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SFGH’s Barnett-Briggs Medical Library provides relevant, specific, and accurate health-related information to support the patient care, patient education, clinical education, research, and program development activities at San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center.

The library has over 3,000 books and over 300 print journal subscriptions. Staff and faculty may check out books for use outside the library. However, journals do not circulate. The Library is open to the public and may use materials inside the library.


Contact Information & Hours[BACK TO TOP]

Address:
Barnett-Briggs Medical Library
San Francisco General Hospital
1001 Portrero Avenue
Building 30, First Floor
San Francisco, CA 94110

Hours:
Monday-Thursday: 8 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Friday: 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Saturday: 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Sunday: 12 noon - 6 p.m.

Phone:
General information: (415) 206-3114
Interlibrary loan: (415) 206-3113
Fax: (415) 206-6102
Staff telephone numbers: See Library Staff section

Staff[BACK TO TOP]

Joy Graham, Library Manager
Phone: (415) 206-6639

Terri Mason, Coordinator, Education and Information Services
Phone: (415) 206-6638

Melonie Miles, Supervisor, Library Operations
Phone: (415) 206-3114

Kristine Macalalad, Library Assistant, ILL Requests
Phone: (415) 206-3113

Eugenia Chan , Library Assistant

Ciaran Essex, Library Assistant

Claire Sharifi, Library Assistant

Scope of Service[BACK TO TOP]

The San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center is an acute care hospital that operates under the jurisdiction of the City and County of San Francisco, as a part of the Department of Public Health. It is affiliated as a major teaching hospital of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).

SFGH employs 1,790 SFGH/UCSF full-time equivalent employees and approximately 1,400 full-time equivalent University employees, including physicians and house staff. Through its affiliation with the UCSF School of Medicine, the hospital has over 230 active and courtesy members of the Medical Staff.

SFGH’s Barnett-Briggs Medical Library provides relevant, specific, and accurate health-related information to support the patient care, patient education, clinical education, research, and program development activities at San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center.

The library is open seven days a week, with regularly posted hours. The library is closed on University (UCSF) holidays. Holiday closings will be posted at the entrance.

Photocopying[BACK TO TOP]

The Barnett-Briggs Medical Library's photocopy machine is located on the first floor of the library. This machine is available for copying non-circulating library materials, including journal articles. Copy and printing price is $0.25 per page.

Printing
All computer printing requires either payment by cash or via departmental copy codes. For more information, please ask library staff at the front desk.

Payments
The photocopier accepts both money (bills up to $5 and coins) or departmental copy codes. Please check with your administrative contact for information about your departmental code.

Copyright Issues
Reproduction and redistribution of copyrighted documents may be restricted by Federal law (Title 17, US Code). The Library provides copying services for your convenience but does not assume responsibility for copyright issues.

For information concerning copyright issues, visit the UC Copyright Education Web Site.

Computer Facilites[BACK TO TOP]

The Barnett-Briggs Medical Library, along with UCSF and SFGHMC provide computer facilities for UCSF/SFGHMC faculty, staff and student use. Please read the Library's Computer Use Policy.

Workstations
The Library has 15 Pentium-based PC workstations running Windows XP and 1 Macintosh workstation running OS 10.3. All workstations have access to UC/UCSF-licensed resources, including biomedical databases, textbooks and full-text journal articles. Printing from these workstations requires payment (cash or departmental code).

The Library's Scanner PC workstation provides access to a color scanner (4800 dpi resolution) and a zip drive (100 MB and 250 MB diskettes) for copying large files. This workstation also provides access to UpToDate.

The Library's Clinical Workstation

Software

All Workstations
  • Microsoft Office 2003 Suite: Word, Excel, Powerpoint
  • Internet Explorer
  • Firefox
Clinical Workstation
  • SFDPH Web Application Portal- LCR access
Scanner Workstation
  • Adobe Acrobat (PDF creator)
  • Adobe PageMaker (OCR)
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • UpToDate
  • SPSS (statistical software)
You must bring your own USB drives to save data. The scanner workstation also has a zip drive.

Double-click on the desktop icon to open the software program.

Under no circumstances should you attempt to:
  • Enter a startup password. Passwords are kept confidential for security purposes and are changed periodically. If you think an unauthorized person has a password, please let us know.
  • Restart or shut down a computer
  • Change computer settings
  • Install software
If the screen is showing a login prompt or if the printer needs paper or an ink cartridge, please ask Library staff for help.

Please read the Library's Computer Use Policy for more information.

Internet Access

The Library uses the Internet Explorer® and FireFox® web browsers. Double-click on the desktop icon to access the Internet. Since the Library's computer facilities resides within the UCSF network, library patrons can access UCSF-licensed biomedical and general reference databases.

Conference Rooms[BACK TO TOP]

The library offers three conference rooms for UCSF staff and SFGH staff to use. For room availability and scheduling, please contact the library circulation desk at 415-206-3114. Room keys can be checked out at the time of the appointment from the circulation desk.

Conference Room 101
Conference room 101 is located on the first floor of the library and can accommodate 10-15 people. Food and drink is not permitted in this room. This room includes:
  • Dry erase board
  • TV with DVD and VCR player
Conference Room 3208
Conference room 3208 is located on the 2nd floor of bulding 30 and can accommodate up to 35 people. It was intended to be a seminar/class/lecture room for UCSF. Due to the shortage of conference rooms throughout the hospital, the library permits other groups to meet there. Food and drink is allowed in this room. This room includes:
  • Dry erase board
  • TV with DVD and VCR player
  • LCD Projector with Laptop Connectivity
  • House Phone
Conference Room 3201
Conference room 3201 is located on the 2nd floor of the library. It can accommodate 10-15 people and food and drink are not permitted in this room.

Do not bring food or drink into the Library.