Owing to additional staff reductions, effective Monday, March 22, 2010 the Health Sciences Library hours will be as follows:
Staffed Library Hours
Monday – Friday 7:45 am – 7:00 pm
Saturday 9:00 am – 1:00 pm
Sunday: Closed
Non-Staffed Library Hours:
Library Main Reading Room will be open 24/7 accessible via key card access only. Entrance to Main Reading Room during non-staffed library hours will be through the South Doors at the end of the south corridor.
A message from Dr. Ludwig, Associate Dean of Library Services
Due to staffing reductions and low Sunday usage of the Health Sciences Library, effective Sunday, February 21 the library will be closed on Sundays. We are however, developing procedures to open the main reading room on a 24/7 non-staffed basis. More information on library operating hours will be forthcoming.
The Health Sciences Library’s 2009 Annual Report is now available at http://library.luhs.org/hslibrary/about_us/publications/AnnualReport09.pdf
This year’s annual report is dedicated to the memory of Mary Klatt, Associate Director who passed away on November 14, 2009.
FY09 Highlights
Congratulations to Cathy Melone, the Library’s Interlibrary Loan Assistant. She is a quarterly MAGIS Award Nominee and recieved a Certificate of Excellence on June 22nd. Cathy goes beyond the call of duty when it comes to our disabled and elderly users. Besides her normal excellence of service, she has developed a special relationship to three longtime Loyola physicians who are all in their 80′s and suffer from a variety of physical impairments. When one of the physicans was in the hospital for surgery, Cathy visited him on a daily basis. This physican also has macular degeneration, so Cathy acts as his “eyes” when he comes to the Library, reading articles to him, helping him to get around the library, and helping him out to the car that is picking him up. Next time you are in the Library, stop by the Circulation Desk and say hi to a very special member of our staff. Congraduations, again, Cathy!
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Associate Dean, Logan Ludwig, PhD, AHIP, FMLA, Inducted as Fellow of the Medical Library Association
Each year, the Medical Library Association (MLA) bestows the honor of Fellow status on several of its most accomplished members. Fellows of the association are chosen based on their commitment to furthering MLA’s goals and their contributions to the health sciences information profession. Loyola Associate Dean for Library Services, Logan Ludwig, PhD, AHIP, FMLA, was inducted as an MLA Fellow at the Awards Ceremony and Luncheon on Monday, May 18, 2009, during the annual meeting of MLA in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Logan has been an active member of the association for over twenty years, serving as chair of the Grants and Scholarships and the Doctoral Fellowship Juries (1980-82), Annual Meeting Local Assistance Committee Chair in 1999, Governmental Relations Committee Chair (2001-2004) and has served as Associate Editor, for the Journal of the Medical Library Association (JMLA) for 12 years. A Distinguished Member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals (AHIP), Logan was the first recipient of MLA’s Virginia L. & William K. Beatty MLA Volunteer Service Award. He has also served as an MLA’s representative to Section 8 US Copyright Office Working Group and to the American Library Association’s Intellectual Freedom Principles for Libraries in a Networked World Task Force, and provided MLA testimony on several occasions before the U.S. House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, HHS, Education and Related Agencies.
Logan can also include among his numerous achievements the honor of being elected president to several library health communications associations including both the Midcontinental (1985) and the Midwest MLA chapters (1995), Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries (2006), and the Health and Sciences Communications Association [HeSCA] (1986). He was awarded the Midwest Chapter Librarian of the Year Award in 2008 and has received both the Distinguished Service Award and the Golden Raster Award from HeSCA. Logan is also active as the AAHSL representative to the Association of American Medical Colleges Council of Academic Societies and as a frequent grant reviewer for NIH’s Center for Scientific Review.
Committed to sharing the vast knowledge he has gained throughout his career, he has authored over sixty articles in many peer reviewed journals, several book chapters, presented numerous workshops and platform presentations, and is a well-know library building consultant having helped design or renovate over two dozen libraries world-wide.
MLA Fellows are elected by the Board of Directors, for sustained and outstanding contributions to health sciences librarianship and to the advancement of the purposes of MLA. Fellows may use the initialism “FMLA” following their names. Please join us in congratulating Logan on this fine achievement!
Congratulations to Adrienne Stras, Technical Services Assistant, on her retirement. Ade began working at the Library in September 1979. She has been a valued member of the Library staff ever since. Her cheery smile and infectious laugh will be greatly missed by all of us here at the Library. Ade has two special loves, animals and her grandchildren, and will be spending a good deal of time playing with the grandkids and volunteering at the Field of Dreams horse rescue in Geneva. We wish her all the best in her new pursuits. She will be missed.
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Each fall, medical students from Loyola University Chicago’s Stritch School of Medicine, organize, with the support of University Ministry, Thanksgiving Baskets to provide a meal for local needy families. Each year, over 300 baskets are donated from deserving individuals. Baskets consist of canned goods, vegetables, desserts, and a gift certificate to buy a turkey, and often include “extras” such as tablecloths, toys for kids, candles with candleholders, and other extra “goodies.” Students deliver these baskets before Thanksgiving to needy families in Maywood, and in Chicago’s West and South sides. Each Library staff member is contributing something to a basket and wishes a Happy Thanksgiving to all the deserving families.
Logan Ludwig, Associate Dean, Loyola University Health Sciences Library is this year’s recipient of the Distinguished Librarian of the Year award of the Midwest Chapter of the Medical Library Association. This award was given to Dr. Ludwig at the annual meeting of the Association held in Troy, Michigan in October. Also attending the meeting were two of our reference librarians, Jeanne Sadlik and Jean Gudenas. Jean Gudenas presented her poster session entitited. Surveying and Understanding the E-book Needs of the Loyola University Medical Community.
