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.

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!

Put a map of campus on the directions page with the health sciences library pointed out, not just a parking map.

Thank you for your suggestion! We updated the page with a link to Google maps. Hope this helps!

Hi. I have been consistently impressed with the breadth of journals available to us, especially electronically. Thank you for maintaining such a comprehensive list. My colleagues in highly esteemed universities are consistently impressed with (and jealous of) my ability to find articles at UNC. There is one journal I would really like to see made available. It is the International Journal of Addictions (ISSN 0020-773X). I have needed about a dozen articles from this journal over the past 2 years and have not been able to get them. Any chance this might get added to the acquisition queue? 

Thank you for your request and positive feedback! I have forwarded it to our Resource Management Services team who will review the request and notify you of the status of your request. Most journal requests are reviewed by the Health Sciences Library selectors as a group, once or twice a year.

In the future, please submit requests through an online form that goes directly to the RMS staff. It is linked on our topbar under "Site Index A-Z"; select R for Recommend a Purchase. We value input from our users and work to make sure that all requests and suggestions get to the right person no matter how they are received.  Thanks again for your suggestion!