HSL’s Barbara Renner wins Bryan Public Service Award!

HSL librarian Barbara Renner recently won the prestigious Robert E. Bryan Public Service Award for her work leading HSL’s YOUR HEALTH Radio project. Barbara was one of only five individuals to win the award this  year. For more information, see https://ccps.unc.edu/awards-fellowships/robert-e-bryan-public-service-award/

Congratulations, Barbara!

Moving Forward Together: Two Game-Changing Collaborations

This video was selected for the 2012 Medical Library Association Conference’s Leadership and Management Section program, “Smells Like Team Spirit: Partnerships to Move Your Library Forward,” in Seattle, Washington, (May 21, 2012).

For this blog we split it into two parts, one part on the YOUR HEALTH Radio blog and one part on the HSL Global Health Initiative.

YOUR HEALTH® Radio: We interviewed Dr. Adam Goldstein, faculty member of UNC Family Medicine and co-host of YOUR HEALTH Radio.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22hYEITR8Gs

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We Love the Presidential Endorsement of Our Library!

During President Obama’s visit to UNC Chapel Hill, we loved hearing what we felt was a Presidential endorsement of the importance of libraries.  As you can hear towards the end of this Youtube clip (around the 1:20 mark), the President mentions that he’s proud of all the Tar Heel students for their hard work as they study for their degrees and “for the long hours in the library, I hope!”

Thank you Mr. President!

I feel confident in saying that I would not have found what I needed to complete my research

I am a senior at the University of North Carolina at Asheville and I am in the second half on writing my senior exit research paper. This is a 25- 30 page paper on a student chosen topic. For my research, I am looking at the political activism that came as a result of the over thirty different sanitariums that were scattered throughout Asheville.

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Health Affairs leaders praise HSL’s Global Health Initiative

Watch several Health Affairs faculty and a graduate student talk about the important role played by HSL in UNC’s global health efforts.

This video is a condensed version of what was originally a four-part video.  The four-part version is available on HSL’s YouTube channel at  http://www.youtube.com/user/hslunc.