HSL Access Notes - August 9th

Hello,

A few notes for the week…

Congratulations

Congratulations to Julie and Alison on their publication in  JCHLA as noted by Kathryn this week:

Check out their article on “Consumer Health Information Resources on Pregnancy, Birth and Fertility” in the August Issue: http://pubs.chla-absc.ca/doi/full/10.5596/c13-039

Best wishes

Best wishes to Janine as she begins her parental leave.  We will be thinking of her and new family on her due date, September 9^th!

Student Assistant Positions

Many thanks to our student assistants, Marissa Montgomery, Winnie Yue and Kristina Baykusheva who have completed their employment at HSL.  The energy, and positive outlook that student assistants bring to HSL is always very much appreciated.

We are advertising for two new student assistants for the fall/winter term.  The posting is on the UofC Career Services site with an application deadline of August 23^rd.

Lourdes Away

We wish Lourdes safe travels and special time with family during her trip to the Philippines.  While she is away August 14^th – Sept. 6^th we have arranged for back up as follows:

·         hslibr email coverage: Chelsea and Brian will monitor the email account.  Daytime in-depth reference questions will be forwarded to the librarian in the consult office for follow up.

·         Dynamed/Lexicomp:  Brian and Caitlin

·         Desk shifts:  As noted in the desk schedule.

·         Xerox: Mary or Brian

·         Technical Liaison:  Brian

Thanks to all for assistance with the extra coverage.

New KRS Website Launched August 7th

The provincial KRS website launched August 7^th. 

New url is: krs.albertahealthservices.ca

The hinc.ucalgary.ca url will direct clients to the new website.

Check out the interactive features such as the FAQs (type in a search word to get started), and multimedia education guides

HSL/KRS/HKN Staff Retreat

As noted by Susan, a staff retreat is scheduled for September 20, 12:00-4:00 pm with more details to follow.

In preparation for the retreat, staff will meet on September 4^th from 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm to discuss the purpose and objective of the session.

Susan has suggested that staff browse the following website to learn how the Enneagram System can be used and benefit the workplace http://www.theenneagraminbusiness.com/index.html

There will also be copies of the book  Bringing Out the Best in Yourself at Work: How to Use the Enneagram System for Success for each of the locations so that staff can do a bit of pre reading.

New Gate

We have a new 3M security gate installed at HSL! 

• It operates well with both the older RFID tags as well as the newer, smaller tags. 
• It has a much easier to read counter that displays # In, # Out and #Total.
• The gate has an audible  and visible red light on alarm.
• The doors will not lock on alarm.  Staff are asked to follow up with clients who set off the alarm.
• Items that do not have RFID tags should not alarm the gate, but items such as CPL library books may.

Please let me know if there are any questions or comments about the gate as we get to know the new system.

 Interesting Questions of the week

• Ebrary:  Student did not like using ebrary. Recommended she use ebrary with a personal account once logged in through the library. This makes it much easier to read using the ebrary reader and chapters can be downloaded.
• Also,  there is an ebrary app! The links/instructions appear when using a mobile device. This is probably the easiest way to view ebrary ebooks.  Chelsea and Lourdes are familiar with this app.

• Statistics resources:  There have been several clients recently looking for statistics resources on programs such as SPSS or Stata.  If Summon does not bring up enough results more online books can be found through the databases: Books24x7 (requires authentication), Safari, and Springer Link.

 Please let me know if you have any questions, concerns or suggetions.

Mary