What's New

CSA ProQuest Merger 

Today, BC ELN vendors CSA (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts) and ProQuest announced that they have merged.

BC ELN licenses a number of products through ProQuest, Micromedia ProQuest, and CSA. Further details are available on the CSA website or the ProQuest website. Click the Customer Message link. ... More
Category: DatabasesUpdated: 15-Feb-2007
 
OutLook OnLine Patron E-Mail Notification 

February 8, 2007

To: BC ELN Resource Sharing Team, Post-Secondary ILL
From: Heather Morrison, BC ELN
Re: OutLook OnLine Patron E-Mail Notification

As part of the upgrade to AGent Version 2.6, OutLook OnLine ILL now features Patron E-Mail Notification.

This feature is available for libraries using patron requesting. To take advantage of this feature, patrons enter their ... More
Category: Resource SharingUpdated: 08-Feb-2007
 
Keep up with the AskAway Blog 

January 26, 2007

The AskAway Blog is up and running, keeping the AskAway community of service providers, administrators and coordinators connected. Check out the blog for information on our upcoming Brown Bag Lunch series, and for regular service updates and statistics.

AskAway is now open for the new term. Seven more ... More
Category: AnnouncementsUpdated: 05-Feb-2007
 
BC Stats Training 

February 5, 2007

To: BC ELN Collection Development Team
From: Heather Morrison, BC ELN
Re: BC Stats Training (Telephone)

Paul Gosh from BC Stats is available for customized, individual library training sessions, via telephone, which can be set up at your convenience.

A basic session could include a review of BC Stats products, services, and website, and plans ... More
Category: EventsUpdated: 05-Feb-2007
 
EBSCO Business Source Complete Info Sessions 

EBSCO Business Source Complete Information Sessions: February 2007

Ed Roche, EBSCO Director of Sales, U.S. and Canada will be presenting sessions on EBSCO Business Source Complete. There are two in-person session options, and an Interwise distance session for those unable to attend in person:
University of Victoria February 21 10:00 ... More
Category: EventsUpdated: 26-Jan-2007
 
GODOT / CUFTS Statistics for Collection Development 

January 25, 2007

To: BC ELN Collections Team, BC ELN Resource-Sharing Team
From: Heather Morrison, BC ELN
Re: GODOT / CUFTS Statistics for Collection Development

With fiscal year-end soon approaching, BC ELN libraries using GODOT may wish to note a statistics report readily available from CUFTS admin which can be helpful in collection development, the "top 50 ... More
Category: Resource SharingUpdated: 25-Jan-2007
 
Open Access Magazine Collection for CUFTS 

December 7, 2006

To: BC ELN Collection Development Team, Resource Sharing Team
From: Heather Morrison, BC ELN & Kevin Stranack, SFU
Re: Open Access Magazine Collection for CUFTS

Several open access collections are already available in ... More
Category: Resource SharingUpdated: 07-Dec-2006
 
dbWiz 2007/2008 

November 29, 2006

To: BC ELN Collections Development Team, BC ELN Product Development Team
From: Heather Morrison, BC ELN
Re: dbWiz trial April 2007: early announcement

This early announcement of the dbwiz trial coming up in April 2007 is provided to assist interested libraries with budgeting and planning.

dbWiz is the Open Source Federated Search Tool developed ... More
Category: DatabasesUpdated: 29-Nov-2006
 
BC ELN Strategic Planning Blog at ASIS&T Conference 


Electronic Brainstorm: Wild Ideas!, the BC ELN Strategic Planning blog, was featured at a preconference to the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) Annual Meeting Nov. 4, 2006, the Workshop on Blogs and Wikis: How They Can Improve Conference Communications (SIGs DL, BWP, KM)

The presentation is available ... More
Category: PresentationsUpdated: 09-Nov-2006
 
November 2006 reSearcher update 

Click here for the November 2006 reSearcher update.

Contents:

1. CUFTS ERM Participation Deadline Extended
2. Get your own MARC records from CUFTS
3. New dbWiz Resources
4. New CUFTS Targets
5. LiveCD now available for easy reSearcher installation
6. Open Access Content in CUFTS
7. CJDB Updating Tips
8. Add Tabbed Browsing to your CJDB
9. New reSearcher ... More
Category: Resource SharingUpdated: 08-Nov-2006