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.
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?
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
I can't believe I wrote this today: "So to answer your question, there's no particular way to look for rescinded disallowances.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."
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
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).
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.
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
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...
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
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...
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
Welcome to the club ;) I'm an academic law lib in Florida (US). feel free to hit me up with any questions or if i can be any help.
- Elizabeth
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