Why did it take you people so long to get something up on the website about the SciFinder move? This is a critical database to me, and you dropped the ball. Thanks SO MUCH.

You're right! Thanks for taking the time to let us know about the inconvience you experienced and please accept our apologies. HSL is not the campus library that purchases this product and we were working to gather the information we needed to make an accurate post about the change. We will take your comment as an inspiration to post preliminary information more quickly in the future.

Changes for access to SciFinder Scholar are described in this news blog entry.

The online exhibit for the Gillings School of Global Public Health is wonderful! HSL's website is my default on all browsers so I appreciate the announcement in the news blog. I sent a note to the listserv for the Daniel Okun chapter of Engineers Without Borders (UNC student chapter)with the link specific to Okun. Perserving and promoting the availability of Special Collections is so important and I am glad to know HSL considers this a priority.

The ladies in ILL are very helpful, available, and super nice! Its a pleasure to interact with them!

I suggest that someone clean up and organize the current journal shelves. There are some journals mixed in with other journal titles. There is also a huge black cart of current journals that need to be shelved. What's going on? The shelves in this library used to be so neat and orderly.

Thank you for your suggestion! When new journals are first catalogued they are placed on a cart on the 4th floor until a student assistant is available to shelve them. We do this so that patrons can use them in the interim. Shelving and shelf-reading are projects the students assistants constantly work on and unfortunately due to budget constraints, we were under a hiring freeze for the last 2 months. We have recently hired a morning student assistant and will be better able to keep up with these tasks.  Assistants keep track of how many journals they find out of place by recording it on the white board behind the desk.  We also keep it on the permanent list of things to do when they come in.  We will ask them to pay special attention to the 4th floor.

The books on shelves on the 3rd floor are out of order.

Thank you for your suggestion! This is a project the students assistants constantly work on.  It is never-ending. They keep track of how many books they find out of place by recording it on the white board behind the desk.  We also keep it on the permanent list of things to do when they come in.  We will ask them to pay special attention to the 3rd floor.

Since 2006, every January and February I have been assisting with a project that requires confirming specific UNC authorship on about 1000 articles and then of those confirmed as relevant to our grant, looking for a grant citation on the PDFs on approximately 250 articles. Lastly I save PDFs in a secure digital archive. UNC cannot possibly fund online subscriptions to everything -- but I know from going through this exercise for the fourth time now that we are extremely fortunate to have more than what I estimate to be more than 95% of articles available online!

Even if I cannot get an article online that I can often find it in print, borrow and scan. Although best for my health to walk to the library, I am cost conscious of my visit versus ordering through the Inter-Library Loan department--especially now with the implementation of TIMS. For articles we don't have other methods to obtain "freely" your ILL department is always fantastic!

Thank you all for everything you do!