It’s Prologue Week and your librarians were ready!

Thanks to the Class of  2013 for being such a fun and fast-learning group. We had great fun and hope the session was (and will be) helpful to you, too!  Our brown bag sessions are being planned and you will hear about them soon.  Plan to join us in the library on the 2nd floor [...]

Welcome (back) Classes of 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013!

We are very pleased to meet you and see you again to welcome you to the AHSL-Phoenix!   Lindsey Greene and  I look forward to working with you!   Some hints for effective use of the library are:

Make http://www.ahsl.arizona.edu/ one of your favorites/bookmarks! If you always start here, you will most certainly be successful finding and downloading [...]

Remote Library Access for Students during Summer

By Joan Schlimgen, AHSL-Tucson
There have been a few inquiries from continuing UA students, who are reporting that they no longer have remote access to the library’s eResources. After some investigation, we’ve found that our implementation of Single SignOn (NetID) last October, which uses the University’s WebAuth software, has had an unforeseen consequence. The definition of [...]

Institute of Medicine Calls for Doctors to Stop Taking Gifts From Drug Makers

By GARDINER HARRIS
Published: April 28, 2009
WASHINGTON — In a scolding report, the nation’s most influential medical advisory group said doctors should stop taking much of the money, gifts and free drug samples they routinely accept from drug and device companies.

Senators Herb Kohl, Democrat of Wisconsin and Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, are co-sponsors of [...]

Administrative Professionals’ Health and Safety

from the CDC: http://www.cdc.gov/Features/AdminHealth/
April 22, 2009 was Administrative Professionals Day. Improve your health, and lower your risk for stress and strains while at work by following these tips.

Technology has changed how we work, and science has helped improve our health and safety at work. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 2006, administrative [...]

Our next artist, a ceramics artist

Sherrie Zeitlin…
…earned her MFA in Clay in 1975 from ASU, and her BA in Clay and Fibers in 1972 at CSUN, in Northridge, California. She earned her Master Gardener certification in 1993 from U of A Extension, and is the executive director of the Art Resource Center. Sherrie maintains a clay studio in [...]

AHSL-Phoenix Staffed Library Hours Extended

Please join us in welcoming the library’s new student workers: Marla Stump, MS-1, Tori Sprunger, MS-1 and Leslie Padrnos, MS-II. With their help, the library will now be staffed at night and on weekends. Our new staffed hours will be as follows:

Monday – Thursday 7:30 am – 10 pm
Friday 7:30 am [...]

“New Readers” Graphic – from the NY Times; lessons for librarians and faculty?

See entire story here:  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/27/books/27reading.html
More and more of our library users are reading in ways that might seem a bit (or a lot) foreign) to non digital natives.  Are they learning as much? Acquiring 21st century skills?  Shortening attention spans? These are questions still to be answered, and perhaps librarians and  teaching faculty are in [...]

University Libraries Launch Expanded Worldwide Search Tool

The WorldCat Local search box expands and eases searching by allowing patrons to search:
· all library materials including physical and electronic books and journals, digital media, the full text of open-access journal articles, special collections, digital objects;
· by type of material to refine and limit their search;
· online article databases;
· general library information such as [...]

AHSL Must Cancel Journal Subscriptions

Your Comments Needed!

Title

Broad Subject

Dental Clinics Of North America
Dentistry

Acta Dermato-Venereologica
Dermatology

Advances in Dermatology
Dermatology

American Journal of Clinical Dermatology
Dermatology

Dermatologic Clinics
Dermatology

International Journal of Aging & Human Development
Geriatrics

Clinics In Perinatology
Gynecology and obstetrics

Obstetrics And Gynecology Clinics Of North America
Gynecology and obstetrics

HFM (Healthcare Financial Management)
Hospitals

Advances in Cancer Research
Internal medicine

Anticancer Research
Internal medicine

Australian Family Physician
Internal [...]