Archive for June, 2008
eBooks is the topic of our July meeting
We had a very good discussion last time about serving young researchers in academic libraries. We even had some action items 🙂
In July, we are going to talk about the ever hot topic of ebooks in academia. Who is using them? How often? Who likes them? Who dislikes? What are the features? Costs? Future directions?
We are reading the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) task-group report on ebooks that was issued a couple of months ago in April 2008 – “E-Books in Research Libraries: Issues of Access and Use” (please note that this is a MS Word document that you need to right-click, download and open).
The session will take place on Tue 15 Jul 2008 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM in RM 301- Lillooet Room in Barber Centre and would be moderated by Kristina McDavid. You can register here – http://toby.library.ubc.ca/booking/description.cfm?sessionid=5689
We are looking forward to see many of you there 🙂
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The next three (3) topics for discussion – July, August and October 2008
The topics that were suggested for the next three meetings are:
* Tue 15 Jul 2008 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM – eBooks, moderated by Kristina McDavid, you can register here – http://toby.library.ubc.ca/booking/description.cfm?sessionid=5689
* Tue 19 Aug 2008 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM – Millennial students, moderated by Julie Mitchell, you can register here – http://toby.library.ubc.ca/booking/description.cfm?sessionid=5690
* Tue 21 Oct 2008 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM – the future of library catalogue, moderated by Larry Campbell and Charlotte Beck, you can register here – http://toby.library.ubc.ca/booking/description.cfm?sessionid=5691
Please feel free to send more topics to me or leave them as comments to this blog entry.
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Meetings’ Schedule
We meet every third Tuesday of the month from 11am till 12pm or from 4pm till 5pm, starting with June 17, 2008
The meetings are in Lillooet Room (RM 301) in Barber Learning Centre
To see all our dates, please go to our Instructional Centre and type “journal club” in the search box – you will see all near-coming meetings and registration info.
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