HSL Access Notes - March 27th

Hello,

 

A few notes to end the month…

 

Farewells

Please join us to wish Marisa and Janine all the best!

Farewell for Marisa at HSL on Tuesday, March 31^st from 3:00 -4:00

Farewell for Janine at HSL on Wednesday, April 1^st from 1:30 – 2:30

 

KRS  updates

Effective April 1^st:

Rachel will be moving to ACH

Taryn will be covering at PLC and WHKC

SHC will no longer have UC staff on site.

 

HSL Sunday Hours

Effective May 1^st:  Health Sciences Library will be closed Sundays on an ongoing basis.

 

Easter Weekend Hours

HSL will be open over the Easter holiday weekend, with Anna and Mary A. covering our Friday hours.

 

Friday, April 3^rd:  10 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Saturday, April 4^th:  10 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Sunday, April 5^th:  12:00 – 8:00 p.m.

 

TMM tour

A number of HSL staff will be participating in the TMM tour offered by LCR on Monday morning.

 

LibAnswers

Effective April 1^st will be moving to the LibApps (LibAnswers) software for recording reference, instruction and tour statistics.

This will replace our current Refstats processes.   Most staff will login to the software using their individual email and password.  Look of the LibApps icon on your desktop.  

We do have a generic login for student assistant use.  This account is connected to our hslibr email account with the password: HSL*stats

The handout provided at the staff training session does include some helpful information and guidelines about what and how to enter transaction stats. 

Watch for more detailed information later next week.

 

Consult Office

Effective April 1^st, the consult office hours will be:  Monday – Friday from 12:30 – 4:00.

During the mornings, a librarian will be on call for client consultation and support.

Generally this will be the same librarian that is scheduled for the consult office that same day.

The exception to this is on Mondays, when Susan will be on call in the morning and Alix will be on in the consult in the afternoons.

This scheduling arrangement will be reviewed in December.

Please forward any client comments about this change to Susan or myself.  Thanks.

 

AHS Exam Proctoring

Please forward any exam proctoring requests from Alberta Health Services staff to Taryn until further notice.

 

Network Printer

We had a few problems with the network printer yesterday with jobs being very slow to print and others only printing part pages.

We rebooted the release station and turned the printer itself off and on and this seemed to do the trick. 

 

Personal Items in Public Areas

We have had two separate people report stolen items today.

One reported she had an iPod taken from a study room during our last fire evacuation.

One reported a fit band taken from her study table while she was in the washroom.

This is a reminder that we are open to the public and personal items should not be left unattended.

 

HSL access notes - March 5th

Hello Everyone,

 

A few notes to start the month….

 

Daylight Savings Time - Sunday

It is time to 'spring ahead' again this weekend, with clocks moving ahead one hour in the wee hours of Sunday morning. 

Our electronic door programming will automatically respond to the time change, however our public clocks may not, and could display improperly on Sunday.  These clocks cannot be adjusted manually since they are ‘satellite’ clocks.  Facility staff will collect the clocks and adjust early next week if necessary.  

 

Farewell and Best Wishes

Be sure to join us to wish Michelle Lemieux all the best!

Tuesday, March 10^th

2:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Health Sciences Library staff room

 

Mobile Apps Updates

There are a number of updates regarding mobile resources.   All the latest information will be available on the Mobile app Libguide: http://libguides.ucalgary.ca/content.php?pid=442981

Please refer clients to the Libguide for all the latest details.

 

The Dynamed/Lexicomp access request forms that clients used to complete at the desk are no longer needed.

 

·         Lexicomp will not longer be available to UC clients as of April 1^st.

·         Check out new app access for UpToDate

·         Check out new app access to Dynamed.

 

 

SharePoint 2013 Updates

Feel free to Connect to and bookmark the SP 2013 at:

https://intranetqa.ucalgary.ca/ecspilot/collab/hsl/SitePages/Home.aspx

 

Thanks to all Health Sciences Library staff for adding their time away into the new SP 2013 calendar.

Looking for a password for Health Sciences Library LibGuides or the screen in 1459 or anything else at Health Sciences Library?  You can now find all of these for easy reference in SP 2013.

Just look in the Quick Links list on the left hand side of the homepage.  The passwords are organized by area, but the list is also searchable.  Once you see what you are looking for, click on the “title” and a window will open with the details, including the username and password.

 

Also now in SP 2013:

Key list

Supply order forms

Calendars

Shift reports

Weekly Notes