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The College Libraries Section of ACRL selected the Odum Library website as the CLS Website of the Month!

A lot of people worked very hard on the website usability studies and redesign, as well as its constant maintenance.  These folks include Sherrida Crawford, ( Read more... )

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As a Reference Librarian, I’ve been thinking about cataloging a lot lately.  My biggest fear was confirmed while having lunch with a friend, who is wrapping up her MLIS degree with my alma mater, Florida State University.

She joined one of our library’s catalogers ( Read more... )

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The focus group results are in!  Looks like we have a fair amount of tweaking to improve the website, but I’m just glad that we’re getting student input (rather than guessing).  A big thank you is due to the whole committee, but especially Becky and Vince, who ( Read more... )

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The highlight of the conference’s programming (for me) came on Day 3, when I got to sit front and center to see danah boyd present on social network sites. Always a brilliant thinker and speaker, she definitely wowed the audience, and got us fired up to defend ( Read more... )

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I originally complained to Elsevier on May 9th about the lack of IP access to the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology.  Several moons (and promises from the company) later, still no IP access.  Fall term encroaches.  I can see the angry students and faculty ( Read more... )

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The GOLD conference was a blast, once again.  This year I presented the keynote, The Evolving Library: Taking Action and Getting Results (view/download), as well as a session Crafting the User-Centered Library (view/download).  The crowd was awesome, there were ( Read more... )

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Well, after first having my email client send the message to my junkmail (?!?), I got Elsevier’s response and solution:

Hi Cliff:

Someone on my team brought your email to my attention. I want to first
apologize for the confusion over access to this title. ( Read more... )

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As someone who speaks fairly regularly on social networking sites (MySpace & Facebook in particular), I’ve been struggling with the idea of whether to write library applications for these services.  My short answer?  No.  At least not yet…

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Last Friday, hours after I posted my review of Elsevier’s user services, I got a call while I was at Lowe’s picking up some mulch.  A coworker had received a call on the Ref. Desk from an Elsevier person looking for me.  She passed me his number and I called him ( Read more... )