tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-301564522024-02-28T06:33:18.361+00:00JIBS NewsJIBS represents users of bibliographic databases and related products available to the UK HE, FE and Research Council communities via national site-licence arrangements.Yvonne Cottonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01827316685641359407noreply@blogger.comBlogger315125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30156452.post-49456387824072979242015-05-18T11:35:00.004+01:002015-05-18T11:35:55.221+01:00Joint JIBS/EDUSERV event - “Get it sorted…positive approaches to non-standard access” – the challenges of licence agreements, mobile devices and eResources
The JIBS User
Group and EDUSERV are pleased to announce a joint event to be held on Monday 13th July 2015 at Brettenham House, Lancaster Place, London, WC2E 7EN.
The event intends to looks at licence agreements and mobile devices and the challenges surrounding these areas and eResources.
More details and the booking form are availabe at: http://www.jibs.ac.uk/events.html
Yvonne Cottonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01827316685641359407noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30156452.post-64852971054734263152014-12-10T14:09:00.000+00:002014-12-10T14:09:01.894+00:00Next JIBS event - Technology will not defeat us: offering a great service in difficult times - Thursday 26th February 2015<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Yvonne Cottonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01827316685641359407noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30156452.post-57018780108894684432014-11-10T11:19:00.002+00:002014-11-10T11:19:11.562+00:00Next JIBS event - Technology will not defeat us: offering a good service in difficult timesThe next JIBS event (including our AGM) will be held on Thursday 26th February at Birmingham Chamber of Commerce.
Details of the event (so far) are available at: http://www.jibs.ac.uk/events.html
More details of speakers and how to book will appear soon.Yvonne Cottonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01827316685641359407noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30156452.post-81034569930445788932014-07-28T09:11:00.002+01:002014-07-28T09:11:10.942+01:00Slides from latest JIBS event available<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Yvonne Cottonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01827316685641359407noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30156452.post-86010991189753217292014-06-20T10:38:00.001+01:002014-06-27T10:18:39.450+01:00NEXT EVENT : Make do and mend: alternative routes to information - Tuesday 22nd July 2014 - London
Where do you do your research? Where do you find reliable
information sources?
Should we be using the library catalogue, discovery
services, open resources, or even Wikipedia? Join us to hear about some unusual
approaches to finding content, alongside some we are more familiar with.
JIBS User Group is pleased to announce that booking is
now open for this event:
Tuesday 22nd July 2014 Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30156452.post-88206228941228936072013-06-24T14:21:00.000+01:002013-06-27T09:57:57.817+01:002013 JIBS Student Prize The Library and Information Research Group (LIRG) and the JIBS User Group JIBS) each award a student prize each year for an outstanding research-based project.
Both prizes will be for a Postgraduate dissertation or a final year Undergraduate project. The LIRG student prize will be awarded for a research based project on any LIS topic. The JIBS student prize will be restricted to the area of Fiona Bowtellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17877305465186548534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30156452.post-4207592301506296782013-03-01T14:58:00.002+00:002013-06-27T09:57:04.236+01:00New dawn : the changing resource discovery landscapeAnother definite case of JIBS targeting one of the most live issues for users of eresources and eresources librarians in its February 2013 Workshop, attended on Monday 25th by nearly 100 librarians, publishers and intermediaries. The day was deliberately planned to encourage sharing of experience and ideas. Especially so with the implementation of Resource Discovery Systems (RDS) in James Caudwellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06765654236721390645noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30156452.post-25684890488996939352012-05-14T17:52:00.001+01:002012-12-13T15:16:33.341+00:002012 JIBS Student PrizeThe call for submissions for the 2012 JIBS prize is now open.
JIBS awards a student research prize each year for a research-based project. Typically it will be a Postgraduate dissertation or a final year Undergraduate project. Each type will be given appropriate consideration. Each School of Library and Information Studies is invited to nominate one of their students' projects for the award.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30156452.post-60417288085881122852012-03-05T10:01:00.003+00:002013-06-27T09:57:31.023+01:00Back to the future and into the cloud: 24th February eventThe JIBS User Group's winter event this year was both a celebration of 21 years since the formation of the group (previously known as the BIDS User Group) and a look forward to the future of cloud computing and applications.
Over seventy attendees from across HE, FE, and intermediaries assembled at the Brunei Gallery at SOAS to hear presentations from a range of speakers including Tony Hirst, Louise Pennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09245897686335645121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30156452.post-90586978812629980492012-02-25T12:06:00.002+00:002012-02-25T12:09:06.088+00:00ePetition on Fair VAT for academic librariesFair VAT on e-publications for the academic communityhttp://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/28226Responsible department: Her Majesty's TreasuryUniversities and colleges are obliged to pay VAT at the full standard rate, currently 20%, on their subscriptions to electronic academic journals, books, newspapers and magazines. Printed versions of these resources are zero-rated in the UK; in the restAdrian Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15432251172620427383noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30156452.post-13370747145710439762012-01-18T17:37:00.003+00:002012-01-18T17:47:37.494+00:002011 JIBS Student Prize WinnerThe JIBS User Group Committee are pleased to announce that the 2011 JIBS Student Prize was awarded to Andrea Ennis for her Masters Dissertation "Indicators of content: the role of word clouds in the creation of summaries".An MSc student in the Department of Information Science at Loughborough University, Andrea examined the potential use of word clouds as content indicators in summaries of Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30156452.post-64714040965158377972011-07-13T12:47:00.014+01:002011-07-13T13:07:12.841+01:00Research evaluation event brief survey resultsA survey was sent out to attendees prior to the JIBS research evaluation event to find out about how institutions are supporting research evaluation and the tools they are using. Most respondents to the survey are librarians indicating that the role of supporting the institutional repository (IR) or working with the Research Office on current research information system (CRIS) developments is Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30156452.post-43503022365311541362011-07-11T14:51:00.003+01:002012-12-13T15:16:59.849+00:00Update on JIBS student Prize and LIRG prize winner announcedJIBS offers an annual prize for a student dissertation focusing on the area of library information systems, bibliographic databases or other resource discovery technologies and how such resources or technologies are being developed or exploited. The deadline for submissions has now past and judging will take place over the next couple of months with a winner announced in late September.
The Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30156452.post-417201438988391122011-07-08T17:53:00.003+01:002012-12-13T15:17:33.213+00:00Research evaluation – is it our business? The role of librarians in the brave new world of research evaluationJIBS User Group - Workshop 29 June 2010 – University of Birmingham
As the tweets (#JIBSre) appear to indicate, this JIBS workshop apparently hit just the right topic at just the right time. People came with all different levels of experience, and being so well-attended the workshop opened up many opportunities for sharing that experience. Whether embedded in your work already or not no-one could James Caudwellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06765654236721390645noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30156452.post-68573265025123954802011-06-09T21:27:00.004+01:002012-12-13T15:19:07.661+00:00Minutes of the JIBS EBSCO meetingThe minutes of the last JIBS EBSCO meeting are now available at JIBS Ebsco Enhancement GroupMaureen Richardsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05888994976006423010noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30156452.post-1792436455641034772011-03-29T14:28:00.005+01:002012-12-13T15:19:34.577+00:00JIBS Student Prize 2011We are again inviting entries for this year's JIBS Student Prize. For more information please see: http://www.jibs.ac.uk/prize/JIBSprize.pdf. You can still read our winning entry (by Nicky Ransom) from last year at: http://www.jibs.ac.uk/prize/ransom.pdfUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30156452.post-77034138910168230642011-02-11T10:44:00.003+00:002012-12-13T15:20:40.118+00:00New memberI recently joined the JIBS User Group Committee and enjoyed the recent meeting I attended. The group is very active, experienced at running events with members engaged with a range of professional issues. The group is looking for an additional Committee member, preferably from further education.
At the University of Greenwich we are involved in a number of collaborations with partner Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30156452.post-13280679862026657942011-02-08T12:56:00.000+00:002012-12-13T15:20:54.201+00:00New member - short thoughts<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> <![endif]--><!--[if !mso]> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; Catherine Robertsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03837924472943032414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30156452.post-63261627556874288512011-02-03T15:36:00.012+00:002012-12-13T15:21:16.274+00:00A few changes at JIBS User GroupFollowing our AGM in December, the committee has had a few changes. The rest of us thanked Sue Cumberpatch for her hard work over the last 3 years as Chair, and the major contribution she has made to the work that the JIBS User Group does. Sue will stay on the committee for the next year at least. I have now taken over as Chair, and Louise Cole takes over as Vice Chair. Other committee roles areFiona Bowtellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17877305465186548534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30156452.post-6631380982010176052010-12-07T14:51:00.005+00:002011-02-01T14:00:15.647+00:00Slides from December 2010 JIBS eventThanks to all who attended our workshop:Working together in difficult times: strategies for e-resource budgeting, negotiation and collection reviewThanks especially to our speakers, all of whom bravely battled the elements to be there and gave very interesting presentations. Slides from the event can now be found on the JIBS website.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30156452.post-88489547588133061702010-10-15T14:04:00.007+01:002010-10-15T17:06:40.943+01:00Next JIBS event: "Working together in difficult times: strategies for e-resource budgeting, negotiation and collection review" (York, 2nd Dec)Our next JIBS event will be looking at the highly topical area of how academic libraries respond to dramatic funding cuts in the "Age of Austerity".How can we negotiate better deals from publishers? Is there a role for greater collaboration?The workshop will be held at the King's Manor in York, on Thursday 2nd December 2010.Speakers include: Sally Curry (Research Information Network); Jill Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30156452.post-84345175728870394012010-09-02T15:46:00.003+01:002010-09-02T15:51:27.545+01:00JIBS Ovid enhancement group - minutes availableThe minutes of the meeting of Ovid enhancement group held 9th July 2010 can be found at:http://www.jibs.ac.uk/liaison/OVIDSP/minutes.htmlUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30156452.post-88749004259231251452010-07-18T21:28:00.002+01:002012-12-13T15:21:49.152+00:00JIBS-Ebsco Enhancement Meeting - MinutesThe minutes of the last meeting are now available on the JIBS website at
Ebsco Minutes for June 30th 2010Maureen Richardsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05888994976006423010noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30156452.post-78677523597360075702010-06-29T11:05:00.002+01:002010-06-29T11:07:26.448+01:00"Where now for resource licensing"? summaryCatherine Parker (University of Huddersfield / JIBS committee member) has written a summary of the JIBS/EduServ workshop "Where now for resource licensing"? held earlier this month:http://www.jibs.ac.uk/events/workshops/licensing/licensingsummaryparker.pdfUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30156452.post-29387908774385001752010-06-18T16:42:00.002+01:002010-06-18T16:44:37.864+01:00Andy Powell's summary of JIBS/Eduserv EventFurther to Sue's summary of Wednesday's event, you may be interested to read this version by Andy Powell of Eduserv:http://efoundations.typepad.com/efoundations/2010/06/where-next-for-resource-licensing.htmlUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0