Friday, April 11, 2014

HSL Access Notes - April 11th



Hello,
A few notes for the week….

Easter Hours
The Health Sciences Library Easter weekend hours have been added to the web slider and flat panel.
The electronic programming for the door has been updated to accommodate the Friday holiday hours.
Health Sciences Library will be open through the Easter weekend as follows:
Friday, April 18th                10:00 AM – 6:00 PM  Holiday hours
Saturday, April 19th          10:00 AM – 6:00 PM  Regular Hours
Sunday, April 20th             12:00 PM – 8:00 PM  Regular Hours
Monday, April 21st           8:00 AM – 10:00 PM  Regular Hours

MCCQE
 The Medical Council of Canada Exams will be coming up at the end of the month.  The Commons booked will be booked for exams 0800 – 1700 weekdays from April 28th through May 7th


Health Sciences Library/Knowledge Resource Service staff Photos
TerriLynne is continuing to tag and sort HSL/KRS photos.  In order to use any photos of staff for promotion or marketing (for example a team photo on our webpage, etc.), we would like to ask staff to sign a photo release form. TerriLynne will be sending out forms this coming week.  Could staff please sign and return to TerriLynne?  If you have any concerns or questions about this, please let me know.  Thanks.

Statistics
We will be simplifying our pick up and shelving stats effective the beginning of May.  We will be collecting general totals only rather than collecting by item type.  We will also be collecting all our data on one printed form that includes the gate counts, head counts, pick up and shelving.  Please let me know if you have any questions.  The new forms are on the clipboard with the current gate count form.

Tour TMM
The tour of the Military Museums and Founder’s Gallery exhibit this week was a very informative and fascinating event!  One of their oldest books, An act prohibiting trade with the Barbada's, Virginia, Bermuda's and Antego, published in 1650, has been digitized and can be found in our catalogue. 


Camtasia 8.3
A trial version of Camtasia 8.3 is installed on the Dell laptop.  We will be purchasing this version once the trial ends.  This software can be used to record instruction and allows editing.


AV in 1453
The AV panel is being installed in room 1453 today.

Supplies 
All staff can help us keep on top of supplies by flagging any supply items that are getting low.  Supply requests for this month can be forwarded to TerriLynne by April 23rd.

Mackie Item Circulation
A friendly reminder that if clients would like to look at Mackie items, they can be collected from the HOM room by staff and brought out for clients one at a time for review in the library only.  Due to the value of this collection extra care needs to be taken.  Each item should be checked out in Sirsi while the client is using it.  The items should be returned directly to a staff member (not through the return chute),  and then discharged and re-shelved in the HOM room.

Public Printing Problem

A client was just trying to print a 40 page PowerPoint presentation on our network printer, but it would not show up on the monitor. He tried from several computers without any luck. We waited for over 15 minutes, and still no job appeared on the monitor. I did follow up with IT to see if they had any troubleshooting tips and they provided the follow info:

Usually when things just don’t show up at the printer, it’s often due to a paper size being selected (inside the program, PowerPoint in this instance) and there isn’t any paper in that size in the printer. So, they can confirm that they are printing in letter paper size (or another format that is available at the printer) and if that doesn’t work, they can try printing via the print.ucalgary.ca webpage, which should allow them to choose a paper size.

Hope everyone enjoys a pleasant weekend.
Mary

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