Unprecedented $3 million dollar lawsuit filed against McMaster librarian for blogpost
Reblogged from Canadian Association of Professional Academic Librarians: It’s rare to be sued for expressing your opinion on a blog but that’s exactly what seems to be happening to a librarian at McMaster University in Hamilton Ontario. In fact,librarians in both Canada and the US took to social media yesterday to discuss the rumour that … Continue reading →
Thoughts on CARL’s Research Data Management Course
Last month, I attended CARL’s 4-day course on Research Data Management Services in Toronto. (Jargon alert: CARL is the Canadian Association of Research Libraries). This was an intensive week of collaborating on research data management (RDM) practices and creating a community of practice within Canadian academic librarianship. Our concern for sound RDM practices at Canadian … Continue reading →
OLA 2013 Poster Presentations: Doubling Down on Online Teaching and Learning
Are you going to The 2013 OLA SuperConference? Are you going to be there on Thursday, January 31? If so, then come say Hi! while my colleague, Pauline Dewan, and I present our poster at lunch. Last spring, Pauline and I were tasked with analyzing the Laurier Library’s online teaching and learning programme. We spent … Continue reading →
Reflecting on 2012
2012 has come and gone, and it’s been quite a year. If you’ve been following along on this blog or elsewhere, then you probably know that my theme for these past twelve months has been “Planes, Trains, and Automobiles.” Since starting a term position as Government Information Librarian at Wilfrid Laurier University, I split my … Continue reading →
Link: Measuring a library’s holdings based on its “uniqueness”
Here’s a Monday morning link for all y’all. Dan Cohen notes an interesting way to measure a library’s holdings : by evaluating the collection’s “uniqueness.” This may be an interesting metric that could be useful at the local-consortial level? I’ll let the Collections Librarians answer that, though. Read it here: Dan Cohen: Visualizing the Uniqueness, … Continue reading →
Discussion on off-site storage academic libraries
Link Sharing: This page links to a newspaper article on the potential impact of offsite storage for items with low circulation numbers in a province-wide academic library consortium. Check it out and contribute to the discussion! Culling… | LinkedIn.
LISPOP/Ipsos Reid polling data at Wilfrid Laurier University goes public; scholarly users can access it in many formats via ODESI.
Link: LISPOP/Ipsos Reid polling data at Wilfrid Laurier University goes public; scholarly users can access it in many formats via ODESI.