ah well, sometimes you can never underestimate the punters enough.  When our library was closed a couple of years ago for painting, a wee doctor made it through all the considerable obstacles and finally stopped before the painter (man in overalls, weilding a roller, paint splattered etc etc) and ask him to do a literature search.
cheers, J  

Juliet Brown
Medical Librarian - Vale of Leven DGH
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them.  The only books I have in my library are books that other folks have leant me.
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>>> Derick Yates <[log in to unmask]> 08/26/05 03:06pm >>>
Here's a cheering thought.....

 

We have the decorators in over the weekend and because we've had to move
all our PCs out of the room, move the journals off their shelves, move
furniture etc, (all those jobs no one ever imagines a librarian doing)
we've closed for the day. We've put up closed signs on the library door
and on the doors of all entrances into the centre where the library is
located. We sent global emails around on Wednesday, explaining that we
are closed from yesterday at 2 until we open again on Wednesday next
week.

 

Our door, which is always open during office hours, has been closed,
meaning that anyone coming through the door would need to stop, take out
their swipe card, swipe in and then come through a door with a big red
"CLOSED" on it.

 

So far we've had....

 

2 students, a nurse, 3 junior doctors, a professor and a head of
department who all appear to have lost the ability to read for the day,
and have come in regardless, only to have us say,  "sorry we're closed.
Didn't you see the signs on the doors?" 

 

See all that reading, does us some good after all....

 

;-)

 

Derick Yates AKA "Coanan the Librarian"

Training & Systems Librarian

BHSN Library Management System Administrator

Trust Library and Information Service

Birmingham Women's Health Care NHS Trust

Metchley Park Lane

Edgbaston

BIRMINGHAM

B15 2TG

Tel: 0121 472 1377 extension 8746

Direct Dial Tel: 0121 627 5856

Fax: 0121 623 6922

-----Original Message-----
From: UK medical/ health care library community / information workers
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Woodley Zena (RQ8) Mid
Essex Hospital
Sent: 26 August 2005 14:22
To: [log in to unmask] 
Subject: Re: cheering thought

 

I may be observed after ringing for a wedding in Southwark Cathedral
tomorrow at 2.15pm... I will be carrying a book.....later, I can be seen
hanging over the upper balcony at the Royal Albert Hall......Gosh,
information AND bell-ringing....

Enjoy the weekend, everyone!

Zena

 

	-----Original Message-----
	From: UK medical/ health care library community / information
workers [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Hilton Boon
Michele
	Sent: 26 August 2005 14:13
	To: [log in to unmask] 
	Subject: Re: [LIS-MEDICAL] cheering thought

	Hmm. I would prefer it if folk generally did assume that I read
a lot, whether it's true or not.  :^)

	 

	Let me share a recent anecdote on this topic - one of my
clinical colleagues recently offered me the following 'compliment' in a
tone of amazement: 'You know, you've completely changed my opinion of
librarians!'  I'm pretty sure from the context that he was referring to
my subversive attitude (little does he know) - definitely not my fashion
sense.

	 

	This week's CILIP Update magazine addresses our image problem in
the back-page column (with reference to the infamous librarian action
figure with 'shushing' ability) and, if memory serves, you will also
find a sad plea on the letters page from a poor soul who hopes that
continuing to wear a bun doesn't mean she must be drummed out of the
profession.

	 

	Amusingly, today's Pharmaceutical Journal carries an article
about the image problem of pharmacists - and concludes (echoing one of
today's posts on LIS-MEDICAL) that what the profession needs is a sexy
pharmacist on TV and a serial drama about pharmacy!  Perhaps we could
all team up...or Bill Oddie could do a series observing rare
professionals in their seldom-seen habitats...

	http://www.pharmj.com/Editorial/20050827/comment/spectrum.html 

	 

	Michele

	--

	Michele Hilton Boon

	Information Scientist

	National Prescribing Centre

		-----Original Message-----
		From: UK medical/ health care library community /
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Medwenna Buckland
		Sent: 26 August 2005 13:39
		To: [log in to unmask] 
		Subject: cheering thought

		If I had a pound for every time somebody said to me "oh,
so do you read a lot" when I tell them I work in a library, I'd be
extremely rich (actually I probably do read a lot, but I dislike the
assumption). People then assume that you work in a public library and no
matter how many times you try to explain what a medical library is, they
retain that impression and at some point will come along with a big box
of old novels for you, saying "I thought you might want them for the
library". 
		
		I think I'll go and buy some high heels.
		
		
		

		Medwenna Buckland
		Acting Senior Library Assistant
		UCL Institute of Orthopaedics Library
		Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital
		Brockley Hill
		Stanmore
		Middlesex
		HA7 4LP
		
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