UBC Library Journal Club

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.

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Journal Club and eLibrary Committee have teamed up to present a participatory forum for UBC Library staff:

UBC Library Catalogue at the beginning of the 21st Century

Recent developments in how traditional library materials are produced and distributed forces us to reexamine our cataloguing practices. What is the role of our catalogue now, when federated search tools have the potential to make many disparate databases seem like one? What absolutely needs to be in the catalogue and why?

Opinions, even very well-informed opinions vary, and this forum will be a chance for colleagues on both sides of the argument, PLUS those squarely in the middle, to marshal their arguments and show their examples.

Panelists: Larry Campbell, Brenda Peterson and Jo Anne Newyear-Ramirez (moderator)

When: Tuesday October 21, 2008 3.30pm – 5pm
Where: Lillooet Room (301) in Barber Learning Centre
Register: http://toby.library.ubc.ca/booking/description.cfm?sessionid=5691

Jo Anne Newyear-Ramirez has graciously offered to fund coffee, tea and goodies. Registration is required to ensure the catering numbers are correct.

Readings – we would really appreciate if you could take a quick look on the following short blog readings before coming to the session. It would help us to start the discussion:

“What is the catalog?”: http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/001126.html
“Lifting out the catalog discovery experience”: http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/001021.html
“Discovery and Disclosure again”: http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/001111.html

Hope to see many of you there!

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Here is comes – them most awaited topic so far for me personally – Millennials students…

It is really interesting to discuss whether those folks are different from any other generations we serve in academia.

We are fortunate to have Julie Mitchell to facilitate our discussion. Julie suggested to read the following article –

DeBard, R. (2004). Millennials coming to college. New Directions for Student Services, (106), 33-45.

Please note that we moved our meeting to a 4-5pm slot as per many requests from you…

This meeting will take place on Tue 19 Aug 2008, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM in Lillooet Room (RM 301) in Barber Learning Centre. Please register using this url – http://toby.library.ubc.ca/booking/description.cfm?sessionid=5690

Hope to see many of you there 🙂

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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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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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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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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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Too frequently our library’s professional folks fail to find time to discuss, as a group, library issues that do not impact or day-to-day operation and routine. We are absorbed in completing the immediate daily tasks and assigned duties and don’t seem to find time to read (let alone discuss and analyze) our professional literature.

Too bad, since the library world is constantly evolving and things do change.

This journal club, initiated by a group of librarians in the University of British Columbia library in Vancouver, Canada is created to build a forum for relaxed dialogue and professional discourse around academic libraries related topics. The meetings are organized once a month about a topic of discussion, say “the future of a catalogue”.

We want to gather, to share, to discuss, to problem solve, to learn and of course to grow professionally. Sessions will be short – 1 hour, and we invite everybody from the UBC library community to join. We would also be happy to open the floor to additional libraries in the Lower Mainland.

We are hoping that this forum would lead to new ideas and new projects in our system.

Stay tuned for the precise dates, times, locations, and topics!

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Erin Fields (Humanities & Social Sciences Librarian).

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