L&LR staff blog

These are my specific objectives for the year ahead – this is where I’m going to take my priorities next. • Complete, and document, the launch of Find it @ Lincoln • Write a draft collection development policy to inform the shift from print to ‘e’ • Pilot digital-to-digital copying under the CLA extended licence [...]

I’m in here a couple of times, looking bemused. These were mostly taken by Dave Pattern (Huddersfield) and are on flickr. #flickr_badge_source_txt {padding:0; font: 11px Arial, Helvetica, Sans serif; color:#666666;} #flickr_badge_icon {display:block !important; margin:0 !important; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0) !important;} #flickr_icon_td {padding:0 5px 0 0 !important;} .flickr_badge_image {text-align:center !important;} .flickr_badge_image img {border: 1px [...]

8 week loan borrowers (staff; professors; distance learners; postgrad researchers; postgrad distance learners and work based learners) loans will start issuing for the Easter vacation on 6th February. Their due date will be 21st April. Pam

I’m at Birkbeck today for Mashed Library ’08. Here’s a feed of my notes on a Learning Lab (micro)blog set up for the occasion. [cetsEmbedRSS id='http://learninglab.lincoln.ac.uk/blogs/mashlib08/feed/' itemcount='0' itemcontent='0'] Paul P.S. I am going to write this up formally, if you can’t follow my stream of consciousness notes…

More than 36,000 e-journal titles are listed on our A-to-Z, but student and staff interest is not spread equally between those titles. Plotting a graph of the individual usage of each title shows a sharp ‘spike’ of concentrated use within a very small number of titles, and a very long tail of thousands of titles which are barely used, [...]

The British Library have redesigned their Web site, which now contains prominent links to the BL’s presence on various social networking/media sites. They are also developing a new Ex Libris Primo search interface for their catalogue. (Spotted on Lorcan Dempsey’s weblog.)

Philippa has decided to go half-time for the next two years prior to retirement. This gives the department the opportunity to appoint a half-time (job-share) senior manager. The post is due to be advertised soon.

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=404393&c=1 “Stem Architects were inspired by the secret monastic library in Umberto Eco’s novel The Name of the Rose to create a traditional library where scholars could absorb themselves in private study.” You learn something new every day.

I’ve been uploading our collection of old (and not-so-old) pictures of the GCW to flickr. But I thought you might also be interested in this site (found by Julian) with some pictures of the whole of the Brayford site, in the before… http://www.leytransport.i12.com/holmes.htm

There are around 15 subscribers to this, the L&LR staff blog (average over the last 7 days), according to FeedBurner, with an average ‘reach‘ (people actively engaging with the content – clicking on links, listening to audio, etc.) of 2. Our public, student-facing news blog, on the other hand, has “only” 12 subscribers (7-day average), [...]