Of possible interest for some of the more book-based disciplines.
‘Announcing a National Emergency Library to Provide Digitized Books to Students and the Public‘
Previously Archive.org (The Internet Archive) and the Open Library project had users check out a single digital copy and other users had to wait – similar to some of the public library platforms. There seem to be around 1.4 million titles, many (most?) still in copyright.
Dave Clemens
A catchy Financial Times article title.
The mutiny in question here is against that favourite profiteering ‘panto baddy’ Elsevier.
If you can find your way to the full article it’s not a bad overview, with a few visuals to keep up the interest.
Dave C.
The results are in!
For the second year running that great holiday read ‘Constitutional & Administrative Law in New Zealand ‘ is our most heavily used e-book on the Proquest platform.
Dave Clemens
2019 : Top 5 Most Used Titles
Constitutional & Administrative Law in New Zealand : 3242 uses
New Zealand Land Law 2597
Violence and Society 2012
Child Development 1875
Criminal Justice : A New Zealand Introduction 1840
User activity for ‘Constitutional & Administrative Law in New Zealand’
Total Unique Users: 406
Total Book Downloads: 298
Total Pages Printed: 37710
Total Pages Copied: 3699
Total Chapter Downloads: 446
2018: Top 5 Most Used Titles
Constitutional & Administrative Law in New Zealand 2135
Sustainable Business : Key Issues 1757
Patched : The History of Gangs in New Zealand 1685
Violence and Society 1569
Management, 6th Asia-Pacific Edition 1521
Dave will provide a brief intro and overview of National Ditgital Forum 2019 (about his favorite bits)
Samuel Hope and Jennifer Middendorf from the UC Arts Digital Lab. will then present their NDF talk ‘Red Zone Stories: Human ethics challenges in digital community story-telling’.
Please register here as I’m aware it is getting late in the year and I want to check on attendance in case it’s not worth proceeding.
https://canterbury.libcal.com/event/5223317 if above link fails like it just did for Stuart!
Ngā mihi
Dave Clemens
Subject Librarian
PS If you can’t make it but are curious about NDF 2019 content the videos are now up on YouTube.
I’d recommend the day 1 morning keynote in particular.
A recent thesis submission for History includes some fulsome praise for our LAC staff:
“Thank you to the Interloans staff at Puaka-James Hight Library. This thesis would not have been possible without the hard work of Sue Thompson, who sourced hard copies of Soviet Woman and Soviet Union from America and despite the cost had them shipped, twice.”
https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/handle/10092/16822
“Why Shouldn’t a Comrade be Chic?”:constructions of the Soviet woman’s Image in international Soviet propaganda and its reception in the United Kingdom and Ireland, 1945-1970.
Some quiz fodder related to this thesis work, and 50 years since the moon landing: Who is Valentina Tereshkova?
ngā mihi
Dave Clemens
Organised by UC Arts Digital Lab – this talk will likely be of interest to a number of library staff.
Ngā mihi. Dave Clemens
“From Popper to Ruby Jones: image copyrights in the age of Wikipedia” This talk deals with the copyright status of items in GLAM collections, but also the issues specifically related to Wikipedia.
From Popper to Ruby Jones: image copyrights in the age of Wikipedia
Do you need permission to film a mural? Who owns the copyright for Popper’s passport photo? How do you get a photo into Wikipedia? Is museum taxidermy art, and can you legally photograph it? What is copyfraud? I’ll be answering all these questions at a free public talk on campus.
Dr Dickson is funded by a grant from the Wikimedia Foundation to help New Zealand organisations and the people of New Zealand engage with Wikipedia and open knowledge. Dr Dickison’s visit is being hosted by the University of Canterbury Arts Digital Lab. While at UC, he is running a number of events for students, staff and the public. He is also working with the UC Arts Digital Lab to curate the Wikipedia presence of the residential red zone.
More information on Dr Dickison’s visit to the University of Canterbury is available here:
https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/news/2019/uc-hosts-first-nz-wikipedian-in-residence.html
Kia ora koutou,
Many of you may have seen some of the fliers around campus for this event but I’ll paste details below.
Mike used to work here at UC.
How to Vandalise Wikipedia, Fri 17 May, 1:00–2:00 pm , A1 Lecture Theatre
‘Did you hear about the young farmer from Dannevirke who got his name added to a Wikipedia list of mythical Japanese monsters, and it ended up appearing in a board game? Stories like this make it seem like Wikipedia’s easy to vandalise; how much can we trust it? How do we detect hoaxes? If we were sociopathic enough to want to get false information into the encyclopaedia and make it stick, what would we need to know? New Zealand Wikipedian at Large Dr Mike Dickison has been travelling the country encouraging the public to improve the accuracy of Wikipedia, but in this one-off exclusive talk he’ll turn things around and reveal the grubby world of making it less accurate.’
Dave Clemens
Kia ora koutou,
I’ll link to the full 27 page PDF below but some staff may be interested in the UC focus of this Project Report completed in November 2018.
Research undertaken at University of Canterbury
Report prepared by: Valerie Sotardi and Erik Brogt.Other team members:Abbey Woods and Ellen Turnbull
‘Student participants were 239 first-year undergraduate students (74.5% female, 25.5% male)
enrolled in five first-year courses at the University of Canterbury: law (n = 77; 32.2%), education (n =
75; 31.4%), chemistry (n = 47; 19.7%), philosophy (n = 22; 9.2%), and communication (n = 18; 7.5%).
Staff participants were recruited through the Heads of Department/School at the University of
Canterbury. They were asked to distribute the recruiting email to staff teaching into the first-year
courses. Forty-nine staff members completed the (anonymous) survey.’
Dave Clemens
Just kidding really, but if you want to see what’s been viewed, printed, downloaded or copied from our Proquest Central e-book offerings in 2018 then the winners are (as measured by number of unique users).
Top 6
Violence and Society (309 users)
Vector Control : Methods for Use by Individuals and Communities (304 users)
Patched : The History of Gangs in New Zealand (263 users)
Management 6th Edition (256 users)
Encyclopedia of Insects (230 users)
Constitutional & Administrative Law in New Zealand (222 users)
Disclaimer: Some stats may be more meaningful than others and we have many other e-book packages and titles. Proquest just happens to be a biggie, with user stats galore.
Dave