YULibrary News Fall 2007

Blogs are among the best, fastest and most amusing ways to keep track of just about anything. Keeping track of what goes on at the York University Libraries is no different. There is a plethora of blogs created and maintained by librarians and library staff to keep you informed of all the latest developments, especially for new electronic resources.

Explore some of our great new blogs!

Subject and Collections Blogs

New Electronic Resources at York University Libraries: keeping up with new online journal and database acquisitions, maintained by Associate University Librarian Catherine Davidson (http://yulcollections.wordpress.com/ and read the in depth article in this newsletter)
New Books @ the Steacie Science and Engineering Library, a blog featuring new books at Steacie, maintained by Steacie staff. (http://steacie.wordpress.com/)
Between 4’33” and 4 ¾ in.: a music collections blog maintained by librarians Rob van der Bliek and Stacy Allison-Cassin (http://www.yorku.ca/yul/music/blog)
Pages of the Past, a History blog maintained by librarian Norda Majekodunmi (http://www.yorku.ca/yul/hist/blog/)
York Computer Science and Engineering, maintained by librarian John Dupuis (http://www.yorku.ca/yul/cse/)

Other Blogs by York Librarians

The Bib Blog on cataloguing and metadata, maintained by York University Libraries Bibliographic Services (http://www.yorku.ca/yul/bibserv/blog/)
The FRBR Blog, a blog on Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records by web librarian William Denton (http://www.frbr.org/)
Confessions of a Science Librarian by Steacie Librarian John Dupuis (http://jdupuis.blogspot.com)

If you’re interested in joining the blogging revolution, check out your favourite library blog and drop the author a line or just contact John Dupuis at jdupuis@yorku.ca.

A couple of great resources to explore other blogs by academics are:

The Academic Blog Portal (http://www.academicblogs.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page)
The Around the Web page at InsideHigherEd (http://insidehighered.com/around_the web)

— Article by John Dupuis, Head, Steacie Science and Engineering Library

Steacie research/reference desk
Research and reference assistance

Research Frontier Series:

Keeping up with the cutting edge of technology

In the past year or two there has been a lot of discussion about a new generation of web technologies and their applications in the academic setting. Wikipedia, blogs, Flickr, RSS feeds, Facebook, Google Scholar …these tools are changing the way many of us research, teach and learn. Of course, many of these technologies also present critical thinking challenges.

For the second year in a row, the Libraries are hosting the Research Frontier Series to help faculty and graduate students keep up with these technologies. The series runs throughout the academic year. Nine sessions are being offered this year:

» Google Unleashed
» Citation Data: Uses & Abuses
» Digital Copyright
» Picturing the Web: Searching & Using Images from the Internet
» Making Information Come to You: The Power of RSS Feeds
» Social Networking: An Academic Role?
» Evolutions in Scholarly Publishing
» Behind the Scenes of Search Engines
» Using Archives for Research

The sessions are intended to provide a mix of practical how-to and critical discussion. You can just show up — sign up is not necessary. For more details, please visit:

http://www.library.yorku.ca/ccm/Home/
ResearchAndInstruction/research-frontiers-series.en

...or contact librarian Mark Robertson at markr@yorku.ca.

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