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Presenters spoke about a wide range of initiatives happening at your UB Library. Information Librarian Peggy Hsu talked about the BONUS+ borrowing scheme and the Library Virtual Tour.

Roger Clark, Acquisitions Librarian , enlightened us all on the benefits of EBL eBooks, and our Serials Officer, Julie Lasinger, explained how the new ERM module has allowed over 30 000 eJournals to be integrated into the library catalogue.

International Student Support Librarian Helen McCarthy (and her avatar alter ego) demonstrated the online tutorials, and Danielle Johnson, the Library Website Content Coordinator (and author of this blog entry!) discussed changes the recent changes to the Library website.


University Librarian Leeanne Pitman and Vice-Pesident Darren Holland introduce our speakers for the launch.


Attentive members of the UB community learn about the many new library services and resources available to them.

A clearly very happy bunch of presenters! (L-R:Julie Lasinger, Peggy Hsu, Roger Clark, Danielle Johnson, Helen McCarthy)

Thank you to all who took the time to come along and learn a little more about the work the Library has been doing. For those of you who missed out on attending the launch, you can find information and links to these various innovations discussed here on the blog. We also welcome you to contact us here at the Library to learn more about these fabulous new services and resources. ]]> http://www.ballarat.edu.au/aasp/is/library/blog/index.php?entry=entry080828-094215
New Library website
LibNews@UB blog
Library virtual tour
Online tutorials
EBL eBooks
eJournals via the Library catalogue
BONUS+ borrowing scheme

A short presentation of each of these resources and services will take place in the Mt Helen Library Information Commons (Ground Level) on Friday morning. All welcome!]]> http://www.ballarat.edu.au/aasp/is/library/blog/index.php?entry=entry080826-133137
If this sounds like you, then read on...

The virtual tour of the Mt. Helen Campus Library is a newly developed, fully featured, interactive map of all levels in the building. The user can examine the features on any floor, by running their mouse over the labelled areas. An image and brief description of that area is displayed.

The Mt Helen Library virtual tour is available on each individual collections entry linked from the Library Collections page, also accessible directly through the catalogue when you click on the 'Item Location' link.

You can also check it out here.

Let us know what you think by leaving a comment on this blog...
]]> http://www.ballarat.edu.au/aasp/is/library/blog/index.php?entry=entry080808-164251 database trials up for viewing in the next few weeks;


American Song, Dance in Video, International Theatre in Video, North American Women's Drama, Twentieth Century North American Drama,

So if your studying dance, drama or song , or you are just curious check them out.



Also on trial is an encyclopaedia about all things to do with Japan called Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan. You'll find concise informative articles on everything from A'ya koro to Zushoryo .



Alll these trials can be found on the UB Library webpage, just click find journals and databases link.]]> http://www.ballarat.edu.au/aasp/is/library/blog/index.php?entry=entry080803-133122 Art Full Text is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from periodicals published throughout the world. Full-text coverage for selected periodicals is also included. Periodical coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish. In addition to articles, Art Full Text indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. Indexing coverage begins 1984; abstracting coverage begins with January 1994. The abstracts range from 50 to 300 words and describe the content and scope of the source articles. Full-text coverage begins in 1997.
Art Full Text produced by H.W. Wilson is on trial until August 20th, 2008. Accessible via the alphabetical listing on the find journals and database tab on the Library website at http://www.ballarat.edu.au/aasp/is/library/ or the subject area Visual & performing arts.
Try it now and we welcome your feedback on this trial.]]> http://www.ballarat.edu.au/aasp/is/library/blog/index.php?entry=entry080730-114454
Go to www.vatl.org.au/VATL/homepageVAT/web20.html to see Philip’s PPT presentation and the results for the Where are you @ With Web 2.0? survey, which provides a snapshot of the LIT community’s experiences and attitudes of doing librarianship in a Web 2.0 profession.
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Over the course of four days, the intrepid group of 11 two-wheeled Librarians traveled through mud, rain and dust, visiting Libraries ranging from Maitland to Taree, Stuarts Point to Coffs Harbour.

Highlights of the trip were visiting the newly redeveloped Tamworth Library, seeing plans for what will be a beautiful new library in Armidale, and the Minestrone soup served up by the wonderful staff at Dorrigo.

A trip along the Oxley Highway, perhaps the best motorcycling road in Australia, was something to remember too - was that 70kmh we were doing, or 170??

Biblio Turismo is held once per year, with the 2009 run planned for early in the year, to take advantage of the longer days of summer. Roger will be there again, and if you are interesting in coming along, have a chat to him.

Want to know more? Check out http://www.biblioturismo.org/ and the Biblio Blog at http://www.biblio-turismo.blogspot.com/]]> http://www.ballarat.edu.au/aasp/is/library/blog/index.php?entry=entry080724-101742
TV News indexes Australian television news, current affairs and selected documentaries from the free-to-air networks with links to the digitised video content in a compressed format. All individual stories from a particular broadcast are indexed with a detailed synopsis. TVNews is updated daily, with stories appearing on an evening news broadcast generally being available for access the next morning.

The video for each story or documentary is available in WMV format as a progressive download, allowing viewing to begin before the total video file is transferred. Items range from under 30 seconds for short stories, to over an hour for selected documentaries.

TV News is available via the "Find journals and databases" tab on the Library page - click on "T" in the alphabetical list of databases.

Why not check it out today?]]> http://www.ballarat.edu.au/aasp/is/library/blog/index.php?entry=entry080717-164305 UB Library has begun implementing the Ebook Library’s EBL Ebook collection database.

Using EBL’s unmediated lending model, UB Library is in the process of loading over 72,000 catalogue records for ebooks into our online Library Catalogue (OPAC).

The unmediated lending model offered by EBL allows the Library to load these records without purchasing the ebooks up front.

When the link in an EBL ebook catalogue record is followed to access an ebook, the Library is charged a “loan” fee, which is a percentage of the purchase price of the ebook. Once the ebook is “loaned” a third time, an automatic purchase of the ebook is initiated with EBL.

The implementation of this database allows UB Library to substantially increase the variety of it’s collection without a huge upfront cost, only paying for titles that end up being used by patrons. The EBL library covers a wide range of subjects, from Science, through the Humanities to Business, and will be a valuable supplement to core texts required by staff and students of UB.

If staff come across an ebook that they feel the Library should own outright, they can contact Library Acquisitions in the usual way to arrange for a purchase, thus avoiding any loans fees.]]> http://www.ballarat.edu.au/aasp/is/library/blog/index.php?entry=entry080714-110953 nursing and health students, the Joanna Briggs Institute database includes resources for evidence-based research and best-practice information sheets, systematic reviews, electronic journals and conference papers. Consumer health-care information is also available.

UB's membership provides access to:

-JBI Library of Systematic Reviews
-JBI Library of Evaluation Reports
-JBI Library of Best Practice Information Sheets
-JBI Online Journal Collection

Access the Joanna Briggs Institute database via the Library website.]]> http://www.ballarat.edu.au/aasp/is/library/blog/index.php?entry=entry080714-101415 New database Scopus™, is a abstract and indexing database, offering you access to 14,000 peer-reviewed titles from more than 4,000 international publishers.
Scopus is a multidisciplinary navigational tool that contains records going back to 1966, offering newly-linked citations across the widest body of scientific abstracts available in one place.
Coverage includes scientific, technical, medical and social science literature.
Scopus will assist UB researchers to demonstrate the quality and impact of their own research by identifying citations to their own work in the 15,000 titles indexed in Scopus.
To create search alerts and regular updates when your works are cited you will need to register with Scopus by clicking on the "Register"
link on the top right hand corner of any page.

List of titles indexed in Scopus at http://www.scopus.com/scopus/source/browse.url Scopus also includes a new feature called Journal Analyzer.
The Scopus Journal Analyzer allows you to select up to 10 journals in a specific field. The results are uploaded into graphs, making it easy to see how journals are performing relative to each other. The data displayed can also be limited to a shorter time period than the default from 1996 to the present.
Information on Journal Analyzer found at http://info.scopus.com/journalanalyzer/ ]]> http://www.ballarat.edu.au/aasp/is/library/blog/index.php?entry=entry080617-101945
Get a head start on how to use the new design, which will be fully implemented in July, by clicking on the Test Drive link on your EBSCOhost New Features page. (Access the New Features page from its link in the upper right corner of your EBSCOhost screen.)

Try this when using the EBSCO databases directly or via the database host shortcuts. The search screens have been designed to simplify the search interface.

The EBSCOhost 2.0 BETA will remain available on the New Features page until its final implementation in July.]]> http://www.ballarat.edu.au/aasp/is/library/blog/index.php?entry=entry080418-095521 JSTOR - New platform
For tutorials or webinars on the revised features of the new JSTOR website vist
http://sandbox.jstor.org/]]> http://www.ballarat.edu.au/aasp/is/library/blog/index.php?entry=entry080418-095214 GreenFILE - Free database from EBSCO
GreenFILE indexes scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports. This resource offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the environment. Drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology, GreenFILE serves as an informative resource for anyone concerned about the issues facing our planet. The database contains nearly 300,000 records, full text for selected titles and searchable cited references for more than 200 titles as well.

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