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Megan loves summer
Dabbler in many things. Wanderer and thinker. Librarian lady in Australia (via US and Canada).
Yup, Perth is close to Japan. Like New York! http://observingperth.wordpress.com/2013...
*Sigh* It was one of those Mondays where I forgot my pants at home.
Jen, RudĩϐЯaЯïan, Galadriel C. and 2 other people liked this
(Biked to work...then realized that I missed some key elements in my change-of-clothes packing)
- Megan loves summer
Just explain that it's your interpretation of business casual.
- lris
I'd think they'd understand that in Australia.
- Steele Lawman
Hmmm, I'm not sure how legal 'topless' would be when I'm teaching my Equity Law workshops...even in Australia
- Megan loves summer
Eep! That has happened to me, no fun! Had to buy a dress at the hospital gift shop one day!
- Rachel Walden
Linguistics fun: Blizzard Challenge 2013. Help linguists collect data on synthesized speech! http://groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/blizzar...
I very much agree with Simon Canick that "a lack of criticism is not validation" (i.e., of a library's services) http://www.aallnet.org/main-me...
Lesson learned today: one must be hardcore in calling out law students who refuse to respond during workshops. Sheesh, even the awkward silence technique didn't even work.
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Just say "Mister...Hart." Wait, that only works if they are at least as old as I am. http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Steele Lawman
Heh. There were fewer 'staches in my audience...maybe different pedagogical techniques are appropriate for the clean-shaven.
- Megan loves summer
I've found myself on a couple of committees looking at electronic resources stuff (and I'm a bit lost). Question: what usage stats products are all y'all using? I've heard of Ustat, JUSP, and EBSCO's Usage Consolidation. Are there others?
There's also Serials Solutions 360 whatever product, which is what we selected.
- DJF
We're not using any product--we download everything ourselves, and plug the data in to spreadsheets that we've developed over time. ETA: Not that I wouldn't like to not do them manually; it's a money issue.
- Kirsten
Scholarly Stats is another paid product, and I think the open-source ERMS CORAL has a use statistics component, as well. It depends on how much you want to do yourself, using whichever system to aggregate them, and how much you want someone else to do for you.
- Royce's favorite Anna
most e-resources librarians i know don't use a product at all, but instead gather COUNTER statistics and compile manually.
- Marie
The PubGet people had something, but I don't know anything about it. We have Serials Solutions, and compile manually for everything else.
- Rebecca Hedreen
^^^ PubGet has Paper Stats. Haven't used it.
- Marie
Cool. All of this helps. Thank you muchly!
- Megan loves summer
http://observingperth.wordpress.com/2013... New blog post: autumn approaches
I can't believe I wrote this today: "So to answer your question, there's no particular way to look for rescinded disallowances. You can simply find out if there was a rescission by looking up the legislative instrument and reading the general comments."
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This comic has probably already made the rounds, but I like it. Libraries as Info-binging:
http://thisisindexed.com/2013...
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I'm MOOCing. International Criminal Law! https://www.coursera.org/course...
Observing birds in Perth: http://observingperth.wordpress.com/2013...
Megan I have been using an iPhone app to help identify and record Aust bird sightings. This one us based on an authoritative book and includes the calls to help https://itunes.apple.com/au...
- suelibrarian
from iPhone
Cool!!!
- Megan loves summer
Today's 'huh?' moment: I googled (NOT scholar) the title of an article and noticed one of the hits directed to ebsco. Thinking this was odd, I clicked and went to an ebsco record. There was a giant arrow saying "read this article courtesy of your local library." And my local library is apparently Manly Library (a joke waiting to happen).
I just did this from home, and I don't see any ebsco links at all. I wonder if I would if I tried from campus?
- ellbeecee
Oops, I cut off the rest of the message. The link did indeed open the full text, sans authentication. I thought I had never heard of Manly Library, but google again helped me to learn that this is the famous library with the Lance Armstrong / fiction section shenanigan. It's in the country where I live, but not the same state. I guess I'm totally out of the loop in realizing that local libraries could link themselves into ebsco in this way...but how did it authenticate me with a random library? Magic!
- Megan loves summer
This is very similar to what JSTOR is doing to try to connect users back to their home institutions in order to make authentication easier. You have to register your library with EBSCO for it to appear. Manly may be the closest library to you to register?
- Jen
I've actually seen this before also for ebsco
- aarontay
Nope, I tried making it sign out of Manly and then searched for my area and found many that are much closer (like blocks away). But it prompted for authentication when I chose them. Odd.
- Megan loves summer
I've had this happen at work (through Google), for things that I then couldn't find in our actual subscribed EBSCO databases. And it also said the "local library" part, which was weird.
- Meg V. Meg
Thoroughly enjoyed the final product from Kathryn's cross-conference Q&A with emerging and current librarians: http://www.librariansmatter.com/blog.... Great stuff.
Yo Joe. No, go slow. and awd liked this
Thank you :). Clever and engaged participants were clever and engaged. Love it that on the same day David Lankes published his piece about how we should promote conversations :)
- Kathryn is Blake in Hindi
It was interesting but was amused at answers about the type of librarians they would hire. I know it's a wish list and no one is really expected to have it all but if you really tried to meet them I think would require the combined talents of several library rock stars & movers/shakers (the real ones) to equal. Reminds me of my own institutions job ad for a entry level position, if I took that at face value i doubt I or any of my colleagues would qualify. :)
- aarontay
Huh. Someone found my http://academia.edu profile w/ search terms if megan's boss is interested in a graphical representation. I'm hit #1
So, I've made a new blog: http://observingperth.wordpress.com/ . Just a place to store little observations about my new life in Perth.
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Has anyone used or know someone who uses ResearchGate (a social network for researchers)? https://www.researchgate.net/ Useful? I'm curious about the "millions of publications" bit on the About page...
http://lwb-online.org/?p=4597. Librarian Without Borders Call for Volunteers: Guatemala Service Trip (April 2013)
Fancy going to Guatemala? Asturias Academy is looking for a School Librarian for the 2013 academic year. The school (which I visited last year) is doing amazing work for marginalized people in its community. Check it out and share the word widely. http://lwb-online.org/?p=4592
RT @LWB_Online: Sabbatical in Guatemala? Librarians Without Borders recruiting a school librarian for our GT partner #alamw13 http://lwb-online.org/?p=4592
Have Spanish skills? Please consider applying! The Miguel Angel Asturias Academy is an innovative Pre K-12 school in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. We are seeking a librarian to begin work immediately. See http://lwb-online.org/?p=4592
Intrigued by Independent Voices: http://www.revealdigital.com/voices. "Open access promise...COST RECOVERY = OPEN ACCESS. Participating libraries enrolled in Independent Voices will be collectively paying only the cost to produce the database – no excess profits disbursed. Simply stated, once Independent Voices reaches the break-even point in...
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I was just sent something to look into this. I'm not sure I get what the project is, though? Or how "participating libraries" will be participating?
- RudĩϐЯaЯïan
Participation, I think, means paying for a subscription until they break even: http://www.revealdigital.com/page.... It's a digitization project.
- Megan loves summer
Sounds a little bit sorta like SCOAP3 for humanities (except not quite).
- Deborah Fitchett
In day 2 of my new life as a academic law librarian in Western Australia. Happy to have tips from any law librarians out there...
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Welcome to WA. Hope you are keeping cool
- suelibrarian
I am! Thanks! :-)
- Megan loves summer
RT @bohyunkim: "Enabling the Research 'Flow' and Serendipity in Today's Digital Library Envirornment" http://www.bohyunkim.net/blog... inspired by @eosadler #accessYUL
@edbilodeau That's what blogs are for... We'll be expecting a #accessYUL post soon!
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