"For many in Genentech Hall the opening party served as their first introduction to the Mission Bay library," said University Librarian Karen Butter. "We were delighted with the attendance and the opportunity to gather suggestions for additions and to answer questions about services and resources."

The facility, which first opened its doors at the Mission Bay campus on March 31, builds upon the services and resources available at UCSF's Kalmonovitz Library on the Parnassus campus. In fact, Genentech Hall library users can request a book from the main library for delivery within 24 hours and articles from print journals can be scanned and sent to them electronically through a new document express service that will start later this summer.

The library at Genentech Hall currently provides access to online journals, databases, and textbooks; eight public access computers with specialized software; reference services; circulation services and course reserves; web-based instructional technology services; interlibrary borrowing services; copy services; desktop videoconferencing; and wireless laptop Internet access service, among other things.

Its collection consists of about 300 circulating books, 30 journal titles, 65 reference books, course reserves, the San Francisco Chronicle and the New York Times.

Among the new online resources acquired with the Mission Bay audience in mind are:

An online research service that reviews the most interesting papers published in the biological sciences, based on the recommendations of more than 1,000 selected leading researchers, 39 of whom are affiliated with UCSF; (see http://www.library.ucsf.edu/db/f1000.html)
e-EROS, a reference source for reagents used in organic synthesis, it offers a systematic and exhaustive coverage of reagents used in organic chemistry, including both classical reagents and new "designer" reagents; (see http://www.library.ucsf.edu/db/eros.html)
Current Protocols in Bioinformatics, a full-text book (manual); a compilation of techniques in bioinformatics with explanatory information of the procedures;
Landolt-Bornstein, Critically assessed numerical data in physics, physical chemistry and technology; (see http://www.library.ucsf.edu/db/landolt.html)

The library opening was welcomed by faculty, who began moving into the Genentech Hall in January. Many research scientists say they use the library as a quiet refuge to think and read undisturbed away from their laboratories.

More facts about the library at Genentech Hall is available on the web at: http://www.library.ucsf.edu/missionbay/

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Source: Lisa Cisneros

Last updated January 28, 2005

Genentech Hall Library

University Librarian Karen Butter, left, and Al Conde, facilities manager of the computer graphics lab, look at molecular modeling software at the new library at Genentech Hall. Photo by Christine Jegan.