I made the (deceptively long) journey over to the city campus of the University of Wolverhampton yesterday (18 Nov 2009) for the concluding JISC MOSAIC project event. I was without an Internet connection all day so wasn’t able to waste time contribute to the backchannel by tweeting from the event, so here’s my writeup. Interlude 1: [...]
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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 [...]
Agasp at awkward Mash hashtags, lads? Aah, that’s grand…
(With apologies to Christian Bök for the title.) I’m going to the long-anticipated Mashed Library 2009 (“Mash Oop North“) tomorrow at the University of Huddersfield. If you want to follow the action from afar, here’s what one of the organisers (guess who?!) has suggested in a post on the event blog: If you’re wanting to [...]
Sharing book usage data for the benefit of all
The University of Huddersfield have made their circulation usage and recommendation data free and reusable for the benefit of other libraries. Library systems manager, Dave Pattern, envisions a “book recommendation service that makes Amazon’s look amateurish”, made possible through more and more libraries doing the same. Dave asks: “whether or not you can augment this [...]
Blogging tip #1 – tags
When you write a blog post, you can enter any number of tags. You’ll see the ‘Add new tag’ field underneath the main ‘Post’ window. Tags are a really useful way of informally grouping together several blog postings covering the same subject(s), using [usually] one- or two-keyword phrases, so that readers of your blog can quickly view a [...]
The Buzz #3
Welcome to the third edition of the Learning Resources staff newsletter. Many thanks to all who entered the competition to name the newsletter. We had many responses, even the Vice Chancellor entered into the spirit of things. The winner was ‘The Buzz’ entered by Alison Sharman and she wins a bottle of wine for her [...]
Update #2
Welcome back to the second issue of Learning Resources Update.The main aim of this newsletter is to improve communication and anyone who wishes to contribute may do so. Read on…
