Top Ten Reasons to Use Your Library (whether or not you are involved in direct patient care)

Number Ten: You will get valuable information to help you make decisions.

Number Nine: You will get more accurate information.

Number Eight: You will make better decisions.

Number Seven: You will save time.

Number Six: You will be more productive.

You will be able to devote more time and energy to your primary job responsibilities if you let library staff help with your information gathering needs.

Please contact Michele (223-0340) or Margo (738-2325) for additional information or for help with your project.

Stay tuned for Reason Number Five in a future edition of The Weekly.

Source: Special Libraries Association

Managing Email Overload

Here are some quick tips to tame your email in-box :
1) Stop “Doing email”
2) Start scheduling time to scan your email
3) Use email when appropriate
4) Deal with email by subject
5) Keep your inbox nearly empty
6) Filter your messages
7) Do not forward chain letters, spam, or virus hoaxes. Delete them.
8) Do not answer spam, ever
9) Limit listserves
10) Follow good email etiquette
11) Delete and archive
12) Stop using your email box as a to-do list

Remembering Nancy P.

Nancy Piencikowski was a longtime nurse at Mercy Medical Center in Oshkosh, WI, who died last month. Read more about her in the official obituary.

She started the Wound Clinic here and lovingly took care of Ostomy Patients. She was also a big part of the American Cancer Society. I'll always associate her with the spring Daffodil Sales to raise money for The American Cancer Society. She was always just as bright as those flowers.



Nancy always had a bright smile. Her whole face lit up.

Her spirit lives on in all who knew her.

She will be greatly missed.

Library as Place – Do you need some peace and quiet?

Actually, this isn’t new. Some people have always known that they could go to the Affinity Libraries if they needed a few minutes of peace and quiet.

Libraries have always had the reputation of being quiet places. But if you have visited a public library in, say, the last ten years, you’ll know that those libraries are becoming hubs of activity and you can’t always expect a quiet atmosphere when you visit.

The Affinity Libraries are places you can go if you need to get even a few moments of peace. The medical libraries at Mercy Medical Center and St. Elizabeth Hospital offer comfortable lounge areas with newspapers and magazines so that you can create a mini-escape during your busy day. If watching fish calms you, visit the library at Mercy Medical Center and see their new fish tank. (Of course, if you love people-watching and the smell of espresso, the atmosphere at the Resource Café Consumer Health Library at St. Elizabeth Hospital might be more to your liking.)

Other than a cheerful greeting and an offer of help if you look like you need it, library staff won’t intrude on your break time.

So, if you need to escape during the course of a busy workday, the Affinity Libraries might just be the perfect destinations.