Meeting #5 – Selection of books, journals, etc
This time our journal club joins bibliographers forum to discuss the issue of selection. What do we do to select books? Do we read reviews? What kind of reviews? Is Choice helpful? Do we read subject based book reviews, like reviews.com for Computer Science? How do we select journals?
We will have four panelists and have an open discussion. The panelists are Aleteia Greenwood and Lee Perry from the Science portfolio and Keith Bunnell and D. Vanessa Kam from the Arts portfolio. Our panelists have enormous experience in this area and it would just fantastic hearing them talking about their own personal approaches. Please do join us!
When: Tue 18 Nov 2008, 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM
Where: Lillooet Room (301) in Barber Learning Centre
Register: http://toby.library.ubc.ca/booking/description.cfm?sessionid=5692
We read the following article for this session:
Michael Levine-Clark, Margaret M. Jobe, Do Reviews Matter An Analysis of Usage and Holdings of Choice-Reviewed Titles Within a Consortium, The Journal of Academic Librarianship. Volume 33, Issue 6, , December 2007, Pages 639-646.
(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6W50-4R113R5-1/2/7fe1c9aa7d10872350e58e16e8c79217)
Jo Anne Newyear-Ramirez has graciously offered to fund coffee, tea and goodies. Registration is required to ensure the catering numbers are correct.
** Photo by Thomas Hawk