Happy New Year to our User Community as well as our Library Blog readers! We are delighted that you continue to make us a part of your research process and decision-making.
At the end of last year, Library staff held a very lively goal setting meeting to determine how best we could support the Center and our users in 2014. Where could we deliver the best results? Where could we position ourselves in a way that matters and impacts information-driven projects?
All goals this year are truly focused on supporting our user community and ultimately enhancing their work environment – wherever that may be! With many of our users accessing content on mobile devices, we will be launching BrowZine, a mobile app that will certainly benefit them by not only allowing access to the MSK Library’s ejournal collection but the ability to customize within the app a book shelf to those journal titles they access most frequently. They will also be able to store articles to read at a later date. This will save time and provide another access point to institutional journal subscriptions. Additional announcements are coming soon – for now we invite MSK staff to reach out to the reference team to learn more about BrowZine! Continue reading
On November 18 we launched our 
The fall 2013 ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) Outreach meeting took place on October 30 in Washington, DC at the headquarters of the American Geophysical Union. I was one of over 100+ interested attendees, all keen on learning more about ORCID’s progress and best practices for the integration of ORCID IDs into research workflows.