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Ithaka S+R Library Survey 2010 Findings

Catherine Lavallee-Welch — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 11:50:56 +0000

I had promised myself I would read the Ithaka S+R Library 2010 survey findings this week-end, especially because of the results concerning the choice of e-book format over print, but that was not meant to be. I will still read it; however I also intend to listen in to the planned free webinars for the coming weeks. I thought those might be of interest to others too.

April 13, 2011 12:00 – 1:00 pm (EDT)
Ithaka S+R Library Survey 2010 Webinar: Academic Library Services and Strategy

April 20, 2011 12:00-1:00 pm (EDT)
Ithaka S+R Library Survey 2010: Academic Library Collections

April 27, 2011 10AM-11AM EDT
Ithaka S+R Library Survey 2010 Webinar: For Non-US Academic Libraries

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Physical Science and Engineering Library closing at UC Davis

Catherine Lavallee-Welch — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:30:13 +0000

Just a bit of sad news, the University of California – Davis decided to close down its Physical Science and Engineering Library. Budget cuts are said to be the reason behind the decision.

400,000 items will be moved to other campus libraries as well as other institutions. The library will close by 2011. The decision doesn’t seem to be favored by all librarians and students. I’d be curious to know the faculty’s reactions. And the actual future use of the building.

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Another library flash mob

Catherine Lavallee-Welch — Fri, 01 May 2009 15:25:52 +0000

I linked a few months ago to a flash mob at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. More recently, several hundreds of students tried to enter the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga library during finals week. Two nights ago, it the was the William T. Young Library at the University of Kentucky to be visited by, depending of what you read, 300 to 1500 students. Knowing the building, basically a large 6-storied tube, the noise must have been deafening.

Is this a increasing trend or is it more covered by the media? While I think the students have good intentions, the possibility of injury is present (crowd surfing, jumping off the building like at UTC). And, how does the event ends? At UNC, the crowd seemed to disperse rapidly on its own. At UTC, security shot mace over the crowd. At UK, someone pulled the fire alarm. Do you know of a library emergency plan that cover that situation?

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Ada Lovelace Day

Catherine Lavallee-Welch — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:50:00 +0000

Today, March 24th, is Ada Lovelace Day. It is an international day that wants to draw attention to women excelling in technology.

I would like to highlight two women here that I admire for their technological skills. I also have the pleasure of knowing them personally and, bonus, they’re librarians!

Jill Hurst-Wahl is an expert on digitization and social web tools like Second Life. She has her own consulting firm, Hurst Associates and is a faculty member at Syracuse University at the School of Information Studies. She blogs at Digitization 101.
Stacey Greenwell is an expert on information/learning commons. She is the Universtiy of Kentucky’s Information Commons “Hub” librarian and a former IT support professional. She blogs at The Uncommon Commons.

With these spotlights, I do not wish to undermine all the other women I know that make techology sing (and there are many of them) – please ladies, rock on!

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NewsShow app installed

Catherine Lavallee-Welch — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:08:12 +0000

I’ve added the Google NewsShow app for a spin (right hand column, below the cloud). Let’s see what it comes up with. Not surprinsgly, I specified keywords that have to do with academic/university libraries.

Thanks to my DH for his help with the installation.

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Issue 7.6 of ACS’ LiveWire newsletter

Catherine Lavallee-Welch — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 04:29:59 +0000

ACS, in the June issue of LiveWire, announces a special blog just for Baltimore SLA conference by ACS Publications Senior Account Manager and LiveWire Editor-at-Large Doug Storm and guest bloggers like Teri Vogel. Attendees that will go to the ACS booth to post a comment on the blog may get a t-shirt.

In the same issue, the Librarian’s Corner column features Andrea Twiss-Brooks with an article on sources to find and evaluate sci-tech book selections.

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World’s first computer is 2000 years old?

Catherine Lavallee-Welch — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 18:16:28 +0000

A bronze mechanism of wheels and dials dating from 80 B.C., the “Antikythera Mechanism”, is now thought to be
a prediction tool for planetary motion. The mechanism was discovered on the wreck of a cargo ship in Greece in 1900. Researchers also think that the mechanism shows a conception of the universe that is sun-centered.

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Library associations support legislation that improves public access to federal scientific research

Catherine Lavallee-Welch — Wed, 10 May 2006 19:23:33 +0000

A coalition of national library associations, including SLA, ALA and ARL, praised the introduction of the “Federal Research Public Access Act of 2006.” The Act is introduced by Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) and Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) and would require federal agencies with extramural research portfolios over $100 million to make the electronic versions of peer-reviewed articles publicly available via the Internet within 6 months of publication.

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More on the new IET

Catherine Lavallee-Welch — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 16:44:27 +0000

Some news from the new IET about titles and URL changes following the IEE and the IIE merger. See the full entry for details from an email sent by Michael McCabe, Marketing Manager – Publishing on various listserves.

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Journals:
Electronics Letters – no change
IEE Proceedings – all 16 titles will continue to be published as IEE Proceedings and not IET Proceedings for the remainder of 2006. Plans to rename these titles for 2007 are currently being finalized and will be announced shortly.

Magazines:
Communications Engineer – no change
Computing and Control Engineering – no change
Electronics Systems and Software – no change
Engineering Management – no change
Information Professional – no change
Manufacturing Engineer – no change
Power Engineer – no change

IEE Review – has now ceased publication, the last issue is Volume 52, Number 3, March 2006. IEE Review has been replaced by a new monthly magazine, Engineering & Technology, details are as follows:

Title: Engineering & Technology
Abbreviated Title: Eng. & Technol.
First Issue: Volume 1, Issue 1, April 2006
CODEN: ETNEBJ
Print ISSN: 1750-9637
Online ISSN: 1750-9645

Please note that as Engineering & Technology has replaced IEE Review, all current subscribers who receive/access IEE Review will now receive/access Engineering & Technology at no extra cost. Engineering & Technology will be added to both the IET Digital Library and the IEEE/IET Electronic Library (IEEE Xplore).

Conferences Publications/Seminar Digests:
All Conference Publications/Seminar Digests published after March 31, 2006, will be known as IET Conference Publications and IET Seminar Digests.

IET Digital Library URLs:
All IET Digital Library URLs are now prefixed with http://www.ietdl.org. All old links prefixed with http://www.ieedl.org will continue to resolve as we have no plans to remove these.

The new URLs for the IET Digital Library are as follows:
IET Digital Library homepage – http://www.ietdl.org

Journals
Electronics Letters – http://www.ietdl.org/EL
IEE Proceedings Circuits, Devices & Systems – http://www.ietdl.org/IP-CDS
IEE Proceedings Computers & Digital Techniques – http://www.ietdl.org/IP-CDT
IEE Proceedings Communications – http://www.ietdl.org/IP-COM
IEE Proceedings Control Theory & Applications – http://www.ietdl.org/IP-CTA
IEE Proceedings Electric Power Applications – http://www.ietdl.org/IP-EPA
IEE Proceedings Generation, Transmission & Distribution – http://www.ietdl.org/IP-GTD
IEE Proceedings Information Security – http://www.ietdl.org/IP-IFS
IEE Proceedings Intelligent Transport Systems – http://www.ietdl.org/IP-ITS
IEE Proceedings Microwaves Antennas & Propagation – http://www.ietdl.org/IP-MAP
IEE Proceedings Nanobiotechnology – http://www.ietdl.org/IP-NBT
IEE Proceedings Optoelectronics – http://www.ietdl.org/IP-OPT
IEE Proceedings Radar, Sonar & Navigation – http://www.ietdl.org/IP-RSN
IEE Proceedings Science, Measurement & Technology – http://www.ietdl.org/IP-SMT
IEE Proceedings Software – http://www.ietdl.org/IP-SEN
IEE Proceedings Systems Biology – http://www.ietdl.org/IP-SYB
IEE Proceedings Vision, Image & Signal Processing – http://www.ietdl.org/IP-VIS

Magazines
Engineering & Technology – http://www.ietdl.org/ET (URL to be activated)
Communications Engineer – http://www.ietdl.org/CE
Computing and Control Engineering – http://www.ietdl.org/CCE
Electronics Systems and Software – http://www.ietdl.org/ESS
Engineering Management – http://www.ietdl.org/EM
Information Professional – http://www.ietdl.org/INP
Manufacturing Engineer – http://www.ietdl.org/ME
Power Engineer – http://www.ietdl.org/PE

Conferences – http://www.ietdl.org/CP

Seminar Digests – http://www.ietdl.org/SEM

Discontinued magazine titles
IEE Review (1994-2006) – http://www.ietdl.org/IR
Electronics & Communication Engineering Journal (1994-2002) – http://www.ietdl.org/ECEJ
Engineering Science & Education Journal (1994-2002) – http://www.ietdl.org/ESEJ

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Michael McCabe
Marketing Manager – Publishing

The Institution of Engineering and Technology
www.theiet.org

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New organization for IEE and IIE

Catherine Lavallee-Welch — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 19:16:18 +0000

In late March, the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE) and the Institution of Incorporated Engineers (IIE) formed a new organization, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).

This change is said to bring no significant change in IEEE Xplore, apart from a few journals and conferences changing their names.

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ISTL – Fall 2005

Catherine Lavallee-Welch — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 13:44:41 +0000

The Fall 2005 issue of Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship is now available. The theme is “Facilities”. Table of contents is available in the extended entry.

Theme: Facilities

* A Century of Progress? Adaptation of the Chemistry Library at the University of Chicago
by Andrea Twiss-Brooks, University of Chicago

* Changing Mission, Strengthened Focus: A New Use for the Current Periodicals Room at the University of California, Santa Cruz
by Catherine Soehner, Christy Hightower, and Wei Wei, University of California, Santa Cruz

* And Then There Was One: Moving and Merging Three Health Science Library Collections
by Mary Hitchcock, Rhonda Sager, and Julie Schneider, University of Wisconsin-Madison

* Capital Improvement: One Northern Virginia Library’s Support of Life-Saving Programs
by Heather Groves Hannan, Victoria Shelton, William Fleming, and Nicki Trosclair Meacham, George Mason University

* The Closing of the LSU Chemistry Library
by William W. Armstrong, Louisiana State University

Refereed Articles

* Biology Article Retrieval from Various Databases: Making Good Choices with Limited Resources
by D. Yvonne Jones, Rollins College

Book Reviews

* From Gutenberg to the Internet: A Sourcebook on the History of Information Technology
by D. Lynn Koenig, University of Kansas

* Internet Guide to Food Safety and Security
by Ruth Riley, University of South Carolina

Database Reviews and Reports

* Compendex Engineering Village 2
by Meghan Lafferty, University of Minnesota and Kitty Porter, Vanderbilt University

Viewpoints

* Federal Repositories: Comparative Advantage in Open Access?

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AIP hurricane-related help

Catherine Lavallee-Welch — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 14:11:46 +0000

The American Institute of Physics will furnish usernames and passwords valid through December 31, 2005 to researchers who have lost access as a result of hurricanes Katrina or Rita. Call 1-800-874-6383 or email help@scitation.org. Librarians can also contact the AIP to re-establish access or for concerns concerning renewals.

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CSA efforts to help Katrina victims

Catherine Lavallee-Welch — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 16:00:35 +0000

Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) is taking several measures to help users displaced by Katrina. Among them:

make CSA databases accessible to displaced users directly for up to 6 months through a registration process on the CSA website
extend affected customer subscriptions for up to 6 months to cover the period of time where their services would be affected
work with ALA to create a fund used to help rebuild the affected library infrastructure
as well as making monetary and items contributions.

Go CSA!

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APS offers help to Katrina affected members

Catherine Lavallee-Welch — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 14:36:53 +0000

The American Physical Society offers its help over the coming weeks and months as you seek to rebuild your departments, laboratories and workplaces.

If we can assist you in any way in your efforts to recover from this devastating tragedy, please contact our Director of Membership, Trish Lettieri, at lettieri@aps.org or 301.209.3272. Go APS!

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IoP access following Katrina

Catherine Lavallee-Welch — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 14:33:34 +0000

The Institute of Physics offers login information to displaced hurricane victims: “(…) we have put systems into place to ensure that professors, researchers, librarians and students affected by this tragedy can gain access to all IOP journals for at least the remainder of 2005.

If your access to research published by the Institute of Physics has been disrupted, please contact us by phone at 215-627-0880 or by email at info@ioppubusa.com for instructions and a password. You will then be able to access all of our journals from any remote location.”

Go IoP!

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ASCE’s Katrina website

Catherine Lavallee-Welch — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 14:16:19 +0000

The American Society of Civil Engineers has a full new section on Hurricane Katrina relief both for affected members and to inform its members and the public at-large. This section right now actually remplaces the normal homepage.

Maybe more specifically for libraries (and individual members), ASCE has this to offer: Mailing of the member publications, Civil Engineering magazine and ASCE News are presently being suspended to areas affected by Hurricane Katrina: Mobile, AL 365-366; Meridian, MS 369, 393; Hattiesburg, MS 394; Gulfport, MS 395; McComb, MS 396; New Orleans, LA 700-701; Houma, LA 703; Mandeville, LA 704.

To reactivate you subscription, please visit www.asce.org/myprofile and update your contact information. To claim back issues of these publications, contact (800) 548-ASCE (2723) or email member@asce.org.”

Go ASCE!

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IEEE-USA’s response to Hurricane Katrina

Catherine Lavallee-Welch — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 14:10:52 +0000

IEEE-USA is taking steps to help in the recovery from Hurricane Katrina. Among others, the Society has announced it made a financial donation to the American Red Cross and will make available Professional Activities Committee (PACE) project funds to organized groups of U.S. IEEE members in Regions 3 [Southeastern U.S.] and 5 [Southwestern U.S.] requesting funds to support local volunteer recovery efforts, especially to help sustain local IEEE activities and volunteer networks in the weeks and months ahead.” Go IEEE!

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SIAM’s response to Katrina

Catherine Lavallee-Welch — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 14:01:34 +0000

The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics will provide username/password access to every SIAM electronic journal to any faculty member, staff member, or student at any institution that has suffered damage. This username and password will be effective until December 31, 2006. To subscribing libraries, SIAM says they are prepared to “help you rebuild your collections and restore e-journal access whenever you are ready.” Go SIAM!

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ASCE page on hurricane-related issues

Catherine Lavallee-Welch — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 02:43:08 +0000

Jay Bhatt has reported on the usual newsgroups a useful page put up by the American Society of Civil Engineers on Hurricane Events Analysis, Response and Mitigation. It is comprised of published journal and magazine articles and proceedings papers and covers areas such as:

Evacuation and Shelters
Levees
Models and Simulation
Prediction and Planning
Storm Gusts
Structural Performance and Damage assessment

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Elsevier’s efforts for hurricane relief

Catherine Lavallee-Welch — Sat, 03 Sep 2005 15:51:52 +0000

Elsevier announced a donation to the American Red Cross and plans to match employee donations to the Red Cross and all eligible disaster relief organizations. Also, “in addition to ongoing financial aid in the ensuing weeks and months, Elsevier will continue to search for ways in which our books, journals and online services can assist with rebuilding the schools, libraries and communities in the Gulf Coast region”. Go Elsevier!

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