What we would really like to add to the Facebook page is informal pictures of students in the library that demonstrate what a wonderful place the library is for them… We will need the people in the pictures to sign a release form that they are happy to appear on Facebook. There may also photos of nooks and crannies of library buildings that we could post.
If you have any we would love to look at them with a view to showing them on Facebook.
If you don’t like the idea of the Library having a Facebook page, please remember this is simply a small scale experiment and is unlikely to change the world as we know it, but it may promote the library and the services we offer to a few more studentsthat we are not presently convincing.
A review of The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters, by Rose George, The Last Taboo: Opening the Door on the Global Sanitation Crisis, by Maggie Black and Ben Fawcett, and The Culture Of Flushing: A Social and Legal History of Sewage, by Jamie Benidickson. George and Black and Fawcett offer an NGO’s-eye view of a feces-smothered world in search of solutions, says Hamlin. But can it really be true, as Benidickson’s legal history of hydraulic sanitation suggests, that public health is founded in private property and is a private matter?
Are you aware of this new feature in EndNote X2? You can locate and store the full text of references from within your own EndNote library. This is more likely to work if If you have downloaded your record from Web of Science or from PubMed, and/or your record contains a DOI.
To try this:
From within EndNote, select the journal reference for which you would like to locate full text
From the References menu: select Find Full text
If a PDF of the article is successfully found it will be automatically downloaded and placed within the individual reference and with a paperclip
The PDFs are stored in the .DATA folder belonging to that particular library along with any other PDFs you have inserted into that library
We look forward to EndNote improving this feature.
Downloading does not appear to be working and I have a tutorial this afternoon at 3.30. Does anyone have any insights as to how this can be happening?.. AJ
>>> from an email I received this morning on a Geology librarians list>>>
…..”I learned another neat trick from our Preservation Librarian.
To get rid of the moldy/musty smell, you can use cat litter.
Fix a pan of cat litter (fresh — of course and keep away from your Library Cat — should you have one). Cat litter with baking soda may work better
Put your book suspended above the cat litter on some type of wire cage, dish rack or other contrivance that will allow you to spread the pages. Leave for a while, and change the pages that are spread out every so often. Do NOT put the book in the cat litter
The cat litter should soak up some/much/all of the smell. ” !!!!!
Both Alisons in the Central Library have used the Snap poll feature as a warm up technique in our classes to get students talking about database searching. The students enjoyed providing us with this feedback and it was fun for us to do too.
One of the principles for implementing LibGuides here was that we would regularly change the content of some of the boxes. Now that the guides are being used…Education – 3000 times! Engineering Intermediate 2787 times!! Mass Communication 1500 times !!!…
lets keep our users coming back by adding a new interesting book, journal, database or article.
I just wanted to record my thanks to Library IT for their work on our systems. I have had no problems with LibGuides or even more amazingly… Scopus has worked like a dream!! AJ
So what do you think? I am hoping to get a discussion going here. Should Information Librarians be able to call their new guides LibGuides rather than Subject Guides?
Are we throwing away a marketing and promotional opportunity by not using the new term? LibGuides is a short and snappy term that indicates the library is changing direction by offering a new range of ways for students and staff to interact with librarians.
Why are we calling them Subject Guides when this refers to the old format? After all, we did change the name to subject guides when we last changed the format. Why are we not changing the name this time? If LibGuides is still in the URL, why don’t we adapt that short and simple name?
You may think the UoC changes the branding of different parts of the University too often without changing the actual activities of the departments. Or do you think that Subject Guides is actually what we are still doing and that we haven’t actually made the transition to LibGuides yet….but we may get there in a few months.
