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If you want Walt Crawford to unglue his book "The Big Deal and the Damage Done" you can wish for it at https://unglue.it/work/120545/ just don't expect him to change into an extrovert over night.
maʀtha, Kirsten, Chelle Chelle Ro Ro and 9 other people liked this
Hi there Eric. You sure know how to enter an online community!
- lris
Well, I know half the people here already.
- Eric Hellman
So this would unglue the book, but not Walt himself?
- Steele Lawman
we can't unglue Walt because there's no ISBN for him and OCLC won't catalog him.
- Eric Hellman
At one point my library was seriously considering cataloging the liaisons so that we'd end up appearing when people searched for our topics of expertise. If we did that, could I be unglued?
- lris
no time to read all the instructions - do i have to pledge an amount or is wishlisting it enough?
- Christina Pikas
wishlisting is enough
- Eric Hellman
Unhinged?
- Steele Lawman
Iris, if the liaisons get their own Worldcat records, then maybe. We could start "unbalance.it".
- Eric Hellman
It might be easier to come unglued all by myself...
- lris
and now I'm thinking of a Guess Who pastiche
- DJF
from Android
I'm on Van Halen's "Unchained" myself.
- Steele Lawman
http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Yo. Shark Dog.
Joe, I love that video. And David Lee Roth is the hotness.
- Steele Lawman
There are some threads I'd just as soon stay out of.
- Walt Crawford
Okay, I have wished! My son is very good at ungluing things, but I suspect he's a little too young to have an account.
- laura x
Walt, if I were you, I would stay out of David Lee Roth's threads.
- Yo. Shark Dog.
I would note one thing: Buying the book may have more of an effect than wishing for it. At $9.95 (and you *own* the PDF--no DRM, free to lend it, free to resell it), it's not a massive commitment.
- Walt Crawford
Tied for #45 on the most-wished list with "Watchmen" and Tufte's "Display of Quantitative Information". https://unglue.it/lists...
- Eric Hellman
Can't we declare Walt a National Treasure and get him archived and cataloged that way?
- Cameron Neylon
As the person who originally raised this issue,I am glad to see interest, and if Walt decide to go for it I'll put down more money to unglue it. But I think I'll just say that here.
- barbara fister
Cameron: No. I'm no treasure, national or local (I'm mostly a grumpy but curious old twice-fired has-been), and National Treasure doesn't carry funding.
- Walt Crawford
[The "but curious" is, of course, what leads to the public library non-closure study, the academic library "circ is falling everywhere" study, Give Us a Dollar...and The Big Deal and the Damage Done. Curiosity combined with reasonable writing and adequate numeracy is a terrible, terrible thing.]
- Walt Crawford
Looking at this again...Cameron, thanks very much for saying that. I'm feeling a little grumpy and not at all like a treasure. It happens.
- Walt Crawford
For Barbara (and others)
John Dupuis, Freeda B., Angel R. Rivera and 15 other people liked this
ohmanohmanohman, i like this so much.
- Marie
Ha!
- Jaclyn aka spamgirl
<3
- RepoRat
SWOONS! so good!!
- barbara fister
LOL
- Andy
This on the day where we are discussing at my library whether we should continue to pay about $50K for about 60 individual Taylor and Francis subscriptions, or move to paying about $69K for 1500 subscriptions. My opinion is in the distinct minority.
- Steele Lawman
First, let's cancel all the T&F journals.
- barbara fister
The more for more deal.
- Yo. Shark Dog.
I've recently become the psychology librarian at my college and am trying to get a better sense of what I should be buying and licensing. I hope to begin a series of one-on-one meetings with psychology faculty in the fall and am thinking of using this survey with them during the meeting to capture in a structured way what the overall needs of ...
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the department are. This is just my first draft of this survey. Any suggestions? Feel free to take it to see how it works (when I get to doing the real thing, I'll copy over the questions to a new survey). https://baruch.qualtrics.com/SE...
- Stephen le Francoeur
Bumping for the morning crowd. If you can kick the tires of this survey, I'd be most appreciative.
- Stephen le Francoeur
Survey is here: https://baruch.qualtrics.com/SE...
- Stephen le Francoeur
Aggregated results report is here: https://baruch.qualtrics.com/CP...
- Stephen le Francoeur
I think the sliding scale doohickey is lovely. I have a suggestion (but it's admittedly geared towards my curiosity rather than your needs) : what steps of the research process would you or your graduate students like assistance or collaboration with. This was inspired by: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/library... (and other sites, I've been tracking)
- copystar
That's a nice page you shared, Mita. I think I may use your question for a separate project of assessing the services that faculty expect or desire, as I really want to focus on the subjects that are of interest to them so that I can better align acquisitions with their needs.
- Stephen le Francoeur
do yo have any cognitive psychologists? psycholinguists?
- $tephanie•Cog$ciLibrarian
Stephanie: not sure. I'm thinking I may try to do one-on-one meetings with a number of faculty before launching the survey. I may come up with different questions if I go that way.
- Stephen le Francoeur
Are psychological tests a format worth asking about? I'm thinking of things like HAPI and Mental Measurements Yearbook. (Though I can't think of other resources in that area, so if you already own those, might be a moot point.)
- Amandadon't
Also, do your subject categories come from LC classification? Which psychologists might recognize, but some of the verbiage from APA Divisions might also be useful? http://www.apa.org/about...
- Amandadon't
The National Institute of Mental Health just announced they are going to use new, research-related categories rather than the new DSM. http://www.nimh.nih.gov/about... Those might be good categories, too.
- Rebecca Hedreen
Amandadon't, I used the topics in bold from this list of PsycINFO classification codes: http://www.apa.org/pubs...
- Stephen le Francoeur
Good suggestion also about psychological tests as a format type to ask about. Rebecca, that's interesting about the DSM and NIMH. I saw a headline this morning that the NIH regards the new DSM as unscientific. I'll have to take a closer look at the NIHM research categories to see if they might be useful.
- Stephen le Francoeur
I always forget about those PsycINFO codes! Those are awesome.
- Amandadon't
APA's PsychTests are another resource full of tests and other instruments. We love them, but are waiting for them to get on EBSCO, as the native interface is worse. Another one I'd love to get is the Sage Research Methods Online, which is broader and more methods than instruments, but our social sciences folks would dig it. Sorry if this is too off-topic!
- kaijsa
We have Sage Research Methods Online and are wishing we had greater usage of it.
- Stephen le Francoeur
the PsycINFO thesaurus is the BEST!!!
- $tephanie•Cog$ciLibrarian
Library Hand
copystar, Betsy #TeamMonique, Stephen le Francoeur and 16 other people liked this
It's kinda beautiful, no?
- Zamms
i think it's time to practice
- kendrak
Wow, HT 108 looks almost like Smith Corona font
- awd
HT 123 B3 is nice
- Rochelle's favorite Royce
In the old handwritten catalog cards, didn't library hand require that the letters slant to the left or is that just my imagination?
- Stephen le Francoeur
Seems to be case in some of these old cards: http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibit...
- Stephen le Francoeur
Am I the only one that had never heard about "Library Hand" before? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... (or maybe I wasn't paying attention that day in library school?)
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We have lots of it here.
- kendrak
I mention it briefly in org-of-info when I talk about the card catalog, but, y'know, if they don't remember that, I can't say I'm very much concerned.
- RepoRat
huh, i've never heard of it before.
- Sir Shuping is just sir
I would have failed library school for sure. (I've never heard of it either.)
- Rebecca Hedreen
so would I! my handwriting is Lovecraftian. Utterly non-Euclidean.
- RepoRat
yeah... it's shameful how bad my library hand is.
- kendrak
It's actually pretty impressive if you look at a bunch of books with handwritten call numbers on them to see how uniform they are and you realize different people wrote them. I always wanted to learn it.
- Zamms
Nope, me neither! #badlibrarian
- Heleninstitches
Google Books has a how-to (from 1887): http://books.google.com/books...
- Zamms
I can't remember where I learned about it (probably not library school, though) but yeah, I knew about it. I've definitely seen whole catalog cards done in the cursive version. With fountain pens. O.O
- Catherine Pellegrino
I knew about it, I had a lib school prof who always talked about "that's gone the way of library hand and the paste pot"
- LibrarianOnTheLoose
I think I am going to have the Dewey Library Blog do a post on it this summer. THANKS
- LibrarianOnTheLoose
(We had to use cursive and fountain pens https://www.google.com/search... in my school through grade school. No ballpoints or printing allowed till high school (age 11). Being left-handed, I went through grade school with a blue-smeared hand.)
- Betsy #TeamMonique
I saw Joe Janes speak last week and he mentioned it in passing like something "we" all know, and I had no idea what he was talking about and I felt dumb (well more dumb than normal when I'm around smart people like him) but maybe it's just not common knowledge outside of academia?
- Blake
Prettier than drafting letters, but what is with the letter p?
- Yo. Shark Dog.
No.
- Yvonne
yeah. how many collections actually still have library hand books? old stodgy ones, wot wot.
- kendrak
Catherine, we definitely talked about it in Dr. Saye's cataloging class, because that's where I learned about it.
- Jason Griffey
I knew about it (and used it in a LITA Fuzzy Match Interest Group paper one time, simulating it with a calligraphic typeface).
- Walt Crawford
Yeah, see, Griffey, I didn't HAVE Dr. Saye for cataloging; I had some PhD student who tried (and failed) to be Dr. Saye. *sadface*
- Catherine Pellegrino
In the future, it'll be the condition you get from clutching the mouse all day.
- Andy
Don't make me use my library hand!
- Steele Lawman
Catherine: I would have sworn you were in Dr. Saye's class with me. I am _very sorry_ for you that you missed him, he was awesome.
- Jason Griffey
Thanks, Jason. I think it was a strategic scheduling decision, somehow, and since I *knew* I wasn't going to be a cataloger, it seemed a pretty small price to pay.
- Catherine Pellegrino
"Don't make me use my library hand!" That is all.
- Zamms
why i oughtta...
- kendrak
I definitely knew about library hand before library school, and I'm sure Joe Janes talked about it in the classes I took from him. He probably doesn't realize that some of the "we" he's talking about are professionals who never even really used cards as kids. Even in the early 80s, we had dumb terminals for our publib catalog.
- kaijsa
And by "we" I just meant all us librarians in the room. Joe was totally awesome. I introduced him by telling him he was the first person to speak at the first librarian conference I attended and I still remembered him he was so good.
- Blake
I was going to say thanks, but then I saw you all were talkin about some guy named Joe Janes.
- Yo. Shark Dog.
Hear hear, Blake. Also, HE HAS A PODCAST AND I JUST LEARNED ABOUT IT NOW???? https://itunes.apple.com/us...
- Zamms
I came *this* close to taking his class second semester. I didn't know at the time that he was planning to leave after my first semester. Other people knew, but I didn't. *grumble grumble*
- Betsy #TeamMonique
Library Duck Cam! on USTREAM: We have a duck nesting outside the library! Watch along with us! (And please watch her on the webcam--we are trying not to di... - http://www.ustream.tv/channel...
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YOU GUYS WE HAVE A DUCKCAM!
- laura x
from Bookmarklet
You're not ducking kidding!
- awd
Duck that noise. ;)
- Catherine Pellegrino
Do you have an elevator to the penthouse for them?
- awd
The paper called wanting to do a story about an hour after Duck Cam went live.
- laura x
NO DUCKS FOR ME! (offline)
- MoTO #TeamMonique
This makes me so very happy.
- Stephen le Francoeur
I was mentally rehearsing my "that kind of thing probably doesn't even exist" response to a reference question, only to find that we have exactly that in our very own collection. #liveandlearn
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Welsh to Latin dictionary?
- Zamms
A list of all known actors and actresses from the Restoration period.
- lris
Can I borrow that when they're done?
- Zamms
Word is that Wikipedia is moving the actresses to a separate list.
- Steele Lawman
Yes! I love when this happens.
- Meg V. Meg
Unshelved by Gene Ambaum and Bill Barnes - http://www.unshelved.com/2013-4-...
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So excited to be going to AdaCamp in SF this summer. :-)
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Best. Thing. Ever. RT: @tinch: As a father I totally get and love this Tumblr: Reasons My Son Is Crying http://reasonsmysoniscrying.tumblr.com/
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change this to a pair of daughters and make that a stay-at-home dad and i have lived this.
- Joe "Bad Guts" Silence
So funny. What blackmail material!
- Spidra Webster
<--Does not want to put your electronic encyclopedia on the A-Z databases page. That's what your LibGuides are for.
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what?! Man. you.....i don't know if we can be friends anymore.
- Rochelle's favorite Royce
single title reference works != databases
- Marie
I'll cosign this, with one exception for the OED.
- kaijsa
Nope. If you're not putting my encyclopedia on there, I don't want your OED there either. #librarianfights
- ellbeecee
Can you please add Wikipedia to the databases page?
- Yo. Shark Dog.
I lost this "fight" years ago... and I no longer care?
- awd
the former electronic resource librarian in me agrees, but the reference librarian in me disagrees. curious to see the rest of the answers that come in. Happy now to be out of the ERL game and will stick to my LibGuides. :-)
- $tephanie•Cog$ciLibrarian
Ours is "Databases and Electronic Resources" and is (sort of) platform based. OED, Foundation Directory, Books in Print, etc. all have their own listings because they are on individual platforms. Sage Reference, Credo Reference, etc. are listed as collections. On the other hand, I think the Accessible Archives newspapers are listed individually. Individual titles are in the catalog.
- Rebecca Hedreen
If the OED doesn't go in, I refer all angry and confused patrons to the e-resources office.
- kaijsa
(All of our e-resources are in our db list. It's impossible to manage the hundreds and hundreds otherwise.)
- kaijsa
here is a wee blog post i wrote about our library's attempt at resolving the issue: http://orgmonkey.net/?p=1512
- Marie
I make few exceptions to this if I can, such as when it's a comprehensive reference source that is the primary research tool for a discipline or sub-discipline. Otherwise, it gets cluttered. I'd be happy to chuck the whole A-Z databases page altogether, but that would cause some bunheads to clutch their pearls.
- Royce's favorite Anna
down with pearl-clutching bunheads! (I always use search to get to a known database, never A-Z browse because OMG.)
- RepoRat
*clutches buns*
- Steele Lawman
Is it a database? Then no, it doesn't go on the database list. Even if that makes it easier to find. Just think about what your request implies about the quality of the library's catalogue and other finding aids.
- DJF
in MfPOW, we called bunheads worse than "pearl clutchers." not sure I can say what we called them in mixed (and public) company. Also, I'd have to go undercover. but: *squee*
- $tephanie•Cog$ciLibrarian
Well, then you have to define "database". I tell students that a database is a SEARCHABLE collection of online stuff. (We get into the indexing, searchable fields, etc. later on.)
- Rebecca Hedreen
I would argue that the point is not whether something is a database or not, but whether putting more things in the A-Z list makes those things easier to find (due to them all being in the same place) or harder to find (due to too much clutter). "Save the time of the reader" is more important than purity of definition.
- Steele Lawman
We also have some faculty who are super-into the A-Z list, so not just librarians. I totally agree that the A-Z list is a workaround for the library catalog and other finding aids not doing the job, but as a public services type I don't actually get much input into how those are set up, so... I focus on the A-Z list. Gimme more input into the other finding aids, I might not be so hung up on the A-Z. *takes pen out of bun, drops on stage, walks off*
- Amandadon't
Hey, I use the A-Z browse and I'm proud. Also, database is really not a helpful term for users. I esp. wish we still called indexes indexes and collections collections. Of course, what to call the indexes with some full text but not all full text (CINAHL with Full Text, I'm looking at you!)
- maʀtha
Our public service types have full control over how their subject/course guides are set up. The A-Z page is a relic of the past when we didn't have better tools.
- Royce's favorite Anna
Oh sure, but DJF also referenced the lib catalog, which is a different animal. I can see the idea that a subject guide is a better place to start than an A-Z database list.
- Amandadon't
Also, I definitely agree that librarians are the biggest users of our A-Z list, but in a recent web redesign we found that a core group of faculty also want to see it. I'm not totally invested in having one forever, but I just feel like I can still come up with use cases where the A-Z list is the most helpful thing, not the catalog or a subject guide. It's a good question, though, one we've talked about a lot at MPOW.
- Amandadon't
As somebody who makes subject guides, I would be unable to find the resources myself in order to linke them without some kind of database database. How would I find the links? How would I even know what we have? Unmanageable.
- kaijsa
Someone needs to create a database of databases of databases.
- Yo. Shark Dog.
Perhaps we could create a committee to do so.
- Marie
Kaijsa, I created a private LibGuide page that has all of the links (even more links than what is on the databases page), and the librarians reuse them for their guides. This means if something changes *cough*ProQuest*cough*, I can easily make one change that populates to every guide. I wish I didn't have to then also maintain another A-Z list. I like reducing data duplication when I can, because it's too easy to miss something if you have to change it in fifteen billion different places.
- Royce's favorite Anna
For us, the A-Z list is that master list
- maʀtha
Funny, was just discussing this today.
- aarontay
I had this battle with our e-resources librarian who had clogged up our old A to Z list with single reference work titles and websites and she's still mad at me. Our new A to Z list is consistently in the top 5 webpages we serve. http://leddy.uwindsor.ca/atoz It's the master list by which subject librarians can make smaller lists on their subject pages: http://leddy.uwindsor.ca/history . Right now I'm working on a similar set up for reference works: http://leddydev.uwindsor.ca/referen...
- copystar
Our subject *guides* are not database driven because there was talk around the watercooler that if the web team tried to employ some sort of template then at least one librarian would file an official complaint on the basis of an infringement of academic freedom.There are only so many bridges I'm willing to burn at one given time
- copystar
I think so too. I think this stems from resistance to the idea that some librarians know more about web design principles / user design than others.
- copystar
To be clear, our subject guides are database driven, but the subject librarians control what goes into the database. So, if there's something they want to put on a subject guide, they add it to the subject resource database and then add it from that database to the guide. That resource database is completely separate from the "a-z database" list, which is driven by our ERM, which we maintain much tighter control over.
- DJF
Oh, please do not get me started on standardization for subject guides. I am all for it, and wish more were. I can't understand why folks would push back so hard -- restricting academic freedom???
- Amandadon't
People push back because they want to do what they believe works best.
- Steele Lawman
Ethel, I have a faculty member friend who tells his classes that they are not entitled to their opinions. If you want to do something, show me research that supports your claim. Because I already have the research that demonstrates that students want simple subject guides with only a few resources on them, and that most users never click off of the default tab
- DJF
from Android
I take Ethel's point that folks usually push back out of a desire to do right by users. (Although I stand by my feeling that making it an "academic freedom" case is going... I'll just say way too far.) But as DJF notes, there is a body of usability research that argues for certain layouts, so what then?
- Amandadon't
(Noting that I'm assuming we're talking about undergrad students, we've actually found with our research that grad students and faculty want something different.)
- Amandadon't
Amandadon't says "I can't understand why folks would push back so hard" and I gave a reason. I will also take my lived experience as a teacher over your data any day of the week, DJF. :)
- Steele Lawman
But courseguides aren't data either. They serve a lot of purposes, including being pages that people teach from, so the multiple tabs etc. get used in that situation. I think if the electronic resources people are dictating how the instruction librarians teach, that's a big problem. (I also think that allegiance to "studies" and "data" as the final word are a much larger problem.)
- Steele Lawman
Again, I don't tell instructional librarians what to put, or not put, on their pages beyond loose guidelines about five-ish resources per tab (which guideline librarians regularly violate). We also dictate, for technical reasons that there can't be more than 5 or 6 tabs on a guide.
- DJF
Also, if you're only looking at the students that you teach, then you're missing all the students who never talk to a librarian.
- DJF
But if we are talking about course guides, then by definition (at my institution, anyway), we are talking about the students I talk to. Honestly, I get your point of view, I think. I have been on the other side of this when I was responsible for a library website and people wanted to do all manner of stuff that I thought was lousy. But people have to be brought along to see why...
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- Steele Lawman
We're not talking about course guides (at least I'm not; at MPOW course guides are completely controlled by the instructional librarians and are not standardized at all). I'm talking about subject guides: the generic "starting points for political science" page. Those are completely standardized.
- DJF
Well then never mind. :) EDIT: well, not "never mind." Some of my points obviously don't hold, but I'd stick to my guns on others. Regardless, I won't drag this out any further.
- Steele Lawman
Well, I'll drag this out a little :) Only to point out that I was also referring to the broad subject guide, vs. the individual course guide. There should be standard design guidelines for the general subject guide, IMO, but the course guide can be much more open and customizable, again IMO.
- Amandadon't
After being so frustrated with the typical status quo in ebooks, I thought while at ACRL I might at least go thank the few vendors with good policies. So who is on my "thank you for not having crappy book DRM models" list? Project MUSE, Springer, O'Reilly, others?
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Springer and O'Reilly, yes; haven't looked into MUSE much. I want to learn more about JSTOR books one of these days as I think it may have a good model that would suit our community well.
- barbara fister
Elsevier ebooks are DRM free, and are actually available in PDF, EPUB, and Kindle format, as individual chapters.
- DJF
I haven't actually used MUSE myself either, but just got an email from them with the following text that made me feel quite happy: "Books on Project MUSE provide DRM-free content; unlimited simultaneous usage, printing, and downloading; mobile accessibility; and simultaneous print and electronic publication for new content."
- Amandadon't
We don't have any of theirs yet, but JSTOR books have unlimited downloads, no DRM, unlimited simultaneous users for some books. All books are available as single user, but I don't know if those have DRM.
- kaijsa
Morgan and Claypool doesn't have DRM.
- Yo. Shark Dog.
I love this idea! I would take a list with me of ebook likes/dislikes, just in case they seem open to suggestions.
- Freeda B.
World Scientific is DRM free on their own platform.
- Galadriel C.
MUSE lets one download and save entire books as pdfs (each chapter is a separate pdf, but, still)
- maʀtha
Today's typo: "catalogre." I think I've met some of those...
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... I think Imma steal that.
- RepoRat
LB has won the libraryland internet for today
- awd
:)
- LB: #TeamMonique
from Android
So brilliant.
- Andy
I bet they go around terrorizing libraries by inflicting Dewey Decimation. #Sorry #ThatsaBadOne
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
Ha!
- LB: #TeamMonique
Street Librarianship, Without the Streets ← dh+lib - http://acrl.ala.org/dh...
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"Learning how to use a computer is a privilege. Owning a device like a smart phone or a laptop is a privilege. Being able to afford proprietary software is a privilege. Access to a high-speed internet connection is a privilege. The digital humanities are privileged. They are so because they are built on technologies that remain inaccessible to many people. It might be easy to forget that these things are not available to everyone, but take a trip to any public library in the U.S., and you will be able to see just how many people will wait for the chance to use a public computer, even if it’s just for one hour a day."
- laura x
from Bookmarklet
thank you; just tweeted this to LibTechConf pursuant to today's Virginia Eubanks keynote.
- RepoRat
Is complaining about Privilege... also a Privilege?
- awd
yep. if you ain't got privilege, you often get shouted down, told your issues don't matter, laughed at and/or "joked" about, etc.
- RepoRat
Which would make Complaining about Complaints about Privilege a Privilege, too... and the recursion goes on fractally from there
- awd
it all amounts to ways to damage people who don't need or deserve to be damaged further, yes.
- RepoRat
Yes, yes, yes! I keep having this argument, most recently about BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) classes. What are you planning to do about the student who doesn't have a smartphone, tablet, or whatever? Do you think the computer labs are busy because students don't feel like logging onto their laptops right now?
- Rebecca Hedreen
And it's not just owning a computer, but owning the "right" computer -- Apple's pricey walled garden is quite lovely in many ways, but the high cost shuts out so many folks (myself included). And yet a lot of educational content is developed for iWhatever first, ensuring that the most privileged have the easiest access to the best content yet again.
- Amandadon't
#OLITA Google Apps Appetizer #2 - Earning three stars from Tim Berners-Lee and other cool things you can do with Google Drivehttp://www.accessola2.com/olita...
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wikipedian in residence at University of Michigan http://chronicle.com/blogs... Does your institution/library have one?
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Jon Udell reminds us why library lookup bookmarklets won't work for many catalogs. http://www.wired.com/insight...
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Karen Coyle, "Invisible women 2: Cognitive Surplus," Coyle's InFormation - http://kcoyle.blogspot.com/2012...
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Pull quote: “A social world based on ‘cognitive surplus’ will be one that is not gender neutral. It will have more participation by males, and therefore will be socially skewed to the masculine — at least until we have gender parity in taking care of the home, the children, the elderly, etc. That is something that I would expect an intelligent observer of society to notice. Not only notice, but to ponder: what does this tell us about the nature of the things being created with this cognitive surplus?”
- Stephen le Francoeur
And this is about to spread through the womens studies/feminist philosophers community like wildfire. ;-)
- DJF
already put it on Geek Feminism's radar *g*
- RepoRat
TIL I should move to Italy.
- Blake
Blake is why I hate men.
- DJF
You're just jealous that I have a better life plan than you now.
- Blake
Margaret Heller, "Taking Google Forms to the Next Level," ACRL TechConnect Blog - http://acrl.ala.org/techcon...
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Pull quote: “Many libraries use Google Forms for collecting information from patrons, particularly for functions like registering for a one-time event or filling out a survey. It’s a popular option because these forms are very easy to set up and start using with no overhead. With a little additional effort and a very small amount of code you can make these forms even more functional.”
- Stephen le Francoeur
*pricks up ears*
- Catherine Pellegrino
These are so damn useful. I won't do an event-reg any other way.
- RepoRat
I'm just thinking, we use a Google form to collect instruction stats, including assessment data. If I can rig it up to email back at least some of the results to the librarian who completes the form, that'll help them follow up on their own assessment plans.
- Catherine Pellegrino
HOLY CRAP there's a tute on sending reminder emails. https://developers.google.com/apps-sc... I am SO doing this for the brownbag series. Doing it by hand is FTL.
- RepoRat
I'm so happy to see this. The potential for Google App scripts is HUGE for libraries (especially those whose IT dept won't let them touch servers). One example: let's embed the library into your document : http://onswebservices.wikispaces.com/GoogleA...
- copystar
commenting just so I (maybe) remember to come back & find out the other techie goodness from Google Forms.
- $tephanie•Cog$ciLibrarian
Enlighten Me | Library Babel Fish - in which I get grumpy. http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs...
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The mayor's ASL interpreter is a fucking rock star.
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OH NO, HE IS SUMMARIZING IN SPANISH AGAIN.
- Meg V. Meg
eez too much, let me sum up.
- ωαřмaiden ❤Marrit Woman❤
That last image is fabulous.
- Catherine Pellegrino
from iPod
Hurricane Sandy’s Breakout Star: Mayor Bloomberg’s Sign Language Interpreter http://nymag.com/daily...
- Betsy #TeamMonique
My coworker says I've made her top ten list of Favorite Workplace Emails for this one: "The pencil sharpener in the Community Services Room seems to have died a sad small appliance death. It's sitting in my office awaiting the appropriate civic funeral rites. Until we can get a new one, I've moved the one from by the fax machine out there."
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RT @IanMulvany: wow, the journal Cell has said they will not publish papers that place citations to data in the references.
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really. um. why?
- RepoRat
I'd like to get the context for this - seems odd
- Christina Pikas
"Cell was not at meeting. I infer issue is that link to data to a non-peer reviewed object. (like links to editorials). "https://twitter.com/IanMulv...
- Christina Pikas
Some Nature journals had the same policy for a while, I believe.
- Heather Piwowar
sometimes I think that journal editors just Make Shit Up. that's *gallopingly* stupid.
- RepoRat
Same reason many won't allow citations to blog posts or tweets.
- Heather Piwowar
which is also dumb. if you used it to make knowledge, you used it to make knowledge, and you should damn well cite it.
- RepoRat
What is a polite way to paraphrase the "one funeral at a time" quote? That.
- Heather Piwowar
clearly.
- RepoRat
I also love how the tweet was phrased. Not just "will ask the authors to move the citation to the ack section." Nope, they'll throw out the whole thing, because authors who would make such a judgement call are clearly not to be trusted :) [who knows if that is really Cell's position, just amusingly ridiculous upon ridiculous]
- Heather Piwowar
and this - not linking to things that aren't peer reviewed - is why my work on scientists blogging is in obscurity and can't get cited. I've had a few people ask me for the official citation... but I never resubmitted the qualitative work I did. The social network analysis stuff i did is published in an IEEE proceeding but anyhoo.
- Christina Pikas
What are the citations for both, please? Or, is it on your blog?
- Yo. Shark Dog.
from iPod
I guess this will do: Pikas, C. K. (2008). How and why chemists and physicists use blogs. Unpublished manuscript. Retrieved November 9, 2010, from http://hdl.handle.net/10101... (I also posted it to my blog); Pikas, C. K. (2008). Detecting Communities in Science Blogs. Paper presented at the EScience '08. IEEE Fourth International Conference on eScience, 2008. Indianapolis. 95-102. doi:10.1109/eScience.2008.30
- Christina Pikas
Cool.
- Yo. Shark Dog.
I guess one reason could be link rot?
- Björn Brembs
Hathi Trust just won the FUCK out of the Authors Guild lawsuit, peeps. Per @ARLPolicy: "BREAKING: HathiTrust decision is out. TOTAL VICTORY FOR HATHI. Scanning for search and accessibility=transformative fair use."
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(I am, of course, swearing in pure unadulterated delight here!)
- RepoRat
@grimmelm is tweeting as he reads the opinion.
- RepoRat
... aaaaand here it is for all the fans at home: http://www.scribd.com/doc...
- RepoRat
The AG argument that Section 108 somehow means libraries can't call on fair use was called out as bullshit. Good.
- RepoRat
If I were the type of person to go out drinking, I would go out drinking. This opinion is FABULOUS.
- RepoRat
summary post from Grimmelmann: http://laboratorium.net/archive...
- RepoRat
Thanks for the links!
- lris
Maybe 2012-13 really will see substantive, lasting expansion of fair use to be usable and meaningful.
- Walt Crawford
That, or the utter implosion of the lunatic wing of the publishing industry. I'm good either way!
- RepoRat
LOL
- lris
I'm currently resisting the urge to spend the evening reading that document. I am SUCH a librarian sometimes. Oy.
- lris
IT'S SO FUCKING AWESOME I'M SO HAPPY
- jambina
RR: Both? Nah, too much to hope for... (I never thought of AG as part of the publishing industry, but now that I think of it...yep. It really is.)
- Walt Crawford
So, so happy with how these turned out. Over a year ago, Shanon said she thought it would be cool if I could do a broadside of this found poem of Jessy's. So I designed it, Aaron fine-tuned it and added the color, and then Aaron printed it letterpress as the official Press at Colorado College broadside for this semester.
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Awesome!
- Soup in a TARDIS
missing the dock when trying to jump *onto it (sorry, couldn't resist)
- awd
Ah, Aaron, if only you were there to edit Ken Uston's text in 1982.
- Steele Lawman
For more about the poem's source, see this wonderful recent review: http://www.confusereviews.com/...
- Steele Lawman
I'm a poetry plebeian, profuse apologies ,)
- awd
No apologies necessary. Jessy re-checked that in the source before it went to press. :)
- Steele Lawman
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There was a G+ messenger thing going on earlier today but it's mobile only. #AlsoNotIt
- Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart
That's a good idea
- Rodfather
There's the already-existing group Friendfeeders on FB...
- Andrew C (✓)
There were quite a few chatting in the FB group last night/this morning. https://www.facebook.com/groups...
- Rochelle
Reddit isn't a bad idea since you can have an anonymous username. Unlike FB and G+.
- Rodfather
a "sub what now?" old ------------------------->
- MoTO #TeamMonique
*touches nose* Not it.
- c.a.j.
I just went to do it and reddit is now down.Seriously, why can't the Internet work today. Did something bad happen?
- Sarah G.
(And Barry....Reddit is the shit. I love it. Much more anonymous than here, though.)
- Sarah G.
I didn't know abotu that FF group on facebook. Just sent a request to join, because I have to have somewhere to go.
- ellbeecee
I just joined the ALA Thinktank group on FB. Dunno how that will work out. Y'know, there *could* be an LSW circle on G+ &/or an LSW group on FB, just for backup...(I could offer my "libfolk" G+ circle as a starting point, but it may include some non-LSW people.)
- Walt Crawford
Most of the people I interact with on FF aren't librarians.
- Sarah G.
How does one make a subreddit?
- Friar Ticket to Ride
Did you create one, Sarah, or should I?
- Friar Ticket to Ride
I did it http://ff.im/14uxuh
- Sarah G.
Codsignal! What's one neat thing happening at your library lately?
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I am looking at the results of the little survey I sent out and want to seed it with some innovation. It's mostly kind of sad what libraries consider new and exciting. YES, it's true, I'm trying to corrupt the data. It's either that fall into a deep depression. See, PARTAY is already helping.
- barbara fister
We got a budget that didn't suck.
- Andy
(Helen C. has been running that for three-four years now; it's hugely popular and generally kick-ass. I know I rag on MPOW's libraries a lot, but I have HELLA respect for everybody at Helen C. I think it's one of the best undergrad libraries anywhere, I really do.)
- RepoRat
Also, I hear "oh, neat thing; I want to do that too!" a lot but you wouldn't know it from my survey.
- barbara fister
I obviously need to get to know Helen C - my kinda library.
- barbara fister
Happy to put you in touch with one of the Carries (Kruse or Nelson) or Steve Frye or Ian Benton or Kelli Keclik. Or, y'know, c'mon down and tour. :)
- RepoRat
We had a pig hunt last week.
- Running Slow
We're getting new elevators! They'll need a crane! (Yes, I'm stuck on permanent TMBG earworm right now.) Actually, the whole project was to revamp the elevator lobbies on the old side of the building, plus repair/replace the elevators. It all looks really nice and modern and clean--the 60's-era wood paneling was looking decidedly grungy. And all the comfy chairs are getting...
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- Kirsten
We got a load balancing print center for all the crazy amounts of printing that happen here. And bunches of library staff are cheerfully staffing the special welcome/info table in our lobby for the first three days of classes.
- lris
This doesn't count for my library, but I'm going to be doing a New Jersey version of the Library Roadshow in October. We are focusing on profiling libraries and staff that have awesome outreach programs. We aren't going to a ton of places like the LJ version of the Roadshow, but we are going to have the same social media hookups. It's going to be awesome.
- Andy
Also not my library, but I'm really digging the EveryLibrary PAC campaign.
- Andy
Things we are trying this year: zine collection being processed, yay! hosting a Scandinavian crime fiction conference (for which the budget was pulled but we're doing it anyway) and publishing a book using PressBooks. In our spare time. (which accounts for a certain level of half-assedness but better than not doing these things at all).
- barbara fister
We're going to be loaning out loaded Kindle Touches any day now.
- Betsy #TeamMonique
Pig hunt?
- barbara fister
Dude, it's the second week of classes. I just put out the fire in my hair. That's exciting.
- Steele Lawman
We're going to be experimenting with linked data (furthering my vision of a better library system).
- Laura Krier
We're trying to arrange some regional data management training in collaboration with Northwestern and UofC so all liaison librarians have a baseline
- Hedgehog
One of the things we don't consider when considering trends is how much work it is to do the basic things we do without losing all our hair to fire. Maybe I also need to start a list of "what did you stop doing?" - which could inspiring, unless the answer is crickets, crickets (and not Iris's crickets).
- barbara fister
Our rare book room is within spitting distance of being finished!
- MontglaneChess
(I think that's a good idea, Barbara, though I would add "efficiencies we have created" to the list.)
- RepoRat
I finally have a department to be the head of.
- LB: #TeamMonique
My new library will be getting ME next week, does that count?
- Heleninstitches
Totally counts!
- barbara fister
We got chat reference! It's not out on the web page yet, but it's there in the background and will make an appearance ... soon? I hope? Since we did it through LibAnswers, we also got a much more functional "Ask a Librarian" function with twitter integration, so if people tweet us it shows up as a question in there. Oh, and we got a twitter account.
- lris
That reminds me, we got a Twitter account. It's been taking a nap.
- barbara fister
Taking applications for Acquisitions/EResources Manager. Selecting a discovery tool (finally). Returned the lab school collection to their new library after a good weeding. Partnering with the campus bookstore to sell study supplies. Still planning world domination.
- Kathy
We are working with a bohunk of partners (park and rec/eco-park/local business associations/convention bureau) to create a May-Nov "Hometown Tourist" all ages extravaganza program to get folks into the library and out discovering the community. Library cards will get reduced admissions, bargains and fame. We children's librarians are lending our awesome expertise because we know how to create excitement and sustainable programs and efforts over long periods!
- Marge LW
I think Steve wins this thread, personally. We have been putting out a LOT of fires; hiring a part-time temp reference librarian to fill in while we figure out what we want the new librarian we hope to hire soon to do; and, um, beginning to dig out from under the detritus of the departing librarian. We did manage to do bubbles during the second week of class, and that was well-received. We even assessed it.
- Catherine Pellegrino
we have some very cool stuff but i can't write about it just yet cuz, ummm, i have to tell people here first. ; )
- jambina
aw, why do THEY need to know? >:-)
- RepoRat
I reworked an information literacy seminar to make it much more hands-on and interactive. I ditched the powerpoint!
- LibrarianOnTheLoose
Pig hunt, yes. Our nearest and largest town is known as The Hog Capital of the World and over Labor Day weekend has a big festival called Hog Days. My staff came up with the idea of hiding pigs in our collection to draw students into the library and get them looking at what we have. It was a big success. Of course, offering a small treat for each pig found was a nice incentive.
- Running Slow
As for me personally, I'm working on modules in our new CMS. Hopefully these will be something instructors can plug in as they need/want them. I am also hoping that we'll be going live with SFX this week. I'm also working on organizing a Read-In for Banned Books Week. Beyond the library, I'm focusing some on community building and am organizing a knit/crochet group and a meditation group for the whole campus.
- Running Slow
@Barbara, I think I missed your little survey!
- RudĩϐЯaЯïan
Next week is the first frosh orientation fair, which will happen, no matter how many details I drop! It's been interesting to see which folks engage and which don't, as this is the first major "everybody on board" thing happening here since they moved in to the new building 4 years ago
- RudĩϐЯaЯïan
And I'm super excited that on very short notice I have pulled together the first Annual Burning Man lecture here on campus (pending approval of use of the name fro the Black Rock folks, who are still out on the Playa breaking down the city...). We'll be highlighting BM as a research locus. I've got an art exhibit going up the day after the fall fair (which is another set of details that...
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- RudĩϐЯaЯïan
The Public Health Unit of a nearby city (not affiliated with MPOW) called to ask if I could drop by their offices to teach them Zotero to help them keep track of their research work. So, I am
- copystar
This is on display in our basement right now: http://windowsandmirrors.org/. And Kathy Kelly is speaking here tomorrow night.
- laura x
We're implementing LibAnswers, and I'm hopeful that once the knowledge base is built up some our lack of evening/weekend reference hours won't be as big a deal.
- kaijsa
We're participating in UNC's First Amendment Day on Oct. 2! Book display, posting banned book / map mashup, giving out "I'm with the banned" buttons as a foursquare incentive. Also, I'm close to hiring a permanent half-time assistant (who replaces a full-time assistant which is long story that doesn't fit this thread). And we got Westlaw Next for our media law students,which I'm going to learn how to use in my spare time.
- $tephanie•Cog$ciLibrarian
For the first time our strategic planning includes staff at all levels.
- Marie
I'm loving the idea of hiding pigs in the library. Also all the other stuff going on. Glad the strategic planning is involving all staff, but my first impulse was to think "how sad that it didn't before." I'm at a small all-hands-on-deck place, though.
- barbara fister
Also thinking we should probably get points for survival. Stuff happens (first week of classes, people leaving, collections having to be shifted) and making all that work doesn't get recognized because we're all about progress like good little citizens of the 19th century.
- barbara fister
i would like some pigs in our collection. [do not retweet this out of context!]
- Marie
We did Library Poker for freshmen recently.
- Yvonne
we had about 500 first year students come to the Library Expo last week, which is definitely a record. I also just told the President how proud I am of our chemists, who have agreed that we can walk away from the American Chemical Society's abusive pricing structure.
- Jenica
that is AMAZING. Can you bottle and sell it? I will serve to my chemists.
- barbara fister
Windows and Mirrors - also amazing. Loving all these events and parties and pig hunts
- barbara fister
We just launched this: http://www.lfpl.org/mylibra...
- Greg Schwartz
dude. LOVE THAT.
- RepoRat
<thinks *really* hard> Oh! We're digitising all our old theses, to go up on the institutional repository. (We're dealing with copyright by making it opt-out. Which may be dodgy but seriously no-one's ever going to complain.)
- Deborah Fitchett
(that's totally the way to do it Deborah, good stuff!)
- jambina
^^^ small revolutions, big change.
- barbara fister
Greg, that is so cool!
- RudĩϐЯaЯïan
I thought of something! We have started a patron driven acquisitions project for ebooks via EBL. I'm pretty excited. We also bought a whole bunch of ebook packages from Project MUSE.
- maʀtha
Also, my community bookclub is starting up again soon
- maʀtha
Big changes and some searches for new-to-us positions about to open for the pending new library.
- ωαřмaiden ❤Marrit Woman❤
So, this cool thing happened so in about a month I'm moving to a library at another uni and switching from liaison work to library IT-type work. This promises much excitement and much very rapid upskilling with the help of my awesome future colleagues.
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So far I've already had one dream in which I arrived on campus and was greeted with "Oh good, you're here. We're just going on annual leave so it's all yours!" to which dream-me’s response was "...Can you tell me my login code?" Given that I’ve got good web skills and good bug-finding skills but haven’t actually been at the back-end of most library systems before, what else should I ask if I get this dream again?
- Deborah Fitchett
Congrats!
- aarontay
Sadly your dream colleagues will likely respond to any sensible question with RTFM.
- John Dupuis
Congratulations!
- Betsy #TeamMonique
nifty, congrats! welcome to the dork side of the Force
- RepoRat
wow, go you.
- barbara fister
R-ingTFM (plus doing-stuff-by-googling) will probably be important tools in my belt....
- Deborah Fitchett
Working on trying to do *something* for Open Access Week in October in terms of outreach. I feel like I've probably asked this before, but what, if anything, are you doing at your libraries? I feel like our students don't even know what OA is, so thinking of how to explain and inform them. Thoughts?
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is this the first time the library is doing OA stuff?
- jambina
We're stealing Dorothea's idea (think it was Dorothea's) and hosting an OA reception, inviting faculty to self nominate to be recognized for contributions to OA (publishing or teaching) in the past year. I heard rumor we were going to get someone to talk, but not sure if they've reached out to the identified person yet.
- Hedgehog
jambina, we had a "spotlight" on our web page last year, but it was just a few lines about what it is. I don't know if I want to (or have time to) host an event in the library, but it might be nice to have...handouts? Maybe table tents? Just trying to gain some insight. Hedgie, very cool. I'd like to hear how that works out for y'all.
- Derrick
we do a lot of promotional stuff - on the screens, free buttons for everyone (hella popular - i run out every year. getting 2000 this year), signs in each branch, etc. also we create little posters that highlight OA resources int he context of "you will still have access to THESE resources when you graduate because they are OA". it's a shitty time of year for this stuff for us because...
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- jambina
Ooh, I'd love to get some OA swag. Point me in that direction or is that something you do at your library?
- Derrick
http://www.arl.org/sparc... - and we get some staff tshirts to wear too. the pins you can have made locally, just download the template from http://openaccessweek.org/page... - and there's lots of other prepared promotional stuff on that page.
- jambina
Gotcha, and much thanks!
- Derrick
Do you have any display cabinets? Show the students and the faculty what $1,000 or $10,000 can buy for various journals, mags and books. Or, create a virtual display of same.
- Yo. Shark Dog.
Hrm. Not sure how that might fly in these parts. I'ma think about it.
- Derrick
At our library, all OA articles are free for OA week. #nothelpful
- Steele Lawman
We also give out swag from SPARC or make a few with SPARC designs, and have a faculty panel around a "hot topic". Wikipedia has been a good one, faculty and students always have strong opinions about it, and it lets us discuss things like OA vs. editorial control, peer review, etc. Fair Use in courseware for faculty is also good, we've had law profs come in and discuss recent rulings...
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- Amandadon't
I chatted with our librarian who's done OA stuff in the past which has been limited, I think, to just a web spotlight on our library site, so we certainly want to expand beyond that. Looked at the SPARC stuff and will likely go with some handouts and posters and some buttons, I think. Need to check our budget. Baby steps.
- Derrick
Hon, your "baby steps" are more than I ever managed to wrangle... at a Research 1. Do not sell yourself short here.
- RepoRat
Yes, our first few years of having OA events were exactly what you describe: spotlight on web, handouts and posters, blog post. So the full-on faculty panel has absolutely grown from a series of baby steps.
- Amandadon't
Yes - I agree with RepoRat that baby steps is the way to go - we've done some simple stuff (giving away things - pins and tshirts) but have not had much success with panels, etc yet. Reaching out to undergrads is something that I'd really like to do especially around textbooks - we're establishing an etextbook program where we're producing very low cost or free etextbooks....
- Sarah
I wish I had time to do this - I've got a few faculty really interested in learning more. But me? Spending time approving time cards, setting (adjusting) student schedules, hiring more students, training students, teaching ~20 classes, reference, buying books, journals, cataloging, fines, etc. No time for xtras like OA. At least not this year, but will bookmark linx discussed here … </pityparty>
- $tephanie•Cog$ciLibrarian
We have an event where we bring in speakers and the campus community is invited. We do displays, info on the library website, communicate with university marketing department to promote Open Access Week.
- LibrarianOnTheLoose
And until OA is not an "extra," we'll continue to see the apathy that Yvonne references elsewhere. *sigh*
- RepoRat
that's why i make sure to train librarians and staff on OA stuff - so they don't see it as an extra or something that only i do. it's worked pretty well.
- jambina
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