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Answer to How does a reference librarian know where to look for sources for a...
Try to get back to the member, rather than searching in front of them. 2. Use Google Scholar and branch your searches to get an idea of what the member is looking for. 3. Once you have a gist, use...
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ASM Handbooks EZproxy Stanza
After searching a number of different places, I had to write my own EZproxy stanza for the ASM handbooks. The ASM website is put together in a simple way, which makes this basic ASM Handbook stanza...
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Dawn Alarm Clock & Workflow
I’ve been trying out the new app Workflow, and I’ve been enjoying the features this app brings to IOS 8. I’ve consolidated all of my social media sharing into a single workflow, and I’ve set up a...
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Insights from Have MLIS, Will Travel
I’ve been running my experiment in library job sharing for a month now. This is very, very early preliminary data. It excludes some jobs that were not logged properly by by logging function. In the...
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Subscribing to Journals with your institutional Subscription
There are some journals and magazines that you want to read every article in. However, in the institutional subscriptions that most academic libraries use, there are a lot of tiny (less than 150 word)...
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Data from running Have MLIS, Will Travel for November 2016
This is just a quick update on the Have MLIS, Will Travel job sharing site. I did a substantial amount of work automating the collection and classification of the jobs I was collecting. I recently...
View ArticleAdding Hidden Search Limits on Certain Poorly Designed Search Forms
Sometimes you’ve reached the end of what’s possible with WYSIWYG search screen editors and very, very specific needed features (like search limits) are missing. If you have access to the HTML of the...
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Fast & Easy Handouts with Adobe Spark Post
I’ve been making handouts for instruction sessions for a few months with Adobe Spark Post https://spark.adobe.com/home/ My work-flow is to gather the text I’m going to be putting in my handout in...
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Using VOSViewer on a large text corpus : All Jane Austen Novels
I’ve been experimenting and using the citiation mapping fuction in VOSViewer for a few weeks now and I’ve started working with the plain text mapping function. VOSViewer supports what it calls a...
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Creating an updated Reading List using Zotero
I’m doing a relatively large literature review for an upcoming paper, and my recent tweaks to my reading list in Zotero have made it a much more enjoyable and consistent experience. I’ve a folder with...
View ArticleTweaking the Sage search URL for only subscribed content
You can add the Sage URL variable to the end of the search interface to limit searches by default to only subscribed and open access content. https://journals.sagepub.com/search/advanced?access=user
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Programming ch57k macro keyboards from AliExpress under Linux
This is about these kind of mass produced macro keyboards This is third party software that has wide support for a variety of macro keyboards produced in great numbers in China. It’s the only way to...
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