Friday 7 September 2007

E-journals, learning skills, Casanova and journal metrics all in the same post. Phew!

E-journal invasion: a cataloguer's guide to survival. By Helen Heinrich.

How the internet has changed the lives of cataloguers.

Learning to learn: a guide to becoming information literate in the 21st century. By Ann Marlow Riedling.

A practical approach, with exercises.

Casanova was a librarian: a light-hearted look at the profession. By Kathleen Low.

Librarians in politics, porn, movies, books and more.

Aslib Proceedings. Vol.59 No.3 2007

'The missing link: journal usage metrics'. This article looks at how we can measure the quality of journals and suggests a move from author to reader centered metrics.