HSL's Building Hours

Hours take effect June 30, 2008

For more details on hours visit: http://www.hsl.unc.edu/AboutLib/GeneralInfo/hours.cfm

Friends' Café Hours

Friday, July 4, the Health Sciences Library and Friends' Café will be closed.

Access to HSL: Pedestrians and Parking

Due to the Dental Sciences project at the corner of Manning Drive and South Columbia Street, pedestrian traffic is rerouted. Please refer to this map: http://www.hsl.unc.edu/News/pedestrians2.pdf

In addition, the bus stop near the Friends' Café will be moved further north.

The Dental School and Bell Tower parking lots are now construction zones. An after-hours parking alternative is under the FedEx Global Health Center. Enter via Pharmacy Drive off McCauley Street. Explore more parking options here: http://www.dps.unc.edu/brochures/AfterHoursParking.pdf

July Health Observances

National Therapeutic Recreation Week, July 13-19
Eye Injury Prevention Month
Juvenile Arthritis Awareness Month
UV Safety Month

For information about these health concerns as well as local health care services, programs, and providers to help manage them, see NC Health Info Go Local at: http://nchealthinfo.org

NC Health Info Awarded Grant

NC Health Info (www.nchealthinfo.org) has been awarded a federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant for the third consecutive year. NC Health Info connects North Carolinians to reliable and easy-to-use web-based health and health services information in both English and Spanish. The $103,934 grant will cover the costs of complete implementation of the site's content and functionality, promotion to the public and public librarians, completion of an initial evaluation, and planning for sustainability. LSTA grants are disseminated through the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and are administered by the State Library of North Carolina, a division of the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources.

HSL Classrooms: Check Software Availability!

Computers in HSL classrooms (307 and 329) will be replaced over the summer. If you, or someone you work with, plan to use these rooms for fall semester 2008 and beyond, please check on the availability of needed software at least two weeks in advance of the class(es). Even if the software was installed earlier, it might not have been automatically added to the new configuration. To check on software availability, please contact HSL's Public Computer Support staff (HSL-ITServices@listserv.unc.edu)

HSL's policy on installing software requires a minimum two weeks advance notice. Special software requests also require license or educational use permission.

HSL Classes

Evaluate VisualDx by July 30

Before July 30, please give us your feedback on VisualDx -- an online product being considered for purchase. Our trial of VisualDx will change to an improved, more intuitive browser-based version in early July. The product includes more than 16,000 medical images and illustrations. A patient's findings can be entered to build a differential diagnosis through searchable clinical terms and diagnostic relationships. To link to VisualDx, view the results of previous evaluations and take part in current evaluations go to: http://www.hsl.unc.edu/evaluation/trials.cfm

PubMed Links Changing Soon

HSL will soon implement changes for links to full text articles in PubMed. The link will appear at the top of the Abstract view. Once selected, the link to full text will go to a page listing all choices for online availability as well as other options for finding articles such as a catalog search and our Interlibrary Loan service. This change enables linking to more full text articles than we have been able to do previously. If you have questions, please contact Ask-A-Librarian by email, IM Chat or phone: http://www.hsl.unc.edu/services/asklib/asklib.cfm

Medical Student Book Exchange Begins July 7

HSL staff members and student leaders from the School of Medicine's Whitehead Medical Society are working together to offer an innovative new book sharing program. Based on a similar initiative at the Duke University Medical Center Library, the Medical Student Book Exchange will allow third year students the opportunity to share textbooks required for clinical training courses. Forty-six students are enrolled in the exchange, which begins July 7. Medical student leaders who are working hard to establish this program include Ali Chhotani, Matt DeAugustinis, Mark Clapp and Allison Serra. At HSL, support has been provided by Linda Collins, School of Medicine liaison, Denise Mabe, User Services Operations Manager and Karen High, Cataloging Specialist. As one student commented, "I think this is a great idea. It will definitely help keep costs down in third year."

E-Science and Libraries

E-Science encompasses global, scientific collaborations enabled by the Internet, involving large data collections, very large scale computing resources and high performance visualization capabilities. "Agenda for Developing E-Science in Research Libraries," an Association of Research Libraries (ARL) report, was presented by Neil Rambo, of the University of Washington and Visiting Program Officer for ARL, at an open forum held June 10 at HSL.

A capacity audience included faculty, staff and students from campus libraries, the School of Information and Library Science, Information Technology Services, RENCI and the UNC scientific community. An E-Science interest group was formed during the discussion Rambo facilitated. For an overview of E-Science and to link to the report, visit: http://www.arl.org/rtl/escience/index.shtml

To join or learn more about the E-Science interest group, contact Barrie Hayes, Bioinformatics Librarian and Collaboration Center Manager, 962-0264 or email barrie_hayes@unc.edu

MedlinePlus Has Translations in Multiple Languages

This new multilingual service expands the availability of lay-level medical information and should enable health care providers, family members and caregivers to assist a patient who reads and speaks a language other than English.

The expansion covers health information for selected conditions in 44 languages including: French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Chinese, Russian, and Japanese. There is new health information (with English translation) in Navajo, Samoan, Vietnamese, Polish, Arabic and Farsi also (among others). All foreign language content in MedlinePlus has an English equivalent.

For more information about this service see: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/podcast/transcript052808.html

NIH Public Access: Join Your Colleagues

People

Ginny Bunch will join the Health Sciences Library as Assistant Director of Development and Communications, effective July 1, 2008. Ginny will help the library develop its fundraising programs, prepare print and online communications and publications, and develop and coordinate donor recognition activities and events. A native North Carolinian, Ginny returns to the area from Charlottesville, Virginia, where she has been a consultant to non-profit organizations for the past two years.

Bob Ladd has a new position title, Liaisons' Instructional Specialist. The change reflects his increased responsibility to help HSL's liaisons support faculty and students' effective use of information resources and current and cutting edge technologies. Specifically, this position promotes new technologies, conducts training and provides advanced support for HSL's Media Design Studios. Bob will continue to work closely with graduate assistants who have been trained to provide first line support for media design projects.

Kudos to Barbara Renner, Library Services Evaluation Specialist and Liaison to Allied Health Sciences, and Bob Ladd, Liaison's Instructional Specialist, for their paper titled "A New Role for Libraries: Building Collaboration around Technology Enhanced Spaces, Design Tools and Expertise" which was presented at the 2008 UNC Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLT) Conference and linked in the June 6 issue of CITations, an information technology news publication. To read their paper, access the proceedings, then scroll down to the Libraries Track. Click on the title to download the pdf.

International Visitors to the HSL

Ruth Mwenda, the new librarian for the UNC Project in Malawi, joined her UNC-HSL colleagues at the Medical Library Association (MLA) meeting in Chicago in May. She then spent a week in Chapel Hill learning more about HSL resources, services and operations.

Lisa Kreusi, Manager of Health Sciences Library Service in Queensland Australia, visited HSL for three days at the end of May as part of the MLA's Cunningham Fellowship. This fellowship provides an opportunity for librarians from outside the United States to share professional experience with U.S. colleagues.

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
  The library 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 another near the Columbia entrance, under the plasma news screen.

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, Interim Communications Coordinator: keesee@email.unc.edu