There’s a small book display on the ground floor of the GCW University Library to mark the end of Boolefest (“a celebration of the life of George Boole“), a week-long arts and sciences festival which has been organised by Dave Kenyon in the Faculty of Media, Humanities & Technology. It consists of: A short ‘Boolean [...]
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Tidying up the A-to-Z
Hopefully, you should have noticed a few recent changes to the Electronic Journals A-to-Z. First, we’ve all but completed the summer campaign to improve the accuracy of the 60-odd individual e-journal package holding files. Di, Adele, Carole, Phil, Elif and I have been working through each package in turn and using the most up-to-date information from [...]
New home for e-portfolios
The Mahara e-portfolios system is now accessible (via standard university username & password) at: portfolios.lincoln.ac.uk Julian Beckton is blogging a set of instructions on using the system. “An e-portfolio is a collection of information and digital objects that demonstrate your learning development, skills and competencies.” You can read more about the open-source Mahara system on [...]
ASL B&L Faculty team’s reorganisation of responsibilities
Alison Sharman will leave the department at the end of August to take up a post at the University of Huddersfield. Alison has worked with us for 16 years, we will be sorry to lose her and we wish her well in her new role. We will not be replacing Alison. The ASL B&L Faculty [...]
My Mashed Library lightning talk – atoz’n'rss
Edit (8th July) – slideshare.net does not seem to like displaying these slides on-screen, so here they are to download in MS PowerPoint format. Here are the slides (on slideshare.net) of the 5-minute lightning talk I just gave at Mashed Library 2009, on using ticTOCs data to display e-journal ToC feeds, and on creating a new-titles [...]
Blogs.Lincoln: claim your name!
Joss has explained to me that your name is stored within these blogs in 2 separate places: In your profile in BuddyPress – the ‘social networking’ glue which holds all the blogs together; And also within the blog-writing admin interface itself. In both of these places, the default for your name is your University username [...]
Mashing up the A-to-Z: new titles feed
In February, I wrote about how I’d added more than 5,000 ticTOCs RSS feeds to the A-to-Z, so that researchers can easily find and subscribe to Table-of-Contents (ToC) updates from journals in their field. I think this is an indispensable current awareness service, and I’m pleased it’s being promoted at the ‘Working Smarter With the [...]
Focus on your teaching: revisiting current practice and sharing new ideas
Organised by the East Midlands Section of University College and Research Group on the 28th April and held at the Kimberlin Library, De Montfort University, Leicester, Focus on your teaching was primarily an event for librarians teaching in HE institutions but held relevance for many other staff. It struck me that many of the things [...]
Autodiscoverable RSS feed for L&LR news blog
For anyone who doesn’t use Yammer and who missed the conversation leading up to this: data innovator Tony Hirst of the OU posted to his blog explaining how he’d… “put together a page showing how the well the HEI Libraries are doing at getting autodiscoverable RSS feeds declared on their website homepages.“ Only about 10% [...]
Blogs·Library·Lincoln is changing! (All for the better)
F.A.O. all staff in L&LR at the University of Lincoln. I’ve ‘pushed the button’ on quite a big change for the way L&LR staff post new messages to our three blogs. The main result of the change is that we’ve been brought within the main University blogging platform. Our old blogging interface [image below] is [...]
