Monthly Archives: July 2017

The Tale of a Book Published

Posted on July 28, 2017 by

Yesterday, a colleague received a notice from an old friend about a new book he’d published, with “U.S. publisher X.” My colleague went to check out the publisher, and the first question he asked was: is this one of those … Continue reading →

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Research Synthesis Methodologies

Posted on July 25, 2017 by

Webinar today on emerging research synthesis methods (from expertsearching): Tuesday July 25, 2017 from 12:00-1:00pm EST/6:00-7:00pm CET Speaker: Sarah Young, Carnegie Mellon University Libraries RSVP / Join Additional Reading Grant, M. J. and Booth, A. (2009), A typology of reviews: … Continue reading →

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Discovery in Real-Life: Observation from the Field

Posted on July 19, 2017 by

A real search observed yesterday: Informed library user working in Central European Time (CET) does a Google Scholar search with library links enabled. User follows the SFX links to get the official full-text. Two databases have the full-text; user clicks … Continue reading →

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Under Discussion: Flagging Books, Articles with Integrity Issues as a Lesson in Complexity

Posted on July 18, 2017 by

This week, collib-l featured several posts about how to deal with books from reputable publishers when they have been found to contain plagiarized content. Two schools of thoughts emerged: One encouraging pulling items off the shelves The other advocating keeping … Continue reading →

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Reflections on IATUL 2017

Posted on July 13, 2017 by

Writing this commentary several weeks after this year’s annual IATUL conference, my thoughts keep returning to Rick Anderson’s 2015 UKSG Insights opinion piece, “A quiet culture war in research libraries,” in which he describes the inherent tensions between strictly institutional … Continue reading →

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