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core journals bibliography

“Neither formulas nor use statistics alone, nor intuition, experience, or pseudo-scholarship alone will suffice in building good collections.” — Paul Metz* These are the touchstone articles that are informing our methodology for developing a core journal list at our library: Corby, … Continue reading

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what I’m reading: Speaking of Books

http://southernlibrarianship.icaap.org/content/v10n01/hackman_t01.html Timothy Hackman Speaking of Books… Connecting with Faculty through a Campus Author Series Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship v.10 no.1 (Spring 2009)

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what i’m reading now

Cultural competence: A conceptual framework for library and information science professionals Patricia Montiel Overall Library Quarterly, 79(2): 175-204

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a gift for you

what does one geek get another geek for a holiday gift?  a customized opml file. an opml file is a bunch of rss feeds all crammed into one file.  you load an opml file into your blog feedreader and, bam, … Continue reading

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ticTOCs Journal Tables of Contents Service

i started using ticTOCS this weekend since my library doesn’t subscribe to Current Contents Connect (frowny face).  i needed something that would keep me current with what’s being published in my field, something as unobtrusive as possible.  i registered at … Continue reading

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