Know how per kilo, bookselling in the library

The Biomedical Library is selling second-hand books:

Kennis per Kilo (Know how per kilo)

Monday, October 5, from 1 pm until 5 pm

Tuesday, October 6 , from 9 am until 5 pm

Where? In the library, in front of the information desk

It’s only 2 euros for every kilo knowledge

The profit will go to charity.

Everybody is welcome!

Books department temporarily closed

On Monday 24 August and Tuesday 25 August the third floor of the library – where a part of the books is stored- will be closed because of cleaning activities. If you need a book which is situated on the third floor you will have to ask the staff at the information desk (4th floor) to get the book.

Meanwhile there has been a removal operation of 20,000 books from open stacks to closed stacks (2nd floor). We will report later in detail about this.

Lost and found

From Thursday 14 May until Wednesday 20 May the library – who is the keeper of all found objects in the buildings of Onderwijs & Navorsing 1 and 2 (and surroundings) – will show all lost objects on tables near the information desk. If you have you lost something in the past 12 months just come and take a look at our collection of scarfs, gloves, umbrellas, cases, notebook adapters, juwels, keys, cellphones etc…

Till the end of June rightful owners may claim a lost object (after Wednesday 20 May these objects will be stored again in the cabinet just outside the library). In july all objects will leave the library (objects of value will be brought to the police of Leuven).

Library Easter opening hours 2009

The library has  different opening hours during the Easter holidays. We are open each day from 9.00am until 6.00pm (no evening services). The library will be closed on Easter Monday, 13 April.

Visible Human Server

On the blog of David Rothman I found  a nice link to the Visible Human Server where you can discover the human body slice by slice (axial, sagital, coronal). It’s a nice tool to study anatomy

The Visible Human Server

E-mail library temporarily down

Update 23 March: the library’s e-mail account is working again

There will be a transfer of the library’s e-mail account on Friday 20 March to a new mail server. During that day it will not be possible to contact us via the regular address mgas(AT)bib.kuleuven.be.
You may contact us by telephone (016/346105) or (for urgent requests) via the e-mail addresses of the individual staff members.

Ordering articles via our document delivery system (for researchers and staff) will also not be accessible on that particular day. Apologies for the inconvenience.

BMJ Best Practice

De campus library has temporary access to Best Practice, a new decision supporting tool for physicians. This trial from the BMJ Group is accessible until 11 March via the K.U.Leuven-network..

“Best Practice is a decision support tool that combines the latest research evidence with guidelines and expert opinion presented in a step-by-step approach, covering diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and prevention. With Clinical Evidence content incorporated, Best Practice serves as an invaluable learning and support tool for doctors, medical students, researchers and healthcare practioners.”

The user interface is quite user-friendly – you may browse or search in the content – and you can have a look at the user guide (pdf). 

Leave your comments below or e-mail your suggestions to mgas@bib.kuleuven.be. You also might like to join our poll!

Patron’s Feast – closing day

February 2 is traditionally the University’s Patron’s Day. On that day, K.U.Leuven confers honorary doctorates on persons of exceptional scientific, social or cultural merit. K.U.Leuven and UCL have decided to celebrate their Patron’s Feast together in 2009 and to jointly confer the distinctions. Four eminent persons will receive the title of doctor honoris causa from K.U.Leuven and UCL on 2 February 2009: Iranian illustrator Marjane Satrapi, Palestinian philosopher Prof Dr Sari Nusseibeh, Sudanese jurist Prof Dr Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im and Italian Jesuit Paolo Dall’Oglio. Join the ceremonies or watch it online on the same day.

The Library is traditionally closed on 2 February.

Candlemas is also known as Pancake Day in Belgium.

Pancake Day (Photo by Ben Hanbury)

Early closing on January 23

Next Friday, January 23, the library will exceptionally close the doors at 4.30 pm instead of 6 pm. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Christmas holidays

The Biomedical library wishes everybody a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

We take a well deserved break from December 25th until January 5th.

The library will close on Wednesday the 24th of December at 1 pm.