UBC Library Journal Club

On July 14th, please join us for a collaborative session with TOTS to focus on mobile technologies and mobile users in our library.

We are reading this article by one of the presenters at the conference – Joan K. Lippincott, “Mobile Technologies, Mobile Users: Implications for Academic Libraries,” ARL: A Bimonthly Report on Research Library Issues and Actions from ARL, CNI, and SPARC, no. 261 (December 2008). http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/arl-br-261-mobile.pdf and we will spend around 15 min discussing it.

Then, we will have our own library staff showcasing their use of iPodTouch (Jaimie Miller), Blackberry (Kile Brokop), and iPhone (Paul Joseph). At the end of the session , we are going to have an Informal sandbox – with a few Blackberries, iPod Touch(es), and iPhone(s).

The TOTS and Journal Club series are for all library staff and we encourage anyone with an interest in mobile devices to attend.

When:  Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 at 3:00PM – 5:00PM
Where: RM 302-Dodson Room
Register: http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/28

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We have been busy this summer. In July 2009, our journal club teams up with TOTS and RIC for two (2) joint sessions.

On July 14th, please joint us for a joint session with TOTS to focus on mobile technologies and mobile users in our library. We are going to read a recent article and discuss it and we will have a team of presenters from the library staff to showcase their use of iPhone, iPod touch, Blackberry and additional devices.

When:  Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 at 3:00PM – 5:00PM
Where: RM 302-Dodson Room
Register: http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/28

Later that month, Journal Club and RIC have teamed up to focus on our conferences’ experiences.

Have you attended or plan to attend any conferences during the last year? Have you heard any interesting presentations or have you presented anything yourself? We would like to hear from you!

We are planning a series of short (maybe 5-7 minutes) reflections on the things you learned or presented at last year conferences. Please contact me if you are willing to share your experiences and we will schedule you in. We will serve some brain food (well…some cookies and coffee/tea) for this meeting.

When:  Monday, July 27th, 2009 at 2:00PM – 4:00PM
Where: RM 302-Dodson Room
Register: http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/89

** Photo by Sarah Mae

Our April 2009 meeting will focus on Citation measurements: impact factor, h-index and more.

We will have a panel of three UBC librarians describing impact factor, h-index and other arising citation measurements. We will also read two very short articles about citation measurements in libraries and discuss them together.

The panelists are:

Susan Atkey from Koerner Library
Kevin Lindstrom from Science and Engineering
Sally Taylor from Woodward Library

For this meeting, please read two very short articles from the June issue of ETHICS IN SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS:

1. Lawrence PA. Lost in publication: how measurement harms science. Ethics Sci Environ Polit. 2008;8:5–7.

2. Giske J. Benefitting from bibliometry. Ethics Sci Environ Polit. 2008;8:79–8.

When: Tue 21 Apr 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=5697

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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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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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