Monthly Archives: July 2009

Weeding: Good for your collection and your health

Two ways weeding dusty old books are good for you:

Your hands get black with dust so you wash them more frequently – just what the government recommends to slow the spread of flu!
The dust makes you sneeze a lot so people think you’ve got flu and keep their distance – so you don’t get their germs either.

Links of interest 9/7/09

An essay on the serials review process.

The Global Legal Monitor, published by the Law Library of Congress in Washington, offers an RSS feed for updates for all news stories as well as RSS feeds broken down by topic and/or jurisdiction.

Make it Digital by DigitalNZ has guides, voting for what NZ resources should be digitised (the AJHRs are currently in the lead) and a place to ask and answer questions about digitisation.

Marketing

Five ways you can save money by marketing by Kathy Dempsey
A librarian from Maine State Library gives instructions on how to embed or adapt the Library Use Value Calculator – “This calculator was developed in 2007 as a way for libraries to let patrons calculate how much their use of the library means to them”.

Added web functionality

Cornell University describes how they created JAbbr, an online tool where you can type in a journal abbreviation to find possible matches in their catalogue. The source code is available under the MIT License.
Tom Pasley at UCOL Library writes about adding an APA citation into the records displayed on their (Voyager) catalogue.