There is now a new Ricoh printer in the Den. It has a rather large paper tray (bottom drawer) and is currently defaulting to single side printing but can do duplex as well.
I’ve put the keys for it in the Help Desk drawer but the trays aren’t locked anyway.
It uses different toner to the other Mopiers (of course) and Library IT have left us re-order instructions for toner. When Janette is back she will probably look into the toner situation in more detail.
Dave
This announcement seems like it could be rather important, but I haven’t investigated further..
David Weinberg, ‘Did lord knows how many books just enter the public domain, thanks to Google and some good-hearted folk? Joho the blog’
An interesting piece from the latest Library Journal.
“The idea behind our study [at University at Buffalo] was quite simple, although the execution required some tools and lots of heavy lifting. We examined one typical day of searching from the logs of BISON and got every search and the count of results. Then we ran this same set of searches against Google Books and compared them.”
I think that I like this article, partly as a balance to what I feel is some minor ‘publisher bashing’ emerging from some Open Access zealots, but mainly because the author, Joseph J. Esposito, is an experienced publishing guy with some reasoned arguments.
He also fairly regularly posts to the Liblicense e-mail list. http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/mailing-list.shtml which I also find a very useful resource.
One of the more colourful quotes from his article:
“The cost of “free” is simply too expensive unless we strip away almost all the administrative costs. This is why libraries are very poor places to establish open-access services: libraries provide outstanding high-touch service and are culturally out of synch with the need for literally impersonal technical services. A successful open-access organization has to be operated with the ruthlessness of a Henry Ford, not the warm, helpful manner of a librarian.”
Both machines on level 2are down at present. Copy centre know about this. COpy centre queues are quite long at present.
I think they’re open about how tricky it is to find a method to compile such a ranking but I thought it interesting that this sort of work is going on.
In this case by an outfit called Webometrics .
This article from ‘Journal of Academic Librarianship’ looks at the Engineering literature:
John J. Meiera and Thomas W. Conkling, Google Scholar’s Coverage of the Engineering Literature: An Empirical Study, The Journal of Academic Librarianship, May 2008.
Google Scholar’s coverage of the engineering literature is analyzed by comparing its contents with those of Compendex, the premier engineering database. Records retrieved from Compendex were searched in Google Scholar, and a decade by decade comparison was done from the 1950s through 2007. The results show that the percentage of records appearing in Google Scholar increased over time, approaching a 90 percent matching rate for materials published after 1990.
Taking ages to log on/off. Library IT advised and checked with UC IT as well.
Please note any student user names that are involved. for Library IT
Has been borrowed by an insistent SOFA lecturer to take a stash of items to her work area. Promised to return ‘soon’.
Dave
UC IT advise that student logon delays are occurring around campus. Can take over 5 mins to get on at present.