As I prepare my budget for 2012, I can’t help but reflect about the current cost and renewal increases for electronic content and wonder about how we should proceed to negotiate with some of our information providers. The majority of the Library’s budget is allocated for electronic content (ejournals, ebooks, databases) and we have done our job to ensure that our collection focuses on content that has an excellent return on investment and supports the medical and research activities of our constituents. This year, we no longer have low-use journal titles to cut to make room for high-use ones; instead, our focus might have to be on canceling heavily used titles, even titles that our user community defines as essential and high value subscriptions. Continue reading
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Library Closed on Labor Day
The Main Library (located in the Rockefeller Research Laboratories Building) and the CyberLibrary Café (Zuckerman Research Center) will be closed on Monday, September 5, 2011 in observance of Labor Day.
Regular hours will resume Tuesday at both our locations.
For those interested in the history of Labor Day, check out the United States Department of Labor Website.
Reference & Consultation Services – Small Change has Big Impact!
A few weeks ago, I read with interest an article from the Library Journal (May 1, 2011) entitled “Revamping Reference / The User Experience” by Aaron Schmidt and started to think about our user community, their experience with the reference team, and the recent change to one of our information kiosks.