We recently launched a new (and most definitely improved) version of Synapse: Your Connection to MSK Authors. I am delighted to share that this “new version” handles author name disambiguation much better than the former version and ensures that MSK publications are “discoverable” by staff as well as all interested visitors and consumers of scholarly research.
Category Archives: Director’s Reflections
The Price and Future of Electronic Content
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
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.