Hej from Stockholm

Despite the fact that I’ve really got a million things to do, including preparing for at least three upcoming presentations – two on self-archiving and the repository, and one on blogging, I’m off work this week. And in Stockholm. It’s a family thing.
But an interesting thing to report – I put my powerpoints [...]

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The rise of recommendation and review – user generated content in the catalogue

Here’s our presentation from the LWW7 conference, reported on below here and here:

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Libraries Without Walls 7 – the wrap-up

Yes well my apologies, it’s been a little quiet around these parts. Still have to figure out how to write a post to be posted at a particular time. I’ve been at the Libraries Without Walls 7 conference, held on the Greek island of Lesvos in the Aegean sea. Fortunately I’m not [...]

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Blogging about repositories

Yes, me going on about blogs again.. I’ll put these on Slideshare eventually, but as I’m working through my ILI presentation I’m focusing on why I’ve got a blog about setting up our repository (although most of these posts lately are about blogs and conferences, sorry..)
So why blog about my repository experiences – here’s a [...]

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Libraries Without Walls 7

My husband is getting irate because I keep saying ‘while I’m on holiday’ instead of ‘at the conference’. Freudian slip, I’m sure.
The LWW7 conference is held in Molyvos on the Aegean Island of Lesvos. The conference theme is: Exploring ‘anytime, anywhere’ delivery of library services, with an international line-up of presenters [...]

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Blog, blogs, blogging about institutional repository repositories

Or should that be ‘It’s All About The Metadata Baby’..
I’m working on my Internet Librarian International masterclass material and realised I the reason I’m working on this my:self-archive blog is partly to record my experiences in setting up our institutional repository to share with colleagues who are about to do the same and GUESS WHAT?! [...]

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DSpace installation

Kelvin’s working on our DSpace install, wading through the documentation and nutting out integration issues. We paid a visit to the University of Bristol repository people on Friday afternoon, and I think this helped a lot. They’ve been in the repository game a lot longer, and Naveed, their tech support has implemented a [...]

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User generated content – comments, reviews, etc..

We’ve recently launched a small collection of book records on the library catalogue that offer library users to add comments, reviews and recommendations. Our clever systems librarian Laurence has hooked up the collection to a wiki, where users can leave comments which are then fed back into the catalogue.
We did a lot [...]

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Ruptures over PRISM

Making huge waves in the blogosphere, the Partnership for Research Integrity in Science & Medicine (PRISM) has been established by AAP and partners to ‘protect the integrity of scientific research’. They’ve already come under fire in the early days of their website release with claims of the use of copyright protected images on their [...]

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Collecting statistics on repository use

I’ve noticed that Brunel do a very nice job of presenting statistics on the use of their repository and it’s contents. As a browser on the site, I find myself reading through to see which departments have deposited the most, who’s article is getting the most interest,etc.. They’ve got the Top 50 authors and [...]

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