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Meeting #6 – Teaching in the UBC Library
The next meeting of the journal club is focusing on the topic of teaching.
We will have a panel of four UBC librarians sharing their teaching experience; what works for them and what does not. We will also read an article about teaching in libraries and discuss it together.
The panelists are:
Kimberley Hintz from Koerner Library
Jo-Anne Naslund from Education Library
Sally Taylor from Woodward Library
Jan Wallace from David Lam Library
When: Mon 16 Feb 2009 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Where: Lillooet Room (RM 301) in Barber Learning Centre
Please register for the session here – http://toby.library.ubc.ca/booking/description.cfm?sessionid=5695
We are reading the following article:
Conger, J.E. (2001). Wake up that back row! Interactive library instruction without hands-on student computers. Reference Librarian, 73, 309-322.
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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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Session #1 – Working with young academic researchers
The first meeting of the UBC Library Journal Club is scheduled for Tuesday, June 17th from 11am till 12pm in Barber Centre, Lillooet Room (RM 301).
We ask folks to register via this url – http://toby.library.ubc.ca/booking/description.cfm?sessionid=5620
The first paper we all need to read for discussion is:
Haglund, L., & Olsson, P. (2008). The impact on university libraries of changes in information behavior among academic researchers: A multiple case study. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 34(1), 52-59.
Abstract:
To better understand the information needs of young university researchers, an observational study was performed at three universities in Stockholm, Sweden. The observations revealed that most of the researchers used Google for everything, that they were confident that they could manage on their own, and that they relied heavily on immediate access to electronic information. They had very little contact with the library, and little knowledge about the value librarian competence could add. One important conclusion of the project is that librarians have to leave the library building and start working in the research environment, as well as putting some thought into the fact that library use is considered complicated, but Google (etc.) is easy. The findings of this project will influence changes in library services in both near and in a more distant future.
UBC affiliated folks can read the full text here – doi:10.1016/j.acalib.2007.11.010
Please send any ideas for further discussion topics you have our way to Charlotte Beck or Eugene Barsky. Thanks a ton!
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