Apr
22
Transition from Journals to E-Journals
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Gwen Bird, SFU
Kevin Stranack, SFU
SFU’s migration to e-journals:
- 1999, 8k print titles
- 2005, 3k print, 10k e-journals
- Drexel in the US has gone all digital.
- Big license deals via consortia has made licensing e-journals much more cost effective.
- on a journal by journal basis, they cancel print and purchase the e-journal.
- Criteria for “migration” developed
- consulted with community.
- told everyone of the cancellations and if they wanted to keep the print, they would have to make a case to keep it.
- tracked on-line and print use stats. Dept’s more willing to ditch print after seeing the stats.
- Criteria: stability, archival rights,server reliability, image quality.
- Reaction: overall it has been a success. Usage stats bear this out. Usage stats increasing at 50 percent per year.
- changed ILL usage has decreased dramatically. Came from increased on-line content.
- preservation questions and long term access to journals.
- CUFTS: Serials Management
- on-line db of full text serials resources.
- developed at SFU for better full text link resolving.
- centrally maintained db.
Apr
22
By Serena Ableson
- Nunavut means “our land”
- 1/5 of Canada and 2/3 of coast line.
- Young and fast growing population.
- cost of living is extremely high. Basic goods are 6 times higher than in the south. Subway sandwich is 20 bucks.
- transportation and housing also expensive.
- Largest land claims settlement. Self government. So more need for lawyers in government. Only 35 percent of gov workers are locals. More pronounced in professional positions.
- The government is promoting professional programs to help address this problem.
- Only Inuit lawyer in the territory is the Premier.
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Apr
22
- Premier Campbell asked for a strategic plan for libraries back in 2001. Ministry consulted with stakeholders.
- Plan was then taken to cabinet and to treasury board. Got all the money they asked for. 12M over 3 years.
- will be reviewed after 3 years.
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Apr
21
Library Automation & Self Serve
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April 21, 2005 - BCLA conference
- Why automated service? There must be benefits for the customers, or why do it?
- One thing that it will do is it will free up staff some some of the heavy repetitive work.
- At one Maple Ridge library 300K out of 518K books checked out via the self check system.
- Keep the regular checkout, but make it small and inconspicuous. The other option is to have a roaming help person behind a desk of self help stations. Funnel people to self serve.
- If you use bar code system, they must be processed 1 by 1. RFID systems can process up to 16 books at a time.
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Apr
13
Sunday at the Hospital
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I had an experience this weekend that has given me some insight into the looming impact of our ageing population on our health care system. You hear and read about the problems facing health care in Canada, but fortunately is isn’t too often that we get to see them up close.
At about 5:30am Sunday morning I decided that I better go to the Royal Jubilee hospital to get checked out as my temperature was at about 103 Degrees (39.7) (I’m on doctors orders to get medical attention right away if I develop a high temperature because of my currently depressed immune system). So I arrived at the hospital at 6am, and there were two people (yes only two) in front of me. I was quite pleased as I thought this would mean that I would be seen by a doctor fairly quickly. At about 7am I was still in the waiting room with the same two other people, when someone from the lab arrived to take some blood samples from me. I thought that it was a little odd that they would do this in the waiting room, but was happy as I expected that this would speed things up. I continued to wait, and at about 10am I went to the Tim Horton’s in the hospital to get something to eat as the Nursing staff continued to tell everyone that arrived at the triage desk that the emergency ward was full and that they would have a long wait. Between 6am and 10am only five or six more people arrived to the triage desk, one of whom was immediately admitted because of the seriousness of his aliment, and the rest sat in the waiting room with me.
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Apr
3
Dansguardian Config
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A parent’s guide to Linux Web filtering
http://desktops.linux.com/desktops/04/07/01/1833212.shtml?tid=49&tid=99&tid=13
Title A parent’s guide to Linux Web filtering
Date 2004.07.01 13:20
Author warthawg
Topic
http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/01/1833212
Having converted quite a few people to the world of GNU/Linux, I am often asked by parents, “Can I set up parental Web filters for my children using Linux?” The answer is yes, and here’s how.
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