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Oh no! I am sensing the start of the great Journal Uprising of 2007, that triggered the famous Health Librarians rebellion of 2008, which in turn lead to the Mass Closures of Health Libraries in late 2008 (and the resulting rather rushed and botched attempts by the government to force health librarians back to work - the "Insistence on Subsistence for Health Librarians Act" of 2008 that didn't quite have the desired effects and then the spin campaign of "Health Librarians are grumpy sods, so kick them quite hard" that followed?) oh and then the Burning of Books 2009 by unemployed health librarians forced from their hovels (er, sorry Health Learning Enrichment Environments - y'know the places we used to call libraries). All that soot and stuff sent into the atmosphere was enough (along with the toxins from melting CD cases - as most of the educational CDS had after all been nicked, and not even mentioning the stuff given off by the all burning 1970s polyester carpets that we! re! obligatory to most health libraries...) to trigger a sudden calamatous and unstoppable collapse into global warming and nuclear holocaust/general catastrophy etc etc that we now experience in 2010. Charlotte, please for the good of your fellow health librarians step AWAY from the journal shelves right now. This is a friendly voice from the future.... Apologies for the lack of correct punctuation, after all the librarian led chaos and anarchy, the government decided on a big clamp down on education for the masses and punctuation is actually banned and I could get into terrible trouble for using commas and stuff like that... Still, gotta go (the hamster powering this PC - now we no longer have mains electricity has run out of carrot and the machine is.....) Juliet Brown I am not a pessimist - I am just a very cautious optimist. Information in this message may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient please accept our apologies; please do not disclose, copy or distribute information in this e-mail or take any action in reliance on its contents: to do so is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please inform us that this message has gone astray before deleting it. Thank you for your co-operation. ---- Original message ---- >Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 12:22:34 +0100 >From: Charlotte Boulnois <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Friday discussion point >To: [log in to unmask] > >Dear All > >We've just received our journals renewals list for next year and yet again >I'm faced with a quandary. Every year I look at the price I pay for JAMA and >resent it. It's never looked at, we have it full-text through a national >deal (although there is a time lag) and we never get any ILL request for it >and let's face it it's not very good. So why do we still have it ? Why do I >feel that it along with other titles such as BMJ. Lancet, New England is >required. Should I treat it like any other journal title that isn't used and >is hard to justify the cost and cut it, or do I just grit my teeth and pay >it ? > >Charlotte > >Charlotte Boulnois >Library Services Manager >NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Acute Services Division (South) >Central Library >Southern General Hospital >1345 Govan Rd >Glasgow >G51 4TF >Tel :- 0141 201 2163 >Fax:- 0141 201 2057 > > > >********************************************************************** >P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail or its attachment(s) > >This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and >intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they >are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify >the system manager. > >This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by >MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. > >www.clearswift.com >********************************************************************** ********************************************************************** This message may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient please accept our apologies. Please do not disclose, copy or distribute information in this e-mail or take any action in reliance on its contents: to do so is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please inform us that this message has gone astray before deleting it. Thank you for your co-operation. NHSmail is used daily by over 100,000 staff in the NHS. Over a million messages are sent every day by the system. To find out why more and more NHS personnel are switching to this NHS Connecting for Health system please visit www.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk/nhsmail **********************************************************************