Visual Dictionary Online

How cool is this!
A dictionary with a new point of view
that catches the eye and enriches the mind.
20,000 terms with contextual definitions,developed by terminology experts;
6,000 full-color images of a wide variety of objectsfrom all aspects of life

See: http://visual.merriam-webster.com/society/education/library.php for a library pic!

Blogs by college and academic librarians

http://www.academicblogs.org/wiki/index.php/University_Librarians

Blogs by college and academic librarians

The plausibility of computing the h-index of scholarly productivity and impact using reference-enhanced databases

I have linked up 4 references to articles by Peter Jacso, that focus on the pros and cons of the three largest cited-reference-enhanced databases (Google Scholar, Scopus, and Web of Science) for determining the h-index.

You can access them in the "h-index" folder on RefShare at the url below:
http://www.refworks.com/refshare/?site=037931147244400000/RWWS1A1306351/h-index

Boxes for books!

'BOOK NERD' BUILDS BOXES FOR BROWN'S RAREST VOLUMES:

At Brown U.'s library, one staff member busies herself with making boxes -- beautifully wrought, one-of-a-kind boxes -- to protect the books in storage.

user name: ru library
password: ru2007

SETTLEMENT REACHED IN GOOGLE BOOK-SCANNING LAWSUIT:

Under the terms of the deal, Google will pay $125-million to establish a Book
Rights Registry, to compensate authors and publishers whose
copyrighted books have already been scanned, and to cover legal
costs.

New RUL webpage Subject Guide link

You may have noticed the new Subject Guides link under Resources on the Library webpage This replaces the previous link which was a sub-link under Databases.

The new link presently leads to our old Subject Gateways. The links are gradually being replaced with links to our new (LibGuide) Subject Guides. As they are linked Anne Moon is marking them with a "NEW' icon. Once all the Subject Guides are completed we will change the link to lead to the new Subject Guide page where users will be able to select their subject/tag from the main page.

SAOUG Conference 2008

I have attached the PDF version of a conference report that appeared in vol. 25 no. 6 of Library Hi Tech News.

You can access it in the RefShare SAOUG_Conference-2008 folder at: http://www.refworks.com/refshare?site=037931147244400000/RWWS1A1306351/SAOUG_Conference-2008


ABSTRACT:

The purpose of this paper is to report on papers presented at the ninth annual Southern African online user group conference on 3-5 June 2008 in Pretoria.

The focus was very much on the changes facing librarians daily, changes in users as well as in technology. This was addressed in subthemes such as the Google generation, news alerting services, institutional repositories and end-user training.

The new research information management system (RIMS) was also discussed.

Zotero versus RefWorks

The little I could find about Zotero on the Web was pretty uncomplimentary ...

See, for example, the below:

Zotero Bibliographic Software at MIT: MIT Libraries
"There are still some kinks to be worked out of the software, so you may not want to use Zotero for writing your thesis or for creating complex bibliographies..."
http://libraries.mit.edu/help/zotero/

MIT Libraries uses Zotero in addition to RefWorks and EndNote - They've created a very informative table comparing Zotero with RefWorks and EndNote. It can be accessed at: http://libraries.mit.edu/help/bibliography/comparison.html

I also found an FAQs page about this Firefox extension at: http://www.zotero.org/documentation/#faq_and_troubleshooting (Here it is confirmed that Zotero works only with Firefox).

E-Books on Rhodes RefShare Folder

Some recent references to e-books articles have been added to the RefShare Folder at the url below:
http://www.refworks.com/refshare?site=037931147244400000/RWWS1A1306351/E-Books


You should be able to access the shared E-books Folder from within your RefWorks account by following the steps below:

1. Go to the View menu in your Refworks account. (It is on the top horizontal menu bar).


2. You will see “RefWorks Shared Area” at the bottom of this drop-down menu. Click on this.


3. Now click on the hyperlink under “E-Books”. The references should now be displayed.