Oh, happy day!

Monday 24th November - 8.00am - the Medical Library re-opens its doors.

The majority of the redevelopment work is over, and we're proud to welcome you into the library via the "normal" route: into the Clinical School and up the spiral staircase.

There will be a settling in period as we get used to our beautiful new surroundings - please bear with us.

We hope that you'll enjoy our new look!

See you Monday!

The end is nigh: an early Christmas present

Congratulations to you all - you've survived the disruption of our move to the temporary issue desk and the noise of the building works.

Thank you for your tolerance.

The only thing left is to re-open our newly renovated reception area, and open up the new computer room, but this shouldn't take very long - watch this space!

But in view of your patience, we thought you deserved an early Christmas present, so......

Extra long book loans

All books loaned (or that have their loans renewed)

from 17th November till 9th December
will not be due for return till 5th January 2009.

This will allow loans of up to 7 weeks, in comparison with our normal 4 week loan period.

Do you use ebooks?

Could you spare 1 hour in November? (26th/ 27th)

We are setting up a focus group to consider the use of medical ebooks by university staff and students. Comments will be fed back to JISC, (Joint Informations Systems Committee) for their national observatory project. JISC has negotiated and provided free a number of e-books to the academic community, eg. Rockwood and Green’s fractures in adults.

Prepared to help? – please contact Anne Collins in the Medical Library, mail ac224@cam.ac.uk

New ebooks available on trial for November!

If demand is sufficient we are hoping to subscribe to the latest edition of these
ebooks:-

• ADAMS AND VICTOR'S PRINCIPLES OF NEUROLOGY - 8th Ed. (2005)
• GOODMAN & GILMAN'S THE PHARMACOLOGICAL BASIS OF THERAPEUTICS - 11th Ed. (2006)
• HARRISON'S PRINCIPLES OF INTERNAL MEDICINE - 17th Ed. (2008)
• HURST'S THE HEART - 12th Ed. (2008)
• MAINGOT'S ABDOMINAL OPERATIONS - 11th Ed. (2007)
• OXFORD HANDBOOK OF ANAESTHESIA - 2nd Ed. (2006)
• OXFORD TEXTBOOK OF PALLIATIVE MEDICINE - 3rd Ed. (2004)
• SMITH'S GENERAL UROLOGY - 17th Ed. (2008)

To access via Cambridge domain computers :- home page. Click on Titles tab and select.
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