calling all ilxor librarians!

If only there was something that could help this person:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2305/2227185021_32663bf7fa_o.png

duh - it's on digg & reddit already as well. sorry :-/

Tonight I am doing my first shift in the college library. I am essentially security rather than a librarian, but getting paid to use the internet/do my PhD means I'm not complaining. 9pm - 2am Wednesdays and Sundays until Christmas.

I did a couple of quarters of night shifts like that when I started here (thankfully not as late as that). I admit I was glad to leave them behind.

My brain doesn't really get going until after dinner, so these are perfect for me. Unfortunately in 2009 I will be replaced by a machine.

security robot?

http://www.jennycakesbakery.com/images/photos/robot%20cake.jpg

robot caek

Haha, I am in a Faraday Cage here. No wireless, no phone reception. I am using Internet Explorer to type this, which I don't think I've done since the 90s. Good times.

I am actually getting work done and thinking about shit for the first time since the 90s too.

physics department library rip : (

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f325/caek/Image028.jpg

I guess no one has touched those journals in ten years

Still sad though.

:-( that's the way our journals are going too I'm afraid.

I helped out with clearing a lot of journals over the past few weeks that we have access to via JSTOR. I admit I'm not really sentimental about seeing the print volumes go.

I have been doing physics since 1999 and I have needed a print journal once in that time.

I work at a place dedicated to storing those forgotten books, journals, memorabilia donated by long forgotten local-celebrities, etc. Go U of T and it's 4th or so biggest library on the continent.

They're actually being skipped, and not sent to offsite storage? I hope somebody's checked the RSL has copies.

(But then I am an incorrigible hoarder)

The RSL has enough copies of these things to control time

Kudos to Virginia Plain and team for being named Library Of The Year.

Thanks; I think we get a pizza party.

Nothing wrong with that!

Just don't handle the books afterwards with greasy pizza fingers! Especially those Library Of America Cheevers.

Also, we don't get laid off; thanks Bloomberg.

GOOD WORK, VP.
Serious relief from my other librarian friend yesterday at the budget news.

and still six-day service
(xp)

sister just got hired as the librarian at a private girl's school in california where steve jobs sends his daughter

Does Ari Gold send his daughter there too?

i think the enrollment is primarily nonfictional

Ah yes, that's a sound policy.

Kudos to Virginia Plain and company for the infrastructure upgrade and the new self-scan-and-sort book return system. Sorry about the book buying budget though.

Did any of you guys download the free poster from Carel Press. Also, is there a more active librarian thread?

bump, any other ilx librarians still about

Yup, though I'm between jobs at the moment. You know how this field is.

I am eternal.

connected 4 life. thankfully managed to fall into a fulltime library assistant position just as i finished library school a couple of months ago which was v lucky. been putting off looking for actual 'qualified' jobs atm.

I'm trying to do a quick research project for my resource-limited, non-profit community senior services agency. It would be a piece of cake if I had EBSCO access but I don't now that I am no longer a student. Anyone out there who could help?

only have access to the film and tv lit database on ebsco, would that be of help?

I need AgeLine. But thank you for responding!

best of luck!

I don't have AgeLine but I appear to have access to something called "Abstracts in Social Gerontology" though NB I never use these databases so I don't really have any idea what I'm looking at / doing - but if there's something specific I can search for in here let me know...

If you need AgeLine specifically, sorry, good luck!

I think I scraped together enough, but I may hit you up on that offer later. Thank you, very kind!

no problem, good luck with your research paper!

I'm going to bed now (sorry if this is bad timing) but will no doubt be around tomorrow morning uk time if there is something I can try to track down for you.

So these last few months my focus has been shifting from in-person access work to online, obviously -- but also to help our archivists here in some big projects. I'm currently engaged in others as well -- just finished up some work today with a big new one that should get a lot of attention when it is ready -- but here's a nice piece just published on our site about two of the other ones that have been completed:

https://www.library.ucsf.edu/news/new-ways-of-working-together/

Well, these next couple of days will be interesting:

https://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/sils

And as a result of that, as of a few hours from now, Millennium will no longer be used by us. Which is a weird kinda farewell -- to quote myself from FB: Since my first formal day of work at the UCI Libraries on January 2, 1997, I have used, one way or another, this piece of software up to the present day through my UCSF Libraries work. It went through updates, iterations, changes, but Millennium just chugged along, and like the name implied it really comes from a place in the mid-to late 90s Windows universe in particular, something that did the job but was often slow, clunky and weird. What felt vaguely half-futuristic rapidly wasn't, and as other programming approaches took hold it REALLY showed its age. Later today use of Millennium will stop as the entire UC library system is about to switch over in a long-planned move to a unified top to bottom entity via the Primo/Alma web-based software from ExLibris, and I'm sure there will be growing pains and quirks and so forth. I am really interested to see how that works out, THAT feels like the future in a fascinating way. But this clunky, slow, sometimes painfully annoying software did the work all this time, and I have no more romance to offer than that, certainly no melancholy or sadness. It'll just be weird never to see the darn thing again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35pSI-HOirM

We switched to Alma/Primo back in 2015. We were using Voyager before

Ex Libris have a seriously dominant stake in Academic libraries now. It will be interesting to see how things develop with their latest ownership group

I'm at a weird special library where we STILL use Voyager. But our IT/Systems team is seriously understaffed and under-budgeted so a migration is probably not in the cards for a while. That'll be a real headache.

Voyager definitely shows its age (particularly its OPAC) but it still does the job decently well for us.