UBC Library Journal Club

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

Next Monday, Journal Club and RIC have teamed up to focus on our conferences’ experiences.
We are planning a series of short reflections on the things our librarians have learned or presented at last year conferences. We have eight presenters for this session:

• Eugene Barsky – m-libraries
• Katherine Miller – ACRL
• Joy Kirchner – ALA
• Jing Liu – Summer Institute for Chinese Studies Librarians and International Conference on the Development of Subject Librarianship and Personal Librarianship
• Jo-Anne Naslund – International Reading Association Conference, ACRL conference, Fast Forward and BCLA
• Sarah Romkey – digital humanities institute
• Trish Rosseel – Canadian e-Learning Conference
• Sally Taylor – eLearning conference

Please join us for this session and we anticipate lively discussion about what we learned and presented at those conferences…

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

Many thanks

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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

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!

** Photo by Here’s Kate