, where she majored in psychology.