BOOKSALE!!!

Welcome back and Happy New Year!
The library will be holding our semi-annual booksale from Monday, January 12 through Sunday, January 18. Reasonably priced books will be on the tables in the library. After this sale, most of the remaining books will be donated to a needy overseas country through Rutgers University's connection with Better World Books. So this might be your last chance until August to find a bargain medical school textbook from the Media Library! We will continue to hold booksales twice a year, however.

Borrow Nonfiction titles for holiday break!!!

The holiday break might be the perfect time to borrow one of the popular nonfiction books that the Media Library displays on racks ( Soul of a Doctor, How Doctors Think, The Great Influenza, Better, Complications, just to name a few)...these are interesting titles that you might not have time to read when classes are being held. These can be borrowed at any time, and can be used for longer periods of time. So before you leave after your last exam, come in and check a book out for that long plane or car ride, or some quiet time at home at last!

Holiday Schedule

The Media Library in Piscataway will close at 5 PM on Friday, December 19. We will be CLOSED from Saturday, Dec. 20 through Sunday, Jan. 4. We will reopen at 9 AM on Monday, Jan. 5, 2009.
If you need to borrow any books before you leave for the break, please visit the library on Friday Dec. 19 before 5 PM. If you are returning books to the book drop, please remember to push them to the back and do not leave them on the inner shelf. If the drop is full, bring them in to the desk on Monday morning, Jan. 5.
Have a safe and enjoyable holiday!

Sidman Learning Tool Helpful for NS Course

First year medical students may want to borrow the Sidman Neuroscience Programmed Learning Tool over the holiday break to learn terminology or get familiar with Neuroscience concepts before the course begins. The Media Library has 2 copies of the latest edition and many copies of the previous edition that can be borrowed after exams and returned on January 5. See a library staff member if you need more information on how to use the learning text or if you want to borrow it.

RU Library Borrowing Policy for Medical Students

This is the Rutgers University Libraries Public Services policy that states that UMDNJ users need to register annually in person at the circulation desk of the Alexander Library of College Avenue campus or the the Library of of Science and Medicine on Busch campus. You can find it under "Borrowing" on the Rutgers University Libraries web site at http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu. University of Medicine and Dentistry of New JerseyThe Rutgers University Libraries, in cooperation with the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) Libraries, provides select library services to UMDNJ students, faculty, housestaff, and staff located on the Piscataway and New Brunswick campuses.Services are granted for one academic year. Individuals eligible for services may register, and must re-qualify annually for continued services, at the circulation desks at either the Rutgers University Alexander Library or the Library of Science and Medicine. Borrowing privileges are available to UMDNJ students, faculty, housestaff, and staff at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (RWJMS), the School of Health Related Professions (SHRP), the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSBS), and the School of Public Health (SPH) on the UMDNJ New Brunswick and Piscataway campuses.These privileges include: semester loan period, renewal using the "renew your checkouts" option in the self services section of IRIS, borrowing limit of 240 items, the Rutgers Delivery Service (delivery of Rutgers books to a Rutgers pickup location, recalls, and electronic delivery of Rutgers articles), interlibrary loan, and use of reserve collections.Remote access privileges to use licensed electronic information resources are extended to UMDNJ students, faculty, and staff enrolled in or employed by the joint Rutgers/UMDNJ Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSBS) and School of Public Health (SPH) on the New Brunswick and Piscataway campuses. Remote access privileges include access to electronic reserves. Access to electronic information resources and electronic reserve documents are available to all library users onsite, including UMDNJ students, faculty, housestaff, and staff at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (RWJMS) and the School of Health Related Professions (SHRP).
Members of the UMDNJ community may direct any questions about these services to Kerry O'Rourke, Campus Library Director, RWJ Library of the Health Sciences (New Brunswick) 732 235-7606 orourke@umdnj.edu Users can also send questions to the Rutgers University Ask a Librarian Service, accessible from the front page of the Libraries website.
UMDNJ students and faculty at Camden and Newark may be entitled to either guest or full borrowing privileges limited to the campus where they register depending on the program in which they are enrolled and such cooperative statewide or regional library programs as NJALN or CHEN.

Renewal of borrowing privileges at Rutgers Libraries

This is a reminder that all students need to have their borrowing privileges at Rutgers libraries renewed each year if they want to borrow books from any RU library. You will need to visit one of the libraries and show your UMDNJ ID card. You will be asked to complete a form and they will check your name on a list that the UMD libraries provides. If you have any issues or problems with this, please see Media Library staff.

Thanksgiving Holiday Hours

The Media Library will close at 5 PM on Wednesday, November 26. We will be CLOSED from Thursday Nov. 27 through Sunday Nov. 30. We will reopen on Monday Dec. 1 at 9 AM
Have a safe and enjoyable holiday!

Books can be borrowed for the long weekend beginning at noon on Wednesday 11/26. If you plan to return them to the book drop outside the library, push them all the way back until they drop down. If the book drop is full, return them to the desk on Monday morning.