Arabella Holzapfel

Posts by Arabella Holzapfel

 
 
 

Friday links – March 22, 2013

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Merchandising the Circ Desk: the importance of visual cues: “… The lesson: put your stuff on display. Just like in a jewelry store or a bakery, seeing sells. Make it visible to the people who need it see it. Shape an encounter that encourages browsing. …”

Digital Theatre Plus – trial access through April 13

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“Experience the thrill of live theatre brought directly to your teaching space” through Digital Theatre Plus. We have trial access to this through April 13th. At this time, only username-password access is provided. (Campus-wide access should be available by the time we decide whether to purchase.) If you would like login credentials, please send an email from a middlebury.edu email account to eaccess-admin@middlebury.edu.

After you use Digital Theatre Plus, let us know what you think! Please send feedback to Rebekah Irwin or your liaison.

Gallup Brain – trial through April 8, 2013

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Dive into public polling with The Gallup Brain – a searchable, living record of more than 70 years of public opinion. Inside, you’ll find answers to hundreds of thousands of questions, and responses from millions of people interviewed by The Gallup Poll since 1935.

Middlebury College users have full access to the Gallup Brain through early April. Please let us know what you think: Send an email to Rebekah Irwin or your liaison.

Friday links – March 8, 2013

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Article by Middlebury’s Jason Mittell about the contrast between the rhetoric regarding Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and that about the Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions (COAPI – free online availability of faculty journal articles) in the Chronicle of Higher Ed.

 

Wiley Online Library down

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The Wiley Online Library is non-functional for us and for other libraries around the country. There has not been any official notification from Wiley, so I cannot predict when access will be restored. When I know more, I will add an update in a comment to this post.

Friday Links – November 16, 2012

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Tying in with the digital scholarship panel coming up in January – Altmetrics, a possible replacement for a journal’s impact factor.

Scholars are producing content that gets published in repositories and archives, blogs, and social media — separately from or in addition to journals. Some researchers are publishing and contributing their data to repositories such as ChemBank and GenBank. Others, such as in the creative arts, are capturing performances or music in digital video and audio files that can be shared just like journal articles. Traditional citation measures are not well-suited to assessing the impact of these non-traditional content forms. If we want to have a full view of a scholar’s impact, we need to find a way to measure the usage and impact of these newer forms of content distribution.

 

Kotobarabia Arabic E-Library (trial access through Nov. 23)

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For two weeks, you can explore over 3,500 contemporary and classic Arabic books from Egypt that are available in e-book form for the first time in the Kotobarabia Arabic E-Library.Works in the collection are divided into 29 thematic categories and several subcategories. Let us know what you think – email Rebekah Irwin or your liaison.