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Last day of my apprenticeship in the University Library

30 januari 2009 bij 9:46 am · Ingedeeld onder stage ·Getagged Ain Uljas, FeedNavigator, IT librarian, Klugkist, reorganization, University Library

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Today my last day of my apprenticeship in the University Library.
On this blog you have been reading about the things I’ve done this last three months.
Next monday my colleagues of the Library Faculty of Arts expect my back in the Harmonie building.
It has been a quite interesting period. Completely something else than in the Faculty of Arts.
My Estonian colleague Ain Uljas will continue a part of my project, the Groningen version of FeedNavigator. Good luck with it, Ain!

Yesterday we had the official presentation of the reorganization plan of the Groningen University Library. That is connected to my work in the Library Faculty of Arts.
At Faculty of Arts, again, I will have a lot of tasks, serving the staff & students of the Faculty: preparing library classes for the students of History, lending & information desk, helping & advising students with literature searching, database instruction, MS Office help, and computer problems. And more.

But, according to mr. Klugkist, the head librarian of the University Library in Groningen, helping students with computer & database problems, is not a task of library people. He thinks it is something for computer staff. I do not agree with him.
I think librarians can teach students more complete, than IT staff can.
It is not just solving printing problems! I think in our library (three computer rooms;about 70 computers) it is very helpfull to have at least one IT librarian, a specialist in helping students, and also staff, who have computer problems, advising in literature searching and database questions.

It think it is good for a library to give a complete service to their customers, advising, searching, problem solving, and more.

And not to be dependent on a computer helpdesk which is on a distance, and often only does react only after 24 hrs, or longer.
That is just a question of quality!

Okay, enough about this.

Now something else: since I’ll join my Arts colleagues again, I think of changing the name of this blog: Ubetom will become Elbetom (pronounce: “elbay” in dutch, short LB. LB is LetterenBibliotheek, that is the Library of Arts.
But the URL probably will stay: ubetom.wordpress.com.

Colleague MiTho proposed VeBeTom. VeBe = VakBibliotheek, that is Discipline Library, that will be the new name after the Library Reorganization.
Well, maybe it’s better to keep my name, in these uncertain times.

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Ulrich’s, waar zijn ze nou?

24 november 2008 bij 7:21 pm · Ingedeeld onder bibliotheekblog, purplesearch, stage ·Getagged purplesearch, refereed journals, Ulrich's

In de zoektocht naar lijsten met peer reviewed journals (zie vorige post), bedachten we dat we natuurlijk ook de database Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory kunnen gebruiken.
De RU Groningen heeft een abonnement op dit bestand. En met Ulrich’s kun je zoeken op refereed journals, peer reviewed dus.
Na een zoekactie op refereed vonden we ruim 28.000 treffers, om precies te zijn 28.262.
Tijdens het bladeren door de lijst ontdekten we iets vreemds. We begonnen te bladeren, 25 of 125 per keer. Daarna pasten we de resultaat-URL enigszins aan, zodat we elke – in plaats van 125 – 1500 records tegelijk op het scherm kregen. Werkt wel zo snel, bij zoveel treffers.
Al bladerend – 1500, 3000, 4500, 6000, 7500, 9.000 – kwamen we tot 10.000 records.
Maar verder konden we niet bladeren! We waren inmiddels bij de Z aangeland. Hoezo 28.000 refereed journals?

De set records 9.000 t/m 10.000

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Ulrich’s, waar zijn ze gebleven, die andere 18.000 refereed tijdschriften?
Wie het weet, mag het zeggen!!! En ook als iemand ergens nog een lijstje met ruim 28.000 refereed of peer reviewed journals heeft…

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