Ink and Electrons

Monday, June 29, 2009

Master of Education Theses and MRPs

We wanted to make the Education MRPs and Theses easier to discover so we created two RefShare lists where you can look and search what we have. We are trying to add the supervisor into one of the user fields and hope to eventually have the abstracts added in as well. In addition we hope to create lists as the MA in History and MSc in Math MRPs are added to the Library.

I am including the links here but they can also be found on the Library's website under the RefShare Area. As always, if you have any questions let me know.

MEd Major Research Papers

MEd Theses

Thursday, June 4, 2009

Reference Statistics

Last Friday, the staff of the Information Desk met for our yearly mini-retreat. I will be blogging more about that in the near future. One of things that we looked at was our reference and instruction statistics. Gail complied these and did some yearly comparisons which she presented to us. This year in the Winter Term we collected, during two different weeks, more detailed statistics than we normally do. See Gail's presentation below and as always, comment and questions are welcome!

ECLReferenceStats2009

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Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Two new items

Two new items to tell you about.

1) New RefWorks Feature

It is called Refmobile and is now available. It enables you to access your references from your smart phone, mobile phone or PDA. There is a link to it in the top right corner of the RefWorks page and there are some instructions under help. I do not have a device to be able to test this out (but I wish I did:) It is the first release so I don't know how well it will function. If you have some feedback on it, let me know and I can pass it on.

2) Google has new search options available. After doing a search in Google, there is link that says show options - I have circled it below.

It allows you to do things like limit to recent results, or for the results to be displayed in what they are calling a "Wonder wheel" which I have put a screen shot of below. Just an interesting new feature that I came across.