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New month, new roles
Hopefully most of our regular readers will have picked up by now that we’ve undergone a bit of a reorganisation in the library in the past few weeks. Not the collections or resources, but in the staff...
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Contrasting Search Engine Returns and Indexing of the LRA
Repository metrics are upper most in my mind at the moment, as I’ve co-authored a paper for Open Repositories 2012 on the subject. But they’re also in my mind due to some work I’ve been doing with the...
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EMALINK – Bibliometrics & Research Visibility
A rather belated report on this May Emalink event: What are Bibliometrics and why should I care? Ian Rowlands (University of Leicester) Bibliometrics can be very sterile & specialist so they must...
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Eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. -Hans Hofmann
I’ve got to admit I was surprised to arrive at Information Literacy & Summon, Sheffield Hallam University, and find there were so many people attending. There was a real buzz and engagement from...
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UKSG Introduction to Open Access Day
Another belated event report as I attended this in May. Recent events, such as the UK Government taking on most of the Finch Report recommendations (e.g. to make publically funded research results open...
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Summer Not Loving the Repository Hits
Behind the scenes at the moment we’re tinkering away with the Google Analytics settings at the moment (there’s been a rather strange and unexplained series of drops in our hits which we’re...
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Most Accessed LRA Items (July 2012)
After a break for a month or so while we sorted out some underlying problems with our stats module, we’re back with the top 10 LRA items for the month of July 2012. New insights into the crustal...
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Farewell and good luck
As most regular readers of this blog know, I’m departing Leicester tomorrow, which means with regret this’ll be my last blog post here. I’ve very much enjoyed sharing these infrequent, but I hope...
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EMLIP Meeting – 9 August 2012
I attended an EMLIP meeting hosted by Nottingham Trent University. We were a select group this time – due to some members acquiring last minute Olympics tickets! The meeting was held in the Newton...
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USTLG Spring 2012 Meeting – Being a Science/Engineering Librarian
A very, very late report on the Spring meeting that I attended and spoke at, which was held at the University of Newcastle. Although the main theme of the event was sharing experiences of being a...
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eMRSG Meeting
On Tuesday 11th September Helen Steele & I visited the University of Nottingham for the East Midlands Research Support Group meeting. The first half of the meeting was about the creation of...
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Official Publications Seminar (7 November 2012)
I attended an Official Publications seminar on Wednesday 7 November 2012. It was hosted by the British and Irish Association of Law Librarians (BIALL) and held at the National Archives in Kew. A...
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EU Law Seminar (10 December 2012)
I attended a joint BIALL (British and Irish Association of Law Librarians) and CLIG (City Legal Information Group) seminar on EU (European Union) law held at Field Fisher Waterhouse in London on 10...
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Implementing Finch (29 November 2012)
This conference was hosted by the Academy of Social Sciences and looked at the implementation of the recommendations of the Finch Review for Open Access publishing in the UK.I attended the first day of...
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cpd25: Support for researchers (7 December 2012)
Towards the end of last term I attended the ‘Support for researchers’ event hosted by the M25 Consortium. It was very nice to be in Senate House and to meet lots of new colleagues. The discussion...
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Visit to Coventry University Library (16 January 2013)
I visited Sue White, the law and official publications librarian, in the Lanchester Library at Coventry University, to discuss library inductions and reading lists. I attended a CILIP event at the...
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Reflections on “Communicating your research as a comic strip workshop”
Inspired by some of the initiatives by PhD Comics and the rise of factual graphic novels I offered to run a workshop for PhD students at the University of Leicester on communicating your research as a...
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LILAC 2013
I was lucky enough to attend this years LILAC (Librarians’ Information Literacy Annual Conference) this Monday. Here is my summary of the sesssions I attended. Creating time for learning: strategies...
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OCLC EMEA Regional Council Meeting 2013
OCLC’s Regional Council Meeting for members and customers in EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) took place over the 26 and 27 February in Strasbourg this year. I had the opportunity to attend as I was...
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EMALINK Research Data Management Meeting
Several of us attended the EMALINK meeting on Research Data Management (RDM) at the University of Northampton on the 13th March, 2013. Here’s some of the main points I picked up on: RDM at the...
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