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Secondly, the Library is undergoing a major renovation of the first floor that will relocate the main entrance to the Garners Ferry Road side of the building, expand the Library's space into the adjoining hallways, and provide new carpeting and lighting. As evidenced by the photos in this issue, renovation of the first floor of the Library is underway. Below are the answers to frequently asked questions about the project.
What is the current status of the project?
As of July 26, the contractor, Preferred Construction, has removed the ceiling, pulled up
the old carpet, and demolished several walls. The old circulation desk has been
removed. The orange shelves that house the book collection have been shipped to a
local company where they will be repainted in a neutral oyster color. New carpeting has
been ordered. Check the Library's web page for the
latest renovation updates.
How do I get into the Library?
The main entrance is located on the 2nd floor of the Library building and is accessible
via the stairwell or lobby elevator located at the rear of the Library building.
Will 24 hour access to the Library be available to students in the
fall?
Yes! The 24-Hour Access Agreements will be placed in your Library Orientation folder, or you
can pick it up at Circulation.
Where are the books?
The book collection is temporarily housed in 1,200 boxes in various areas of the Library
and Building 1.
What do I do if I need to get a book?
If you need access to a book from our collection, the Library will obtain the book for you
on interlibrary loan from another library at no charge. You may fill out an interlibrary
loan request form in the Library or submit the request via the Library's web page. Just
click on Interlibrary
Loan or Request
Forms on the top level of the web page.
Where are the Library's computer workstations for searching OVID, the
online catalog, and other electronic resources?
Ten public workstations are available in the computer classroom on the 2nd floor of the
Library.
Where are the reference books?
A core collection of reference tools are located on the 2nd floor. The rest of the
reference collection is in temporary storage.
Where are the current journals and newspapers?
The most recent issues of each of the Library's most heavily used journal titles and the
newspapers are located on the 2nd floor near the computer classroom.
Where are the Library staff?
Most of the Library staff, including myself, are working in Room 303 of the Library
building. Sarah Gable, Lisa Antley-Hearn, Victor Jenkinson, Carol Witzell, Tim Schafer,
and Ed Sperr are working out of offices on the second floor of the library.
How do I get to the Computer and Communications Resources Center, the
Curricular Affairs and Faculty Support Department, Radiology, and the Office of Minority
Affairs from Building 1 and Building 2 now that the hallway is gone?
There are several routes. 1) Go through the courtyard next to the M-1 classroom and
enter the basement level of the Library building through the loading dock. 2) Use the
stairwell just off the corridor by the Library's old rear entrance and take the stairs down
to Radiology and CCRC or up to the Curricular Affairs and Faculty Support Department
and the Office of Minority Affairs. 3) Cut through the courtyard that runs parallel to the
old hallway by the Library. 4) Walk through the VA corridors by VA Administration and
wind around. See the map for a visual
version of these directions.
You may also check the Library's web page to get the latest renovation information. Please feel free to contact me at 733-3353 or ruth@med.sc.edu with other questions about the renovation. We are pushing to have the project completed as early as possible. Thank you for your patience and tolerance as we complete these important improvements.
Ruth Riley
Director of Library Services
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Familiar Faces at the Circ Desk
Tim, Carol, Victor, and Yorick
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JSTOR (www.jstor.org/jstor/):Backfiles for hundreds of academic journal titles in a wide variety of categories. There is a General Science Collection. Journals can be searched individually or by subject categories. Made available through Thomas Cooper Library.
Project MUSE (muse.jhu.edu/): Provides online, institutional subscription access to the fulltext of over 100 scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. (Subscribed to by Thomas Cooper Library.)
Trends and Current Opinion Journals: Free to all through BIOMEDNET (www.bmn.com), until September 2000. Register free with BIOMEDNET to get the fulltext of these journals.
Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary Online: Now available on our e-textbooks web page or go directly to www.tabers.com.
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If you are in need of any book that is in storage, we will obtain it for you at no charge through Interlibrary Loan. Call Erica Peake at 733-3347, or email the information to ill@med.sc.edu, or use the Library's online request form.
The good news is that all new books received since June are available on the second floor across from the computer classroom. A majority of our reference books are also available on the second floor.
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If you are a SOM faculty, student, or staff member with a current SOM network ID and password, you can contact Computer and Communications Resources (CCR) to obtain an account that will allow remote access to library resources formerly only available from computers on the SOM network. The SOM's new Virtual Private Network (VPN) will allow you to access the Library's electronic information sources form the comfort of your own home or from locations "on the road."
Please contact CCR at 733-3341 for further information.
AutoSDIs allow you to save searches and run them automatically. Also, two new databases are now available through the Library's OVID subscription.
Have you ever wanted to automatically run a search each time Medline is updated? Now you can. Using AutoAlert, you can save a search one time and have new results mailed to you each month. When you perform a search using the Web interface to OVID you can select "Save Search History" and then "save search as an AutoAlert SDI service." Type in your e-mail address and new results will appear in your mailbox with each update. Note: AutoAlert only works with the Web interface to OVID. Also, make sure that you enter your current and complete e-mail address (don't forget the "@med.sc.edu", "@yahoo.com", etc.).
Pre-Medline, the first of our new databases, consists of two sorts of records: Publisher records for journal articles that won't end up in Medline (such as non-biomedical articles from Science and articles bound for Medline that are still being processed by NLM. When searching Pre-Medline, you're looking at the most recent citations available. However, keep in mind that while Pre-Medline citations often have abstracts, they do not yet have Medical Subject Headings.
The Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE) is another addition to the Library's suite of Evidence-Based Medicine tools. Produced by the Cochrane Collaboration, DARE is a collection of structured abstracts of systematic reviews covering topics such as diagnosis, prevention, rehabilitation, screening and treatment.
The Web interface to OVID already reflects these additions. If you're using the Windows interface, and you don't see these choices, run OVID Setup (Start - OVID Client - OVID Client Setup).
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Staff Spotlight
A native of Aiken County, Mrs. Gable is the second of five daughters and was reared on a farm in Edgefield County. She has been with the SOM Library for 23 years. A graduate of Winthrop College with a bachelor of arts degree in Biology, Mrs. Gable received her master of Librarianship degree from the University of South Carolina. Mrs. Gable said her interest in life sciences made Medical Librarianship a natural choice of career. Mrs. Gable is the mother of two children, Maura and Joseph. She said two people who have influenced her professional life are Dr. Martha Jane Zachart, who taught her in library school and who has remained a friend and mentor, and Dean Fred Roper, with whom she has co-taught classes in Health Science Bibliography at the USC College of Library and Information Sciences. She said both have been supportive and encouraging throughout her career. In her spare time, Mrs. Gable enjoys reading, swimming, cooking, traveling, walking, and riding her bicycle. Her fondness for Friday night movie going is a source of office teasing and good-natured nose tweaking by her co-workers. She would make a fine movie critic should she ever seek a second career! Mrs. Gable said if she had to choose a favorite quote (and for this profile she did), it would be: "Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those I love, I can; all of them make me laugh." W.H. Auden (1907-1973). |
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| Administration (Director, Ruth Riley): | 733-3350 |
| Circulation (Head, Victor Jenkinson): | 733-3344 |
| Reference (Head, Sarah Gable): | 733-3351 |
| Cataloging (Head, Laura Kane): | 733-3352 |
| Acquisitions (Head, Laura Kane): | 733-3352 |
| Serials (Head, Karen Rosati): | 733-3355 |
| Systems (Head, Ed Sperr): | 733-3347 |
| Interlibrary Loan (Head, Sarah Gable): | 733-3347 |
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Telephone Number: (803) 733-3344
Fax Number: (803) 733-1509
Address:
School of Medicine Library
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
Home Page: http://uscm.med.sc.edu/LIBRARY/LIBRARY.SHTML
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