Welcome Back!!!

There are a couple of important changes and reminders for the new school year - please read through everything carefully and let Kaitlyn or Noreen know what questions you have:

1. We will NO LONGER WAIVE FINES ON LIBRARY LAPTOPS. Laptops MUST be returned the day they are checked out or fines of $20 per day WILL BE CHARGED. The ONLY exception to this is weekend check-outs, which will be allowed from Friday - Monday ONLY. Laptops checked out on Friday and not returned by close on Monday will accrue fines of $20 per day. There are new laptop loan agreements in a display holder above the laptop cabinet that make this very clear, but please be sure to TELL EVERYONE WHO CHECKS OUT A LAPTOP about this policy change - several students last year became accustomed to keeping laptops for several days without penalty.

2. Please remember that MCCN Students may NOT PRINT IN THE LIBRARY - they should use the 2nd floor computer lab. Physicians and hospital employees may print at the front desk with permission - please check with Noreen or Allison if someone requests this.

3. REMEMBER THAT FINES ON OhioLINK BOOKS CANNOT BE WAIVED. We will generally still waive fines on our MCHSL books unless there is a continuing problem with a particular client.

4. MCCN Students automatically have 24/7 Library access added to their student ID badges - they SHOULD NOT fill out the online request form. Physicians and nurses who work primarily at MCW also now have 24/7 access on their employee badges. Please refer anyone else who asks about 24/7 to Allison

SUMMER LIBRARY HOURS

The following is the schedule of Summer Hours for the Library:

Monday: 8am - 5pm

Tuesday: 8am - 5pm

Wednesday: 8am - 5pm

Thursday: 8am - 5pm

Friday: 8am - 5pm

Saturday: CLOSED

Sunday: CLOSED

PLEASE NOTE THAT WE WILL NOT BE OPEN ON SATURDAYS this summer as we have been in the past. Students can still enter the Library anytime using their badges, but will only be able to access closed reserve books during the above open hours.

REMINDER: EVERYONE ENTERING THE LIBRARY MUST HAVE A BADGE

For security reasons, we can ONLY admit MCCN students and MCHS colleagues to the Library, ALL of these people should have a badge of some sort. If you see someone looking lost or like they do not belong, either ask them if you may help them (if you feel comfortable doing so) or ask Noreen, Allison, Stevo or any other Library staff for help. 

We CANNOT provide service to hospital visitors or to student/colleague family members. If a hospital visitor or colleague family member wants to use a computer, there are still computers available in the 777 W. State St. building, where the Consumer Health Library used to be located. 

We are no longer offering patient library services to the hospital, so if nurses or patients call asking for books, magazines or movies please inform them that we no longer offer this service and extend our apologies. 

Let Allison or Noreen know if you have any questions. 

Sierra Reminder

IMPORTANT

Sierra is a shared system with many other colleges throughout Ohio. This means that when you search for someone's name, you may see accounts for people at other colleges. MAKE SURE that the account you are accessing is MOUNT CARMEL account. It will say MTCAR or MCCN in the PType field, as below:

If you find an account with the correct name, but it DOES NOT SAY MTCAR or MCCN, IT IS NOT THE CORRECT ACCOUNT. 

BE SURE TO LOOK FOR THIS WHEN CHECKING OUT ITEMS TO OUR PATRONS, we have had a few items be checked out to library users from other schools lately and this causes a problem because we can't always figure out who really has the item. 

Some of our staff and students also have existing accounts at other schools if they transferred or teach as adjuncts, but they MUST USE THEIR MOUNT CARMEL ACCOUNT TO CHECK OUT OUR BOOKS.


REMEMBER: Hospital staff accounts are not automatically created, so it is very possible that our users, especially those asking for ACLS and BLS books, will need a new account made. 

Let Allison or Noreen know if you have any questions!

NEW ACLS Books

We have received the new 2016 ACLS Provider Manuals, which will IMMEDIATELY replace the old 2010 version. 

Noreen is in the process of cataloging all 200 new books, and several are already available on the shelf. 

ALL 2010 ACLS and BLS manuals that are returned should be given to Noreen so that they can be removed from the catalog (DO NOT PUT THE OLD BOOKS BACK ON THE SHELF). 

As always, if someone wants office delivery of an ACLS book, be sure that they have a current account including their current work location.

Let Allison or Noreen know if you have any questions!

ATI UPDATE

The Library computers have been updated in order to allow ATI Testing to work properly. ATI Testing should now be working on all six public desktop computers on the 3rd floor and the HP laptops (NOT the Macs). Firefox is the browser of choice for ATI on these computers. 

The 4th floor public computers are currently able to run ATI Testing Using Internet Explorer, but these are administered by the hospital IT department and will NOT be updated if ATI stops working.

 
SO, we should recommend that students needing to complete ATI testing use the 3rd floor desktops or HP laptops with Firefox as the browser. 

ATI Testing also works in the 2nd MCCN computer lab.

PLEASE let Allison or Don know immediately if issues are reported so that we can follow-up as we have been assured that everything is working. 

LAPTOP REMINDER

This is nothing new, but just a few reminders about laptop check-in/out:

• ALWAYS complete both the PAPER form and the SIERRA check-out AND CHECK-IN. We have had several laptops recently that are not being checked in on the paper form

• We are not longer allowing extended check-outs of any kind. ALL LAPTOPS MUST BE RETURNED THE SAME DAY.

• When laptops are returned, remember to check that they have been POWERED OFF BEFORE PUTTING BACK IN THE CABINET

• When closing the Library, remember to lock the laptop cabinet

• NO documents are saved on the laptops once they are logged out; users should ALWAYS SAVE TO AN EXTERNAL DRIVE OR EMAIL THE DOCUMENT TO THEMSELF BEFORE LOGGING OFF. We recently had a student lose a paper because she did not heed this advice; when this happens we have no way of recovering the documents.