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Researchers: how to improve your “impact”
Yesterday, my colleague Sheryl Adam and I gave a workshop on citation metrics. Despite the criticism of bibliometrics in academic circles, there is every sign to suggest that citation metrics are here...
View ArticleTop Ten (10) Trends (to watch) in medical libraries
Based on my teaching of LIBR 534 (health information sources and services) in 2015, marking many assignments and reading the literature, as well as working in a hospital library… here are my top ten...
View ArticleGrandpa Dean’s Perch: Figure Skating Post-Toller Cranston
Between teaching LIBR 559M – Social Media for Information Professionals, 2016 this term and watching The Skating Lesson, it’s crossed my mind I may need to start blogging again under a new guise. My...
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Curation, RSS and Susie’s “Bits & Bytes”
It’s been a while since I composed a proper blogpost but I’m inspired today to do so… My colleague Mary Sue Stephenson is literally a “cornerstone” of the UBC School of Library, Archival and...
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HLWIKI reaches 16 million views
HLWIKI International, a wiki originally created to support LIBR 534: Health Information Sources and Services & LIBR 559M – Social Media for Information Professionals at UBC’s School of Library,...
View ArticleGood common sense leadership (100 ideas)
Whatever [kind of leader] you are, be a good one. —Abraham Lincoln They don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care. —Theodore Roosevelt A good leader is a person who takes a more...
View ArticleLIBR 1111 Online searching & information handling
I am currently teaching LIBR1111 at Langara College. Here is the course syllabus: Course description This course provides student learners with experience in online searching, and some of the basic...
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A letter to the Harvard Business Review, Dec 2016
Dear Harvard Business Review, Your Dec. 19th article, “How Physicians Can Keep Up With The Knowledge Explosion in Medicine”, authored by Dr. Lynda Chin and Greg Satell is an opportunity for you to...
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New chapter outline & introduction re: grey literature searching
Chapter 6 “Retrieving grey literature, information and data in the digital age” Here is the new chapter outline and introduction to whet your appetite. This is the penultimate version which has grown...
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Snowball fights and paper pedagogies in LIBR534
This week, the UBC campus was alight with epic snow and a friendly fusillade of student snowball lobs on the Main Mall. The snowball exchange (hardly a fight) made national news. Throwing snow at your...
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