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On behalf of the Academic Librarians in Public Service (ALPS) Awards Committee, I am pleased to inform you that the 2007 ALPS Award goes to the AskAway Online Reference Service – Participating Academic Librarians, Planning Committee and Supporters.
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Just a remind that next Friday, April 13th will be our last day of service for this term, with the following closures for the Easter holiday:
Friday, April 6th - Service closed
Sunday, April 8th - Service closed
Monday, April 9th - Service closed
The schedule for April 6 - 13th is available on the Staff Schedule tab of the Portal.
AskAway will reopen for service on Monday, May 7th.
Have a great long weekend!
- Sunni
BC ELN
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Due to technical difficulties, the Askaway Brown-bag lunch presentation on Gerontology did not run as scheduled.
A recording of the presentation will be made in future, but there will not be an interactive presentation. Thus, if you have any particular questions about Gerontology that you would like to be addressed in the presentation, please comment on this blog entry (see link below), or email them to me.
The deadline for emailing questions is April 9.
I will send an announcement to the listserv and blog when the recording is available.
Niki Baumann
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SFU SA255 (sociology) students will be looking for sample consent forms for research.
They have 2 clues from their TA:
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Service-wide statistics for February are available on the For Local Admins tab of the Librarian's Portal.
Busiest day: Monday, February 5 with 91 calls
Slowest day: Sunday, February 18 with 17 calls
Busiest hour: 12:00 - 1:00 PM on Monday, Feb 5 with 18 calls!
- Sunni
BC ELN
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Okanagan College website service has been restored.
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The following scripts have been added to the available consortium-wide scripts:
TechTrouble - Anticipated
I am going to [describe action here], which may break our chat session. If we are disconnected, please come back to Askaway.
TechTrouble - Pushing PDF
The following page contains a link to a PDF. Please cut and paste the following address to a new window, then click the link to open the PDF. PDFs often break the chat window.
TechTrouble - Cookie Error
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Here is the schedule for the next three weeks of Askaway Brown-bag lunch presentations!
Tuesday, March 20th:
Orientation to the UVic Website
Presented by Ophelia Ma of UVic
Monday, March 26th:
Blog/RSS Readers
Presented by Niki Baumann of Askaway/ELN
Monday, April 2nd:
Gerontology Resources
Presented by Nina Smart of SFU
All presentations will begin at 12:15. Each session will open at 12:00 to allow participants time to check their audio equipment.
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A recording of the Askaway Brown-bag lunch presentation:
How to Search PubMed
is now available on the Askaway portal:
http://www.eln.bc.ca/vr_portal/prodevelopment.html
A powerpoint handout and a word doc PubMed tutorial are also available. The powerpoint handout is the one mentioned in the presentation - please download it from the portal webpage and not from inside the recording.
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Scenario: You're online, and a new question comes up. You go to answer it, and another librarian, who already has a question, gets there first.
Why have they grabbed two (or more) questions, when you don't have any?
It could be that this librarian has a "mad disconnecter" - that is, a patron who keeps losing their internet connection, and returning to the service. The librarian may not have time to close all of those lost calls, or they may need to keep them open for reference.
How can you determine if your colleague has a mad disconnecter, or is being swamped?