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I'd prefer to avoid the "wheelchair cliché", since all disabilities are concerned.
- marlene
Please keep us posted on the conference. I'm getting really interested in universal design, but I have a lot to learn.
- maʀtha
Seconding Martha on keeping us posted.
- Jaclyn aka spamgirl
In a super quick scan of logos on websites for disability rights organizations, they don't seem to use images of people at all, fwiw
- maʀtha
Hmm. We had a great image of our new circ desk whcih has high and low coutners alternated - something like that could be fun if youre looking for peopleless pictures
- ωαřмaiden ❤Marrit Woman❤
Links please ! :-)
- marlene
If all disabilities are concerned, what about a simple photo of a group of people? Maybe just their heads, and then you wouldn't necessarily know if they had prosthetic limbs or if they were on disability for depression and anxiety or if they were deaf or what.
- laura x
^^^!
- ωαřмaiden ❤Marrit Woman❤
Yes, I like Laura's idea very much.
- Steele Lawman
I guess a peopleless photo is easier to deal with, regarding rights etc (in France it's complicated)
- marlene
Disability services as they relate to libraries, including accessibility and universal design, is my primary area of academic and work interests - I'd love to know more about this conference, what group(s) is/are responsible for organizing it, and what topics you're focusing on.
- Lily
The conference is organized by a group of 10 librarians, as part of our training at the library school. The 1st part of the conference is about context and types of disabilities : there's a law stating all public facilities have to be accessible in 2015, the question is how far have the libraries and their institutions been in compliance with the law ? Second part of the day is devoted...
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- marlene
but it is in France?
- maʀtha
That's incredible to hear about, Marlene, I only wish more places in the US were encouraging programming like this. Let us know if any of the materials or agenda will be online somewhere!
- Lily
no actual helpful content to share with you, but wanted you to know i'm cheering you and the idea of this conference on!
- Marie
Yes Martha, on june 17
- marlene
Lily, Marie : I'm a bit surprised by your enthousiast reactions, since there are some conferences about disabilities (in libraries or elsewhere) every year here, isn't it the case in your country too ?
- marlene
I've seen continuing education opportunities and conference sessions about better serving people with disabilities in libraries, but I haven't run across any conferences. I was ready to sign up and come if it were in the States.
- maʀtha
Do you think a report of the conference (in english) would have an interest ?
- marlene
Yes!
- Deborah Fitchett
I certainly *hope* it would garner interest, but it's also necessary that the example is set for a wider range of people. There are definitely conferences about disabilities here, but as for where they intersect with libraries, the scholarship and support is sorely lacking. Even individual presentations on this topic at larger library conferences don't attract as much attention as you...
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- Lily
A propos of nothing, I really like the term "differently-abled" instead of "disabled." I wonder how that might render in French?
- Megan loves summer
Elizabeth Brown, lris, Betsy #TeamMonique and 3 other people liked this
Oh and I am supposed to do a class on Google scholar profiles and Google scholar metrics on top of the usual Scopus/Wos for citation analysis at the end of this month. Me thinks, I am going to get lots of questions.... done all the reading but...going to be interesting ....
- aarontay
i think i might put a copy of this in my annual review packet this year. i wonder if anyone uses this to supplement their web of science citations, for tenure? seems like goog picks up more than wos does because it's not concerned about what's indexed.
- Marie
I seem to have two - ?? - http://scholar.google.com.sg/citatio... and http://scholar.google.com/citatio...
- barbara fister
Barbara huh? Did you set up 2? Both are verified with institution emails??
- aarontay
No "verified" email since I'm not institutionalized, but: http://scholar.google.com/citatio...
- Walt Crawford
aaaaaaagh, now I'm spending the entire dang afternoon reading stuff that's cited me recently.
- RepoRat
It should be me. http://scholar.google.com/citatio...
- Yo Joe. No, go slow.
For comparison, here's my profile in Microsoft Academic, which I see needs some cleanup, as the profile includes articles by others. http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Author...
- Stephen le Francoeur
i've really enjoyed perusing all your profiles. any other peeps want to share theirs?
- Marie
we have some influential peeps all up in here.
- RepoRat
I think this is mine? http://scholar.google.com/citatio...
- Catherine Pellegrino
http://scholar.google.com/citatio... My sparkline looks not unlike Dorothea's until you realize that hers goes up to 40-something on the Y-axis and mine goes to...two. :D Also I just now saw the completely poker-faced abstract of "Library Survey Survey" in LISTA. lulz. *disappears inside his own navel*
- Steele Lawman
http://scholar.google.com/citatio... Added my book chapter :-D Must get other stuff up there...
- Hedgehog
I got really lucky with my undergraduate research projects in Chemistry. :) Otherwise my citation counts would be fairly low.
- Elizabeth Brown
Wow, y'all are super impressive. Here's my less illustrious profile http://scholar.google.com/citatio...
- LibrarianOnTheLoose
Frenchies are lobbying in favour of OA on http://www.iloveopenaccess.org/ (english translation probably next week) ! #betterlatethannever
Yo Joe. No, go slow., Kirsten and RepoRat liked this
Lately I've been trying to figure out where to submit the article I've been working on for the last year and a bit, and suddenly I have a lot more sympathy for some of the things faculty do and the choices they make. I've identified five potential journals whose scopes match the topic of the article to a greater or lesser degree:
Jen, Steele Lawman, marlene and 13 other people liked this
Journal A is from Taylor & Francis. I can pay them several thousand dollars I don't have to make the article OA, or I can put it in an IR (which I also don't have) or a subject repo (which I could do). They strongly urge me to transfer my copyright, but don't appear to absolutely require it.
- Catherine Pellegrino
Journal B is from Springer. I can pay them several thousand dollars I don't have to make the article OA, or I can put it in an IR (also don't have) or self-archive it, but only after a 12-month embargo. They appear to require me to transfer my copyright.
- Catherine Pellegrino
Journal C is from Elsevier. I've signed on to Cost of Knowledge, so that's a no-go.
- Catherine Pellegrino
Journal D appears to be published by a scholarly society of sorts. They say the initial review process takes 5 months. My tenure portfolio is due Oct. 1 and the article isn't precisely finished yet, so that's a no-go. They also require me to transfer my copyright.
- Catherine Pellegrino
Journal E is also published by a scholarly society and has a 17% acceptance rate. Yeaaaaaah, no.
- Catherine Pellegrino
Given the choices, it's no surprise faculty do what they do. (None of these are LIS journals, by the way.)
- Catherine Pellegrino
Catherine, thanks for taking the time to spell out this concrete example. So useful for demonstrating the problem. (is your article a sort where the "what about PLOS ONE" question would be relevant?)
- Heather Piwowar
Thanks, Heather, but no - it's at the intersection of ed-psych, LIS, and distance-ed/online-learning. I'll probably wind up submitting it to an LIS journal of some sort (one possible candidate is another T&F title, sigh). Mostly, though, it just makes me feel hemmed in and panicky.
- Catherine Pellegrino
Yeah, I hear you. :(
- Heather Piwowar
Yes, I agree with Heather - thanks for sharing this. It helps those of us who talk to faculty about these issues to better understand! But sorry that it's frustrating for you.
- Sarah
Thanks, Sarah - it's eye-opening to me, too, because most of the time I'm on the other side of this transaction, wondering why faculty make the (apparently stupid and short-sighted) decisions that they do. Now that I'm temporarily seeing it through their eyes, it makes a lot more sense. It also reminds me a lot of, I can't remember the specific economic term, but it's the phenomenon...
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- Catherine Pellegrino
Also thanks here: I'm tagging this as background material for my April OA precon, as this is a GREAT example of the legitimate difficulties/issues in OA on the ground.
- Walt Crawford
[When I say background: I won't point to it directly, but will mention the situation as a real-world issue. One I frankly had sort of skimmed over...]
- Walt Crawford
This is brilliant and fascinating. (Also, totally frustrating for you.) A very good eye-opener. Reality checks are awesome.
- Jenica
Walt, you can point to it directly if you want; I posted it in a public forum. And Heather, Sarah, anyone else: if using this material, either quoting it or paraphrasing it or whatever, would help you in communicating with various communities, by all means please do so.
- Catherine Pellegrino
Thanks for sharing this, Catherine. Have you considered using the Scholar's Copyright Addendum engine from science commons, maybe with the T&F journals? The Access-Reuse version would help you keep most of your rights. From what I've heard, worst case scenario is that they just don't agree to it, and then you're back where you started. But if they accept it, that would be an improvement.
- Grumpator
I'm intrigued by this, I think, because it never occurred to me to do a blind walkthrough approximating the user experience of the process in re: publishing/OA. I did that with a Kindle recently, trying to see what the user experience of ebooks in libraries is like, and i do it with other library services/spaces, but this one never occurred to me. Blind spot.
- Jenica
Your specific case will be really helpful for me in talking to my subject faculty, Catherine. Thank you for sharing it. I know it's not nice to ask people to do more work, but if you plan on writing up this scenario on your blog, it sure would be a great resource to point to. Also, I'd love to hear where you finally decide to publish, partly because I want to read the article, and partly to find out the ending to the story.
- kaijsa
Thanks, Kaijsa, I hadn't thought about writing it up on my blog, but maybe I will...maybe not until the article gets accepted, or something, I'm not sure. I'll look into the Scholar's Copyright Addendum, since right now it's looking like the top choice, both in terms of scope and in terms of OA possibilities, is Journal A, the Taylor & Francis imprint. That way, if they reject the...
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- Catherine Pellegrino
in my experience most journals accept the SPARC addendum...
- jambina
this is great. it illustrates my long-held belief that librarians should (try to) do things that the facultys do - both so we have credibility with them ("oh, I know how hard it is to figure out where to publish! let me show you some helpful tools…") and so we have some familiarity with their struggles ("yeah, grading is the worst!")
- $tephanie•Cog$ciLibrarian
OK; I may link to the thread in supplemental materials/links (which, presumably, only a few dozen or few score Oregon and Washington librarians will see)--in any case, it's a great case study.
- Walt Crawford
May I just suggest E-LIS as a subject repositiry of choice ? http://eprints.rclis.org/
- marlene
Hemen Dutta is constantly emailing about opportunities to publish in IRSSH: "Dear Readers/Researchers/Professor, It is our pleasure to invite you to read the following journal. You may also submit your valuable research paper, if any for publication in the following peer-reviewed international journal which is indexed and abstracted/abstracted/archived in many world reputed databases....
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- Steele Lawman
Yes! I have had the same pain as a newly- minted academic. Add to this however that often Jane Academic is not looking through OA/ rights lens but if she is anything like me has an annual review with Head of Dept with target set to publish x articles in journals "of y quality/reputation". Here in Australia with RDA there is an actual LIST of journals each discipline (accepts?) (bureaucratically haggled?) as "quality".
- Kathryn is Blake in Hindi
from iPhone
Main argument against is that this way publishers have more info about us, main argument in favor is that it's public money, taxpayers have to know how it is spent.
- marlene
For us there's no discussion--all state spending is public information. It isn't necessarily easy to find, mind you, but there's a website with everything there. To figure out what, exactly, was spent on e-res would be nearly impossible, but the library budget as a whole would be doable with enough time and knowledge.
- Kirsten
I think the main argument in favor is "find out when you're getting screwed and fix it," but I guess I'm cynical that way.
- RepoRat
In the US, this already on the NCES Academic Library Survey website - go to http://nces.ed.gov/surveys... and search by an institution's name. Reporting varies but in general you can see an awful lot!
- Lisa Hinchliffe
For all US universities? Download the 2010 NCES material and look. It took me 10 minutes in Excel just now. Electronic books: $152.8 million. Electronic serials: $1,252.6 million (that is, $1.25 billion). "Other info resources" $105 million. (Just for fun: Bibliographic utilities: $118.8 million. And, for context, total expenses: $6,860.1 million--that is, a bit under $6.9 billion.)
- Walt Crawford
So I'll ask again: Is there a market for a down-to-earth book that would, among other things, show how to do this stuff yourself, rapidly and easily?
- Walt Crawford
Oh: Correction: I didn't mean all US universities--I meant all US institutions of higher education. "Universities" aren't actually a category. And, since almost any college can call itself a university, that's probably appropriate.
- Walt Crawford
What I would like to see is a full, clear picture of how much *each institution* pays *for each online resource* (heck, or every expenditure as a line item) in a table sortable and filterable. We would hear screams of horror where there are discrepancies in payments between similar sized institutions, sure, but at least that would give everyone a ballpark idea of how much something costs
- awd
Aaron: Seems to me somebody's tried (maybe more than once) to set up a wiki or something for that purpose--but it would likely only include public institutions in right-to-know states, given confidentiality agreements. It's a great idea, but so far seems to be tough to make happen.
- Walt Crawford
I think it's important to acknowledge that because of the current information asymmetries, librarians are justly scared of releasing this info. What would happen to an e-resources librarian, were it discovered that his library's contracts were significantly more costly than those at peer libraries?
- RepoRat
I suspect that what RR sez means that, even for public institutions in right-to-know states, you'd need to use FOI-style requests to actually get the info.
- Walt Crawford
Yes, that, and also trying to contextualize why libraries of all types are sitting on this info w/o sharing or releasing it. It goes beyond NDAs, even.
- RepoRat
To get more precise : the point is to display spendings of each institution for each resource (what Aaron says). A wiki has been set up by some librarians. Resistance comes from some librarians negociating for the national consortium : publicizing numbers would reduce their negociating power.
- marlene
Could you unpack that, marlene? I'm not clear on why negotiating power changes due to disclosure.
- RepoRat
From what I've heard :1) publishers would be very happy to know more about how much we spend at their competitors,it would serve them as an argument against our demands of price decreases ("if you've accepted +5% for publisher A, you can accept +5% for publicher B as well") 2) specialized publishers would like to know how much is spent for pluridisciplinary resources, proving their...
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- marlene
And negociators counter argument against the public release of info is that researchers juste have to ask the librarians for the information about how much is spent.
- marlene
If anyone's interested, the wiki pages on Bibliopedia are here : http://bibliopedia.fr/index.... No one has filled any page yet, but the issue of openning the access to the information has been raised at the consortial level, which is a progress. I'm a bit surprised to see no similar initiatives in orther countries ?
- marlene
looking for http://www.tandfonline.com/doi...
marlene.delhaye at gmail.com - thanks !
- marlene
sent!
- András Tóth
Was just sent an LIS journal article to peer-review. Not only is the content nonexistent, it's barely written in English. I dont want to be That Bitch Reviewer...how does one even start with one of these?
Betsy #TeamMonique, Galadriel C., Yo Joe. No, go slow. and 2 other people liked this
"We feel this item would be better in another publication, such as the 1924 Surrealist Manifesto"
- Pete #TeamMonique
Please, be That Bitch Reviewer. It's better than seeing something like that in print.
- Kirsten
I've been That Bitch Reviewer once or twice. It has to be done.
- Walt Crawford
Be it. Do it.
- Rachel Walden
I think you just did your peer review here in FF. You're done.
- Stephen le Francoeur
What everyone else said. Just Say Hellz Naw.
- RepoRat
Please, after suffering through reading the library literature for classes for the last year, be the Bitch Reviewer
- ~Courtney F
SMASH
- jambina
yup, be the bitch.
- Hedgehog
+1 plz
- marlene
"The topic covered is of potential interest to the readers of the journal, but the exact significance needs further explanation in the paper. The author's approach to the material is unclear and needs to be outlined more specifically. The methodology section needs far more expansion as the reader could not necessarily draw the same conclusions as the author from the way this section is...
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- Kathryn is Blake in Hindi
That's the Outside Voice version, the polite "you need to fix this" version that goes back to the author. If it's as bad as warmaiden suggests, there's also the Inside Voice that goes to the editor (which I've had to use, but only twice): "This is almost certainly hopeless; is there a polite way to discourage this person?"
- Walt Crawford
[I have to say: Of the two totally-hopeless papers I refereed, one did appear in almost unchanged form, in a commercial LIS journal, and it was just as bad as I remembered. LIS is a poster child for the truism that peer review doesn't determine whether an article will be published, only where.]
- Walt Crawford
And lo, on this Tuesday in the month of April on its twenty-and-fourth day in the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand and Twelve, Colleen was chosen to carry That Bitch Reviewer mantle in the name of the Holy Library. Though the mantle be heavy and its treads be dusty from disuse, such is the burden for those who peer review journal articles for the science of the library. But ye, as she...
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- Andy
This is your Gandolf moment: You shall not pass to publication!
- Andy
Wow. Just... Wow
- awd
LOL, Andy
- ωαřмaiden ❤Marrit Woman❤
I'm stuck at home with what is probably strep, so I need something to kill time. :D
- Andy
How many hours a week do *you* provide desk reference service at your library?
Sir Shuping is just sir liked this
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
hi I'm looking for Driving usage – what are publishers and librarians doing to evaluate and promote usage?
by Sarah Pearson and Christian Box DOI:10.1629/24225
marlenedotdelhayeatgmaildotcom - thanks !
- marlene
There is a copy of this one archived in ePrints:- http://eprints.bham.ac.uk/803/
- Graham Steel
I'am a bit late on this, but thanks a lot !!
- marlene
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Open Office (yay, IT will do that) with Dropbox (bet they don't allow that). Or Microsoft's sharable version of Excel online. See Office live
- Kathryn is Blake in Hindi
my guess is they won't agree either with dropbox or with MS office Live :-(
- marlene
Nothing that you can host yourself works like google docs. Why can't you just use a shared drive and MS Office?
- DJF
Honest question: how can they stop you from using gdocs? It's a website...are they gonna blacklist it? Pet peeve: IT depts who drive services, and not the other way around.
- Jason Griffey
from iPhone
I suspect that the concern is about storing sensitive corporate information on external servers. Note: very little information that librarians want to share is actually sensitive by any reasonable definition.
- DJF
it they don't allow gdocs then there really isn't a good tool out there that would let you share, other than sending it back and forth by email. also, why won't they let you use gdocs? it doesn't require any extra plugins or anything
- Sir Shuping is just sir
Shuping, mail is NOT for file sharing. That way lies madness and huge amounts of lost productivity. Shared drives are the best way to share files internally.
- DJF
oh I know, but if they're blocking gdocs, probably won't let them do dropbox there isn't much else...and I hate shared drives. they only work a little bit better than email.
- Sir Shuping is just sir
I didn't say "dropbox", I said "shared drive." You remember windows file shares, don't you?
- DJF
what's the scope of the sharing? is it within the organization (in which case windows/macosx/NFS shares might work), or do you need more flexibility (in which case you're probably SOL for the reasons DJF describes.
- henry
Jason: IT departments execute the policy foisted upon them by management. make IT do what you want by making management want what you want.
- henry
internal sharepoint? (ugh)
- Christina Pikas
Are they blocking Zoho, too?
- Yo Joe. No, go slow.
I also came here to say Zoho.
- Meg V. Meg
I suspect that the problem is not the particular vendor, but the fact that the data is outsourced.
- DJF
henry, I'd have to say that I've seen a fair bit of IT depts convincing management of what they want to do, or being given free reign to do whatever is easiest for them, because mgmt doesn't necessarily know enough to argue. It's more complicated than just convincing management in complex, large organizations where IT and upper mgmt are located well beyond the library walls.
- Rachel Walden
Hello, I'm looking for "True Serials: A True Solution for Electronic Resource Management Needs in a Medium-Size Academic Library" at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi...
marlene.delhaye at gmaildotcom will be sooo pleased
- marlene
found it here: https://docs.google.com/viewer...
- Wolfgang S
Currently aware – Digitalist - http://www.digitalist.info/2011...
Fact: RSS and Twitter are my top 2 favourite things on the Internet - +1 !!
- marlene
http://old.diglib.org/pubs... is complicated but helped me wrap my brain around a lot of the steps that I hadn't even realized were happening
- Jaclyn aka spamgirl
that's the only one I found ; thanks Jaclyn !
- marlene
A Serials Format Inventory Project: How Far Can Academic Libraries Go with “Electronic Only”? - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
"Taken together, the research findings of Profera and Stamison and Prabha and the experiences of Auburn University and Central Michigan University, two academic libraries that have aggressively and methodically tried to move away from print subscriptions, suggest that 70 percent of subscriptions may be the highest proportion that academic libraries can expect to obtain for electronic subscriptions. Academic libraries may have to retain from 30 percent to 50 percent of their collections in print for the near future. Unless the publishers who currently do not offer electronic access have plans to do so soon, the world of electronic-only journals envisioned by some in the library community may still be a distant dream."
- marlene
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How academic libraries annoy academics | Social Justice Librarian - http://sjlibrarian.wordpress.com/2011...
"This is why people who have the means to do so avoid going into the library. Because the library is stuck in archaic systems that suck time. And those systems are presented as normal. When you’re grant-funded, or you’re racing the publications clock for tenure, time is money. Spending half an hour or more wandering back and forth around campus with nothing to show for it, all because electronic systems of communication aren’t yet in this century, is not normal to everyone. And it’s certainly not normal for the most productive faculty members on our campuses – those whose voices could be the most meaningful as allies."
- marlene
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I'm looking for a simple, clear, basic list of titles contained in the Westlaw International database - is it too much to ask, mr publisher ? #paininthea**
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I feel your pain :) There is the search by directory option; there is also this, from 2005 http://www.westlawinternational.com/WLIGene...
- Pete #TeamMonique
Thanks Pete, though I've been more lucky on this one : I managed to get a 2006 excel file ! ;-)
- marlene
Hurrah :)
- Pete #TeamMonique
Your rep couldn't get you something more current?
- Kirsten
They could tell you, but then they'd have to kill you.
- lris
The Adventures of Library Girl: 5 Conversations [About Libraries] I Don't Want To Have Anymore - http://lib-girl.blogspot.com/2011...
"I don’t want to talk about eBooks replacing print books anymore. I don’t believe this is going to happen. And it’s not because I’m a romantic who believes nostalgia will win the day. Rather, it’s because I understand that once the dust settles and the “new gadget” effect has worn off, schools will ultimately spend their limited monies on the resources that most impact student learning. To that end, I don’t just want to see school librarians acting as the voice of reason in these conversations, I want to see them emerge as curriculum and technology experts who understand that there’s room on the library shelves, and in student backpacks, for both traditional print and e-ink titles because both options address different instructional goals. In the end, I want to see this conversation become part of a larger, more important, dialogue revolving around how to best meet student needs – and this, my friends, is the conversation we should all be clamoring to be a part of."
- marlene
from Bookmarklet
How the Library of Congress is building the Twitter archive - O'Reilly Radar - http://radar.oreilly.com/2011...
"Each tweet is a JSON file, containing an immense amount of metadata in addition to the contents of the tweet itself: date and time, number of followers, account creation date, geodata, and so on. To add another layer of complexity, many tweets contain shortened URLs, and the Library of Congress is in discussions with many of these providers as well as with the Internet Archive and its 301works project to help resolve and map the links. As it stands, Anderson and Johnston say they won't be crawling all these external sites and end-points, although Anderson says that in her "grand vision of the future" all of this data — not just from the Library of Congress but from all these different technological and cultural heritage institutions — would be linked. In the meantime, the Library of Congress won't be creating a catalog of all these tweets and all this data, but they do want to be able to index the material so researchers can effectively search it."
- marlene
from Bookmarklet
Next-generation library catalogs, or ‘Are we there yet?’ « Infomotions Mini-Musings - http://infomotions.com/blog...
"The OPACs of yesterday are being replaced with the discovery systems of today. They are easier to use and better meet readers’ desires. They are not perfect. They are not catalogs. But they do make the process of find more efficient. On the other hand, our existing systems do not take advantage of the current environment. They do not exploit the wide array and inherent functionality of available full text literature. Think of the millions of books freely available from the Internet Archive, Google Books, the HathiTrust, and Project Gutenberg. Think of the thousands of open access journal titles."
- marlene
from Bookmarklet
L’enfance des loisirs — pierremerckle.fr - http://pierremerckle.fr/2011...
"C’est, sans aucune contestation possible, l’ordinateur qui est devenu leur première activité quotidienne : 69% des adolescents l’utilisent tous les jours, aussi bien pour des consommations culturelles (musique, films, séries…) que des usages communicationnels (blog, chat…) ou des pratiques créatives, ainsi que pour des activités liées au travail."
- marlene
from Bookmarklet
Instructions pour se faire indexer par Google Scholar - http://scholar.google.com/intl...
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"This document describes the technical details of indexing of websites with scholarly articles in Google Scholar. Its intended audience is webmasters who would like their papers included in Google Scholar search results."
- marlene
from Bookmarklet
The Sharing Economy | Page 3 | Fast Company - http://www.fastcompany.com/magazin...
"Of course, there is one company that is already collecting a ton of that data exhaust on its own site: Facebook. "Think of sites like Yelp and eBay," says Carl Sjogreen, manager of Facebook's platform product team. "They invested a ton of resources for building a notion of reputation online, but all based on pseudonyms, like joebob77 on eBay. We decided early on to be a social-networking site based on your real identity with your real name." With more than 600 million registered users, 250 million people engaging with Facebook on external websites every month, and social plug-ins that are creeping into an estimated 10,000 new websites a day, Facebook has the potential to become the arbiter of online trust. "The incentive to be a good player in that ecosystem goes up dramatically when it's associated with my real identity," says Sjogreen, "because if someone leaves a bad review of me on AirBnB, that will carry with me to the rest of the web.""
- marlene
from Bookmarklet
Citation tools & Future of Publishing – Carl Boettiger - http://www.carlboettiger.info/archive...
"Here’s where things start to get more interesting. The links can embed machine-readable semantic information that adds meta-data to the citation, such as if the citation provides background, methods, supports or disagrees with a claim being made. This can be made visible to the user, but more interestingly this can also be tracked by a computer, which allows for the generation of much more detailed citation statistics."
- marlene
from Bookmarklet
The Sharing Economy | Fast Company - http://www.fastcompany.com/magazin...
"The central conceit of collaborative consumption is simple: Access to goods and skills is more important than ownership of them"
- marlene
from Bookmarklet
We have a Library Fee working its way through the Red Tape right now. If successfully passed by the State, it would be for $25 per student per semester.
- Jason Griffey
There is a library fee....let me see if I can find out what it is.
- Hedgehog
No, but in case you are interested, we do break down the technology fee on the college website and show what parts go to library technology. http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/bctc...
- Stephen le Francoeur
here students pay 34€ per year as library fee
- marlene
thanks, everybody. I appreciate the info
- Jenica
Do you use a study room reservation system? If so, what are you using, a software package? Something homegrown? Open source? Thanks, in advance for any info you may share!
Sir Shuping is just sir liked this
Yes, it's a modified version of phpscheduleit - it's web-based and ties into the campusID/pwd system. We just did some looking at others to see what was out there: Bump this thread during east coast work hours or email/dm me tomorrow to get me to remember to dig up the info on the other ones from my email.
- ellbeecee
Thanks, Laura!
- Mary Carmen
Judging by the url of ours, we're using MRBS (apparently http://sourceforge.net/project...) Probably tweaked a bit; to make bookings users login with their IT usernames and passwords which would authenticate with LDAP and that's the limit of my technical knowledge.
- Deborah Fitchett
From Code4Lib: "OpenRoom: Making Room Reservation Easy for Students and Faculty" http://journal.code4lib.org/article... (we don't use such a system at MPOW. yet)
- copystar
Yes. It's called me. Well, me and Astra Schedule(http://www.aais.com/)
- Soup in a TARDIS
we plan to use GRRR, an open source tool http://grr.mutualibre.org/ (in french, sorry for that) ; allows to deal with rooms and materials.
- marlene
MRBS here.
- John Fink
We just launched evanced. I think we were under pressure to find something hosted. If you have questions, I can put you in touch with the folks who set it up.
- Jenny Reiswig
Bah. Forgot to go pull up this info today. Will send myself an email to remember tomorrow.
- ellbeecee
As requested: http://friendfeed.com/lsw...
ωαřмaiden ❤Marrit Woman❤, Andy, Molly Westerman and 40 other people liked this
Is the ear bud in the right spot?
- Yo Joe. No, go slow.
Awesome!!!!!
- Hedgehog
There really, really needs to be a LOVE button for stuff like this.
- Catherine Pellegrino
Right now, she/he is listening to "Smoke on the Water" by Deep Purple. What else is on his iCod?
- Yo Joe. No, go slow.
Thank you, Steve! It's wonderful! (Should I say, "OMC"?)
- LB: #TeamMonique
"Down By the River" by Neil Young? Um. Well. Maybe not. Edited to add: especially now that I recall that cod are ocean fish. DUH.
- laura x
Octopus's Gaden, surely. Cod Save the Queen. Ocean Size.
- Steele Lawman
from iPod
"Yellow Submarine" and "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey" ("Haaaaaands across the water...")
- LB: #TeamMonique
Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa. http://www.youtube.com/watch..., also Peter Gabriel's cover when mopey http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Nikki D.
Beyond the Sea. The Eddystone Light!
- laura x
Ocean Rain -- Echo and the Bunnymen
- ♫410 I Coach 'em Up♫
"Take me to the river". Talking heads
- marlene
"Down by the Water," PJ Harvey.
- Rachel Walden
Ocean by Velvet Underground
- ♫410 I Coach 'em Up♫
School of Fish. (Too 90s?)
- Nikki D.
Country Joe and the Fish (too Woodstock?)
- Steele Lawman
The soundtrack from Finding Nemo.
- Yo Joe. No, go slow.
I approve Phish, School o' Fish, Fishbone and Country Joe and the Fish. Nemo is cool too.
- ♫410 I Coach 'em Up♫
Waterfalls by TLC - "Don't go chasing waterfalls, please stick to the river and the lakes that you're used to..."
- Connie Crosby
I love seeing the iCod "resurface" in my "stream." :)
- LB: #TeamMonique
really, if it is an iCod, wouldn't one put it in one's ear?
- maʀtha
"Holy Diver"
- Kevin L
iCod = Babelfish
- barbara fister
This is the iCod image I made at the exact same time Steve's image came out. Not as good as Steve's, but maybe some of you would like it... http://ff.im/z9nWu
- Yo Joe. No, go slow.
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go to Mars.
- Marianne
eat more peanut butter.
- Marianne
take a hammer to that goddamn copier next time.
- Marianne
spend a week not knowing how to read.
- Marianne
fix the weather.
- Marianne
burn a book.
- Catherine Pellegrino
do a cartwheel through the reference section.
- Catherine Pellegrino
stand on the staircase in the middle of the lobby and hurl forth a barbaric yawp.
- Marianne
know where the stapler is.
- Nikki D.
drop bouncy-balls off the upper-level balconies.
- Catherine Pellegrino
Read LISNews
- Blake
tell people to buy their own staplers so they won't be obligated to the man.
- Marianne
high-five their co-workers daily.
- Kathy
one day a month, answer all queries by reference to a Magic 8-Ball.
- Catherine Pellegrino
high-five their students/patrons/users/customers/clients daily.
- Catherine Pellegrino
send some other librarian a dollar. preferably Steve because he will give me a cut.
- Marianne
slap a vendor with a cod. Repeatedly.
- Catherine Pellegrino
Send me a dollar
- Steele Lawman
say "I don't know"
- Marianne
send a vendor a dollar. explain they'll get the rest when the product works like it should.
- Steele Lawman
bust a move
- Steele Lawman
fuck shit up
- laura x
do it punk
- laura x
"rock out with your cock out" or "jam out with your clam out"
- Andy
try being the thing you hate
- Marianne
Use books to start a fire and burn the copier at the stake.
- John Dupuis
Help launch my fan club.
- Stephen le Francoeur
have a snack stash
- Hedgehog
try hating the thing that you are
- Steele Lawman
(second the snack stash)
- Andy
skydive
- Marianne
sleep more
- maʀtha
grow whiskers
- Marianne
...every book its reader.
- Derrick
(I am down with everything on this list except for the whiskers)
- maʀtha
put everyone else first
- Marianne
make hirself superawesome
- Marianne
be self-motivated, where by self I mean SELFISHLY
- Marianne
get turned into a perch
- Marianne
become intimate with the works of Bob Flanagan (nsfw and quite possibly traumatic)
- Marianne
have a cat. Or three.
- Catherine Pellegrino
wash out hir mouth with soap
- Marianne
volunteer with an organization that has nothing whatsoever to do with libraries, books, literacy, etc.
- Kirsten
send me baked goods
- Rachel Walden
switch the google images search on the ref computer to "safesearch: off"
- Steele Lawman
chillax
- Steele Lawman
write realperson rock opera fanfic about fellow librarians...
- Marianne
... and then livestream it from an openclosed meeting
- Marianne
rickroll their boss.
- Catherine Pellegrino
have a lunchbox with a picture of themselves on it
- Steele Lawman
pack heat
- Steele Lawman
wang chung tonight.
- Catherine Pellegrino
Slap Steve Lawson with a cod. ;)
- Laura H.
Stand and do the Macarena when they read this... and then do what Laura H. says in the comment before this one :)
- awd
emulate a Medici of their choice.
- Marianne
quit their job.
- Marianne
do the same job for at least thirty years.
- Marianne
go fly a kite (up where the air is clear)
- Marianne
How did you get in my office? WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH THAT FISH?!!
- Steele Lawman
get off my lawn
- Steele Lawman
remove the sound card from the refdesk computer. (who, me? *innocent look*)
- Catherine Pellegrino
Show us your map of Tasmania!
- awd
Oh, wait, that was inappropriate...
- awd
inappropriate. (wot? other verbs as assigned, mothafucker.)
- Marianne
bring me a shrubbery.
- Catherine Pellegrino
shelve books *with their minds*. also start fires. #readfirestarterwaytooyoung
- Marianne
read stuff way too young
- Marianne
build a Bucky dome.
- Marianne
eat hir own dogfood
- Steele Lawman
"Accidentally" list the reference desk number in the directory under a wrong number, you know - that used Volvo dealer across town.
- Yo Joe. No, go slow.
dance the night away.
- Yo Joe. No, go slow.
create our own volleyball league. We would be awesome!
- Yo Joe. No, go slow.
follow cricket.
- Marianne
drink heavily once in awhile.
- ωαřмaiden ❤Marrit Woman❤
have a TARDIS
- maʀtha
feel your pain
- Marianne
leave it all on the dance floor
- ωαřмaiden ❤Marrit Woman❤
bite me
- Steele Lawman
never tell.
- Mark Kille
take a nap. right now.
- Marianne
get hirself kicked out of a casino.
- Marianne
know how to hotwire a car.
- ωαřмaiden ❤Marrit Woman❤
learn to program.
- John Fink
have weird hair.
- Marianne
And/or shave hir head.
- Steele Lawman
be less prescriptive
- Steele Lawman
be paid more!
- wensleydalelass
have (more) fun
- marlene
Really nice slideshow about "why libraries are great" by Katie Birkwood http://www.slideshare.net/maedche...
barbara fister and Christina Pikas liked this
I wish I had a t-shirt with slide 9 on it !
- marlene
It's been a while, but for our newest member, how about a roll call? Where you from, what's your job?
Betsy #TeamMonique, Hedgehog, John Dupuis and 4 other people liked this
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
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