MOLDOVAN LIBRARIANS VISIT HSL
In the spring of 2006, an important international partnership between medical libraries began between the Moldovan Scientific Medical Library and the medical libraries in North Carolina. Liubovi Karnaeva, Library Director, and Silvia Ciubrei, Deputy Director, Moldovan Scientific Medical Library, will be visiting North Carolina medical school libraries and AHEC libraries in March - April 2007 and will be at HSL on March 28 and 29.
To learn more about the NC library partnership, visit: http://www.coastalahec.org/library/library-moldova.asp
COMMUNITY WORKSHOP SERIES WINS ACRL INNOVATION AWARD
The "Community Workshop Series" created by the UNC Library's Instructional Services Department has been chosen to receive the 2007 Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Instruction Section (IS) Innovation Award. Sponsored by Lexis-Nexis, the annual award recognizes a project that demonstrates creative, innovative, or unique approaches to information literacy instruction or programming. Christie Silbajoris, Health Sciences Librarian and Director of NC Health Info, teaches the health-related classes in this series. The workshops bring information literacy programming into the community through a partnership between the University Library and four local public libraries-Chapel Hill Public Library, the Carrboro Cybrary and Carrboro Branch Library, and the Durham County Public Library. Since the program's inception in March 2005, 248 class sessions have reached 1,490 participants and engaged 58 volunteer instructors. "The Community Workshop Series is a programming innovator, a model of creativity and quality we found especially compelling for its multi-level partnerships and multiple innovations," said Kathleen Gallagher, IS awards committee chair. For more information about this award, please visit: http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlawards/innovationaward.htm
OPEN HOUSE OFFERS A GLIMPSE OF RENCI INNOVATIONS
The Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) will open its doors to the public on Friday, March 2, for an open house that will showcase a wide range of technologies and projects related to disaster research, bioinformatics, public health, high performance computing and high resolution visualization.
The open house will take place at RENCI's anchor facility at 100 Europa Drive, Chapel Hill (the Europa Center office building) between noon and 3 pm. Visitors should enter the building from the parking lot entrance. Refreshments and light snacks will be available. Ample free parking is available. For directions to RENCI, see: http://www.renci.org/about/europa.php
Founded in 2004 as a major collaborative venture of Duke University, North Carolina State University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the state of North Carolina, RENCI brings together diverse teams of people and technologies to address major issues facing our state, our nation, and the world, including disaster planning and response, public health, and biomedical research. The open house will include demonstrations and information about RENCI's major initiatives.
ACADEMIC LIBRARIES SUPPORT EPA
President Bush's fiscal 2007 budget proposal would cut funds for the EPA's library network to one-fifth of what they were in 2006 - threatening to render useless a key information tool used by the news media and the public as well as EPA scientists, lawyers, and regulators. On February 2, MLA President Jean Shipman, and Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries President Elaine Russo Martin submitted a joint statement to Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), chair of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, opposing the administration's $2 million cut to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Library Network.
RESULTS OF NEW PRODUCT EVALUATIONS
Check the "Evaluate New Products" website for upcoming products to evaluate. We've added a new feature - you can see the results of our recent trial. Thanks to all who have been participating in these trials -your feedback is crucial! For results, go to: http://www.hsl.unc.edu/evaluation/trials.cfm
A HEALTHIER HSL – ONE STEP AT A TIME
HSL staff has taken the pedometer challenge – HSL departments are competing during March to see who can take the most steps toward better health. Participants also receive a packet of health information. It’s a fun, easy way to reduce stress and improve health. So strap on a pedometer and start walking! For more information about starting a pedometer challenge in your unit or department, contact Susan Linn: slinn@email.unc.edu
GET A JOB!
Check out the jobs available at HSL at: http://www.hsl.unc.edu/AboutLib/employment/jobindex.cfm
HSL E-NEWS is a monthly publication of the UNC-Chapel Hill Health Sciences Library. For more information on this publication, contact Susan Siegel, Communications Coordinator: sysiegel@med.unc.edu, 919-966-0944.