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photo by Garrett Coakley Speaker: Steven Sowell His position is new for his library (July 2011), and when Barbara Fister saw the job posting, she lamented that user-centered collection development would relegate librarians to signing licenses and paying invoices, but Sowell doesn’t agree. Values and assumptions: As an academic library, we derive our reason [...] Arrived and was greeted with paper renewal notifications covering my keyboard. Set those aside, logged in, and began sorting through the new email that arrived overnight and earlier this morning. Updated my calendar with new meetings/events, as well as the time I’ve blocked out for various tasks for the day. First thing I tackled was [...] 31 Jan 2012 |  discovery systems, electronic resources, half the sky, libday8, usage data, web-scale discovery |  library |
1  Officially, my title is Electronic Resources Librarian, but lately I’ve been spending more of my time and energy on gathering and crunching data about our eresources than on anything else. It’s starting to bleed over into the print world, as well. Since we don’t have someone dedicated to managing our print journals, I’ve taken on [...] Electronic Resources Librarian, Academic Library Arrived, turned on my computer, and while it booted up, I went and got an iced tea from the café. Processed new email and scanned a document that I don’t need to retain in paper. Attended weekly department meeting. We were extra chatty today and went 15-20 min longer than [...] Speakers: Noelle Marie Egan & Nancy G. Eagan This got started because they had some vendors come in to demonstrate their resources. Elsevier offered to do a demo for students with food. The library saw that several good resources were being under-used, so they decided to try to put together an eresources demo with Elsevier [...] |
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