I recently chaired the first meeting of a new ‘Library Innovation Group’ for the University. Here are its terms of reference. We’re hoping that this new group will be a bit more lively than its predecessor (which had got a bit stale and reactive through overfamiliarity, and which wasn’t very accountable to users or even [...]
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OPACPress: building a social, semantic, devolved, distributed union catalogue
Joss has beaten me to blogging this, so rather than think for myself I’m just going to quote him in full. Yesterday, I submitted a proposal to Talis under their Incubator fund. If successful, I would have the pleasure of working with Paul Stainthorp, E-Resources Librarian at the University of Lincoln, and Casey Bisson, Information [...]
RefWorks: 10 ideas for 10% by (20)10
Following up on my last RefWorks post. On Monday I had a phone conversation with Stephanie Faulkner, client services manager for RefWorks-COS. We discussed my desire to increase our ‘reach’ (currently 5.6% of the University are active users), and Stephanie went through some ideas, based on what the top 50 worldwide RefWorks-using institutions have found successful. I’d [...]
Library 2.0h no, not him again…
I’ve just spent an extremely useful morning in the Friary Learning Centre at Lincoln College, talking to learning centre staff about “Practical Library 2.0“. I was very pleased to have been invited to talk to colleagues there, and to give a demo (entitled “Library 2.0h no, not again…“) of how library workers can use [mostly] [...]
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 [...]
Supporting the learning experience: a joint event by Library and Learning Resources and CERD
The following details outline the organisation of an event in June. If anyone else is interested in helping with organisation or on the day please let Oonagh Monaghan know at omonaghan@lincoln.ac.uk Steering group: Helen Farrall (CERD), Pat Hughes, Oonagh Monaghan, Lesley Thompson Publisher/supplier communications: Di Walker, Vicki Winchester-Fraser Helpers on the day: Alice Frear, Marie [...]
Do you Yammer?
Joss introduced me to Yammer today… it’s a ‘microblogging’ service, similar to Twitter or the Facebook ‘status update’, but designed for work – it looks like an interesting way for groups of dispersed colleagues to keep in touch with what the others are up to in a non-threatening way! There’s a small (6 users!) but [...]
BBSLG Conference 2008
At the beginning of July I attended the BBSLG (British Business Schools’ Librarians Group) annual conference, hosted by Leeds Met and Leeds University and held at the Metropole hotel in Leeds. The subject this year was space, including library space, learning spaces and even “head space” (stress). There were talks by Philippa Levy (Sheffield Information [...]
