The Spring 2012 issue of UB Libraries Today features the Health Sciences Library, including a beautiful image of the former main entrance and it’s impressive steps, columns, and architecture.  Designed and built by famous architect E.B. Green in the 1930s, Abbott Hall (the former Lockwood Library) continues to serve faculty, staff and students in the five health sciences schools.

Inside the issue are two articles about collections housed in HSL’s History of Health Sciences area.  Both have materials that illustrate the growth and development of the health sciences from past centuries to the present: the Robert L. Brown History of Medicine Collection and the Edgar R. McGuire Medical Instrument Collection.

Annette Cravens, whose lifelong passion for medicine and the arts is reflected in her generous support for UB and the Health Sciences Library, is profiled, as well as The Friends of HSL, an organization open to all those at UB and beyond who are interested in supporting HSL’s resources and services.

Other articles describe HSL’s community outreach initiatives, introduce “Bioinformatics @ HSL,” a program series developed for UB’s growing life sciences research community, and offer librarian Sharon Murphy’s reflections on her 25-year career as liaison to UB’s School of Nursing.

Once you’ve read the issue, come on down to South Campus and visit HSL — see what all the fuss is about!

Bonnie is waiting!

HSL Stress Relief Week, held last December, was a great success.  We offered free chair massages, visits with therapy dogs, snacks and drinks for students to help relieve the stress of finals.   Photos from that week are now available on the UB Libraries Flickr page.   Some of the students had their picture taken with the dogs, which may be downloaded for your personal use.

The UB Libraries are holding a Stress Relief Week again on May 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th — this time, the event will be held on both the South and North campuses.   From 10am to 2pm on each day, students can again enjoy therapy dogs, free chair massages, snacks and drinks, and a break from their studies and exams both at the Health Sciences Library, room B15 lower level on the South Campus, and at Lockwood Library in the staff lounge in the basement on the North Campus.

Stop on by – the dogs are waiting!

CIT will be upgrading public workstations over spring break in March in several library locations:

Abbott – all floors except first floor – 28 workstations total on lower level, 2nd and 3rd floors.
Capen 1^st floor – Library and Cybrary – 75 workstations total

Patrons will be alerted through signs taped to the workstations involved.

Delivery+ , a new document delivery service which enables faculty and staff to request materials from any UB library on any UB campus, including our electronic collections, was introduced last Fall by the University Libraries.

The Gender Institute presents its annual International Women’s Film Festival, Thursdays beginning Feb. 16 through Mar. 30,  at the Market Arcade Film and Arts Center downtown.

Next Thursday, Feb. 23, the festival presents two movies:   the controversial film “Pink Ribbons”, a hard-hitting documentary which challenges the creation and marketing of a corporate breast cancer culture (see a clip at http://www.nfb.ca/film/pink_ribbons_inc_clip); and “Unchastened”, the story of one woman’s journey beyond breast cancer.    The movies will be followed by a panel discussion with breast cancer researchers, survivors, patient advocates and public health professionals.