Dear Diary,I have had a few meetings on Refworks. I will meet with Jim Cope from OIT next to discuss marketing. I've done the tutorials and learned of the differences between Refworks and Endnote. Basically, Refworks does not have as steep of a learning curve and is more user-friendly and better for Undergraduates. So my job will be to convince people who don't know that they need this...that they need it.
View a silly, 30-second Student Commercial http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MFTvX5PqQ8
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This has it listed across the top Navigation bar
http://www.welch.jhu.edu/index.cfm
This has a link under Managing Citations
http://www.lib.umich.edu/
This has a box added under the A-Z list
http://www.gwumc.edu/library/eresources/search.cfm?i=5766
This has a link for Reference Resources
http://www.library.arizona.edu/search/reference/citation.html
This link is not working currently but it was one we liked
www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/db/eresources.html
This was a separate webpage but has a nice design and information
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/refworks/
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I attended a MARCit Webinar today. My first Webinar. It was interesting, I learned a lot. But the setup itself was interesting. My co-worker used our manager's office to present on the Webinar, while my manager and I walked over to the Business Library to watch the presentation...it was truly a unique experience. It was a novel approach though. They said over 19 countries were taking part. It was dark in the room, and after lunch. Ugh...okay. But it was only 45 minutes of presentation.
I had lunch with my co-worker (who presented at the Webinar) and my manager. She told me that she is so glad to have me in her department and she wants me to stay past the usual rotation of six months, if I would like. I told her I would love that! She said "You are just what our department needed and wanted!" I asked her to make me a sign that states that!
We also discussed some issues involving different opinions and I told her that while we all admit to being "contrary-librarians" we have a purpose. I told her "We are 'Contrarians for the Greater Good'" She loved that and so I suggested we get some Team Shirts made. Ha!
In our Reference meeting, we discussed a little known ZoomText feature that reads to patrons, just like a program called JAWS. JAWS For Windows/JFW Screen Readers for People Who are Blind or Vision Impaired http://www.nanopac.com/JAWS.htm.
Today I did a New International Graduate Student Orientation. Only one showed up so there were 4 librarians present, ha!
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Speaking of students, I saw 2 of our High School Student workers from this summer about town, separately; Saba (my Mentee) and Tarrez. I was pleasantly surprised to see each one.
