Thing 10: Open URL Technology

A. I searched Google Scholar and found an article, Public perceptions of global warming: United States and international perspectives. This article has been made available as "a service to the academic community" through Open Access. However, it seems to only available because it is older than 4 years. This is a little disappointing in a situation where the current research is what everyone needs to access.
B. I entered the information from the Google Scholar citation into the Citation Finder form and changed small bits of information. The results were predictable in that without the correct citation information, the article did not appear. The time and detailed effort to maintain absolutly accurate links is obviously considerable.
C. I took a look at the citation and the OpenURLamd saw all the elements of the article's citation embedded in the URL. As we help students locate articles at the Reference Desk, it is so important that there be multiple sources to articles. Students are so grateful when they can get the articles full-text online.
D. Here is a fun article on hiking in the Santa Monica Mountains by Jaffe, Matthew. "California Eden: Hiking in the Santa Monica Mountains" Sunset 204.4 (2000):72-77.
http://sfx.calstate.edu:9003/fullerton?sid=HWW%3ARDGFT&genre=article&pid=%3Can%3E200009205212010%3C%2Fan%3E&aulast=Jaffe&aufirst=Matthew&issn=0039-5404&title=Sunset&stitle=Sunset&atitle=California%20Eden&volume=204&issue=4&spage=72&epage=77&date=2000-04 The article is a little old but the information is still good and would make a full afternoon hike.

Producing a wiki using pbwiki

In the 10 Things blog under wikie there was an optional feature: create your own wiki using pbwiki (it’s free!) which is now called PBworks. Well, if it is free, then that is the right price for me and so I have started working on a wiki to store Reference Desk information. So far, it is ok but taking too much time. I need to build enough information into this wiki to experiment with it and see if it could be a useful tool.

Exploring Wiki Wiking

Wikis can be such a great way to organize information for library users and library people. I took a look at the Library Success Wiki and found such interesting things. Take a look at this article http://www.mmischools.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=11534 on finding free scholarly information on the web. It is a bit old at 2006 but still lists a number of very interesting sites and has some good ideas. I have started experimenting with putting together Reference Desk Information for Librarians through pbwiki. I can tell that to really make it useful, it will take a great deal of time and I will need to encourage the Reference Desk Team to contribute. It will be an interesting experiment. cwb

Question in regard to google doc

Question in regard to google docs. There seems to be some concerns the security regarding Googel Docs. Since you invite people in...is this secure enough for most work?

Google Docs and Cloud Computing

This is a really solid idea for use in the library. I can think of all types of possibilities. First of all, this just might be the thing for the elevate ur news posters that a group of us are working on. I think I will bring it up at the next meeting.

Book Burro, Moving back to thing #6

I finished with Thing #6 (except for all my questions) and moved on to Thing #7. Here is discovered that the assignment is to create a Delicious account and learn about social bookmarking. Since I have started working with that, and am very pleased, I decided to go back to Thing #6 and explore book burro. This is a really neat feature to assist our students when out at the Reference desk looking for textbooks. I also like the Worldcat function.

Question for Will on Delicious

Will, I have been collecting websites on scores and am pleased with my growing list. The part that I do not understand is the social part. How do I start getting bookmarks from other people? I am concerned because I am not interested in adding a bunch (and there are so many out there) of websites that sell scores and I could end up with a massive (and useless list)

I have another question. Now when I go into Mozilla, on the bar along the top is a growing list of the sites which I have bookmarked. How do I get rid of them? I just wanted to bookmark the website, I didn't want to get married. :)