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One thing you can say about the design community is that do produce a good number of instructional videos. I don’t mean instructional in the sense that they were created to teach new skills. Many of the videos are conference presentations or interviews with the experts. I’ve learned a good deal about design topics and user experience ideas just from having watched the videos that are freely available. I wanted to share two I think are worth watching.
I’ve actually taken in a few videos featuring Jesse James Garrett, and there’s usually something useful to be learned from his presentations (although some are a bit too techy for me) and his writings. In this video he speaks about the “current state of user experience”, and by that he offers his interpretation of what it means when we speak about user experience and where he sees things headed. It’s a good investment of time for those both new to and familiar with user experience….
Visit here to see the video: http://dbl.lishost.org/blog/2009/11/05/ux-and-sketching-two-videos-worth-your-time/
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Below is a compilation of responses: Thanks, Colleagues!!!
Hi Jacque,
At FIU we’ve got 3,300 linear feet – but it was inherited and we don’t need it. About half is filled with ‘gifts’ we were forced to take. With fewer stacks, I wouldn’t have had to take them. So there’s a caution in oversizing, eh?
In reality, we figured that one double-sided range of 144 linear feet (48 shelves) would last us about 6 years or more before de-acquisitioning for older materials. That’s buying 150 print books a year (all required curriculum texts, and the recommended curriculum texts that are not in e-format) for the Med 01 and Med 02 classes. Everything else, of course, is in E-format.
Figuring that we are not a retrospective research library and would cull older textbooks after 5-8 years, two double-sided ranges would last 15-20 years. By then, everything in biomedicine will be in E-format. Only a few key required textbooks might be needed in print for back-up for when someone pulls the cord out of the wall. I don’t know if that all makes sense. But I’ll be monitoring the results from a Lazy-Boy with the built-in refrigerator and three position stick-shift reclining seat.
Dave
David W. Boilard
Director, Medical Library
Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine – GL 324
Florida International University
11200 SW 8th St.
Miami, FL 33199
(305) 348-0643 phone
(305) 348-0631 fax
dboilard@fiu.edu
Hi Jacque,
I had the same question, but went with my same #, since we planned to go electronic, and it’s worked just fine.
And in case you need it, MLA Guide to Managing Health Care Libraries has a great chapter on space planning. Got it? If not, I’d be glad to loan. I could mail it, bring it to AAHSL, if you’re going, or fax you the chapter.
The right information is good medicine.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Jane Bridges, ML, AHIP
Associate Director – Savannah Campus
Health Sciences Library
Mercer University School of Medicine
Memorial University Medical Center
P.O. Box 23089 / 4700 Waters Ave.
Savannah, GA 31404
(912) 350-8124, fax (912) 350-8685
BridgJa1@memorialhealth.com
Hi Jacque,
In our interim blg. at Hofstra we managed to include in the plan 210 linear feet of stacks. However, it was required that they be located in a consolidated area by the front desk that can be locked when the library is not staffed so that the rest of the library can be open 24/7. We will see how well that will work. There was no space allocated for print journals. The interim bldg. is expected to be occupied for about 4 years.
Debbie
Debra Rand
Asst. Dean and Director, Health Science Libraries
Hofstra University School of Medicine in partnership with North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System
Library Director, Long Island Jewish Medical Center
New Hyde Park, NY 11040
718-470-7070
drand@nshs.edu
Dear Jacque,
We have just completed our planning for the new building. We calculated that we will need 300 linear feet of stacks. With the idea that as titles become available electronically we will be removing the titles from the shelves and that the print collection will shrink as time goes on. But to make some folks here happy, we planned for 4 ranges at waist height of shelving for our planned 700 print titles. We also planned for 20 print journals to be housed in a special print journals shelving. Again this was planned to make certain stakeholders happy. We also planned for lockable shelving for our prized textbooks that are on reserve. Thus making the space a 24/7 space should the need arise. We are in the final stages of working with the electrical engineers to drill the floor boxes for power and data based on our final furniture plans. We plan on moving into our new space in June 2010.
See you all in Boston soon.
Nadine
Nadine Dexter, M.L.S., AHIP
Director – Harriet F. Ginsburg Health Sciences Library
Director Medical Informatics
University of Central Florida
College of Medicine
12201 Research Parkway
Orlando, FL 32816-0116
407-823-4599
407-823-1856 FAX
ndexter@mail.ucf.edu
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Dear Colleagues,
I am very pleased to announce that the Medical Library at The Commonwealth Medical College (TCMC), in Scranton, Pennsylvania, is officially open for business. TCMC’s inaugural class of 65 medical students began class at 8:00am this morning. Another 30 students will begin class next week for the master’s in biomedical sciences program. TCMC marks the first opening of a medical degree-granting school in the state since 1962. It is the first M.D. school not associated with a larger university to open nationwide in at least 35 years.
Last Sunday, our medical students began a full week of orientation, which included 2 full days, and 1 night, of outdoor activities at Camp LaDore, just 1 hour east of Scranton in beautiful northeastern Pennsylvania. At camp, students, faculty and staff participated in team building and new skills training, taught by faculty & staff. Skills activities included fly-fishing, kayaking, canoeing, yoga, salsa dance, bocce ball and quilt making. My hope is to have a TCMC Charter Class quilt to adorn the Medical Library in the near future!
As construction progresses on our new 120 million Medical Sciences Building, which is scheduled to open in 2011, students are attending classes just a few blocks away, at Lackawanna College. Lackawanna College is also the temporary home of the Medical Library, our Gross Anatomy Lab, the Clinical Skills & Simulation Center, Student Affairs and other departments with an academic focus. The Medical Library reports to the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and comprises 2 professional librarians, including myself, and three support staff. A third librarian will be recruited in 2010 and a fourth librarian will be recruited in 2011. The Office of Academic Informatics works closely with the Medical Library to provide students, faculty & staff with instruction and training in the areas of information management and retrieval, literature searching and evidence based medicine.
The TCMC Medical Library is 95% electronic and all of our students are provided with laptops, portable printers and wireless cards. The Medical Library provides access to over 13,000 e-journals, 1,400 e-books and 50 biomedical databases. Our print collections consist of 125 reserve titles, 200 core biomedical titles, as well as reference and leisure reading collections.
The TCMC Medical Library website may be accessed at: http://tinyurl.com/ncsbcu. This will take you to the TCMC’s Community tab. From this page, click on the link to TCMC Medical Library, under: TCMC Library Services.
The Medical Library is a member of DOCLINE, so feel free to add us to an appropriate cell.
Finally, I want to extend special thanks to Barbara Shearer, who worked as a Library Consultant for TCMC during the early days of TCMC’s development and who continues to provide me with her invaluable assistance and expertise. I also appreciate the support that I receive from my AAHSL colleagues, whose wisdom and generosity has been a tremendous help in getting the Medical Library to where we are today.
Thank you, all!
Joanne
Joanne M. Muellenbach, MLS, AHIP
Director, Medical Library
The Commonwealth Medical College
501 Vine Street, Ground Floor
Scranton, Pennsylvania 18509
T: 570.504.9627
F: 570.504.9618
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Results of Deb Rand’s Survey
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Update from Dave Boilard at FIU
Hello Colleagues,
The Medical Library at the “Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine,” Florida International University is now open for business. The College of Medicine’ s (COM) inaugural class numbers 43 excited students. Orientation began on August 3rd. Classes start next Monday.
The Medical Library (not yet named) is currently located inside the university library building, and is expected to remain there through 2012. The library’s reporting line is directly to the Executive Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the COM, with a dotted line to the FIU Dean of Libraries. In the next 4-8 years, the medical library will evolve into a health science library to support the emerging Medical Center on campus. For this year, we have four professional librarians and four support staff (plus students).
The collections are 99.9% digital and are licensed for all of FIU. Students have online access to over 4,000 journals and 800 books in the medical and health sciences through FIU and the Florida Center for Library Automation. The only print materials are the required textbooks, and gifts of older materials. It will be an interesting experiment.
The new COM website should go ‘live’ on Wednesday, and we are pleased to have a spot on the home page (bottom). On subsequent pages, the library has persistent placement in the Quick Links. I’m afraid I do not have a link to offer right now.
The Medical Library has joined DOCLINE, so feel free to add us to an appropriate cell.
Special thanks go to Barbara Shearer and her medical librarians at Florida State University, Nadine Dexter, the FIU university and law librarians, and to other colleagues too numerous to mention in Florida and around the country for their assistance. Now we’ll see what happens.
Dave
David W. Boilard
Director, Medical Library
Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine – GL 324
Florida International University
11200 SW 8th St.
Miami, FL 33199
(305) 348-0643 phone
(305) 348-0631 fax
dboilard@fiu.edu
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Gary Freiburger and I were fortunate to attend a gathering of librarians from the 4 Corners region, a tradition begun by Rachael Anderson a number of years ago. This year we met at the University of Colorado Denver Health Sciences Library in Aurora. Our gracious host was our (formerly) own Jerry Perry! I took a ton of pictures and they are posted HERE.
Guiding principles behind the library’s design:
- Natural light
- Beautiful Colorado (brought inside)
- Library faculty have windowed private offices; staff, substantial cubicles with direct and indirect natural light
Things that got my attention:
- Evidence of the above 3 was present
- Large faculty and staff offices and cubicles
- Spaciousness all around
- High, large windows and gorgeous views
- 5 patios! (wipes everywhere)
- Colors were very Colorado!
- Lots of study rooms and other collaborative space (get #s)
- Wonderful re-use of beautiful old furniture (Stickley and ?)
- JP’s patio veggie starter garden
- Permanent art and plenty of space for periodic displays of arts, see: http://hslibrary.ucdenver.edu/on-display/#PERMANENTexhibit –Humanescence by Rae Douglass
- Lots of interesting public art on campus
- Spacious and functional IT staff work and storage space
- Plenty of space on campus and in the library for student hangout and collaboration
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from ars technica – http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/07/academic-publisher-reportedly-going-online-only.ars
If information isn’t online, it may as well not exist. In the latest sign that the world of traditional print has become a world of hurt, the American Chemical Society is reported to be planning to switch to an online-only publishing model for its journals.
Last week, the head of the US branch of Oxford University Press noted an event that was striking, if unsurprising. When grading an assigned paper, a Columbia University professor found that the majority of his students had cited an obscure work of literary criticism that was roughly a century old. The reason? Because the work was in Google Book Search, while much other (more recent) work was not.
The relative invisibility of offline information has an impact on almost all areas of life, but it’s felt especially acutely in the academic world, where work builds on the existing body of knowledge. Getting all of that dead-tree information onto the Internet (or into archives like J-Stor) would be of tremendous utility to scholars and students, but convenience isn’t the only reason for digital distribution of academic work. A recent decision by a prominent academic publisher to switch to digital-only distribution was apparently motivated by simple economics: print no longer made financial sense…read entire post at URL above!
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Joan Lippincott has written about this book:
I believe that this Research Report is a “must read” for academic librarians. Char Booth has succeeded in providing us with a snapshot of the major issues involved in thinking through Web 2.0 services in academic libraries, as well as a model for implementing a local research design in order to better understand your own institution’s users’ needs.
Read and download the document here: http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/digital/ii-booth.pdf
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from Designing Better Libraries
A better library experience in an academic institution would hopefully be part of a more holistic and superior experience designed to provide students with an overall learning experience. That experience would be memorable, different and would encourage students, if asked, to indicate they had received a superior educational experience. But if the experts at Bain and Company are right “80% of organizations believe they deliver a superior customer experience but only 8% of their customers agree.” Not good.
So we all need to do a better job of creating an environment in which our community members – many more than just 8% – believed they had a great experience at our institutions. According to Robert Sevier, writing in University Business, great experiences don’t just happen. There has to be intent. A superior customer experience has to be designed or managed as Sevier likes to put it. In his article “Managing the Experience” Sevier shares ideas on how organizations can move from just letting experiences happen to actively designing them….
Read entire post here.
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