Justin Bieber? Not!

Progress on the recording studio has been hard to see but will become evident in January.  Facilities Management will be working in the first AV listening room to remove the counter and to paint the room.  That work is scheduled to finish by January 17th.  Soon after that (we hope), equipment and soundproofing will be installed and we will have an operational recording studio.  BioCommunications will provide training to our desk staff and to the ITS staff at the Help Desk.  Training will be very basic as users of the room will be expected to know how to run the equipment or to bring someone who does.  The studio will be on the campus room scheduling system and available to AHSC faculty and students.

Staff Lounge

We have invited the STAFF of the VETS Center to feel free to use our staff lounge, as we have with other groups sharing space in the building.  It seems that most of the VETS Center staff are undergraduate veterans.

VETS!

The VETS Center will have a “soft” opening next week.  It will be staffed and open to veterans.  However the grand opening with dignitaries, etc. won’t happen until January.  VETS staff members are working on ordering furniture so we will be loaning them some tables and chairs until theirs arrive.

NYT, Carol and the LAC

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Congratulations Carol

An article in the New York Times refers to work that Carol did.  She is the anonymous “medical librarian” mentioned in the article.  The story also links to an article in The Journal of the American Geriatrics Society for which Carol is a co-author.

http://newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/24/hiring-an-end-of-life-enforcer/?_r=0

Library Advisory Committee

Our Library Advisory Committee will hold its first meeting of the year on Monday.  We have faculty and student representatives from each of the AHSC colleges on the committee.  They serve as a vehicle for communication with the colleges and offer feedback from the students and faculty members that we serve.  Our new student representative from the College of Pharmacy has already distributed a survey to classmates asking about the library.  We’ll hear the results on Monday.

Lights! Camera! Action! Chairs! Tables!

Recording Studio

We are partnering with BioCommunications on planning and constructing the new mini-recording studio (any ideas for what we should call this room?) which will be created in the first AV listening room as you enter Java City.  BioComm has worked up the specifications for equipment and will handle ordering it.  Facilities Management will be taking out the counter and repainting the inside of the room to provide good color balance for videos.  Professional lighting will be installed as well as a high definition camera and computer controls.  We already have people who want to sign up to use the room.  Once the equipment is ready for use BioComm will offer some training for our staff so that we can answer basic questions.  Anything beyond basic questions will be handled by BioComm.

After EPIC

We are getting price quotes for new study cubes for the 4th floor and new study tables for the 3rd and 4th floors.  With those in hand we will be ordering chairs for the new tables and to replace many of our older, deteriorating chairs.  I think we will be asking for volunteers in the future to form teams to deploy our new chairs and to redistribute some of the other chairs that have wandered around the building.

More EPIC

The EPIC “command center” is scheduled to cease operations on the 4th floor on Friday, November 29.  After that all EPIC help desk questions will go to UAHN staff in their regular offices.  The schedule calls for computers to be removed during the week of December 2nd and for the walls to come down the following week.  We have asked for 20 of the tables to be gifted to us to be used for student study.

The College of Medicine accreditation team will be here in mid-January.  Our goal is to have the 4th floor useful for study and looking nice before the visit!  There are 24 of the new study cubes currently at the UA warehouse.  We are hoping to have these installed on the 4th floor beginning in the third week of December.  We also hope to purchase 24 additional cubes (using the rent money from EPIC) that will be installed at the same time.  The remainder of the floor will be filled with study tables, also to be purchased with EPIC rent money.

EPIC Update

EPIC training is scheduled to end around October 25th.  During the following week phones will be installed to convert the 4th floor into a “command center” for the EPIC launch.  At 3 AM on November 1st (Halloween night!) EPIC will “go live”.  The command center will be in operation 24/7 through the month of November.  About 150 employees will be there at one time or another to provide help desk services to UAHN.  Security guards will be stationed at the front door during hours when the library is closed.  We will be meeting with UAHN soon to discuss plans for their exit from the floor!