UBC Library Journal Club

Here is my article about our journal club that we are running in UBC for the last two years – “A Library Journal Club as a Tool for Current Awareness and Open Communication: UBC case study” which oddly sees light online during the last week of 2009.

It is published in a free, open access, Canadian journal  – Partnership: the Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research.

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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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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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