Archive for November, 2010

Is Google Scholar a database killer?

Tue 30 Nov 2010, 4:45 pm

A recent article argues that Google Scholar’s improved coverage of the online scholarly literature means that libraries should consider canceling abstracting and indexing databases. I can’t see how that would work out well.

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Charity case

Mon 22 Nov 2010, 2:08 pm

Charitable reading is about readers and what they can learn, not writers and what they are owed.

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Bizarro bibliographic instruction

Fri 19 Nov 2010, 10:26 am

If you can easily spot the “bizarro” source, you can spend more time evaluating better sources.

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Preparing without preparation

Mon 15 Nov 2010, 4:04 pm

My ideal for library teaching is zero-preparation. I like to come into the session, ask the students about the work they have done in the class so far and the work they are now expected to do from this point forward. From there, we look at ways to approach their topics given the resources and [...]

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Real-world stories of electronic ILL

Fri 12 Nov 2010, 4:19 pm

So, just a few hours after my previous post about ILL of digital books and articles, and even less time after making this comment on FriendFeed: Yes, I don’t disagree with anything that anyone says here about how it [ILL of digital documents] works now. But I would still LOVE to explain this to a [...]

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Digital ILL breaks my brain

Fri 12 Nov 2010, 2:32 pm

I’m starting to think that libraries really don’t have much of a place in the digital future. Thanks to a link from Andy Woodworth, I recently read an August post from Jason Griffey on Ebook Sanity. Griffy has good things to say on the topic, but it’s really Tim Spalding’s remarks in the comments that [...]

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