Carpet cleaning August 22nd - closing early

The Biomedical Library will be closing at 5 pm on Friday, August 22nd so that we can have the carpets cleaned. Didn’t we just do this? Yes, but they turned out to need a more industrial-strength cleaning so we’re having a little do-over.

Library and Graduate Study Closed Over 4th of July

The Biomedical Library and Graduate Study will close at 5pm Thursday, July 3rd for carpet cleaning. The Library and Graduate Study will remain closed over the July 4th holiday, and re-open at 10am on Saturday, July 5th. This will allow the carpet to fully dry.

We’re sorry for any inconvenience.

Reserve a Group Study Room

It is that time of year when the Group Study Rooms are in high demand. Make sure your group has one available that meets your schedule by calling ahead to reserve one. Reservations are for the same day only. Call the Service Desk at 858-534-3253 or stop by the library to place your reservation.

Please remember that if you have checked out a room, those in your group cannot also place a reservation for a later time. We are trying to make sure everyone has a chance to use these rooms. The Group Study Rooms Policy page will give you some general details about the group study room policies and you can also see the picky details about Group Study Rooms Reservations.

Library closing early January 25th

The Biomedical Library and Graduate Study will close at 5pm Friday, January 25th to allow the carpet to be cleaned. The Library and Graduate Study will open normally at 10am Saturday, January 26th. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Noise Alert

Due to furniture installation, there will be periods of noise in the Library this week. We are working with the furniture installation crew to mitigate noise as much as possible, but some disruption will be unavoidable. We recommend users work in the far south end and northeast end of the 2nd floor. There are ear plugs available at the service desk. We hope this furniture installation project will be completed on or before Thursday. We apologize for this inconvenience.

Library closed July 4th

The Library will be closed July 4th. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Recreational Reading and New Books moved

The Recreational Reading and New Books collections have been moved to provide more visibility. The Recreational Reading collection is now located on the first floor across from the service desk, and includes 300 contemporary fiction and non-fiction bestsellers, a dozen popular magazines, and two local newspapers. The New books are now on the East side of the staircase as you enter the library. Books in this collection circulate normally.

New Display in Library Lobby

Check out the video display of moving 3-D macromolecular structures from the Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics, Protein Data Bank (RCSB PDB). A worldwide repository for X-Ray crystal structures of large biomolecules, the PDB currently contains 41,000 structures with over 100 new structures added weekly. The PDB database is freely available to the public at http://www.pdb.org.

This video display, created by Jeff Milton of the PDB laboratory, UCSD Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, is on loan to the Biomedical Library until June 30. In addition to viewing the video images, you can pick up handouts with more information about the structures on display and about the PDB itself. To contact the RCSB PDB, send email to info@rcsb.org.

Presentation Practice Room Now Open!

The Biomedical Library now has a room equipped for you to practice your oral presentations! The room has a lectern, projector and computer equipped with Microsoft PowerPoint as well as a timer/stopwatch software program to help you with timing. You can also connect your own laptop to the projector if your laptop has a video-out port.

The room may be “signed out” for three hours at a time by any UCSD student, staff or faculty member.

Wireless - and roofless

Have you taken a look at the walkway area that extends south from the Biomedical Library entrance towards Osler Lane? There are some big cement bench areas out there with nice planters and sweet-smelling flowering trees. We just checked it out and our wireless Internet connection extends out there as well - at least as far as the second big “nook” area. This area is probably too sunny in the morning for productive use of laptops, but in the afternoon when the sun goes behind the library that area is very pleasant. Perfect for catching up on a little e-mail while having lunch or a phone conversation.