Hello,
A few notes for the week….
Thanks and Farewell Wishes to Yoojin!
Be sure to join us to wish Yoojin all the best!
Thursday, August 28th
10 AM – 11 AM
Health Sciences Library staff room
Fall Student Schedule
Many thanks to our student assistants who have assisted with
our vacation coverage over the past summer months.
We will begin our regular weekly shifts again on Saturday,
September 6th.
Saturday: Mary
A. 1:00 PM –
4:00 PM
Sunday:
Kathleen 3:00 PM –
6:00 PM
Monday: Mary A.
5:30 PM- 10:00 PM
Tuesday: Krsytal
5:00 PM –
10:00 PM
Wednesday: Mary A. 5:30 PM – 10:00 PM
Thursday: Robin
5:00
PM – 10:00 PM
Casual: Jessica
We wish our student assistants all the best with their
programs of study as the new term approaches!
Journal Project for HDL Transfer –Phase 2 Complete!
The work to prepare our pre-2005 closed journal holdings for
transfer to HDL is complete! This involved pulling, barcoding, and
creating individual Sirsi holding information for each and every
issue. The project spanned 4 months and an estimated 35995
items!
Congratulations and thanks to Chelsea who coordinated this
collections project and to the team who made it happen, including Lourdes,
TerriLynne, Brian, Leslie, and all our student assistants. This truly was
a comprehensive effort that highlights the high level of commitment and
dedicated teamwork of staff involved.
We are coordinating with HDL and hope to be able to transfer
most of these items sometime in September. If HDL is able to accept
all of the phase 2 HSL items, it is estimated that it will provide 91 bays of
free space! The transfer will be followed by some serious shifting of the
remaining collection. Other uses of the extra space will be considered
over the longer term.
Once again, congratulations on such a successful project,
and many thanks to all involved!
Term Loans
I am forwarding a message from Lucille Wallace regarding
term loans.
This is to advise that the term loan renewals will start on
Wednesday, September 3rd. The first e-mail reminder notice will be
sent on this date. The patrons will get their second notice as the normal
pre due notice on September 12th . The new
term loan due date (if there are no holds on the items) will be January 15th.
Fall Instruction at Health Sciences Library
Our summer instruction program was completed this
week. The fall instruction kicks off on September 10th with
Refworks Basic and advanced sessions.
The Endnote (including new sessions for Macs), Refworks and
Thesis sessions are scheduled in the Library Workshop registration calendar on
the LCR website.
Go to Services> Library workshops and look for the
blocks in bright green – these will be the Health Sciences Library course
offerings. Clients can register by clicking on the course date and
completing the online form.
Neuroscience Collection
We are expecting 47 boxes and 18 bins of additional History
of Neuroscience materials at HSL next week. These will be
held for Susan’s attention upon her return.
Document Delivery Service
Our University of Calgary student, staff and faculty can
request articles and book chapters from our own University of Calgary
collection by submitting a request through the Interlibrary Loan form.
Current Journal Shift
The January – through June holdings for the following
journals have been moved from Current shelves to Backsets: Biochemical
Journal, Blood, and Journal of Neuroscience. Jan-June issues for the following
journal titles have now been relocated to the Backsets: Journal of Immunology,
New England Journal of Medicine.
Recycled Bottle Bins
The funds from the recycled bottles in the bins in the
public area of the library are saved for the Student Union. This
week an older female member of the community came in with shopping bags and
began to help herself to some of the bottles from the bins. A member of
the Faculty happened to see this and informed her that the bottles were for the
Student Union. The community member accepted this explanation and
departed. If necessary, please let people know that the recycled
bottles in the bins are collected for the Student Union.
Supplies
Thanks to all who provided feedback about frequency of
supply orders. Beginning in September, we will be moving to a bi-monthly
supply order routine. We hope this will work well for all. If this
creates concern for anyone over the next few months, please let me know and we
will re-assess in the new year. Next supply orders will be in September
and then November.
Lexicomp and Dynamed Codes
While Lourdes is away Brian will be the main contact for
Lexicomp and DynaMed codes.
SPSS in Computer Commons
At the moment we only have SPSS available on the
following computers in the Commons: stations 740, 741, 742.
We are working to get the licensed renewed asap.
Food and Drinks Policy
LCR is updating their Food and Drinks policy, and this
should be available soon. It will not affect the way we are managing Food
and Drinks policy at Health Sciences Library.
Back Up Public Printer
A few times over the past weeks we have receiving an error
message on the backup printer which reads “Controller error 116-324.
Restart printer”. However re-starting seems to bring you back to the same
message. It was reported and our service ticket # is BL195705. In the
meantime, clearing the print queue on the computer seems to work to clear the
error message. Click on Start>Printers and Faxes>select hsl-Ref (or
hsl-Ref colour)> if there are jobs listed in the queue, select and delete.
Then restart the printer. Another option for clients if this occurs would
be to select the other service area printer.
