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4 new sites on immigration have been added to the Topics in the News page. they cover immigration law, guestworker programs, statistics on the migrant population in the U.S. and immigration reform.
Also, I added an online tutorial from Medline on evaluating health information from the Internet. It's on the Medicine & Health page under Health information.
Here's a description of a new site that I've added to the Statistics page of the online Reference Collection.
"The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Research Library's IES Database simplifies the search for world-wide economic indicators. Individual indicators (such as GDP and CPI) are linked, and each link has a description of the data. Included in each record is the title, corporate author, publisher, years covered in the data series, type of publication (text, table, chart), frequency with which the data is published, country of origin, a URL, available languages, subject headings, format (.pdf, .xls, etc.), a summary (where available), and any notes needed to clarify the data. The database is title, country, subject and keyword searchable. The links will be checked regularly to maintain accuracy. Indicators are continually being added."
The Enciclopedia Universal Ilustrada (REF AE61 E6) has been rebound, but there is currently no room on the shelves. We will be attempting to make room soon. In the meantime, the volumes are on book trucks parked near the Reference Dept. refrigerator. Prof. Herman Salomon uses these volumes frequently.
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Cathy the Reference Nag
RCC is evaluating Red Light Green and would like your feedback. RedLightGreen is a new free interface to the RLG union catalog with a goal of "delivering a Web site that excels at addressing undergraduates' research needs, without diluting or compromising the quality of their research." It uses a Google-like search and links back to local library holdings. The "Information for Librarians" tab in the top right corner of the search page has articles about the project. Please send any comments to me or Amy Schindler by March 30. Thanks.
Jane Kessler
The Provost has informed Frank that she cannot yet commit to any additional funding for the library next year. Because of inflation, the acquisitions budget will have a projected shortfall next year between $450,000 and $500,000. We are hopeful that the Provost will be able to provide these funds. If not. we will need to reduce acquistions expenditures. Mary Casserly has asked the bibliographers to plan for 3 scenarios: (1) a reduction of $300,000 (2) a reduction of $400,000 and (3) a reduction of $500,000.
For the reference collection, this translates to planning for reductions in expenditures of (1) $22,863 (2) $30,594 and (3) $38,106. Plans have to be submitted to Mary by April 28. I will be targeting resources that are duplicative, resources that we are still acquiring for the defunct German major and little used resources. I will post a list of my selections by mid April for review.
Jane
Cathy,
Could you please share this information with all reference folks? I am posting this in response to an inquiry from a library staff member regarding the not on shelf form and when in the search process a user may place an interlibrary loan request.
In Spring 2005, assistant directors requested that circulation staff invite users who reported items not on shelf to immediately place an interlibrary loan request. This was a change in practice for circulation staff. This change was motivated by feedback from several graduate student groups who indicated that the search process for missing items was confusing or inconsistently offered. The online report form for items not on shelf was also developed in response to this feedback.
Yesterday, I made several changes to the form to clarify that users may request items through ILL immediately when they claim the item is NOS. Of course, it is in the user's best interest to wait several days to see if the item can be located (it is more often than not). However, some users may wish to immediately place the ILL request out of their sense of urgency. If the user notes that the items is NOS, then ILL will not reject their request. Reference staff who are interacting with users regarding items NOS may also invite the user to file an ILL request AFTER the NOS report is completed (when I say AFTER, I mean within a minute or so, not days).
If you have questions about this, please contact me.
Thanks,
Brenda
OpenDOAR is the Directory of Open Access Repositories. It lists, organizes, and describes world wide open access research reportories. OpenDOAR can be searched by subject keywords, or browsed by country of origin, content type, or general subject.
I originally posted this to my Science Resources blog, but I think it may be worth posting here:
The Charleston Advisor contained an extensive review of Web of Science vs. Scopus in vol.6 (3) January 2005. The authors of the review, Louise Deis and David Goodman, provide an Update on Scopus in The Charleston Advisor, vol. 7 (3) January 2006. They found that there are still serious gaps in Scopus. See the review and update for more.