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A Quarterly Newsletter
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Vol. 2, No. 1 Winter 1996
A NEW ERA -- AT LAST!
The long-awaited move from the old to the new Health Sciences
Library has finally happened, completed in two major phases in
mid-November and mid-December 1995.
Welcome to our spacious state-of-the-art facilities to serve your
clinical, bibliographic, scholarly, and research needs!
A WALKING TOUR OF THE NEW LIBRARY
The layout of 48,200 square feet of net floor space is a lot to
learn and a lot to remember. To help you discover your way to
whatever part of our new Library interests you, try the following
guide for a leisurely half-hour tour.
How to Get to the New Library
The new Library is between the old Library and Irving Avenue.
Enter from inside Weiskotten Hall. Face the green doors to the
old Library and go down the hall with the restrooms and the door
to the outside on your left and the elevator on your right. Soon,
on your right, you will see a short hall with phone booths on the
right and blue double doors straight ahead.
The Main Floor
Your first sight upon entering the new Library is a spacious
two-story atrium with hidden skylights to provide a level of
brightness unusual for Syracuse. As you walk past the glass wall
and through the security gate on your left, notice the
Circulation Desk on your right, a giant staircase straight ahead,
and the Reference Area on your left.
Walk into the Reference Area, keeping the staircase on your
right. Four multiLIS online catalog (OPAC) terminals with
printers are conveniently located on a standing-height table just
as you pass the foot of the stairs. Beyond this table, against
the wall to the left, are five VT terminals connected to the
campus VAX, where you can check your e-mail and perform other
online functions.
The Reference Desk is just ahead on the left. Opposite it are
eight MEDLINE computers and four additional database computers on
which to perform other kinds of literature searches.
Still proceeding straight ahead through the Reference Area, go
through the Reference Book Collection and the Indexes and
Abstracts until you find yourself in a cozy, semicircular room
with large windows offering a view of Irving Avenue, the old
Yates Castle stone wall, the Marley Education Center, and
Syracuse University's Crouse College. This is the Wolseley
Memorial Room, for leisure reading. Current newspapers are also
located here.
The Wolseley Room has two doors. Go out the door on the left and
walk between the wall on the left and the first range of
Reference stacks on the right. Here are the microfiche resources.
Pass by a hall on the left leading to the offices of the
Reference staff. Take a left turn at the second hall, just past
the vertical files and just before you reach the search
terminals.
On your left are restrooms, and on your right are the stairway to
the basement, a public phone, and an IBAX terminal.
As you emerge from this short hall, you will be in the "Hall of
Fame," graced with paintings of Elizabeth Blackwell, Stephen
Smith, Thomas Szasz, and other physicians prominent in the
history of medicine locally, nationally, and internationally.
Exhibits of the history of medicine will also be shown here.
Just before a large glass-pane wall with two glass doors, there
is a single door on the left. Through this door is the Health
Information Center (HIC). This collection is intended to meet the
needs of health care professionals seeking information to give to
patients and of patients themselves and their families seeking
information on their own.
Next to HIC, behind the glass-pane wall, is the Current
Periodicals Room. Immediately to your right as you enter are a
Photocopy Room and a Help Desk. Look out the picture window at
the Yates Castle stone wall and Crouse College. Note the ample
seating here, in contrast to the Periodicals Room in the old
Library. Note also how many study desks and carrels are wired for
computers. So bring your laptop on your next visit!
As you leave the Current Periodicals Room and go back into the
Hall of Fame, you will notice double doors about halfway down the
wall on the left. Behind these doors are the "backstage"
operations of the Library, such as Technical Services,
Cataloging, Serials Processing, Receiving, and Collection
Development.
The elevators are straight ahead. But for now, bear right, go
past the phone and restrooms and take the staircase on the left
leading to the basement.
Basement
You will be facing three doors when you reach the bottom of the
stairs. The middle door leads to the Stack Maintenance
Supervisor's office. Go through either of the two outer doors
into the Photocopy Room, where there are six copiers, a work
counter, a paper cutter, plenty of elbow room, and a hot line to
the front desk in case of paper jam or other copier malfunction.
As you leave the Photocopy Room by the right-hand door, you will
be facing the elevators. To your right are the restrooms. Go down
the short hall between the elevators and the restrooms, noting
the public phone on your left. Turn left at the end of this hall,
just before you reach the electric compact shelving. Walk down a
long aisle with the shelving on your right and first a wall, then
study desks, on your left. At the end of this aisle, turn right,
and walk down the short aisle with the shelving still on your
right and the study desks against the wall on your left.
You are now in the northwest corner of the basement. You have
reached the beginning of the Journal Collection.
Walk the perimeter of the floor, clockwise, with the study desks,
carrels, lockers, and locked carrels always on your left. Note
how roomy everything is down here. No more being jostled by your
neighbors while trying to concentrate on your work.
You are following the arrangement of the Journal Collection,
alphabetical by title from "A" to "Z." Along the north wall (the
Weiskotten Hall side) are "A" to "D," along the east wall (the
Irving Avenue side) are "D" to "J," and along the south wall (the
Veterans' Administration Hospital side) are "J" through "Z."
At "D" there is a brick portal. Opposite "I" there is a
semicircular study room, directly underneath the Wolseley Room.
Along the wall between "I" and "J" are eleven reserved study
carrels. In the middle of the "P"s is an area of study desks.
When you reach "Z," take two more right turns, still with the
shelving to your right and the study desks to your left. Take
that aisle to the center of the basement. You will arrive at to
the elevators to carry you to the third floor.
The Third Floor
As you emerge from the elevator onto the third floor, you will
see double doors set at a 45 degree angle straight ahead. Go
through these doors into the Book Collection.
Walk with the wall on your left, through an area of study desks.
Just past an emergency door (more about that later), you will be
at the beginning of the classified books. Library of Congress
(LC) and National Library of Medicine (NLM) Classification System
call numbers start with "A."
Walk through this first group of stacks to the far wall, turn
right, and walk by the windows on your left overlooking Irving
Avenue. The books are on your right. When you get to the "QV"
books, note again the diagonal row of study desks pointing toward
Crouse College through the picture window.
On the other side of the picture window, keep walking along the
wall from the "QV" to the "WO" books. When you reach "WO," turn
right, then left, then right again, always keeping the wall on
your left and the book stacks on your right.
When you reach a corner set at a 135 degree angle, turn right and
walk between the books from "WO" to "Z" on your right and a
triangular area of study desks on your left. This will bring you
back to the main double doors.
As you go back out through the double doors and face the
elevators, the restrooms will be on your right. The short hall
between the elevators and the restrooms leads to the public phone
and the down staircase on your left. But before you use the
staircase, peek around the corner to the right and notice another
emergency door. Behind this door and the one we saw earlier are
high tech faculty seminar and conference rooms which can be
reserved through the Dept. of Educational Communications, Room
Reservations, 1257 Weiskotten Hall, phone 464-7911.
If the green light at the top of any emergency door in the
Library is on, it is OK to open that door without fear of setting
off the fire alarm. If the green light is off, the door is locked
and alarmed. In case of fire, a locked emergency door may be
opened by pressing the panic bar for 15 seconds, which will sound
the alarm.
The Second Floor
Stepping off the staircase onto the second floor, walk straight
ahead through the glass door into the History of Medicine Area.
On your right in the main hall are study desks and windows
overlooking the atrium, while on your left is the History of
Medicine Librarian's office. At the end of this wide hall,
bearing to the left, are first the History of Medicine Reference
Collection and then the History of Medicine Circulating
Collection. Beyond the emergency door is a small laboratory for
preservation, conservation, and basic book repair.
Accessible only through the History of Medicine Librarian's
office are a vault containing special collections, rare books,
medical artifacts, the Health Science Center archives, etc., and
a private reading room for the use of these materials.
As you leave the History of Medicine Area, turn right and keep
the wall opposite the elevators on your right until you reach the
glass door to Media Services.
Go through this door and bear right past the Media Services
Circulation Desk. Walk between the wall on your right and the
media stacks on your left. Straight ahead are six Media Group
Study Rooms. On your right is another emergency door leading to
the Preservation Lab. Go left toward the picture window with its
prospect of Crouse College.
As you turn the corner to the left, notice that each of the desks
in the diagonal row has a VCR or some other piece of audiovisual
equipment. Walk between the diagonal row on your left and another
group of study desks on your right, most of which are equipped
with computers.
As you bear slightly to the right, you will see the Media
Services Librarian's Office on your left, and, down a short hall,
the Microcomputer Classroom on your right. Behind the emergency
door at the end of this short hall are the Library Administrative
Offices.
To leave Media Services, keep the Librarian's Office on your
right and the Circulation Desk on your left. Bear right as you go
through the door.
Note the phone on your left and the restrooms on your right as
you approach the top of the stairs. Peek around the corner to the
right and see another emergency door leading to the
Administrative Offices. Take the stairs down to the Main Floor.
Back to the Main Floor
How majestic it feels to promenade down these stairs to the
atrium! The lower flight of this staircase is where President
Eastwood assembled a large cross-section of HSC employees to
photograph for his 1995 Holiday Greeting card. It is sure to
remain a popular spot for photographs in years to come.
Turn a hairpin left at the bottom of the stairs so that the
Circulation Desk ends up on your right. Walk through the back of
the atrium with the staircase on your left. You will see to your
right several comfortable lounge chairs on inlaid carpet in front
of an L-shaped set of wooden bookshelves. These shelves hold the
display of New Books, the Open Reserve Collection, the Wolseley
Memorial Collection, and their reading area.
Keep walking straight ahead. Note, as a benchmark, the position
of the elevators and the Hall of Fame which you saw on your
earlier visit to this floor.
The first door on your right after you pass Open Reserves is the
Inter-Library Loan Department (ILL). Please always feel free to
walk in and request materials that we do not have in our own
collection.
This concludes the tour. Any questions you may have can be
answered at the Reference Desk.
Again, welcome to our beautiful new Library!
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WHO TO CALL?
Circulation and Reserve
weselcon@mail.upstate.edu
464-7087 or 464-7089
Collection Development
bundyr@mail.upstate.edu
464-4257 or 464-7109
Computer Search Services
capodagl@mail.upstate.edu
464-4581 or 464-7113
Director
onsip@mail.upstate.edu
464-7086 or 464-4582
FAX to the Library
464-7199
General Reference / Educational Services
hawkinsd@mail.upstate.edu
464-4581 or 464-7114
Health Information Center (HIC)
capodagl@mail.upstate.edu
464-4410
Historical Reference Questions
lufte@mail.upstate.edu
464-4585 or 464-7115
Hours (Recording) 464-4580
Interlibrary Loan (ILL)
request@mail.upstate.edu
464-5116 or 464-7197
Or, to submit your request electronically, select "I"
from the main Computer Services Menu on the VAX.
Library Computer Systems
onsip@mail.upstate.edu
464-7085
Media Services
kucharsk@mail.upstate.edu
464-7191 or 464-5667
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* Editor: Eric v. d. Luft *
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There is also a print version of this newsletter. The electronic
form is at either of these URLs:
http://www.hscsyr.edu/~wwwserv/Library/
gopher://micro.ec.hscsyr.edu/11/Libraries/hsclibrary/Newsletter/
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