HSL AND FRIENDS CAFÉ HOURS:

For hours of the ITS Computer Lab and HSL's History Collection Reading Room, visit HSL's Hours web page.

Although reference help is not always available when the building is open, you can post a question to Ask a Librarian 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.

ROOM RESERVATIONS

Did you know that some 3000 room reservation requests were directed to HSL in 2007? To better serve your needs, HSL has hired Lynn Gunter to fill a new position as Room Reservation Coordinator (See also People/New Staff). Requests should be made at least two business days in advance of the date needed using the online form. If you wish contact Lynn directly, call 966-6256 or email gunter@email.unc.edu. Please join us in welcoming Lynn to HSL.

HSL CLASSES AND EVENTS

HSL offers classes in RefWorks, PubMed, EndNote and more. For information on all upcoming classes and to register, go to: http://www.hsl.unc.edu/Classes/classregistration.cfm

Featured February Classes

Considering 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 February:

• Refworks, Monday, Feb 18 from 10-11 am in HSL Room 307.
• Endnote Basic, Wednesday, Feb 13 from 10-11 am in HSL Room 329.
• Endnote Advanced, Wednesday, Feb 20 from 10-11 am in HSL Room 329.

Need help with PubMed, ISI Web of Science, Journal Citation Reports or other library databases and software? Request a one-on-one consultation

NCBI Course Registration Opens Feb 4

The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) will offer their Field Guide to GenBank and NCBI Molecular Biology Resources course at UNC-Chapel Hill on March 12 and 13 (during UNC's Spring Break week). Peter Cooper and Rana Morris, biologists on the NCBI User Services staff, are the course instructors. This lecture and hands-on computer workshop on GenBank and related databases will cover effective use of the Entrez databases and search service, the BLAST similarity search engine, genome data and related resources. Additional course content details are provided on the NCBI website: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Class/FieldGuide/

The Field Guide course will include a 3-hour morning lecture beginning at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, March 12 in the Tate-Turner-Kuralt Building (School of Social Work) Auditorium. Highly recommended, but optional, 2-hour hands-on workshops will be offered multiple times on the afternoon of March 12 and the morning of March 13. Workshops will be held in campus library computer labs and participants will be notified of their workshop's location closer to the day of the event. Registration, which opens in early February, is required as this course fills quickly.

This NCBI Field Guide course is sponsored by the UNC Health Sciences Library as part of its ongoing Basic Bioinformatics Tools Forum series. To register and for more information, see http://www.hsl.unc.edu/Collections/Bioinformatics/

Exhibit on Physician's Role in the Death Penalty

Beginning Feb 11, HSL will host an exhibit of photographs by Scott Langley. His photographs exploring capital punishment are part of a larger campus initiative, The Death Penalty Examined, with events planned throughout this academic year. The exhibit, located in the South Columbia entrance foyer, will inform visitors about the physician's role in the death penalty. The photos from the exhibit, as well as others, are available at http://www.langleycreations.com/photo/deathpenalty/index.html

History of Medicine Speaker at Duke Feb 12

Dr. Edward C.Halperin will be the featured speaker for the Duke-UNC Collaborative History of Medicine Series on Tuesday, Feb 12. The UNC Bullitt History of Medicine Club and the Duke Trent Society are hosting this event. Halperin's presentation is titled The Poor, the Black, and the Marginalized as the Source of Cadavers in United States Anatomical Education. The evening program will be held at the Duke University Medical Center Library. For directions and other details visit: http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/hom/events/speakerseries and http://www.med.unc.edu/bhomc

NC HEALTH INFO ACCREDITED BY HON

NC Health Info (www.nchealthinfo.org) was recently reviewed and accredited by the Health on the Net (HON) Foundation. The HON Code of Conduct (HONcode) is the oldest and most used accreditation for medical and health related information available on the Internet. Web sites that earn the HONcode seal have been deemed to follow rules which hold website developers to basic ethical standards in the presentation of information and help make sure readers always know the source and the purpose of the data they are reading. For more information on HON initiatives go to: http://www.hon.ch/Global

CANCER INFORMATION SPECIALIST

HSL has been awarded funds to hire a Cancer Information Specialist for one year. The Cancer Information Specialist will provide new, customized information services to cancer researchers and patients that help them find answers to complex or rare medical questions and state of the art treatments. The Specialist will also work with patient resource centers, the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center librarian, the AHEC Digital Library and NC Health Info development teams, and others to expand the availability of cancer research information to patients, their families and citizens across North Carolina. If you have questions about this project or are interested in applying, contact Fran Allegri at 966-0945 or allegri@unc.edu

PEOPLE

McLendon named Library Director at Florida

Wallace McLendon, HSL's Deputy Director, has accepted the position of Director of the Health Sciences Center Library, University of Florida in Gainesville. Mr. McLendon has been at HSL since 2001, as Associate Director for Library Services and later as Deputy Director. He has had a strong hand in helping HSL be a premier health sciences library and a creative and effective team. He has also played many leadership roles on campus, in the Triangle Research Libraries Network (TRLN) and nationally. Please wish Wallace well on this move (wallace_mclendon@unc.edu). His last day at UNC is Thursday, February 7.

Five New Staff Join HSL

Three librarian positions in the Resources Management Services department and one each in the User Services and Library Business Services departments are now filled by the following five new HSL employees. They are:

• Daniel Smith, JD, Special Collections Librarian, joined HSL in October. With a background as an antiquarian, curator, reference librarian, publisher, and consultant, Daniel has worked extensively in the areas of rare books and archives, digital libraries, and scholarly communications. He will work with faculty, library staff, donors and dealers to further build and strengthen HSL's history of the health sciences and other special collections, as well as support the work of the Bullitt History of Medicine Club, provide reference and research support on demand, and expand access to content in special collections, particularly content in digital formats. Contact Daniel at 966-1776 or dlsmith@unc.edu


• Lee Richardson, MLIS, Cataloging and Metadata Coordinator, joined HSL in January. Since 2000 she was the Music Cataloger at the Carpenter Library at the University of North Florida where she helped test, develop documentation and trained staff when the library migrated to a new online catalog system. In her new post at HSL she will catalog a diverse range of materials using appropriate metadata and levels of description and work to improve users' success locating the content they need via the catalog and other finding aids. Contact Lee at 966-0941 or richarlm@email.unc.edu


• Susan Swogger, MLIS, Collection Development Librarian, also joined HSL in January. In her previous position as Director of Library Services for Argosy University in Phoenix, Arizona, she was responsible for collection development, acquisitions, electronic resource management, and administration in a specialized academic library focused on clinical psychology and education. Susan will lead an innovative program of print and digital collections and scholarly support services that meet new and emerging clinical, teaching, and research needs within the UNC community. Contact Susan at 966-0777 or sswogger@email.unc.edu


• Andrea Wood, Support Services Process Analyst, joined HSL's User Services staff in November. She previously worked at UNC-Chapel Hill's Davis Library in circulation and later at the Undergraduate Library as Fines and Billing Manager, Copyright Manager and Circulation Supervisor. Her primary duties at HSL include assisting users at the User Services Desk, by phone and online chat. She is also responsible for updating content on several library web pages and monitoring the suggestion box. Contact Andrea at 962-0801 or andreaw@email.unc.edu


• Lynn Gunter, Room Reservation Coordinator, is the most recent addition to the Library Business Services staff. She has worked at UNC-Chapel Hill since 1988 in a variety of administrative posts and has eight years of room reservations experience. She fills the newly created Room Reservation Coordinator position and will also provide administrative support. She is the primary contact for faculty, staff and students who reserve rooms within the Library using the online form. Contact Lynn at 966-6256 or gunter@email.unc.edu

Kudos to Authors: Hayes and Eades

Barrie Hayes and Lynn Eades wrote the chapter on Blogs, wikis, RSS and podcasting (tools for online collaboration) which appears in the recently published book Teaching with Technology: An Academic Librarian's Guide edited by Joe Williams and Susan Goodwin. The book is available for sale using the link above or can be borrowed from SILS library on the UNC campus (follow link to catalog record).

GET INVOLVED WITH YOUR LIBRARY

The library staff appreciates your support and input! Opportunities include:

• Join Friends of the Health Sciences Library
  A gift in any amount makes you a Friend of the Health Sciences Library. You may also select Honor With Books, designate a fund or endowment or consider a naming opportunity. Benefits are mutual!


• Offer a suggestion
  For suggestions unrelated to the website, the library also has an online suggestion box. There are also two suggestion boxes with paper forms on the first floor of HSL: one near the MacNider entrance door and other near the Columbia entrance, under the plasma news screen.

FEBRUARY HEALTH OBSERVANCES INCLUDE…

• American Heart Month
• National Children's Dental Health Month
• National Burn Awareness Week (Feb 3-9)
• National Donor Day (Feb 14)
• National Eating Disorders Awareness Week (Feb 24-March 1)

For information about local health care services, programs, and providers for these health issues, see NC Health Info at: http://nchealthinfo.org

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