What do REM and impact factors have in common?! To a few of you, the answer may be something to do with sleep. But to my mind, the movement to reconsider the place of traditional measures of scholarly publishing (aka alt-metrics) is fast becoming the new alternative rock, a challenge to the scholarly status quo. [...]

Google + : Facebook slayer or privacy exploiter? Yet another log in, or the dawn of a new age? Asset? Liability? Plus? Minus?! Launched to great fanfare in September 2011, commentators pounced gleefully on Google +, Google’s latest attempt to join the social media bandwagon. For the uninitiated,  Google +, (also known as G+) is technically a [...]

It’s that time of semester again when most reference questions I get seem to have something to do with punctuation, a DOI, or placement of footnotes. Yep, happy citation season, to one and all! Despite running workshops and creating webpages on citation formatting, it’s often hard to get even graduate students interested in citation management [...]

What’s short and yellow and also known as a web application hybrid? Yes, you’ve got it- a mashup! Also known as remixes or meshes, a mashup is “a web page or application that uses and combines data, presentation or functionality from two or more sources to create new services”. In other words, a mash up [...]

Twitter! Oh, that’s disappointing. That’s the place where you tell people about your lunch, right? Isn’t it a bit 2007? Well yes, Twitter has been around since 2007. And yes, there are a lot of lunch tweets. But Twitter just keeps getting better and better- and the uses of Twitter for research, outreach, analytics and [...]

I will be posting a new post here soon- guess what the topic is?!

How many of you have a phone that accesses the Internet? And if you do have a smartphone, how many of you have left that phone further than 5 feet/meters away from you right now?  I’m guessing that if any of you answered yes to that second question, you are now patting pockets and enduring mild [...]

Thanks to everyone for attending Pecha Kucha! The room was packed and the presenters were fabulous. I’ll add the presentations as I get them. See you next year! Jesus Alonso Regalado

Holly Ackerman Gabriella Reznowski Beyond the Stone Brenda Salem FRBR Presentation Adrian Johnson Becoming Part of Your Students’ [...]

If you google my name, you will discover that I am a writer of romantic fiction. And a tennis pro who was flung into jail by Joe Arpaio, America’s toughest sheriff. And a medical librarian in the UK. Or not… Sadly for me, there are in fact several Alison Hicks who are either far more [...]

The Serials Subcommittee would like to gather information about new Latin American print and electronic journals. Please let us know of any new titles using the form available on the Serials Webpage Enter as much information about the journal that you can find (eg title, place of publication, web address, ISSN) You can also send new [...]

Instruction 2.0 theory is all well and good but I’m teaching 3 undergraduate seminars next week and need some practical examples! What follows is an introduction to in person or classroom based instruction 2.0 examples. But I’m not an instruction librarian, I hear you cry! Never fear- even if you do not teach in a [...]