An essay on the serials review process.
The Global Legal Monitor, published by the Law Library of Congress in Washington, offers an RSS feed for updates for all news stories as well as RSS feeds broken down by topic and/or jurisdiction.
Make it Digital by DigitalNZ has guides, voting for what NZ resources should be digitised (the AJHRs are currently in the lead) and a place to ask and answer questions about digitisation.
Judith Thomson pointed me to LiveJournal (mentioned in new book Marketing today’s academic library) – this is a blogging platform that’s focused on community, so it’s easy to comment, to read all your friends’ livejournals in one place, and to create topic-based community blogs where any member can post; it also allows for custom privacy settings (so eg only certain people can see your posts).
Marketing
- Five ways you can save money by marketing by Kathy Dempsey
- A librarian from Maine State Library gives instructions on how to embed or adapt the Library Use Value Calculator – “This calculator was developed in 2007 as a way for libraries to let patrons calculate how much their use of the library means to them”.
Added web functionality
- Cornell University describes how they created JAbbr, an online tool where you can type in a journal abbreviation to find possible matches in their catalogue. The source code is available under the MIT License.
- Tom Pasley at UCOL Library writes about adding an APA citation into the records displayed on their (Voyager) catalogue.
Deborah