UBC Library Journal Club

Join us for a lively discussion on the topic of embedded librarianship. We will start with a panel discussion featuring several UBC librarians currently engaged in “embedded” activities.

To prepare for this event we’d like to invite you to read the following provocative article: Embedded Librarianship Is Job One: Building on Instructional Synergies.

Additional interesting reading:

• Is Embedded Librarianship Right for your Institution?
• Embedded Reference to Embedded Librarianship: 6 Years at the University of Calgary

When: Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011 at 3:00PM – 4:00PM
Where: RM 302-Dodson Room
Register: http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/2423

It has been a busy semester but now it’s time to relax (a little) and meet to discuss a new topic for journal club.

For the coming journal club we will be discussing the Horizon Report 2011.  “Each year, the Horizon Report describes six areas of emerging technology that will have significant impact on higher education and creative expression over the next one to five years.”
The full report can be found here: http://www.educause.edu/Resources/2011HorizonReport/223122

For this journal club session, we will be talking about the following trends:

* One Year or Less: Electronic Books – Lead by Sheryl Adam, HSS
* One Year or Less: Mobiles  – Lead by Shawnna Parlongo, Distance Learning Support Librarian
* Two to Three Years: Game-Based Learning – Lead by Erin Fields, HSS

Date: Thursday, May 5, 2011
Time: 2-3pm
Location: Dodson Room, Chapman Learning Commons

Please register at: http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/2003

Interested in hearing what research is occurring at other academic institutions?
Want to learn about the latest best practices in instruction, library space and technology?
Curious about the global efforts of librarians and information professionals?

The Journal Club, in collaboration with Kathryn Hornby (UBC Library Research Lead) and  UBCLAA, invite you to the Conference Round-up.  This event will highlight what librarians/library staff have learned at conferences they have attend this year.

The volunteers and conferences to be shared include:

• Margaret Friesen -Library Assessment Conference  (Reading: Megan Oakleaf’s “The Value of Academic Libraries” (ACRL, 2010). )
• Erin Fields – OLA 2010
• Sarah Romkey – Association of Canadian Archivists Conference
• Julia Thompson – SPARC
• Kat McGrath – NASIG (North American Serials Interest Group)
• Joy Kirchner – American Association of University Presses conference

**Note: Presentations or readings are linked above**

Join us and learn more about current practices within our field.

Date: December 7, 2010
Time: 3-4:30 pm
Location: Dodson Room
Registration: http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/1594

This session of the Journal Club will highlight some of the current issues and trends in collection development in academic libraries.  Brenda Peterson (HSS) will begin the discussion with a brief “interview” with Jo Anne Newyear Ramirez, Associate University Librarian for Collections at UBC Libraries, who recently returned from the XXX Annual Charleston Conference which provided unique insight into the potential future of Canadian academic library collections.

Jo Anne will discuss the larger picture of collection development as it relates to format, budgets, usage, and the needs of a diverse academic community.  There will be plenty of time for questions and discussion during this session.

To facilitate discussion, please read:

Goldstein, Daniel. Commercial Values are Homogenizing Collections and Clouding Librarians’ Professional Objectives. Chronicle of Higher Education. October 2010

Morgan, John. Massive Cut in Britain. Inside Higher Education, October 2010

Date – November 25, 2010
Time – 2 – 3pm
Location – Chapman Learning Commons, Dodson Room (302)
Register- http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/1496

Interested in hearing what research is occurring at other academic institutions?

Want to learn about the latest best practices in instruction, library space and technology?

Curious about the global efforts of librarians and information professionals?

The Journal Club, in collaboration with Kathryn Hornby (UBC Library Research Lead) and  UBCLAA, invite you to the Conference Round-up.  This event will highlight what librarians/library staff have learned at conferences they have attend this year.

The volunteers and conferences to be shared include:

• Ingrid Parent  – IFLA
• Hilde Colenbrander  – Open Repositories
• Lorne Madgett – ELUNA
• Trish Rossell – ACRL Immersion
• Corey Sue – NACUBO & IFLA
• Simon Neame – Canadian Learning Commons Conference
• Charlotte Beck  – CHLA/ABSC

**Presentations are linked above**

Join us and learn more about current practices within our field.

Date: October 7, 2010
Time: 3- 4:30pm
Location: Chapman Learning Commons  Dodson Room (302)
Register: http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/1419

I am delighted to share with you that Erin Fields from Koerner library is kindly taking over the coordination of our library journal club – thanks so much, Erin!

Our next meeting is on Thursday, May 6th, 2010 at 2:00PM – 3:00PM in Barber’s Dodson Room, and we will be talking about Geographic information systems (GIS).

Are you curious to know what GIS is all about? Our own GIS Librarian Tom Brittnacher will be presenting an introduction to the concepts of GIS, show some examples of its use, and give an overview of UBC Library GIS services.

Please register for this session here – http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/991

** photo by http://www.flickr.com/photos/clickykbd/

Our first journal club meeting is next week. We are discussing the topic of Evidence Based Librarianship, and we are doing our discussion in collaboration with SLAIS – UBC library school…I am certainly looking forward for that…We have lots of experience in the library on this topic, which is pretty hot nowadays in library circles…

• Date – Wed, 13 January 2010, 12:00 – 13:30
• Speakers – Charlotte Beck and Margaret Friesen, UBC Library; Heather O’Brien, SLAIS
• Location – Dodson Room, Barber Center

We are asking folks to read (or quickly browse) two articles prior to the meeting:

Steve Hiller, Martha Kyrillidou, and Jim Self, “When the Evidence is Not Enough:
Organizational Factors That Influence Effective and Successful Library Assessment,”
Performance Measurement and Metrics 9, 3 (2008): 223–30. Available to UBC folks at http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/ViewContentServlet?Filename=/published/emeraldfulltextarticle/pdf/2790090306.pdf

Eldredge, J. D.  “Evidence based librarianship: an overview”. Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, 2000, 88,  282–302. Available at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC35250/

Moreover, you can take a look on those two sites:

1. ARL, for types of statistical data and types of publications (data resources, findings, benchmarks, etc.): http://www.arl.org/, Look under Resources, especially ARL Statistics, Publications (“ARL”, now called “Research Library Issues”, “SPEC kits”)
2. UBC Planning & Institutional Research (PAIR): for demographic data – http://www.pair.ubc.ca/statistics/index.htm, see Statistics – Students, Faculty and Staff for the kinds of data available

Here is my article about our journal club that we are running in UBC for the last two years – “A Library Journal Club as a Tool for Current Awareness and Open Communication: UBC case study” which oddly sees light online during the last week of 2009.

It is published in a free, open access, Canadian journal  – Partnership: the Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research.

Photo by http://www.flickr.com/photos/svenwerk/

It has been a super busy fall. Hoping to recuperate after the holidays, we are now ready to invite you for two more journal club meetings early next year. But we have a little surprise for you too. We are collaborating with SLAIS for the first two sessions next year:

1. Evidence Based Librarianship –

Date – Wed, 13 January 2010, 12:00 – 13:30

Speakers – Charlotte Beck and Margaret Friesen, UBC Library; Heather O’Brien, SLAIS

Location – Dodson Room, Barber Center

2. Open Access and Academic Libraries –

Date – Tue, 9 March 2010, 14:00 – 15:30

Speakers – Lee Ann Bryant and Joy Kirchner, UBC Library; Rick Kopak, SLAIS

Location – Dodson Room, Barber Center

** Photo by http://www.flickr.com/photos/rachellake/

Oh, this is a really busy fall for all of us. Therefore, we haven’t had any journal club discussions in September. Moreover, we need to postpone our October meeting due to Open Access week activities, classically orchestrated by Joy Kirchner.

However, we would like to hold a journal club meeting in November, talking about the 2009 annual Horizon Report. I know, it has been published almost six months ago, but we haven’t really had a chance to talk about it, right?

Rather than talking about the whole thing, we would like to focus on the short term challenges:

• One Year or Less: Cloud Computing (facilitated by Eugene Barsky)
• Two to Three Years: Geo-Everything (facilitated by Tom Brittnacher)
• Two to Three Years: The Personal Web (non-facilitated )

Please join us for this session on Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 at 2:30PM – 4:00PM in Dodson Room. Register here – http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/555

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