The University of Michigan Library is searching for an Informationist   !!

This C Works person is taking a lot of credit for work the library does…….

The Engineering 101 assignment closed today ….  Dave L had 18 My Scheduler appointments and 11 other people booked in to see him … all before 3 pm and then a fire alarm and a building evacuation occurred 15 minutes before the deadline ….

Dave does not recommend this on a regular basis

We wish him well for his recovery

So there I was helping an international student with EndNote…

I suggested naming the file aaaaa.pdf ( to make it easier for her to identify the exact pdf).

She wrote down iiiiiii.pdf…..

I had to laugh – that is the vowel shift in New Zealand English that confuses everyone but us.

I was searching on Summon…for articles on groynes – and Summon supplied articles on groins ….not the same thing at all. Now I have a big smile on my face!

if you have queries about these classes you can refer students to

https://canterbury.libcal.com/calendar/3proeng

and the students can choose what one class they can attend
They can also ask me to hold a class at a different time… just ask them to email me…
These classes are compulsory for all 4th year engineering students – all 160 of them…

Metadata mega mess in Google Scholar  This is a 2010 article and I am not sure how relevant it still is…Google Scholar has improved since then …but I know I should be aware of these issues

Posting from Musings about Librarianship

Points out that Microsoft Academic  was relaunched in late 2017 so worth another look at….

Dimensions by Digital Science is a new search engine that may also be worth investigating for future relevance

Many thanks to Nick for having the perseverance to solve a tricky MAC EndNote problem – the person could not open EndNote as it told him someone else was using his EndNote login….

The real problem was that his library was corrupted but it took a lot of  trial and error to fix the problem. Nick rebuilt the library for him. Now the student can submit his thesis

Thanks to Romy too for suggesting various steps and no thanks to EndNote for their enigmatic error messages !

So I see this posting on Facebook from the University of Canterbury Library about the friendly and helpful subject librarians that will help people with Referencing and EndNote. This posting  includes  photos of Janette, Fiona, Kathryn, Kim and Margaret. What happened to all the other librarians who help with this area ???

Will refer all my future referencing and EndNote queries to them if they are promoting themselves as the experts

Beall, J. (2013). Predatory publishing is just one of the consequences of gold open access. Learned Publishing, 26(2), 79-84.