Electronic Resources Librarian: priorities 2011/2012
I’ve had a useful meeting with my new boss to agree my priorities for the next 12 months of development work in the Library. Here are my top 4, in order of importance. Discovery selection &...
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I wrote my first blog post in February 2007 (in PebblePad, later exported into WordPress for the sake of “historical completeness“). Before then, I used to write things (visits, conferences, training...
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Rationalising multiple lists of e-resources (ERM)
As an offshoot of our discovery (Find it at Lincoln), authentication, and library website projects, we’re trying to impose a little bit more order on the various lists of electronic resources we...
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The end of an authentication era: goodbye “AVAILABLE ON CAMPUS ONLY”
For as long as I’ve worked in the Library at the University of Lincoln, a significant minority of electronic resources have only been available to use on library PCs, on campus. They allowed no Athens...
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Banners advertising the new Library website
A banner image promoting the forthcoming new Library website has been added to the library catalogue: …the Portal: …and Blackboard:
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New Library website is live!
Our new Library website is now finally live at: http://library.lincoln.ac.uk/ (Or www.library.lincoln.ac.uk works just as well.) This is the Library’s new ‘home’ on the web, and the place where we’ll...
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Redirecting users away from the Portal
Examples of the kind of redirection messages we’ll start adding to the University Portal, in place of old site content, to direct users to our new website. Opening Hours Contact the Library
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No Portal
Now that the Library website is live, we need to start referring all students and staff to the new website and not to the University Portal for information about the Library’s services. We need to...
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Goodbye grey sky, hello blue
The venerable and well-used list of electronic library databases on the University Portal (Microsoft SharePoint 2003) has now been retired. It will shortly become inaccessible. The Library is no longer...
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Overriding the local domain on Windows 7 and Windows 8 laptops
This is a problem that affects a very small number of links to electronic library resources which use an old library login method (“AthensDA”) which we’ve now replaced with a newer system. We’re...
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