article on scopus/RQF

http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/50416/

Iraq Librarian's Diary

The British Library hosts the diary of Dr Saad Eskander who is the Director of the Iraq National Library and Archive (INLA). Over a 9 month period to the end of July 2007 Dr Eskander describes what it is like to run a library during wartime. For anyone who may be interested in reading the diary it can be found at:

http://www.bl.uk/iraqdiary.html

Thanks

Katrina

Measuring Impact and Quality.

An article that might be useful:

Title: Measuring Impact and Quality.

Authors: Tenopir, Carol

Source: Library Journal; 01/09/2007, Vol. 132 Issue 14, p30-30, 1p, 1c

Document Type: Article

Full Text Word Count: 667

ISSN: 0363-0277

Accession Number: 26520777

Database: Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre

Another one - the way of the future?

Journey into use of free software, open formats, open access, and open licensing in academia

Interesting article on students' ICT expectations

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2007/09/expectations.aspx

Online textbooks

This (short) article in Chronicle of Higher Education warns students don't like using e-textbooks exclusively, but more as a supplement to print. It's pretty interesting, and a good argument to keep supporting print as well as online.

Clinical Library Blog

Ian and I have established a blog for the Clinical Library. It can be viewed at:

http://utasclinlib.blogspot.com/

We would appreciate your feedback before we commence our campaign to market it to our client groups.

Thanks

Katrina

ABS blog for Librarians

Check out the great new ABS Blog for Librarians. It should be useful for any librarian wrestling with keeping up-to-date with statistics.

One of the first things I found there was this stunning video of a lecture by Hans Rosling which seems to show (all at once):

1. How to give a great lecture
2. The power of statistics
3. Why statistics need not be boring
4. How to cure all the worlds problems!

Warning: its 20minutes long...but worth it!