HSL Access Notes - July 11th

Hello Everyone,

 

A few notes for the week...

 

Staff Vacation Coverage

With TerriLynne away for the next two weeks, Chelsea will be handling any key requests and monitoring reserve email.  I will forward any outstanding supply items that arrive during this time.

 

SHC hold Pick Up location

 In response to client requests at SHC, Knowledge Resource Service site at South Health Campus is now ’live’ as a pick up location in Sirsi.  This means that clients at SHC will no longer need to request UC items through the outreach service, but can place holds in the system and select SHC as the pick-up location.  The item will be delivered to the SHC Knowledge Resource Service site, and clients will be able to pick up at the site Monday – Friday between 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM.

Please let me know if there are any questions or concerns with this new service.

 

Visiting Students at AHS locations

Further to some questions regarding how visiting students at AHS locations are covered by the agreement, we can confirm the following update:

If a visiting student at AHS has an AHS email, they are eligible for full library access through KRS.  Staff would register them with a barcode, enter a ‘CHR- staff’ profile in Sirsi, and enter a unique expiry date to match the period of their affiliation with AHS.

This is a change to our previous practice of issuing Complimentary Community ‘borrowing only’ cards and privileges. 

If visiting students do not have AHS email, then we would proceed by issuing Complimentary Community ‘borrowing only’ cards and privileges.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks.

 

Facility

·         Painting in 1453, 1454 and 1456A is now complete.

·         Clock in staff room has been removed for maintenance.  It appears that it may need to be replaced.

·         The Current Periodical shelving has been reduced by one bay.  The shelving is stacked against the wall in the area and a request for removal has been submitted.

 

HDL Project

The final carts of titles beginning with ‘J’ have been pulled.  That leaves only three ranges of journals to go! 

We hope that the physical transfer of the issue will begin soon.  Many thanks to all of the project team who have been processing up to 8 carts a day!

At the moment we are still waiting for confirmation from HDL regarding summer intake scheduling and capacity.   However this summer we expect to be sending all pre-2005 journals of titles that have closed dates prior to 2005.  That will still leave some pre- 2005 journals on our shelves.  These will be prepared for transfer and sent to HDL  as time and capacity allows within the coming year.

 

Boxes in Storage Room

There is a build-up of empty paper boxes in the HSL storage room.  If anyone requires boxes please help yourself or let me know, otherwise most they will be recycled by the end of next week.

Thanks.

 

Wishing all a Happy Stampede weekend!

Mary