A student has handed me a button plate from the ‘close door’ button on the right hand lift of the West lifts.
I’ll log it with FM tomorrow, but in the meantime the plate/cover is on my desk and the close door button doesn’t work.
Dave C.
I have now logged it with Security, who are meant to cover lift matters.
dave C.
I’m afraid that the POLS 102 assignment (worksheet based on Reference resources) has appeared again, in what is a largely unedited format from 2008 – there are a couple of minor question changes.
I have now looked at the 2009 version and added some comments and corrections [in blue text inside square brackets]. There are a couple of items that are not located where the worksheet suggests they might be, and some others where electronic versions are now available.
Dave C.
A student has reported a flushing problem in women’s toilets on level 2. I have reported it to FM.
Dave C.
Session details are listed here, and people are also asked to RSVP.
Dave Clemens
The lifts are stuck on level 7. I have reported this to Security and they are arranging for technician to fix.
These are the sale dates according to notices placed around UCSA building.
Dave C
This event is on next Tuesday (24th) and may be tricky for many people to attend. But it sounds well worth it from the description below.
‘University Centre for Teaching and Learning welcome visiting speaker, JQ Johnson who will present a talk on open educational resources. Open educational resources are educational materials and resources offered freely and openly for anyone to use and under some licenses to re-mix, improve and redistribute.
JQ Johnson is the Director of Scholarly Communications and Instructional Support at the University of Oregon library. In addition to responsibilities coordinating faculty training in educational technology and managing his university’s Course Management System, he is responsible for supporting UO faculty members in their scholarly publishing and providing leadership in the reform of scholarly publishing. Open access to educational resources is a theme running through many of the projects he has been involved in over the past decade, ranging from lecture recording to open textbooks.’
With so much comment flying around various lists and blogs I thought this 2 page ALA summary might be a welcome change for interested people to consult.
And continuing on the Google theme here is another recently published comparison between Google Scholar and a range of databases.
‘Google Scholar Search Performance: Comparative Recall and Precision’ William H Walters. Portal : Libraries and the Academy. Baltimore: Jan 2009. Sorry for lack of direct url but we have access via Project Muse database.
From the abstract ‘This paper presents a comparative evaluation of Google Scholar and 11 other bibliographic
databases (Academic Search Elite, AgeLine, ArticleFirst, EconLit, GEOBASE, MEDLINE, PAIS
International, POPLINE, Social Sciences Abstracts, Social Sciences Citation Index, and SocINDEX),…’
Dave Clemens
Some, at least, according to this recent description
Dave Clemens
This recent article from Online Information Review seems interesting in quantifying search success of Google vs some more open search tools, using a set of articles from ecology, economics and sociology.
From the Findings
“Of the 2,519 articles, 967 were found to have OA versions on the world wide web. Google and Google Scholar found 76.84 per cent of them. The results from OpenDOAR and OAIster were disappointing, but some improvements are noted.”
I think I was at least as interested in the % of items available OA as I was the success rates for the various search tools. The articles used in the study are mostly published between 2003-2005.
DAve C.