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For hours of the ITS Computer Lab, Friends' Café and HSL's History Collection Reading Room, visit HSL's Hours web page. Ask a Librarian: You can post a question and receive a response within 24 hours on nights and weekends and generally within a few hours between 8 am and 5 pm on weekdays. The new NIH Public Access Policy goes into effect on April 7, 2008. Need help understanding how to comply? Want to schedule a presentation for a group? Send questions and requests for sessions to Ask a Librarian. For more information see HSL's NIH Public Access Toolkit FEE CHANGESEffective July 1, 2008 the following rates apply:
NEW LIBRARY BENEFIT FOR SPOUSES/PARTNERSBeginning immediately, HSL will waive the $25 annual fee to obtain a borrower's card for spouses/partners of UNC at Chapel Hill faculty and staff. This card can be used at any campus library to check out materials. Because of licensing restrictions, off-campus access to the UNC Libraries' collection of electronic resources is not included. To obtain a card, simply fill out a borrower's application and present a North Carolina Drivers License or other photo identification along with address verification. The card may be renewed for free each year by verifying address and status at the Library's User Services desk. Academic Affairs Libraries and Law Library also offer this free service. HSL CLASSES AND EVENTSHSL offers classes in RefWorks, EndNote and more. For information on all upcoming classes and to register, go to: http://www.hsl.unc.edu/Classes/classregistration.cfm Featured April ClassesConsidering citation management software? A comparison chart will help you select which to use. Whether you are a new or experienced user of RefWorks or Endnote, register to attend one of these classes offered in April:
April 8: Bullitt/Trent History of Medicine Speaker at DukeGray Lyons, third year medical student, will give a talk entitled, "The Art of Early Medical Illustrators," on Tuesday evening, April 8. The program begins at 5:30 with a light buffet in Room 102, History of Medicine Reading Room at the Duke University Medical Center Library. For directions and other details visit: http://www.med.unc.edu/bhomc April 16: Bullitt History of Medicine Speaker at HSLDr. Peter English, Professor of History and Pediatrics at Duke University, will give a lecture entitled: "A History of Childhood Obesity in the United States," on Wednesday, April 16, 2008. The program begins at noon with a light buffet lunch in the 5th Floor Conference Room (527) at the UNC Health Sciences Library. For directions and other details visit: http://www.med.unc.edu/bhomc NEW RESOURCES AND FEATURESGlobal Health DatabaseGlobal Health is a public health database covering international health, biomedical life sciences, non-communicable diseases, public health nutrition, food safety and hygiene, occupational health, toxicology, health services, and maternal/child health. You can find information from over 3,500 serials, books, book chapters, conference proceedings, patents, theses, and electronic only publications from more than 150 countries with this tool. It offers global coverage of both the developing and developed world with over 50 languages translated into English. Use Global Health by choosing More Databases from the HSL home page or from the E-Research Tools link from the campus libraries site. Evaluate Trial ProductsPlease give us your feedback on these two online products being considered for purchase:
To link to the products, view the results of previous evaluations, and enter comments go to: http://www.hsl.unc.edu/evaluation/trials.cfm HSL TESTS PREPAREDNESSThis month, HSL tested a plan to keep its Interlibrary Loan (ILL) services going in the event of a disaster. Access to critical information via ILL is one of the services our library hopes to maintain in an emergency situation. For three days, HSL suspended filling its ILL requests, routing them instead to the ILL services at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library at the University of Virginia. The UVA library was able to fill our requests successfully. UNC's HSL is now set up to test the same service in reverse for UVA's library. Having a cooperative agreement like this in place with another library is a key disaster planning strategy for HSL. PEOPLEChristie Silbajoris, director of NC Health Info at HSL, and Jane Greenberg, professor at the School of Information and Library Science, have received a grant from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine to study effective ways to automatically maintain metadata (cataloging information) about Go Local resources made accessible via the NC Health Info website. For more details, visit http://sils.unc.edu/news/releases/2008/02_ammgo.htm. Decreasing staff time spent keeping metadata accurate enables them to spend time making more local health services information available to citizens.
Congratulations to Diane Kress, Bibliographic Assistant, who retired on April 1 after 21 years of service at HSL. Diane's job duties in Resources Management Services included searching potential purchases and donations of gifts to confirm the library did not already own the title, and then creating records for those added to HSL's collections--nearly 90,000 items over 21 years! Diane also served on committees and helped lead the HSL staff response to various charitable causes. We will all miss Diane, and wish her well!
Welcome Karen Stafford, AHEC Digital Library (ADL) LibrarianKaren Stafford will provide marketing and outreach services for the AHEC Digital Library . Karen comes to us from the South East AHEC (formerly Coastal AHEC) in Wilmington, N.C. Karen worked for over 10 years at the Health Sciences Library in the New Hanover Regional Medical Center. She managed Interlibrary Loan for eight years, during which time she earned her Masters in Library Science degree. Karen taught classes on the use of electronic resources including Evidence Based Nursing and is a Family Physicians Inquiries Network (FPIN) librarian. Contact Karen at 966-1213 or karen_stafford@unc.edu Kudos to Diane McKenzie, Honorary MLA FellowDiane McKenzie, who retired from HSL in August 2007, was recently named an Honorary Fellow of the Medical Library Association for her sustained and outstanding contributions to health sciences librarianship and to the advancement of the purposes of MLA. Presentation of the award will be made at the MLA annual meeting next month in Chicago. GET INVOLVED WITH YOUR LIBRARYThe library staff appreciates your support and input! Opportunities include:
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HSL E-NEWS is a monthly publication of the UNC-Chapel Hill Health Sciences Library. Past issues of enews are archived with many other library-produced publications accessible here. For more information on this publication, contact Susan Keesee, Communications Coordinator: keesee@email.unc.edu, 919-966-0944 |
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