UBC Library Journal Club

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

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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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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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