Placement+-+Day+Two

DAy Two Blog http://scaplacement.blogspot.com/2011/09/day-two.html

Arrived at 9am and the campus is quiet as (its study week and Art students are not prone to getting up early)

Met the other librarian today (she is a research librarian) She does not really research for academics just teachers students how to research.

Got the books for inter-library loans.

Chated to Dom about her job (she worked in the library when I came here and remembered my art work) Dom's first job for the day is to put things on the reserve shelf for courses. The ones she was doing came to her photocopied on one side. She scans them puts a cover sheet on (copyright stuff) and uploads it to the library reserve shelf.

[] Above is the book but the chapter we scanned is on the subject reserve (need to be a student to access)

The research librarians conduct classes and one of the librarians Chris is an expert at end note. She was schedueled to conduct a class today but no one enrolled so she gave me a lesson. I felt very privilaged and wish I had of completed this when I did my Masters Thesis. End note Subject guide is a good resource after completing Chris's course of course. []

After lunch I learnt about the subject guides (this area has been going since 2009). Again Jen is able to get statistics on each page of the subject guide and on each link. (number of hits that is) []

Jen showed me how to change the books we did these two []

The software is a bit like a Wiki in that you can edit it live. (no uploading or downloading) Jen was saying that her and Chris used to have to do all this kind of stuff in pure HTML code.

Jen and Chris are on many other working commities that create information resouces that are used by all the students such as the subject guides and information skills. []

Today I put away DVD's