eclectic librarian

Have you seen the tool that Ithaka developed to determine what print scholarly journals you could withdraw (discard/store) that are already in your digital collections? It’s pretty nifty for a spreadsheet. About 10-15 minutes of playing with it and a list of our print holdings resulted in giving me a list of around 200 or [...]

Speaker: Brad Eden
We’ve heard it all before — we’re doing more with less, our work is changing dramatically, but the skill sets needed have not changed.
There are several catalysts for the change in libraries. The current economic trends indicate that state support for higher education will dwindle to nothing. We need to find different funding [...]

Presenter: John Law
Started by doing observational research — 70+ sessions across 8 universities and 2 continents. Their observations led them to online focus groups with end-user researchers, which they followed up with conventional focus group sessions with librarians. They also used online surveys to quantify data about these groups and their behaviors, getting participants from [...]

I am participating in the DILOLibrarian project today. This account is by no means comprehensive or reflective of every aspect of my workday, since each one is different depending on the volume of things demanding my immediate attention. However, it may be of interest to my non-ER librarian friends, as well as newly minted librarians [...]