UBC Library Journal Club

It has been a busy semester but now it’s time to relax (a little) and meet to discuss a new topic for journal club.

For the coming journal club we will be discussing the Horizon Report 2011.  “Each year, the Horizon Report describes six areas of emerging technology that will have significant impact on higher education and creative expression over the next one to five years.”
The full report can be found here: http://www.educause.edu/Resources/2011HorizonReport/223122

For this journal club session, we will be talking about the following trends:

* One Year or Less: Electronic Books – Lead by Sheryl Adam, HSS
* One Year or Less: Mobiles  – Lead by Shawnna Parlongo, Distance Learning Support Librarian
* Two to Three Years: Game-Based Learning – Lead by Erin Fields, HSS

Date: Thursday, May 5, 2011
Time: 2-3pm
Location: Dodson Room, Chapman Learning Commons

Please register at: http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/2003

I am delighted to share with you that Erin Fields from Koerner library is kindly taking over the coordination of our library journal club – thanks so much, Erin!

Our next meeting is on Thursday, May 6th, 2010 at 2:00PM – 3:00PM in Barber’s Dodson Room, and we will be talking about Geographic information systems (GIS).

Are you curious to know what GIS is all about? Our own GIS Librarian Tom Brittnacher will be presenting an introduction to the concepts of GIS, show some examples of its use, and give an overview of UBC Library GIS services.

Please register for this session here – http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/991

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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

It has been a super busy fall. Hoping to recuperate after the holidays, we are now ready to invite you for two more journal club meetings early next year. But we have a little surprise for you too. We are collaborating with SLAIS for the first two sessions next year:

1. Evidence Based Librarianship –

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

2. Open Access and Academic Libraries –

Date – Tue, 9 March 2010, 14:00 – 15:30

Speakers – Lee Ann Bryant and Joy Kirchner, UBC Library; Rick Kopak, SLAIS

Location – Dodson Room, Barber Center

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Oh, this is a really busy fall for all of us. Therefore, we haven’t had any journal club discussions in September. Moreover, we need to postpone our October meeting due to Open Access week activities, classically orchestrated by Joy Kirchner.

However, we would like to hold a journal club meeting in November, talking about the 2009 annual Horizon Report. I know, it has been published almost six months ago, but we haven’t really had a chance to talk about it, right?

Rather than talking about the whole thing, we would like to focus on the short term challenges:

• One Year or Less: Cloud Computing (facilitated by Eugene Barsky)
• Two to Three Years: Geo-Everything (facilitated by Tom Brittnacher)
• Two to Three Years: The Personal Web (non-facilitated )

Please join us for this session on Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 at 2:30PM – 4:00PM in Dodson Room. Register here – http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/555

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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

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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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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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