Our “Class Librarian Program” pairs each entering undergraduate class (e.g., class of 2009) with a reference librarian who serves the class until graduation. The class librarian maintains a webpage with class-specific information, and sends regular emails to all students in the class.
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/classlibrarians/
Connecting upperclassmen with the library when they begin research papers and senior theses.
Reducing undergraduates’ “library anxiety”.
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Among the user populations of the University Library are staff of the University of Chicago Medical Center. Although the Library has long served physicians, in recent years nurses also have had an increasing need for medical information held in the Library. To better serve nurses, the Library established a reserve collection of frequently consulted nursing material, and extended 24-hour access to the medical library to nurses. One of the biomedical librarians held regular “office hours” in the Medical Center, where nurses could drop in with questions, and offered several Library instruction sessions geared towards nurses.
Assist the Medical Center in attaining Magnet Recognition from the American Nurses Credentialing Center.
Raise awareness of library services among Medical Center nurses.
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Lens is a new search engine that allows researchers to discover connections and find resources on a topic. Lens uses relevancy ranking, and other cutting-edge technologies, to search library resources more efficiently and effectively. Lens includes all content found in our library catalog, archival and manuscript finding aids, deep links to online reference sources such as the Dictionary of National Biography, and more.
http://lens.lib.uchicago.edu/
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