HSL-News June 13, 2002

1. Adopt-A-Book
2. New Books & Bytes Issue
3. Grant Writing Workshop
4. HealthLinks June Front Page--Providing More With Less

Adopt-A-Book
Resource budget shortfalls have limited the ability of the HSL to purchase new books. Our Adopt-A-Book program has been initiated to provide you the opportunity to directly support the HSL. Details of this new program and a list of titles available for adoption are at /hsl/adoptabook/
***Leave Your IMPRINT On The Library***

New Books & Bytes Issue
The latest issue of the HSL's newsletter has just been released. It is available in hardcopy and on the web /hsl/bnb/volume14/spr02.pdf
Books & Bytes is a product of the Health Sciences Libraries for the faculty, staff and students in the Health Sciences. This issue has six pages of a wide range of articles, UWired Health Sciences Debuts; Finding the Sciences Behind the Headlines; Improving Search Results; Gifts Expand a Collection, plus several other timely pieces.

Grant Writing Workshop: A Two-Part Workshop, Sept. 4 & 11, 5:30-8pm
It is not too early to sign up for this workshop as attendance is limited to 25 and it is filling up fast. Registration is at /rfs/forms/workshop.html
Janet Rasey, Ph.D., Director, Research Funding Service is teaching this workshop which is directed towards those new to grant writing or who have had a proposal rejected. A comparison of proposals which were funded and some which were not funded will be discussed.

HealthLinks June Front Page
The featured topic this month is: Providing More With Less: Books, Journals and Databases. The HSL is reviewing all our current resources - books, databases, and journals, in an effort to further reduce our costs, meet our budget goals, and maintain our priorities of increasing desktop access. Over the next few months, you will be asked to respond to choices we are making.  The front page is located at /.

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