UF Libraries Journal Club
Summer 2006
An informal forum for library faculty and staff to discuss recent library science articles and their own research.
Journal Club meets biweekly on Thursdays at noon in the Library East conference room.
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Type
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|---|---|---|---|
May 18 |
Mary Edwards |
HSCL Distance Learning Survey: Results and Lessons Learned |
Research
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June 1 |
Stephanie Haas |
Open Access Information revolution: can institutional repositories and open access transform scholarly communications? http://www.the-elso-gazette.org/magazines/issue15/features/features1.pdf Net writing new chapter for science journals If you want in depth coverage, try SPARC Instiuttional Repository Checklist and Resource Guide at http://www.arl.org/sparc/IR/IR_Guide_v1.pdf |
Article |
July 6 |
ALA and SLA Conference Reports |
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July 20 |
John Nemmers & Flo Turcotte |
Evaluating Research Services in Special Collections |
Research |
August 3 |
Naomi Young |
TBA |
TBA |
August 24 at 1pm |
Jason Fleming |
"Using Tags in a University Library: Pros and Cons" As we contemplate using Tags in our catalog to allow users to assign keywords to records for retrieval we need to first consider several options. There is the issue of "sloppy tags", meaning tags which are malformed or have no extrinsic meaning. Security concerns in the wake of the AOL scandal will be considered as well (i.e. unintended consequences). The benefits of tagging will be highlighted and explored (Tag Clouds, Interest Timeline, Information Discovery). Plans for a UF tagging project will be discussed. |
Research |