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I'm putting together a journal list for one of our TRIO programs, which has grant money to buy some paper subscriptions. They're especially interested in biology, engineering, and computer science--and I'm trying not to overlap with library subscriptions. Any suggestions for high-level, but not necessarily scholarly, publications in these areas?
Nature and Scientific American already covered.
- Kirsten
Maybe "Discover"?
- Katy S
Good, but we already get it in print. I don't mind overlapping if we only have e-access (they really want paper copies).
- Kirsten
Pondering recommending that the join a couple of academic/professional societies. They'd get access to more subscriptions that way, plus then the students could see the workings of those types of organizations and maybe get involved.
- Kirsten
Technology review?
- kristin buxton
Psychology of Music?
- Hieronymous Boob
Anybody else doing https://www.coursera.org/course... ? Hunting for study buddies.
don't shoot!
- maʀtha
I said "hunting for," not "hunting." :P
- RepoRat
*snicker*
- maʀtha
oh yay! thanks, Iris
- RepoRat
i might. trying to figure out if i can really do it.
- jambina
I just signed up. Although I have to be honest: My track record with MOOCs is abysmal.
- Laura Krier
Maybe study buddies would help?
- Laura Krier
I want to but like Laura, I haven't been a good MOOC student.
- kendrak
Tell y'all what, I'll make a MOOC Study Buddies room. Can be reused for other MOOCers, of course. :)
- RepoRat
I'm signed up but not sure I'll actually do it all
- kristin buxton
I saw algebra and quailed a little. Sad, I know.
- Yvonne
I can still do algebra if I have to. If it'd been CALCULUS, I'd have run like a rabbit.
- RepoRat
would love to... but I dropped out of the last mooc and it was only 5 hrs a week :( and I can do R but don't know python or sql :( Perfectly happy in Algebra and actually probably could remember calculus if needed... but that doesn't help... i would so love to take this course! eta: oh crap... i just signed my self up...
- Christina Pikas
I'm so glad to see i'm not the only mooc dropout around these parts. :) (but I joined the group anyway, because one of these days I'll succeed and just maybe a study group will help with that)
- ellbeecee
Do any of you at academic libraries create temporary computer accounts for people who don't have credentials through the school? If so, what are you using to create/manage those accounts?
We use Envisionware's PC Reservation to give 90 minute guest passes to unaffiliated users.
- ~Courtney F
Our campus IT department has set up a generic guest account, so we hand out those credentials.
- lris
We had them sign a pledge and then signed them in to a universal public access account
- Jason - The Opaque
from Android
Like Iris, our campus IT has set up a guest login with limited access to things like key-server-licensed software, etc., so unaffiliated users use that login.
- Catherine Pellegrino
We have PC res for visitors. There's another option where guest accounts can be created for visiting scholars and such that will expire after a certain period of time. There's also a set of logins (they expire...weekly, I think) for guest users of the microfilm machines.
- ellbeecee
We have open 30 minute computers, no log in required; we have guest log ins that are for other medical professionals or non-uni members (read: law firm) using us; for wireless, our campus IT has a form they can fill out to get a guest log in texted to cell phone--5 days/semester. They must have own cell phone for that.
- Hedgehog
we have an anonymous login that only gets them access to .edu and .gov site - no MS Office; and a guest login where we create an account using a script we wrote to add the user to LDAP
- jönαthaη
Thanks all, our campus IT is shutting down the server we've used to create temp accounts so are scrambling for alternatives.
- kristin buxton
Does anybody subscribe to Thomson's Conference Proceedings Citation Index? Could you verify that these articles are indexed there? http://trid.trb.org/results...
We do but I probably won't get the chance until this afternoon. If no one else is first
- Christina Pikas
from iPhone
Thanks. I'm going back and forth with Thomson about an issue and of course we don't subscribe to the Conference Proceedings Citation Index (and I don't think we will), but that doesn't mean they shouldn't index a journal they skipped? And people wonder why transportation is weird.
- kendrak
I just spot checked a few and they're showing up
- kristin buxton
Thanks! That helps us out.
- kendrak
Do any of your libraries include special notes in the OPAC indicating faculty or alumni publications? Is it searchable? If you don't do this, have you had requests for something like this? I'm trying to figure out what might make sense, but worry about stressing out tech services requesting a big project if it's not worth it.
I think we do an Alt Author of "California State University Fullerton Faculty" but I don't know how that came about.
- Jaclyn aka spamgirl
We do that for faculty. We're small enough that it's not a huge deal. Not sure we tried to retrospectively include the notes. We co-sponsor an annual author tea for faculty with new books out, which gives us a routine time to be sure we're up to date.
- barbara fister
We include a Carleton affiliation note in a notes field for any Carleton-affiliated author. So searchable by keyword kind of. We are a small college, though, so that kind of thing is part of the job rather than a major add on project.
- lris
We add a subject "Caltech Authors" that is indeed searchable. We only do publications made while they are at Caltech, not alumni. We also stick a little sticker on the spine with the Caltech logo
- kristin buxton
Ooh, a sticker. Thanks all. We talked about this in a faculty meeting, but because it's kind of my fault, I wanted to check into what other people are doing before asking for a procedure. I might try to work with the scholar pages in BPress to see if linking to OPAC records there would just be an easier thing that faculty could opt into, rather than trying to retroactively enhance the records.
- kaijsa
Zotero users -- For a talk I'm giving next week: what drawbacks or disadvantages have you or your users encountered when using Zotero? E.g. it doesn't work with IE and some other browsers...
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The interface is all scrunched up and a challenge for this bifocal-wearing mole to see well.
- Stephen le Francoeur
"accessibility issues for bifocal-wearing moles" check
- Jason P
(You do know you can adjust the text size, Stephen?)
- Jason P
I do. I guess I find the interface a bit overwhelming. Maybe if there was some space between all those lines of text. #crankypants
- Stephen le Francoeur
I couldn't find a way to pull in RSS feeds of searches.
- Hedgehog
Hard to use if you're not on your very own computer, or unless you like messing with installing and changing preferences before every research session.
- lris
My biggest issue atm is weak support for non-Word/LibreOffice word processors. A lot of the "cool kids" these days e.g. use Scrivener and while Zotero does have RTF-scan: http://www.zotero.org/support... it's not reliable enough for serious work. (There are a couple of threads on this on the Zotero forums, too).
- adamsmith
Good and useful stuff, folks, thanks.
- Jason P
I had the database get corrupted and lost everything.
- kristin buxton
It's bad for notetaking, unless you really promote that people use independent records as notes and tie them to records. A lot of cut-and-paste compared to some writing apps.
- Meg V. Meg
chrome is making me cranky
- kendrak
Chranky?
- Jason P
yes! as in, i installed it but it's a pain to access my library with it. the options are so limited it makes no sense.
- kendrak
One browser/computer at a time is somewhat of a challenge for me some days.
- RudĩϐЯaЯïan
Generally, trying to figure out the easy way for students on library computers to add things to zotero
- RudĩϐЯaЯïan
This is hard...usually, I think of stuff that I like about Zotero! But it can be annoying to have snapshots and other files attached automatically. Also, it's hard to change settings like language (need to be in developer mode). The learning curve for modifying styles with CSL is more difficult than EndNote and RefWorks. Finally, it would be nice to have a "mark as read" function like in Mendeley and EndNote. And perhaps an official mobile application?
- Megan loves summer
Oh, and you can't set the default formatting for the bibliography (font, spacing, etc.) as in EndNote
- Megan loves summer
Am I the only one who teaches EndNote here? If not, am I the only one who has found that teaching EndNote has gotten infinitely harder in the past year or so?
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I blame increased use of different/"alternative" browsers and higher expectations of users due to greater functionality of reference management tools overall (but not necessarily functionality that EndNote has). Also, I blame that we let people bring their laptops to classes now, which is more practical for them, but like, today I was trying to help someone install the Cite While You Write toolbar, but she had two different Applications folders on her Mac.
- Meg V. Meg
Like, one of them ("on her hard drive") had all her applications, and the other ("in her user account") was...empty. Seriously. Empty. Sooooooooooooo...that didn't work so well.
- Meg V. Meg
I'll have whatever's Steve's drinking.
- Meg V. Meg
Not in the endnote team since last year, but is it really getting harder?
- aarontay
The software isn't. Teaching it is, from what I'm experiencing.
- Meg V. Meg
Agreed, there are as many flavors of PC laptop as one can imagine, and good luck trying to write one simple list of installation instructions. Our install package requires an unzip utility, you'd think that at least would be standard...
- Amandadon't
from Android
Plus God forbid you update or reinstall your nonstandard browser, gotta reinstall the EndNote plugins. We've just generally noticed problems with cross browser performance lately, with a lot of our databases.
- Amandadon't
from Android
YES AND THANK YOU
- Meg V. Meg
I haven't noticed too many more problems lately... When the really weird installation questions come in, I usually call EndNote tech support and they've fixed 'em all really quickly
- kristin buxton
Many of my/our current problems are related to "direct export", and "find fulltext", and "import PDF" (as well as understanding the difference between the latter two; coincidentally(?) they are equally unlikely to succeed). Though tonight I had huge difficulties because a few people's installs were, by default, hiding empty fields in records. Totally arbitrary, everyone else was fine.
- Meg V. Meg
I don't know, I feel like the quirks and bugs have remained steady in the 5 years I've been working with EndNote. But I agree that teaching students on their own laptops is infinitely harder--especially with Macs! I gave a session recently for 6 students with macbooks, and at any given point, there were 6 different problems.
- Megan loves summer
Oh, and yeah, we also get lots of questions from PC users who haven't unzipped the installation files before running the installer
- Megan loves summer
I'm relatively new to teaching it but I don't like it. It's clunky, it doesn't sync anywhere. We just had a trainer out to show us all the shiny that was version 6. Only, the questions we were asking were from people who had older versions and she couldn't show us how to fix those because it worked differently in six....
- Hedgehog
I have to admit that I have largely given up on "find full text", because EndNote doesn't play well with our proxy software. (In EndNote's defense, our proxy software is a lesser known one, and we're hoping to switch to a more standard one soon.)
- Amandadon't
Oh, trying stuff on users' laptop is always tricky and dangerous no matter what you doing - endnote or not. You never know what weird stuff they have installed or changed, or more to the point what they have uninstalled... I don't even like to do searches on user's laptops when they bring it over to me. Note sure if that is good practice, but usually I let the user type in and search himself.
- aarontay
And we refuse to install Endnote when the lesson is on. It's too distracting. Either you already have endnote installed on your laptop or you use the lab pcs and wait until after class. Most people just use the lab pcs.
- aarontay
Amanda, I've heard that "Find fulltext" only works ~40% of the time, and that is my roughly quantified experience (I've kept track), and we use ezproxy.
- Meg V. Meg
Hedgie, X6 should sync to EndNote Web now (before you used to have to manually move files or move all of them and dedupe), does it not do that?
- Meg V. Meg
Find full-text also relies on how good your link resolver/knowledge base is... We used to have webbridge , it was awful. 360link seems better.
- aarontay
Find full text seems to work better if you a doi in the record. A colleague told me that she finds EndNote gets confused and doesn't download anything if there are too many targets in our resolver (SFX) that have the pdf (I haven't tested this myself)
- Megan loves summer
Anybody know how to get Endnote 5 to stop using odd line breaks in the bibliography? I can manually correct it but if patron closes/reopens document the line breaks are back... (Switching citation managers not an option)
It's also randomly showing the Endnote ID in the citation, which I also can't get to turn off
- Hedgehog
Can you look at the style editor and see what's going on?
- Christina Pikas
from iPhone
Is this in any style or just the one the customer wants?
- Christina Pikas
from iPhone
It's all styles--i've tried 2 or 3
- Hedgehog
All styles? Maybe reinstall some piece of the software?
- Christina Pikas
from iPhone
odd breaks? never seen that happen before
- aarontay
I'm going to send an email in to Endnote and see if they can suggest something. Student is working with version 5 so there's a possibility she still has her download links and such, though those expire if she purchased through the webstore.
- Hedgehog
Odd line breaks often mean there's something weird in the reference itself.
- kristin buxton
Manually fixing the bibliography never fixes anything unless your very next step is to click "Print". As Kristin says, the line breaks are probably in the Endnote record. What's the last piece of the citation before the line break? If it's eg the publisher, then open the record, look for the publisher field, and remove the line break from there. --The Endnote ID issue is more likely to...
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- Deborah Fitchett
Deb--it's breaking in the middle of sections. Halfway through the name of the Journal or halfway through something else. I'm suspecting larger gremlins. I've fussed around with one of the citations several times trying to get things sorted and in Endnote it looks fine, in Word, not so much. Student is on a deadline so I got her through going to unformatted and manually fixing so at least she can send it looking decent today. We have a formatted version still to try and correct.
- Hedgehog
maybe there's a line break embedded in the Endnote database? This might happen if somebody manually entered a citation by copying and pasting?
- DJF
Anyone have a good guide to how to use Web of Knowledge? I'm going to be teaching an instruction session for a psychology research methods class and I've only used the basics of it before, but have a feeling that I need to know a bit more for the class. thanks in advance
My colleague has a rather thorough one at http://library.caltech.edu/learnin...
- kristin buxton
thanks! anyone else?
- Sir Shuping is just sir
I don't have access to it anymore :( It is awesome, though. Make sure to mention that they can also do cited reference searching in Google Scholar.
- maʀtha
Academic librarians: Does your library offer "recreational reading" titles in ebook format? If so, what is your source/platform?
We've got OverDrive... http://mcgill.lib.overdrive.com
- Megan loves summer
not as yet - thinking about it... got a small print collection at present
- Penny
On our loaner kindles (which come with an allowance for purchases)
- kristin buxton
We have three preloaded loaner kindles too: http://library.loyno.edu/blog...
- Derrick
We've been doing the loaner kindle thing, too, with "collections" on specific pods of them. But, people are wanting the books on their own devices, so now I'm looking for anything but OverDrive to do it.
- Royce's favorite Anna
Nope. Not a single request for it, either.
- barbara fister
No. And like Barbara, no requests to my knowledge. (We do get requests for recreational reading in general, phrased so it's obvious they assume print.) If I did get requests I'd point to Gutenberg, Baen, etc, and the public library.
- Deborah Fitchett
People ask. We are implementing the 3M system (through the state library), but it's not functional yet.
- kaijsa
Collection Development Question of the Day: Should an academic library own "50 Shades of Grey"? Sure, it's not scholarly or even good (according nearly all reviews), but does it have a place on our shelves? Does it have a place in American studies? Gender & Sexuality studies? "Crap Lit"? Many librarians won't touch it. Thoughts?
I'm sure some professor will put it on their syllabus for something. That's not a direct answer to your question, but it is an answer.
- Andy
Sure. I'd buy anything, no matter how crappy, if I thought it would get used.
- Steele Lawman
Since I know that there are people in our gender studies department that are looking at it, i would say yes, we should have a copy. But that's an entirely different question from whether a public library should or shouldn't have it. Given things that are already in the average urban public library collection that are sexier, I'd say no, because it's crappy writing.
- DJF
Worldcat.org already shows 1,085 libraries owning this, which is pretty damn high for a 2012 book. I don't know how to filter the results, but I'd be shocked if there aren't at least 50-100 academic libraries among them.
- Walt Crawford
Oof. If every book had to pass a "crappy writing" test to make it in to a public library, there'd be miles of empty stacks.
- Steele Lawman
Do you expect people to do scholarship that includes it, based on the programs you support? Alternately, does your library have a leisure reading collection of bestsellers and whatnot?
- Rachel Walden
I wonder, Walt. Academic libraries don't need to buy stuff like that RIGHT NOW in the way that public libraries do.
- Steele Lawman
What Steve says. (Which I think holds true for academic libraries as well, especially if "crappy" can apply to the writing itself as well as the research. Sturgeon's Law still applies...with the proviso that 90% of *what gets past editorial gatekeepers* is crud.)
- Walt Crawford
Sure. I don't approve of "teaching the controversy" when it comes to teaching science, but when it comes to collection development, I do. How will future historians make sense of of the our current zeitgesit if they don't have the cultural artifacts that everyone is referring to? I'm ordering it for our collection. I don't buy *lots* of pop culture, but I try to buy some. And an added benefit is that doing so will improve our borrowing stats ;)
- copystar
I bought it for our leisure collection because a book group on campus is reading it (and discovered that our kindles already had the trilogy bought by a student with their kindle allowance)
- kristin buxton
<threadjack>kristin, could you tell me more about the kindle allowance part? we're in possession of some kindles and trying to figure out the best way to manage them account-wise...</threadjack>
- Marianne
Marianne, Directions to the students are at http://libguides.caltech.edu/content... We have 6 all linked to the same account which I believe has money added by my colleague via gift card when it runs low. I could get you in contact with him if you need more specifics.
- kristin buxton
that's very useful, thank you! i don't need more info for now, but may send up the LSW batsignal later if my coworkers are interested....
- Marianne
Thanks, everyone, for your feedback. At my institution (private, liberal arts, traditional) I sense some reluctance to acknowledge a place for something perceived as "low brow." Instead we funnel our vast budget into tens of thousands of scholarly titles that go largely unused by anyone (no circ or browse stats). But, overall, I think there should be a place here for something that will definitely get read. Wow, did that sound "anti-intellectual" or what?
- Library Fool
I work at a similar institution, but we buy a more balanced selection. Is the resistance institutionalized in the form of collection development policies and the like? Is collection development all funneled through a gatekeeper who wouldn't buy things like this? Or is it just "cultural" and understood by all that buying popular stuff Just Isn't Done?
- Steele Lawman
And the Catholic women's college affiliated with MPOW has one copy on order but "unavailable" (and not fully catalogued). That has five holds on it.
- DJF
There is a good argument for having a popular browsing collection for leisure reading. If you can get a small budget and a group of students who are willing to help make choices, that might work. It's a little hard to tell here if the issue is "we can't buy anything that isn't academic," "we can't buy anything that isn't a high quality work in its area," or "we can't buy a book that's full of sex."
- barbara fister
Oh no, there is no individual or gatekeeper who would block the purchase of such a book. And our collection development policy is sufficiently vague so as to support any purchase we deem appropriate. I simply sense a (mis)conception here that popular culture doesn't (or shouldn't?) overlap with scholarly research. Again, we're rather "traditional" (hint: We're spitting distance from...
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- Library Fool
I'm a bit leery of relying on a separate "browsing collection" for this type of item. I worry about what might be implied by such separate collections. Might we be too proscriptive in saying "THIS is appropriate for research and THAT is appropriate for leisure." I believe "50 Shades" could serve as excellent primary source material for any number of gender studies, literary criticism,...
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- Library Fool
We have a browsing/popular collection but most of that stuff goes into the regular collection after it isn't current anymore. I think collections changes happen gradually as librarians change their understanding of what is needed. When I got here 10 years ago, we has very few comics. Now we have a bunch. Part of that is due to my own efforts, but part of that is due to changes in...
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- Steele Lawman
Do you have browsing/popular collection? Then it will circulate. If you put it under gender studies...well, let's say there are better examples you could add. It's NOT A GOOD BOOK. We have to buy it in PL's, because we have like 100+ requests on it. I'd rather buy them better smut, but this is the book that's getting all the PR money, so this is what I have to buy. If you want to start an erotica collection (for study purposes), I'm sure this group could create a better list for you!
- Louise "Weezy" Alcorn
Though one can also argue we need at least some of the shitty books that become huge bestsellers so that scholars in future can ponder "what on earth were they thinking?" It can actually be very difficult to get your hands on enormously popular books of yore, or even representative trade books. PLs pitch them because they are not about preservation and ALs mostly don't buy them or if they do, don't keep them.
- barbara fister
If your library is involved with the institutional repository at your university, please speak up! I haz questions!
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- jambina
yup
- Hedgehog
Jambina, you don't follow me, so I can't DM. :(
- LB: #TeamMonique
fixed!
- jambina
:D
- LB: #TeamMonique
Yes.
- John Dupuis
yo. spent six years running the goddamn things. have opinions. lotsa opinions.
- RepoRat
(Hey, John, can you follow me back?)
- LB: #TeamMonique
We have one, but I'm not involved. You can contact Jon Hansen about it.
- Anne Graham
College here rather than university, but up I am speaking.
- Steele Lawman
Thanks, y'all!
- LB: #TeamMonique
We're just getting started with one. We have lots of mistakes to make, yet.
- barbara fister
Yes, here too.
- Deborah Fitchett
yes, me too. Although ours is different some most of the others.
- Elizabeth Brown
Yes
- kristin buxton
Here.
- Yo Joe. No, go slow.
Here. Ours also diff. Mandated "approval system" libs check metadata and copyright prior to ingest to inst rep. Numbers in rep for year are reported as business unit output measure.
- suelibrarian
I think I have my question answered for today, but I'll hang on to this thread for future use. :) Thanks, all!
- LB: #TeamMonique
Err, so, I see from a listserv where a certain public library plans to keep "Shades of Grey" behind the desk and "see who asks for it." Erm.
Right, because there's nothing like making one's patrons feel shame in asking for the book they are seeking. *headdesk*
- Hedgehog
I'm trying not to be the person who sends a "you're doing it wrong" message to librarians at other places. We'll see how long I can hold out.
- Rachel Walden
Well, dang! Now I need to see what all the fuss is about!
- LB: #TeamMonique
I guess that's better than putting it in a secluded room with lotion and a box of kleenex...
- John: Thread Killer
Gatlinburg? Really? (or shouldn't I call them out)
- awd
Ha, I wasn't going to. But now that you did... A colleague and I both grew up around that area, we were just joking that we needed to take a trip. :)
- Rachel Walden
Rachel - looks like you're in luck, someone else called them out :)
- ~Courtney F
Gee, I would think Gatlinburg was used to a bit of sleeze.
- barbara fister
Years ago when I had a student summer job in a public library I came across a card for a book which had the location "shelved in the closet."
- barbara fister
In my library assistant days at a public library they had a subscription to Playboy but kept it behind the desk so patrons had to ask for it. I never did have someone ask while I was working
- kristin buxton
Did anyone else recently have their student loans transferred to Sallie Mae? My April payment didn't go through but now I can't actually find the loan anywhere. Students loans: complicating my shit up since 2001. Whimper whimper.
Oh, ugh. One of mine is with Sallie Mae, but it started out there, so I am no help.
- laura x
No, but I did see a NYT article yesterday about how many transfers of students loans are very borked.
- Hedgehog
No, mine are all still through Direct Loans (Dept. of Ed) and April went through as usual. Now I'm getting paranoid, though.
- kaijsa
Mine was transferred to Mohela and I got a letter from them this week saying that April hadn't been debited but May would be.
- kristin buxton
How many hours a week do *you* provide desk reference service at your library?
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The library as a whole, or librarians?
- Angel R. Rivera
ah, thanks Angel. I edited it to reflect that ;)
- Jason - The Opaque
this month? none. usually 8 (we're only open 4 days a week.) after june? WHO KNOWS!
- kendrak
Me personally? I'm assigned 1 desk hour( and 2 chat shifts per week, done away from the desk).
- ellbeecee
3 to 12, usually about 6.
- Steele Lawman
What Steve said. If I got very unlucky it could be 19, with a night, a Friday shift, and a Sunday on top of two weekly shifts.
- barbara fister
from iPhone
I sort of miss the days of 20 a week, but those were very different times. I think we won't have any after June, but that might not be the worst thing ever.
- kendrak
Mine is currently 23 hours(academic). My boss and I have set a goal to break that time into 2 hour consecutive chunks of time. Right now I work up to 5 hours straight at the desk at a time
- Jason - The Opaque
4 hours per week, desk and chat.
- Jason P
9 to 12
- maʀtha
I do an hour or two per week, but Im not a reference and instruction librarian, they carry heavier loads. Non R&I folks work 1-3 hours on the refdesk per week, and one Saturday per semester. (My & my ILLbrarian's refdesk hours are lower because we pull 3-5 hours a week on the circ desk.)
- ωαřмaiden ❤Marrit Woman❤
14 a week. (Public lib.)
- Betsy #TeamMonique
22. :(
- Derrick
4 hours per week desk. Every moment i am at deck for chat :)
- aarontay
6-8 hours per week.
- Yo Joe. No, go slow.
8 hours a week (plus more if I'm covering a shift)
- kristin buxton
11 weekly (includes one evening) plus four or five 4-hour Sunday shifts per semester.
- Catherine Pellegrino
As a school librarian I'm on the desk whenever the library is open (32 hours) but then I'm generally not doing in-depth research.
- Heleninstitches
During the regular school year, I usually do two shifts per week, so four hours (we cover chat reference at the ref desk, so no separate shift for that). Summers I might occasionally take a shift, if Reference is short. I also cover the Periodicals desk at least three hours per week.
- Kirsten
I am formally scheduled for 2 hours a week, though I nearly always pick up at least an extra hour from somewhere. I also manage to grab about 4 hours a month on the circ desk and at least 2 a month on the Teen Zone desk.
- WebGoddess
All of them (solobrarian).
- Blake
zero. I have no public facing service responsibilities. Unfortunately.
- DJF
any opportunities to volunteer an hour at a help desk David?
- Jason - The Opaque
I've been thinking about it, yeah.
- DJF
none yet but planning to start doing 2-4 hours a week
- weelibrarian
Until recently, it was about 20, but now I'm "on call" for those hours instead
- Megan loves summer
Megan: Was this a transition of the reference service model at your library?
- Jason - The Opaque
About 12, including an evening shift, and add another 9 when it is a weekend I have to work (which could technically be more since I would be on call on one day of the weekend, then work the other weekend day for nine hours straight). And I do pick up extra now and then to help others who may need coverage.
- Angel R. Rivera
me, 2 hours. the rest of the librarians have 4 hours/week regularly scheduled, and a rotation of evenings and weekends that means an additive 25 hours over each 16 week semester.
- Jenica
During my internship, 6 - 12 hours a week (3 week rotating schedule) with a combination of reference desk, information desk, and chat reference.
- Heather
Personally, none. I'm the on call librarian this week, and I have on call hours, too. Most of my reference work is done elsewhere, with the emergency medicine department or in the course of other work.
- Rachel Walden
4 or 7, depending on if it's my evening shift week. (every other week).
- Jennifer Arnott
Zero for me and all librarians as there is no reference desk here. Instead, there is an iDesk (Circulation) that is staffed by a variety of folks for a couple of hours at a time (librarians, staff, students). There is also a help desk where the reference desk used to be staffed by trained students to answer IT questions and then call a librarian on call out when there are reference questions.
- Galadriel C.
8-10 hrs in my 3 days at the public library. I'm the only one on the desk for the entire day when I am at the jail.
- Alan
8-12 hours as dept manager. Rest of Youth staff is 12-16 hours on desk plus programs they do - another kind of "desk" for youth librarians!
- Marge LW
~ 0.5/wk, when averaged out, as I am not a librarian :) (personal circ desk hours vary between about 3 and 30, depending on the week)
- Marianne
Around 6-8
- Pete #TeamMonique
Jason, yes, we're transitioning now! For the most part (depending on the branch in our system), the library assistants (or whatever term you prefer) don't answer reference questions---they call on a librarian as needed
- Megan loves summer
8-12 (academic graduate library)
- LibrarianOnTheLoose
Galadriel, I'd like to talk to you a little more about your library's setup, so I requested to add you....
- LibrarianOnTheLoose
Sure! I'd be happy to chat!
- Galadriel C.
Usually 4-6, depending on the semester. Now it's 0 because I'm 50% on a special project. We all pick up shifts to cover for instruction, which continues to grow.
- kaijsa
6-8 (academic library)
- Yvonne
17.5 hours. Half my work day is on the reference desk. (public library)
- Andy
3 per week (academic library, desk) + 7 on saturdays 3-4 Times a year
- marlene
Any of your institutions support Libx toolbar or similar? I am thinking of introducing it since we switching over to 360link which is way easier to setup then webbridge but not sure LibX is worth the trouble since it seems 2.0 doesn't work with IE and 1.5 is flaky. Is it worth or fair introducing a tool only Firefox and Chrome users....
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can use (and in our case chrome is blocked - don't ask long story). I also need to try with a good implemention of Libx , I am not sure the google scholar support is working for my attempt. Or is it supposed to work that way?
- aarontay
Yes it is worth doing. Just for the XISBN and Amazon integration itself. Not to mention the right click to load any site through the library proxy. And ability to add searches to the toolbar that are not just your library (eg. u cd add search the uni staff list, worldcat, wikipedia and the nat lib of singapore as bookmarklets in there too)
- Kathryn is Blake in Hindi
BUT - good luck getting the everyday librarians who do info lit (and are not researchers) to realise the gift that they can give to their users who do use FF and Chrome. LibX is like giving 30% of your users a big pot of gold, a smoochy kiss and a giant bowl of yummy oatmeal all at once - but bcs no-one tries to sell it to librarians it is sadly overlooked.
- Kathryn is Blake in Hindi
LibX is worth it. I agree with Kathryn with the caveat that at our institution our tech services librarians and staff love LibX for the easy isbn lookup. It's worth it just for how it works with PubMed as it turns PMIDs into resolver links.
- copystar
i love libx and i got a tweet from a random person at my parent institution who is very thankful for it... the systems people at the parent institution keep hinting at it going away because they don't support it.... so as long as *I* can support it, we'll have it
- Christina Pikas
Our library systems office supports LibX, and I've heard from multiple grad students that they love it for the proxy reload and the lib catalog lookup. To be honest, I often gently suggest to grad students that they use Firefox or Chrome anyway... so I sort of push non-IE browsers on them.
- Amandadon't
We use it. The thing it gets used for most is the "Reload via Proxy" option.
- kristin buxton
I upgraded us to 2.0, and I advertise what I can to our patrons. I've loaded LibX on some of the reference workstations, but the ones for the students don't have it. I might use the smoochy pot of gold oatmeal kiss quote somewhere for promotional material.... Is that ok?
- Yo Joe. No, go slow.
:) Joe. The other reason why librarians often do not realize the huge value of LibX is bcs the transparent proxying works off-campus - and most of the time librarians are on campus or on the uni's network at least...Although - correct me if I am wrong - this seems less of an advantage if one is using Zotero as when off campus it automagically sends links through the proxy too?
- Kathryn is Blake in Hindi
Thanks. I have being using libx myself personally for my institution even before openurl was available since 2008. Just wondering if I should officially teach librarians cos now there is a decent openurl. I am just anticipating the whole "we must support every browser, if not we can't launch..." sigh. We have very popular bookmarklet that handles the proxy reload but yes the ISSN/Xisbn hotlink is a very nice thing.
- aarontay
Christina I am trying to solve the pubmed thing. In fact I am going through a long list of bookmarklets, firefox extensions, citation managers etc and trying to put in the new 360link openurl base address..
- aarontay
Look like libx 2.0 is mostly fixed. Works beautifully now. Having a ball testing 360link on various citation managers (Endnote, Mendley, zotero etc) , browser extensions that use link resolvers , bookmarklets...
- aarontay
Hi folks, question from my dean and I: does your library provide 24 hour study? Whether it's a room open 24 hours or actual library hours of 24/7 or 5? We are compiling a list of institutions that do this. Thanks in advance!
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we have a room that we can lock off and students can access via a key card after we close. if we're open the room is just part of the library.
- Sir Shuping is just sir
We do!! Our learning commons is 24-4 (opens on Monday, closes Friday). After the main part of the library closes, everyone is restricted to the learning commons space. The full library goes 24 hours during finals. The health science library does not have a 24 hour space, mostly because we can't block people to one area. (eta: University of Illinois Chicago)
- Hedgehog
Current workplace: not at the current time. Former workplace does - http://www.library.arizona.edu/applica... - for students/UA affiliates it's full library access 24/5.
- ellbeecee
24 hour study in our two largest branches. the law library offers 24 hour access to certain law students only (approved by the faculty.)
- jambina
24/5; staffed until 9pm (6pm Friday, 5pm Sat)- 24 runs sun-Thu. Security staff LC when staff desk closed. Not all semester- usually mid October-December, then Januray- April ish
- Pete #TeamMonique
Only during finals. ETA: But we're going to be going to some overnight hours starting in the fall. I'm not sure, but am thinking it'll be Sunday-Thursday. (University of Central Oklahoma)
- Kirsten
24/7 computer lab is located physically in the library, but administratively is part of IT, not the library. (Separate entrance with swipe-card access when the library is closed.) The library extends hours during finals, but not all the way to 24. (Edit: Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN: http://www3.saintmarys.edu/library)
- Catherine Pellegrino
No, but I met with the Chief of University Police today to discuss his perceptions of the safety of starting such a service. He gave me lots of good suggestions - I recommend that route for anyone thinking about building security in the wee hours!
- Jenica
We do not currently, but are planning a 24/5 space in the new library.
- Jason Griffey
Also, could you tell me your institution, I don't know where all of you work. Thanks!
- Mary Carmen
The main library is 24/7 during exams. after hours, there's a security guard at the door, and folks need to show university ID to get into the building.
- DJF
Thanks everyone! We are about to unleash a pilot 24/5 schedule from March 11-May 4th. The students have requested this multiple times, so we are glad we can finally accommodate them.
- Mary Carmen
I'm late, but we do 24/6.5 during term, but only in the front part of the building which gets gated off. Exactly like what Catherine describes.
- kaijsa
Please keep them coming. I am gonna keep a rolling list.
- Mary Carmen
24/7 during finals week.
- Derrick
One of our libraries at Caltech is 24/7 except for a few holidays. After 1am there's only a security guard so no circulation services (just the self-check) but the computers, group study rooms, etc are all available.
- kristin buxton
We don't but some other libraries on campus do.
- Rachel Walden
We do, usually 24/5, but it is 24/7 for a little while during exams. http://library.du.edu/penrose...
- Yo Joe. No, go slow.
No. For a bonus point I can tell you the next uni down the road offers 24 hour total library access with reference & circ services during finals.
- Soup in a TARDIS
from FFHound!
I believe The College of New Jersey has a section that is open 24/7 for students with security gates that come down for when the library itself is closed.
- Andy
We do. The first floor and the second and third floor atriums are open 24/5. Details at http://library.belmont.edu/About... ETA: There are no services available after 11pm - staffing is a single graduate student who basically watches the front doors and does an hourly body count. Access is ID only - swipe to enter - after 11pm.
- ~Courtney F
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My former library, at Whitman College, was open 24/7 during the school year (closed at 5 during the summer, when we had no classes). There was a circ supervisor on duty, and security.
- Laura Krier
We do 24/5 at our humanities & social sciences library from after reading week until the end of exams in both the fall and winter terms. Yes, we have a fall reading week. Here at the science & engineering library we have extended hours from 11pm to 1am during the same weeks as the other library has 24/5. We're the only other campus library that has the extended hours.
- John Dupuis
Is anyone going to, or has anyone every been to this event in the past: http://www.cni.org/ if so, what can you tell me about it? My supervisor suggested that I might be a good representative to attend from our library.
THIS is the actual event notice: http://www.cni.org/events...
- LibrarianOnTheLoose
Attended twice, spoke once. What do you want to know?
- RepoRat
I'm gonna listen in to this. I'm proposing a session.
- kaijsa
Just wondering things like the size (about how many attend), a general sense of the quality of presentations (of course they must be FANTASTIC if you did one, Repo!), opportunities for networking, what is the mix of info pros there. DID YOU LIKE IT?
- LibrarianOnTheLoose
I went once when it was nearby and we could send more people. Presentations were generally quite good. It skewed more towards library directors and heads of IT than reference librarians.
- kristin buxton
makes me stabbity.
- jambina
Care to elaborate, Amy?
- LibrarianOnTheLoose
well, i've only been to one, but it seemed like a lot of talking about problems instead of solutions. but D and i had a kickass dinner in San Diego so it was totally worth it.
- jambina
Size: couple hundred or so; they only allow 2-3 from a given institution. Quality: variable, as with most places; tending toward the "LOOK! NEW! SHINY!" genre. Networking: because so few people can go from a given institution, there's a PRONOUNCED skew toward AUL-and-above. So if that's a population of interest to you, it's a VERY worthwhile schmooze-op. You will also see interesting people from the like of Ithaka and OCLC and Mendeley -- researchy people, not salespeople.
- RepoRat
For me as a teacher, it was fabulous, because I got to see lots of cool experimental stuff and talk to the people building it -- super-nifty environmental scanning. If I'd been looking for practical info to take back to my library, unless I had VERY specific interests that were actually represented there, I think I'd have been disappointed. The keynotes were good; they tend to be big-picture visiony things, if that floats your boat.
- RepoRat
oh yes. the keynotes are good.
- jambina
what Repo-rat said. There's a lot of technology projects. I went once and I learned a lot.
- Elizabeth Brown
Talking to student who wants to be an ER librarian in a bit. Any advice for him?
ER like emergency department? Ah, you probably mean electronic resources. I'm biased by working with our emed dept here.
- Rachel Walden
Learn to query databases and massage Excel spreadsheets.
- RepoRat
...that was the first thing I thought, too, Rachel, and I don't work anywhere near a hospital!
- Catherine Pellegrino
Me 3. Of course I work in a hospital as well.
- DB, Just DB #TeamMonique
Areas it would be helpful for him to have experience in: budgeting, link resolvers, communicating with vendors. And yes, spreadsheets. Always with the spreadsheets.
- Kirsten
Master the science and art of data analysis (per RepoRat and Kristin), learn to read and negotiate license agreements. Learn to negotiate subscription/one-time costs.
- Galadriel C.
Awesome! I think I'll also tell him to get as much experience as possible. I don't know if the program he's thinking about (UW) has grad assistantships, but they were super helpful for my cohort in getting that first job.
- Jaclyn aka spamgirl
If by UW you mean Washington, not Wisconsin, there were very few assistantships in relation to the size of the cohort.
- kristin buxton
Study rooms! If you have 'em, how do you go about allocating time and space in them in an equitable manner? We have them first come, first serve, and so the first six people who get to the library get them and park there all day. This is not cool. Then again, having the ref people spend all their time policing study rooms is also not cool.
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What is your cool solution? Or lame solution? Or anything?
- laura x
Maybe you need some sort of reservation system like some academic libraries do. Or put up a pay wall to reserve the room for all day use.
- ♫410 I Coach 'em Up♫
Our reservations work on what we call the 2-2-2 rule. You can reserve a room for up to 2 hours, with a minimum of 2 people, up to 2 weeks in advance. (fwiw, we're an academic library)
- Elizabeth
We make them groups-have-priority, but other than that, it's first-come-first-serve. Any kind of rules (even groups-have-priority rules) do require some kind of policing, though? Otherwise you are just setting people up to expect the library's rules to be irrelevant.
- Marianne
Yeah, I know it will take some policing. I'm just trying to figure out what will take the least. Take reservations only for set times? (What if the time is 10-12 and 12-2 and they come at 11? or 11:30?) Sign people in whenever they show up and kick them out after 2 hours? So confusing.
- laura x
We have an online reservation system. 3 hours per day per person maximum, 2 people minimum to a room. If the room's not reserved, then anyone can use it.
- Jason P
Jason said what I was going to (and we just went to a new system - it's Open Room from Ball State)
- ellbeecee
People check them out (they are set up as faux items) via the circ system for 2 hours. They can renew if no one is waiting.
- maʀtha
here's the info from one of our local PLs - http://brentwood-tn.org/Modules...
- ~Courtney F
Groups of two or more can check out study rooms for two hours at a time. If no one else has placed a reservation, they can extend their reservation on an hour-by-hour basis. Reservations are accepted online, via phone, or in person and can be scheduled for any time during the current undergraduate term. Reservations are limited to one per day, per group (all members).
- Soup in a TARDIS
Elizabeth's 2-2-2 rule is what we also do. If people come in at 11, and the next reservation is for 12, the 11 person can have it for an hour, or come back at 2 and have it for 2 hours. First-come sign-ups, no MORE than 2 hours, no guarantees. A single person using a room will be ejected in favor of letting in a legitimate group.
- Jenica
We have an online reservation which lets you book up to 2 hours a day. (Per person - we don't have it fancy enough to keep track of all members, so if a group is really savvy they could theoretically book for 2 hours in one name, 2 hours in the next, etc. I don't think this much happens though.) If it's not in use anyone can use it but is liable to be kicked out if someone who booked it turns up.
- Deborah Fitchett
3 hour reservation. if no one else reserves for the time after them they can stay until someone asks for it, but no back to back reservations.
- kristin buxton
Had to wait on posting this until today. Many people have mentioned room reservation software, so I wanted to point out that Springshare just released a free version of LibCal, a calendar system that also has a room booking component. You can set it up so that people are limited to a certain amount of time each day. Let me know if you want more deets!
- Laura H.
Those darn vendors, butting in here with useful information.
- Steele Lawman
Sorry, Steve. ;)
- Laura H.
We check out our rooms--they're locked. You can check one out for 2 hours at a time, though I think if you're working in a group the next person in the group can probably check it out, especially if we're not busy. The ones on the 2nd floor get used a lot, downstairs in the lower level less so--despite that they are bigger and have TVs to project and half of them get a TON of natural light.
- Hedgehog
Individual or Group study rooms: reservations (4 hour blocks) have priority, reservations must be made 24 hours in advance. No singles in group rooms. Haven't maxed out on use, so currently can "renew" once. We open the staff conference room after 5 p.m. for student use. Presentation Lab has priority for people actually practicing presentations, but can be used as a group study room. Use the University software to reserve the rooms, staff enters the reservation to prevent [obvious] monopolization.
- Kathy
You may have to enforce sharing. We have a policy that people can reserve rooms for 2 hours, but basically have to renew it afterward for 1 hour intervals. That way, someone else can get a crack at the room but we don't immediately boot people.
- Andy
Our check-outables check out for three hours at a time. No renewals, generally - if you come back in 30 minutes and it's still available, then we'll check it out to you. We don't police them hardcore, so it's possible you could snipe the room with another member of the same group if we don't remember the face. We have 2 reservable study rooms that students can reserve for 3-hour blocks ahead of time. We also do have a handful of first-come first-served rooms that people tend to park in all day.
- ωαřмaiden ❤Marrit Woman❤
At the part time job, all of the study rooms are first-come, first-serve. However, we have six up-to-two persons rooms, one up-to-four persons room (which I watched as one group crammed 10 people into the other day), and one up-to-six persons room. The two more-than-two persons rooms are kept locked when not in use as the people using it are required to leave ID/keys/something they...
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- Katie
Like Martha, we use our circ system, though the calendar function is incredibly clunky. People can book up to 2 hours at a time, and they seem to police themselves quite well. (http://catalogue.mcgill.ca/F...)
- Megan loves summer
Laura - did you see this? http://ff.im/LKLZR
- ~Courtney F
I did not! Thanks!
- laura x
Two hours at a time, groups have priority, med/nursing students have priority over undergrads. I think we used to require a group at certain times of day, not sure if that is still the case. Renewals only an option if there's no wait list.
- Rachel Walden
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WHO ARE ALL THE PEOPLE? Where are they? *looks behind the sofa*
- maʀtha
Lurking :)
- kristin buxton
Hi! *waves* I'm new and just lurking so far.
- Fiona Jones
WHERE IS MY SLURPEE!
- Yo Joe. No, go slow.
Hello!!! *waves at kristin and Fiona*
- maʀtha
Hello, new folks!
- LB: #TeamMonique
Should we be saying O Thank Heaven! :)
- Hedgehog
Google Maps API Example: Simple Geocoding - https://gmaps-samples.googlecode.com/svn...
34.136824,-118.125923
- kristin buxton
It's been a while, but for our newest member, how about a roll call? Where you from, what's your job?
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She already knows this, but for those who don't ;) Sheffield Hallam University, law and social sciences librarian
- Pete #TeamMonique
Part-time cataloger at Briar Cliff University, Sioux City, Iowa. Wife is the Reference & Instruction Librarian at BCU.
- Mar₭ Liŋdŋer
School Librarian - an endangered species here in UK ;-)
- wensleydalelass
Information Systems Coordinator at the Missouri River Regional Library (public) in Jefferson City, MO.
- WebGoddess
E-Resources and Serials librarian at University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond, Oklahoma (just north of Oklahoma City)
- Kirsten
Business librarian, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia.
- ellbeecee
Access Librarian @ Palmer College of Chiropractic (full time); Information Librarian and science fiction/fantasy/horror expert @ Bettendorf Public Library (part time) both in Iowa; editor/publisher of Electric Velocipede, award-winning genre magazine
- John: Thread Killer
McGill Unversity in Montreal - eScholarhip, ePublishing & Digitization Coordinator
- jambina
Systems & Electronic Resources (and everything not Cataloging) Librarian at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania (not Penn State nor Ivy League). Sometime ALA gadfly/gadabout, rabble-rouser, and all around fun guy (but not a mushroom)
- awd
Temporary reference & instruction librarian at St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN, where it is freakin' cold this morning.
- Molly Westerman
Reference Librarian & Instruction Coordinator at Saint Mary's College in South Bend, Indiana: right across the street from the University of Notre Dame.
- Catherine Pellegrino
Head of the Steacie Science & Engineering Library, York University, Toronto.
- John Dupuis
Manager of Information Services, La Crosse (Wisconsin) Public Library
- Chelle Chelle Ro Ro
Information services librarian, Baruch College (part of the City University of New York), New York, NY.
- Stephen le Francoeur
E-Resources Librarian with a heavy helping of instruction thrown in at University of Wisconsin - La Crosse. Current big project? The 2011 release of ERMes, and open source ERM.
- Galadriel C.
Circulation services coordinator, Tutt Library, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO. Mostly I look out for our student workers, but also I do reserves and ereserves and regular circ stuff too. My mama is a school librarian, so I spent my childhood as an unpaid school-librarian-apprentice;).
- Marianne
Library student referencing and indexing through the MLIS program at Louisiana State University and new part-time faculty liaison instructional support librarian at Southern University of New Orleans.
- Derrick
Assistant Information Services Librarian at Health Sciences Library Uni Illinois Chicago. Doing research on personal health records.
- Hedgehog
Serials & Electronic Resources Librarian at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. Sweetest job EVAR.
- Marie
Adult Services Coordinator, Coralville Public Library, Coralville, IA.
- laura x
Reference librarian, National University of Singapore
- aarontay
Technically : Analyste en systèmes de documentation at Université du Québec. And here's how I describe my job on LinkedIn : Involved in collaborative projects with Université du Québec's institutions' libraries with technology projects being the primary focus (ILS, "Discovery layer", etc.). In charge of channels of communication (collaborative website, wiki, listservs).
- Dominique Papin
Assistant Dean, University of the Pacific Library, Stockton, CA.
- Mary Carmen
Being a librarian in US sounds much more fun than here... Shall we move, Pete?
- wensleydalelass
Adult Services Librarian (reference) and Technical Services Librarian (Spanish cataloging), Gail Borden Public Library, Elgin, IL.
- Betsy #TeamMonique
@Helen- move from Yorkshire? Unpossible :D
- Pete #TeamMonique
Transportation librarian at UC Berkeley. I would love to move to Yorkshire! S6!!!
- kendrak
@ Helen- Kendra is an Owls fan ;)
- Pete #TeamMonique
@Pete - well, I'm sure I could survive... getting a bit more worldly-wise, perhaps ;-)
- wensleydalelass
@ Helen- who are you and what have you done with my wife ;)
- Pete #TeamMonique
I'm the Humanities Liaison Librarian--doing instruction and collection development for humanities departments, plus general reference--at Colorado College in Colorado Springs.
- Steele Lawman
Head of Special Collections, Tarver Library, Mercer University, Macon, Georgia. :)
- LB: #TeamMonique
Medical librarian at Eskind Biomedical Library, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
- Rachel Walden
Information Technology System Support Administrator, Howard County Library (Maryland, United States). Not a librarian. I do a wide range of things with technology in a library, from desktop support to server management to...
- Julian
Essentially retired from RLG, later LYRASIS' Library Leadership Network, still writing. Technically not a librarian. Livermore, CA (wine country/SF Bay Area)
- Walt Crawford
Electronic Services Lib, Catholic Univ. of America in Washington, DC
- jönαthaη
Emerging Technologies & Services/Interlibrary Loan Librarian (and a few other things) Jack Tarver Library, Mercer University in Macon GA
- Sir Shuping is just sir
E-resources librarian + ILS manager, Aix-Marseilles University, France
- marlene
Scholarly Communications and Library Grants Officer, Binghamton University (State University of New York) and subject librarian for Chemistry, Math and Physics.
- Elizabeth Brown
Head of Library Information Technology at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. All around provocateur.
- Jason Griffey
Electronic Serials Specialist (plus more) at Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, Missouri
- Kathy
Reference & Instruction Librarian, Metropolitan State University, St. Paul, MN. Currently -2 F.
- maʀtha
(there's about 600 people who haven't posted yet)
- maʀtha
I'm Iris, reference and instruction librarian for languages and literature at Carleton College in freezing Northfield, Minnesota.
- lris
Collection Development Librarian, Fort Vancouver Regional Library District in Vancouver, WA.
- holly #ravingfangirl
Engineering Librarian at Caltech. Lurker.
- kristin buxton
Director of the Naropa University Library and Archives (Boulder, CO). Not that we have much of an archives program any more.
- Mark Kille
I'm a Community Specialist & Trainer for Springshare (yes, the people who make LibGuides). I work out of Ann Arbor, MI.
- Laura H.
infrequent visitor. director of the Journalism School library @ the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (central North Carolina). welcome to FriendFeed, @helen!
- $tephanie•Cog$ciLibrarian
Librarian at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland
- Christina Pikas
Periodicals Librarian @ University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. Currently basking in bright, streaming sunlight, although I hear it's chilly outside.
- Jen
Joe Kraus, originally from Wisconsin. Got my MLS at Maryland-College Park (Go Terps). Stuck it out for 6.5 years in MD and NoVA (worked at GMU 1995-early 1998.). Found a great job as Science/Engineering Librarian at the Univ of Denver, 1998-Pres.
- Yo Joe. No, go slow.
Hi from New Zealand! I'm the Information Systems Librarian @ UCOL a higher education educational institution based in Palmerston North http://www.ucol.ac.nz
- Tom.Pasley
Liaison Librarian (aka reference/instruction) for chemistry/chemical engineering/physics at University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
- Deborah Fitchett
Technical Trainer and generally smart, opinionated ruggedly handsome and modest guy (and podcaster) at Harford County Public Library in NE Maryland.
- ♫410 I Coach 'em Up♫
Electronic and Educational Resources Librarian at Belmont University in Nashville, TN...
- ~Courtney F
Librarian for the University of Minnesota in Rochester.
- Mary Beth Sancomb Moran
THREADJACK: Kathy, where can I find a Maryville t-shirt. Every time I go to Brick & Click I search and end up empty handed :-(
- Mary Carmen
Systems Librarian, Electronic Resources and Assessments, Michigan State University Libraries.
- ranti
Technical and Digital Services Librarian at Barton College in Wilson NC
- Jason - The Opaque
infrequent visitor as well. Information & Education Services Librarian & PA Liaison @ Duke Univ. Medical Library
- βℜ∀ñÐi
Director of Libraries, State University of New York at Potsdam.
- Jenica
Consultant out of East Central Library Services' Bettendorf, IA office - we're a state agency providing services for Iowa libraries - and substitute Information Services Librarian at Bettendorf Public Library.
- Katie
Copyright Program Librarian, University of Minnesota (Twin Cities - about 90-minutes' drive from Mary Beth) (I only check in to FriendFeed every couple of days - sorry so slow!)
- N. Ansi
So Yahoo is shutting down Delicious (which I think is a damned shame). Anyone got a good replacement?
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I'm trying out Pinboard (pinboard.in) since it seems to have most of the features I use. Just signed up today though so need to play with it more before I decide what I think. Easily imported my delicious bookmarks though
- kristin buxton
I've been using Diigo primarily for ages and really like it.
- Deborah Fitchett
Question for those of y'all in Academic Libraries/campuses. If you have graphic novels in your collection do you catalog them by LC number and shelve them in that area or do you have a special section to group them into so people can find them all in one spot?
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LC and interfiled.
- Jenica
LC number and in that area.
- Soup in a TARDIS
We have one graphic novel. Without looking, I feel safe stating that it's LC and interfiled
- John: Thread Killer
LC, interfiled, but we made sure they have a genre heading "graphic novels" even though they aren't all novels. Until we did that some were under graphic novels, some under comics. We have someone teaching a new course on them this January! yay, an excuse to buy lots.
- barbara fister
The Adventures of Johnny Bunko by Daniel Pink; and I see that we also have Jodi Picoult's Wonder Woman, and Janet Evanovich's Troublemaker graphic novels in our McNaughton collection, which are filed by author
- John: Thread Killer
Interesting. It depends (and on what, I am not so sure). Some of them (most recent acquisitions) have gone to the Curriculum Materials Lab (our CML), and that collection has a Dewey system (it is mostly for ed. students as it collects school textbooks and Children/YA lit). Other stuff, like some old mangas our anime club donated went to the main collections, and that is in LC. Either...
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- Angel R. Rivera
cool thanks all! sounds like everyone pretty much does the same thing
- Sir Shuping is just sir
Our graphic novels are all shelved under their LC numbers, but that puts almost all of them into the PN6700 range. There are a few that are LC'd to somewhere else, but only maybe about a dozen? And most of those have spent 6mos-1yr in "Leisure Reading" (which is small) first.
- Marianne
My plans for relocating the graphic novels to a secret location in the Negative Zone are repeatedly thwarted by Annihilus (who favors Dewey).
- Steele Lawman
We have a leisure collection that they're part of but yes, sadly, LC.
- kristin buxton
LC.
- Meg V. Meg
Libraries say "No to DRM" & Springer agrees http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw... (library journal [edit] <- that should be Publisher's Weekly [/edit]) Your Thoughts?
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I think they've got it right. When I decide to buy and ebook product I'm not thinking, "Oh no, people have already pirated the books so I'm not going to buy them." I'm thinking, "How can I provide value to my community by paying for things that deserve to be supported by libraries." Likely all the books on Safari have been pirated but I still pay for it and it's still used. Morgan &...
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- John Dupuis
Springer, once again proving they suck the least:P. Honestly, I find it so refreshing to find a publisher saying what they know we want to hear instead of taking a "hard line" and then encouraging people to expect them to look the other way.
- Marianne
The real problem with Springer is that you can only buy them in large bundles, not individual titles. We have one package and people love it, but we can't afford to buy all of the others.
- kristin buxton
a friend is looking for an example of a library system where a book from library X is returned to library Y and is shelved in that collection instead of being returned to library X. got any examples?
Library or branch. Because if it's branch, that's a floating collection. I think the Vancouver, Washington PL does that (holly would know, obviously)
- DJF
Yep my library does it. Mo's does too, maybe?
- holly #ravingfangirl
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Holly does, I think?
- Jenica
LOL.
- Jenica
go back to bed Jenica ;-)
- DJF
Seriously. :)
- Jenica
lol :)
- holly #ravingfangirl
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i knew it was someone's! holly - imma tell her to tweet at you!
- jambina
Pikes Peak Library District (ppld.org) does that with all its branches too. If she wants more than one eg.
- Marianne
happens by accident all the time, i guess you mean on purpose?
- Christina Pikas
christina, yup, on purpose and there is a policy about it.
- jambina
Sno-Isle Libraries north of Seattle do this. There are a few special collections that stay in their "home" branch, the rest float.
- kristin buxton
Jefferson county public lib, CO, USA, North America, Earth, Orion arm of the Milky Way Galaxy.
- Yo Joe. No, go slow.
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We do that within our system. Harford Co. MD. Also Carroll County MD.
- ♫410 I Coach 'em Up♫
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- Yo Joe. No, go slow.
I haven't actually read it all either... just bookmarked it so I wouldn't forget to finish :)
- kristin buxton
When you read, do you read one book from start to finish before picking up the next one? Or do you read multiple books simultaneously? (Just curious.)
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More than one at a time.
- Just Kidée: Road Warrior
I have multiple going at a time...
- Sir Shuping is just sir
it varies. usually one at a time, but sometimes multiples.
- DJF
depends - if tis really absorbing one but usually several at a time
- WarLord
Depends on the book and my mood. Usually, one at a time...but lately, I'm in like 4 books. LOL
- Carlton Hackett
I'll only read one fiction book at a time, but I'll read several nonfiction books simultaneously. And if I'm reading a fiction book, I'll also read nonfiction books at the same time. I guess an easier way to say it is that I read books simultaneously but only one can be a fiction book at any given time.
- Rochelle
One at a time.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
yes
- Jim #TeamMonique
Multiples. I usually have around six going at any given time. Currently I'm reading one on the Knights Templar, a Transformers novel, Sackett's Land, Johannes Cabal, a book on mathematical symmetry, and an Alexander McCall Smith book.
- Dan: Bibrarian
One at a time, but when I'm in the fun book zone, that's one a day. I like to stay in the story straight through.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
I hardly ever read fiction now. I tend to read business-related books in "waves" so I'll have 2 or 3 going at one time.
- Lois Loves LB and Mr. B
Rochelle's system is also mine.
- Jason P
Used to be one at a time. Now it depends on the book. Cryptonomicon took me a bunch of times to get through and each session I had to take a break from it and read another book.
- Arlan K.
I like books the way I like my lovers; many at once.
- Sally - Skyrimmin' It
I just wondered, as I opened yet another book to start, if I was the only one!
- LB: #TeamMonique
One at a time. If I'm going to read a book, I *read* it.
- Walt Crawford
I always have three to six books going at any one time
- John: Thread Killer
Multiples, most of the time, but I often have one that's primary.
- Jandy
Usually multiple, but like, one fiction, one nonfiction, one graphic.. etc. Not usually two fiction at the same time.
- Pixie
One at a time. Unless you count school books.
- DB, Just DB #TeamMonique
It depends. Often multiple books.
- Laura H.
If I'm actually going to finish it, I read it pretty much all at once. If I put it down for longer than to get food or go to the bathroom then it'll probably be due back at the library before I pick it up again.
- Deborah Fitchett
I used to be a one book kinda gal...but here recently, I have 2 or 3 going at once. But..I also feel like I get into book "funks" more often too...
- Becca
multiples. I have at least 3 that I'm reading front to back in progress right now. Wait, make that 4. And then a couple that I'm reading parts of as I flip through and read pieces that catch my eye - one is short stories, one is essays.
- ellbeecee
I try to read one at a time, but if I have a book or two that I'm dying to get to I'll read the first few pages & go back to the current one...
- Starmama
Generally multiple--I'm usually reading several books for work, a couple for me, one by the bed, one in my purse or car, etc etc etc....
- Hedgehog
I tend to *think* I'm only reading one book at once. But I think that's just because I'm reading the one I'm with, so to speak. I started marking everything I started reading on weRead a couple years ago, and although I delete the ones I don't really mean to go back to, I still have about 20 books on there at any given time. And less broadly, I frequently pick up a different sort of book to balance out the book I'm "really" reading.
- Marianne
Usually 2 at a go.
- Pete #TeamMonique
More than one at a time, no more than three.
- Jenny H
Multiple. Usually three but have had as many as five.
- c.a.j.
One at a time
- Alex Scrivener
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Often multiples. Usually a primary one that I'm focusing on, but other (especially lighter/easier) books may be going when I need a break.
- Rachel Walden
One at a time. If i jump it means i've given up on the first one.
- SteVe C
Multiple books at a time. I'm weird I know.
- AJ Batac
The Kindle has changed my reading habits. I still tend to usually one or two at a time for physical books. (If two, usually one fiction and one non-fiction.) But on the Kindle, I find I need multiple books (which may be--at least partly--because I find the progress bar so small and indicator that I don't feel the progress through the pages, like I do with a physical book. Also, when it...
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- In Search of Gender
Definitely multiples. And usually have anywhere from 5-25 browser tabs open. (Good grief. If I start counting the "for fun" computer, I think that number rises to the 40s sometimes!)
- N. Ansi
Usually one book at home, one on my kindle for away from home. But I've got bookmarks in books of essays, short stories, poetry for when I just want to taste.
- kristin buxton
oh, lord, no. I generally have: 1-2 physical books by my bedside, plus 1-2 titles I'm reading on Kindle in bed at night. Also, one Kindle title on my iTouch for when I get stuck in waiting rooms - this is usually a pleasant re-read (Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett) that I can dip in and out of. Plus sometimes a book or magazine in my car, for when I have an unexpected lunch out alone (iTouch also good for this). #iamADDreader
- Louise "Weezy" Alcorn
Oh! Plus I always have an audiobook in my car CD player + a few stored on my iTouch for emergencies.
- Louise "Weezy" Alcorn
I read way too many books at once almost always.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
I tend to keep two books going at once. One nonfiction and one fiction.
- Kisha
I read 4-6 books at a time, on a rotating basis.
- Jimminy IS Everybody
Both. When I'm mixing fiction and non-fiction, sometimes the fiction will grab me until I finish it.
- topernic
Both. All. Varies.
- Martha
Generally got a couple on the go at one time, plus an audio book too sometimes :)
- Glenn Slaven
One at a time normally
- M F
former
- Chieze Okoye
Whats a book?
- Mr. B
Those paper things I buy you at Christmas, dear.
- LB: #TeamMonique
It depends, I've been known to read a few books at a time, but once something pulls me in, I can't put it down.
- Kelly W.
depends on the books
- chaz2b
looking for opinions about VDM Verlag as manuscript publisher. DM me if you don't wanna post publicly.
An engineering faculty member here published with them. it took me a couple of tries to convince technical services to buy the book because they couldn't find it. Want the prof's contact info?
- DJF
no, that's okay. they're soliciting students to publish their MA theses. the behaviour sends up warning flares for me.
- jambina
yeah, that sounds pretty skeevy
- DJF
Yup, I've spoken to grad students & profs who have gotten "offers" from VDM to publish their theses. Apparently they churn them out w/out revision of any kind. There was a discussion about this on an e-mail list (German-E) a while back...will forward.
- Megan loves summer
Here's what a colleague has been sending to folks asking:
- kristin buxton
1. Apparently it is legal to allow them to publish your thesis as a book given the ProQuest restrictions below. Proquest is currently offering copies of your thesis for sale. 2. The Chronicle of Higher Education had a discussion on this company(VDM Verlag) at: http://chronicle.com/forums... 3. Here is the response from ProQuest (aka University Microfilms): "You are...
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- kristin buxton
Sounds like an oddity--a PoD operation that sends authors five copies and hopes that some percentage of the theses will yield other sales, which at the right prices could quickly yield profits. (Hey, at $64 for a 112-page paperback--one example on Amazon--it only takes one sold copy to cover the five author's copies. Lulu would charge about $7 to produce a one-off 112-page paperback.)
- Walt Crawford
Since they have over 7,000 titles listed on Amazon, they must be making this odd model work!
- Walt Crawford
I say avoid. If the author really want's to reach the masses, publish it for free on the web.
- Yo Joe. No, go slow.
i'm totally telling the student to avoid, but trying to figure out how to word it so that it's not "these guys are skeevy." i'm mentioning the value real academic presses provide (peer review, editing, you know, turning something into something folks want to read), how copyright transfer agreements can be filled with shite, how the T&P process doesn't care about VDM... anythign else?
- jambina
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