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January 2013

Archbishop Ireland Library, Charles J. Keffer Library, Libraries, New Materials, O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library, Uncategorized

UST Libraries Embarks on New Ebook Initiative

Demand Driven Acquisition/Patron Driven Acquisition pilot project has started at the University of St. Thomas.

What does that mean? Liaisons in Business, Education and Psychology have hand-crafted profiles with Coutts/Ingram for the purposes of identifying and adding ebook records to CLICnet in those 3 disciplines. We won’t own these – AND they are available for use. We will own them once the third user goes into the book itself or the index (not the cover page or table of contents). The books should all be able to be used by more than one person at a time, but we could not limit our profile to only downloadable – until more publishers are on board. The sample size would have been too small.

These should all work and act like all other MyiLibrary books.

Questions?

Ask Linda Hulbert (lahulbert@stthomas.edu) or 651-962-5016 if she doesn’t know the answer, she’ll make a good one up! On the spot!

January 22, 2013 by

Archbishop Ireland Library, Charles J. Keffer Library, Libraries, O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library, Uncategorized

UST Research Online Usage Data

UST Research Online is the the University of St. Thomas’ institutional repository. Initiated by the library staff, the goal is to include the creative and scholarly works of the faculty, students and staff of the university: including, but not limited to, theses and dissertations. During the last two years that the resource has been active, staff have uploaded 631 papers and they have been downloaded over 60,000 times. The content is obviously highly discoverable in Google (62% of the searches), Google Scholar (21% of the searches) and 17% from other external searches. The content is now in our own Summon search.

I want to share some data. Our first and most robust faculty collection is that of Opus College of Business. Over 31% of the downloads and hits are content from OCB with Ethics and Business Law leading the way with over 4,000. The most downloaded paper from OCB is Jeffrey Oxman’s “Price Inflation and Stock Returns” exceeding 1,300 downloads! The dissertation from CELC with the most downloads is Emily R Murphrey’s Effective Treatment of Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Early
Attachment at over 800 downloads. At 1,123 the UST Law Journal’s most downloaded article is “Incapacitation through Maiming: Chemical Castration, the Eighth Amendment, and the Denial of Human Dignity” by John Stinneford. John Heintz’s article “Developing a Library School Course in Government Statistics,” from the Library staff collections was downloaded 264 times and leads the pack.

The Law School added the University of St. Thomas Law Journal including all of the back content. And its use is 56% of the repository – nearly 30,000 downloads. We are interested in adding the other journals published here at the university.

The theses and dissertations of the College of Education, Leadership and Counseling including Education – Leadership and Education – Organization Development and Psychology are growing collections and have seen downloads in excess of 5,500. We have recently uploaded the theses of the School of Social Work. We look forward to watching their use.

Library staff article downloads and hits exceed 1,000.

If you are interested in adding your content to the repository, please contact Linda Hulbert – lahulbert@stthomas.edu.

January 16, 2013 by

Libraries, News & Events, O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library

Library to host Staff Book Swap, January 17

All are welcome and invited!

The Non-Exempt Staff Council invites you to a warm- get-together on Thursday afternoon, January 17, 2013 from 2pm to 4pm in the O’Shaughnessy Room (Rm 108) of the O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library for a Staff Book Swap!

Bring favorite books that you no longer wish to keep – share your reading experiences – enjoy some cocoa and cookies with friends old and new – pick up some books you haven’t read yet!

We’ll have a little impromptu book store set up just for the afternoon – and it’s all free.

We hope you will be able to come! And please visit our website to learn about the work of the Staff Council for Hourly Employees.

If you have books you would like to drop off for the Swap, please bring them anytime between January 8 and Noon on January 17 to the library office, Room 203, where we’ll keep them safe until the Book Swap. Questions? Please call Julie at 962-5014.

January 8, 2013 by

News & Events, Uncategorized

Nancy Sims open access presentation at UST is online!

Nancy Sims, the copyright program librarian at the Univesity of Minnesota, and advocate for democratic information access, spoke at UST last month about open access publishing, a new model for scholarly communication. The event was sponsored by the UST libraries and it was well attended by faculty and librarians from UST and neighboring institutions. If you missed her presentation it has been made freely available to watch here.

January 8, 2013 by Andrea Koeppe

News & Events

New Libraries web site is here!

We are excited to announce that our new web site is live!

Many months in the making, we haven’t merely moved content from the old site, but instead have completely re-conceptualized how we present library resources and services to you. The organizing principle of the new site is to structure our content based on common user tasks and content types:

Just need a quick path to our research tools? The prominent search box on the home page features Summon, a simple Google-like search of most of our book and article content. It also provides quick access to our catalog, research databases, and A-Z lists of journals, newspapers, and ebooks.
Not sure where to start your research? Check out the Subject Guides link in the top navigation to find librarian-created web pages with suggestions of research sources in every discipline.
Want more search options? See the links at the top for mini research portals focusing on articles (and other kinds of research databases), books, films, and music. Our content includes over 350 databases containing more than 50 thousand journal & newspaper titles, tens of thousands of ebooks, streaming audio and video titles. Oh yeah, we have a few books as well.
Need help? See our Ask A Librarian link with options for walkup, appointment, phone, text, and chat reference options. We’re particularly proud of our chat reference service, which you’ll see embedded in many places as you explore our resources.
Seeking info about our services? We have vastly simplified pathways and descriptions of what we can offer.
Our entire new site is also mobile-friendly, so try it out from your phone and let us know what you think.

We hope you find the new site pleasing to browse, easy to navigate, and effective in guiding your research efforts. If you have questions or comments to make, feel free to contact me: John Heintz, Associate Director for Digital Initiatives, jpheintz@stthomas.edu, (651) 962-5018.

January 4, 2013 by