For readers of this journal outside of New Jersey VALE (Virtual Academic Library Environment) is a consortium of college and university librarians. Please click on the link for more information. Today I attended my first meeting of the Reference Services Committee which was held at the Alexander Library at the College Avenue campus of Rutgers.
From May 1974 until December 1976 I lived in New Brunswick in my "previous life as a laboratory chemist." My personal journal has an entry that discusses my time there. Whenever I go to a professional meeting at Rutgers, I observe how the town has changed in the 30+ years since I lived there. Any place changes over time.
The committee discussed a reference survey that it is sending to the library directors of the state. We also viewed some web sites that considered reference statistics applications and the use of text messaging in reference.
Reference Statistics Applications:
a. http://www.slideshare.net/vacekrae/libstats-demo-and-overview - Open Source Libstats
b. http://www.altarama.com.au/deskstat.htm - commercial Artamara's RefTracker
c. http://libraryassessment.org/bm~doc/leibold.pps
d. http://bkarrgerlich.googlepages.com/tryingthereadscale
Text-a-Librarian:
a. Online presentation: http://www.textalibrarian.com/emerging.php
b. Features page: http://www.textalibrarian.com/features.php
c. One page PDF: http://www.textalibrarian.com/TextALibrarian-InfoSheet.pdf
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