AskON Hours

The AskON Academic hours are as follows. Feel free to share this with any of our other UTL lists.

AskON for Academic (college & university) libraries:

• Mon-Thurs: 11am-10pm
• Fri-Sun: 11am-5pm
• Winter Holiday: December 12 to January 10
• Holiday Closures: New Year’s Day, Family Day, Good Friday, Victoria Day, Canada Day, Civic Holiday, Labour Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve Day, Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year's Eve Day

AskON for Public Libraries

For those of you wanting to use AskON from home as a public library patron, here are the public service hours:

• Mon-Thurs: 12:30-8:30pm;
• Fri-Sat: 12:30-4:30;
• Sun: 1:30-4:30pm

SPREAD THE WORD!
It would be great for all of us to let our friends, family and school librarians know about AskON and eResources – feel free to plug these often.

• For AskON, patrons need to visit their public library homepage to find the AskON button for reference chat – see http://askon.ca/en/index.shtml to choose the library nearest you.
• The eResources are available to everyone by visiting http://eresources.knowledgeontario.ca/.

It’s worth noting that Toronto Public Library is not part of AskON – but anyone in Ontario can visit the homepage of the next nearest library system to use the service.


Kim Silk
Sept 8, 2010

Summary of public colour copying and scanning options on campus

This is a summry of current colour photocopying and scanning options

Robarts - Information Commons

Information Commons has color scanners on the 1st floor, Robarts. Users scan files and then can print them off on IC's color printer.

Digital Studio has scanning facilities, including color http://www.utoronto.ca/ic/digitalstudio/index.html

Robarts - Map Library

Has color scanning, no color copying. (Marcel Fortin)

ROM

Provides color scanning and copying facilities for the general public. (Arthur Smith)

Pratt Library (Victoria College)
Has several scanners available for the public (phone call to Pratt Sept 1 2010).

Kelly Library, St. Mikes

Has color scanning and printing. (richard carter)

Color Scanning and Printing @ Gerstein (not public)

The copier in the Library Admin office can scan and send the resultant pdf to a staff member's Z drive. Bonnie has a color printer in her office.
Sept 9/10 entry by Jeff: instead of using Bonnie's printer, the scanned document could be emailed to the user. The user could then pick it up from our public computers and print it to our colour printer. One could use a flash drive to transfer the file as well.

External User Fees - institions subsidizing their users

On the matter of external user fees, Lari Langford has just sent a note with our updated user fees. I also want to let you know that Ryerson Library will pay the borrowing, stack and computer access fee for their graduate students, faculty and staff, and this agreement will extend for the next three years. McMaster Library will also continue to pay this fee for the coming year. The Provost has also been successful in making an agreement with York to provide a partial subsidy for the access fee for York graduate students. The agreements for the coming year have just been concluded and will become effective September 1, 2010.

Carole Moore / Aug 31, 2010


Users requiring more information on their institutions subsidies, must contact their institution.

Allison Bell / Aug 31, 2010

New Borrowing and Access Fees for External Users

Beginning Sept. 1, 2010, fees for external borrower cards will increase to:

$250.00 - for 1 year
$160.00 - for 6 months
$100.00 - for 3 months
$110.00 - for Seniors (for 1 year)

These fee changes apply to Direct Borrwers (faculty, staff, and graduate students from Canadian universities) and to other external patrons who purchase Research Reader cards. There are no changes to the fees for Alumni borrowing cards.

Research Reader cards are issued at Reader Registration, Robarts Library, only. Direct Borrower cards are issued at Reader Registration, Robarts, and at UTM and UTSC libraries.

New, this fall, is a fee for access to the Robarts Library stacks. Short-term visiting researchers (i.e. faculty, staff, and graduate students from other universities) will be able to purchase a stack pass at the Information Desk, which can be used for up to 7 days. The fee is $20.00.

Those who wish longer-term access to the stacks, but who do not wish to purchase borrowing privileges, can purchase the Robarts Stack Access Card at the Reader Registration Desk. Issued annually, with an expiry date of September 30, this card costs $50.00. The card colour for this year is yellow and the expiry date is written on the card.

Full details about these new fees are outlined on the Reader Registration web-pages. Reader Registration staff have information about which Canadian universities are subsidizing the cost of borrowing or access cards. Please refer inquiries to these staff (416-978-7694).

Please note: Undergraduates from other universities, community college students, secondary and elementary school students are not eligible to become borrowers or to purchase stack access.

Endeca - generic covers

There are now generic covers for items displayed in the Endeca search interface. These place holders are necessary as we will soon be introducing shelf browsing by cover.
There are different images depending on the item format: book, cd, musical
score, journal, etc.
We also randomly change the colour of the image to improve the aesthetics of
the page.

Marc Lalonde, Aug 31, 2010

Turnitin and Plagiarism

Here is information from the UofT Centre for Teaching Support and Innovation.

http://www.utoronto.ca/ota/newfaculty/FAQs.html#Anchor--Academ-13804

Deterring Plagiarism with Turnitin.com
As you prepare for the upcoming academic year, keep in mind that Turnitin.com is available for use in your courses. Turnitin.com is an electronic resource that assists in the detection and deterrence of plagiarism. New faculty users should contact Pam Gravestock at or 416-946-8585 to set up an account. More information on Turnitin.com can be found at http://www.utoronto.ca/ota/turnitin/index.html

Refworks Account Size Limit

I had a query from a patron about increasing her available space in RefWorks, which I forwarded to RefWorks Support (needs admin to adjust the space). Just for your info, the default size of an individual's database in RefWorks is 100 MB, but can be increased by request to 5 GB.

Cultural Passes for New Citizens

The service desks get a number of questions inquiring about cultural passes. New Canadian citizens are given an opportunity to visit galleries and exhibitions for free for one year from the day of their citizenship. This program is sponsored by the Canadian Institute of Citizenship, located on Spadina Avenue.

One of the pick up locations is 15 King's College Circle - the University of Toronto Arts Centre. Their hours are posted on the U of T Website.

This is the pick up locations for the Toronto area -

http://culturalaccesspass.ca/torontoRegion.html

To apply and pick up the cultural pass, one must present the Commemorative Document, which states the full name and date of citizenship. I have included the FAQ page url .

http://culturalaccesspass.ca/faq_1.html

Science Express

We now have access to Science Express as part of our online subscription to Science. This means that scholars can access the full text of preprint articles.

From the Science website: Science Express provides electronic publication of selected Science papers in advance of print. Some editorial changes may occur between the online version and the final printed version.

For more info see: http://www.sciencemag.org.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/feature/express/introduction.dtl

Of course this is only available from the link called: Full text from: Highwire Press American Association for the Advancement of Science and not from the Gale, Expanded Academic, or Proquest links to Science.


Gail Nichol
June 30, 2010

Top Ten Consumer Health Websites Updated 2010

We are pleased to announce the list of the Top Ten Canadian Consumer Health Websites created by the Consumer Health Information Providers Interest Group (CHIPIG) and based on the survey we sent out in March. The list was presented as a poster presentation at the Canadian Health Libraries Association annual conference in Kingston in early June. If you submitted a website to our survey we thank you.

There was no clear favourite: the top 3 recommendations tied at 10 votes each. Submitted websites had different focuses. They tended to fall into a few categories such as women, children, disease-specific, and health promotion. We decided to compare the websites in each category and selected the ones that stood out. Because our choices were the best in different subject areas, we felt that we couldn’t rank them as 1, 2, 3. Instead we chose to list them alphabetically.

A copy of the poster as well as summary of the results of the survey can be found at our website: www.chipig.ca.
The websites that made it into the Top Ten for 2010 are:

AboutKids Health http://www.aboutkidshealth.ca
Canada Safety Council http://safety-council.org
Canadian Cancer Society http://www.cancer.ca
Caring for Kids http://www.caringforkids.cps.ca
Dietitians of Canada http://www.dietitians.ca/
Heart and Stroke Foundation http://www.heartandstroke.ca
Here to help http://www.heretohelp.bc.ca
PasseportSanté http://www.passeportsante.net
Sexualityandu.ca http://www.sexualityandu.ca
Women’s Health Matters http://www.womenshealthmatters.ca


Mary Anne Howse
June 28, 2010

Collection move during Robarts construction

Click on the link below to view "a memo for faculty regarding temporary and longer-term relocations of material from Robarts Library to storage (Downsview, B2 and Government Publications storage locations) and procedures for requesting this material. It is intended to facilitate easier access to relocated materials."

P. Bellamy
June 9, 2010
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/43502934/?key=NTQ3YmEzMzIt&pass=NDQ3MS00Yzdl

MaRS Research Services

MaRS Market Intelligence typically only works with researchers who are actively involved in commercialization. We can provide service, to a limited extent, to requests where commercialization is not on the immediate horizon on a courtesy basis, but our priority would be responding to our core client groups.

If the researcher is employed by a member institution of MaRS Innovation (see the list below), please feel free to refer him or her to my colleague, Xuefei Mao [ smao@marsinnovation.com ].

MaRS Innovation also offers highly specialized life sciences and technology patent searching capabilities which could be tapped if appropriate.

MaRS Innovation members institutions include:

* Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care
* BioDiscovery Toronto
* Bloorview Kids Rehab
* Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
* MaRS Discovery District
* Mount Sinai Hospital
* Ontario College of Art and Design
* Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
* Ryerson University
* St. Michael's Hospital
* Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
* The Hospital for Sick Children
* The New Women¹s College Hospital
* Toronto Rehabilitation Institute
* University Health Network
* University of Toronto

Helen Kula

Eduroam

From Heather:

I wanted to make you aware of a new service for faculty, staff and students called eduroam (education roaming). This allows faculty, staff and students to use their UofT wireless login credentials in order to use wireless networks when they are visiting other participating universities (see a list for Canadian universities: https://wiki.bc.net/atl-conf/display/CANEDUROAM/Using+eduroam; see worldwide universities: http://www.eduroam.org/)

UofT faculty, staff or students visiting another participating institution should contact the Information Commons Help Desk – help.desk@utoronto.ca, 416-978-HELP (4357) for technical support to configure their laptop BEFORE they go to another university.

And, visitors from other participating universities should be able to use their own credentials to login to the wireless when at UofT libraries. Visitors to UofT should contact their home institution's IT support for assistance. Technical support for eduroam will be provided by one's home institution.

If there are questions about eduroam at the Info Desk, UofT faculty, staff and students can be directed to the Information Commons Help Desk. Visitors from other universities can be assisted by directing them to their own university's web page to find their IT contact info.

Information about eduroam appears on several library webpages:

Gerstein's "All services" page: http://gerstein.library.utoronto.ca/services/all-services
Gerstein's Services to faculty page: http://gerstein.library.utoronto.ca/faculty/services-for-faculty

UTL web page: Computers & accessing eResources: http://discover.library.utoronto.ca/services/computing-connecting

eduroam @ UofT: http://eduroam.utoronto.ca/

Research Reader Information

Research Readers & Associate Memberships Reader Registration will no longer distribute a brochure for the Research Readers. For patrons, please print the page from the website, that describes the membership, as a hand-out.

You will find the page at: http://discover.library.utoronto.ca/external/visitors-from-other-universities

More information for users from the public available here:
http://discover.library.utoronto.ca/external/public/

Edited by Jeff, Jan 2011 (broken link)

Email alerts for Google Scholar

FYI:

"Until now Google Scholar users had to use a variety of methods to create alerts to notify them of new content in Google Scholar. Well, the wait is over and as of this weekend, Google Scholar E-Mail Alerts are now available. It’s Google, of course they’re free."

More: http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/05/10/there-here-e-mail-alerts-for-google-scholar-now-available-direct-from-google/

Dan
May 11, 2010

Student barcode printout request for Metropass purchase

Occasionally students come to the library saying they need to get a printout of their barcode ID so they can purchase the discounted Metropass.
It does not need to be printed.
Just look it up and write it down for them...and they can use that to go and purchase their Metropass.

As always, those without their Tcard should show you photo ID before you give them any personal information from a SIRSI user record. (if they have no photo ID you could ask them to recite all their personal information while you are looking at thier SIRSI record...and decide for yourself if they are who they say they are)

August 2010 Update: first time users of this benefit are asked to "print out" a specific page. They are asked to "pre-register". These users are asked to go to "http://www.datacard.com/ttc" and use this code "uot75011". More information on this can be found at: http://www.utsu.ca/index2.php/content/1427

Retrieving ILL Items when Resource Sharing Closed

Please note that when the Interlibrary Loans dept. is closed, we can still retrieve items for patrons.
Please follow the procedures outlined below in the absence of full-time Resource Sharing staff:

SITUATION 1
User wants to pick up a book requested via ILL from Resource Sharing.

Procedure for intercampus delivery items:
Take the 'DocDel' key from the lower reference desk and open the Resource Sharing door.
Books and articles are on shelves under the ILL service desk, arranged by user last name (but be prepared to check first and last).
Find the book and hand it to the user. It should already be desensitized.
Exit and lock door.
Please be aware that intercampus delivery books (ICD) may also be found shelved behind the Circulation desk.

Procedure for non UofT items:
Take the 'DocDel' key from the lower reference desk and open the Resource Sharing door.
You will notice that the white ILL Picklist report is in the book as well as a yellow flyer. Remove the white form and get the borrower to sign it, where they sign is not important.
Place the signed form in the metal filing box that is on the desk above the books. The filing box is marked "Charge out file. Books that have been signed out". Give the user the book with the yellow flyer in it.
Exit and lock door.
NOTE: this is for material borrowed from other institutions only, not UofT intercampus deliveries.


SITUATION 2
User wants to pick up and pay for an article requested on ILL from Resource Sharing.

Procedure:
Use key to enter Resource Sharing.
Find the required article - envelopes are arranged by user last name.
Check the envelope: is there a charge slip?
- If no, hand envelope to user.
- If yes, ask him/her to pay at the Loan Services desk. If the cash is closed, take patron's contact details, and ask him/her to pay at a later time. Give contact information to Renata next day.
Please do not withhold articles if Loan Services cash is closed.
Exit and lock door.

Post Docs access

Post Docs have a UTORid, and their PIN is the lst four digits of that (letters/numbers).

For example:
UTORid: bellalli
PIN: alli

Cou can check this by 'verifying' it on the UTORid page (under 'Problems with your UTORid):
https://www.utorid.utoronto.ca/

Practising with a Stats Question

Sent by Laine, after her session at the Gerstein Librarians Meeting on March 23:

"When I got back to the office yesterday after the Gerstein event, there was a perfect question waiting for me:

The user wanted annual smoking rates for Ontario, from about 2000 to the latest. We checked CANSIM, but each time series from the Canadian community health survey seemed to consist of only one year per series, and it would have required 'gluing' together a series of numbers from disparate CANSIM tables.

So we went to the Canadian tobacco use monitoring survey. Selecting (in
SDA) each annual person file, and doing a cross-tabulation of the smoking status question (Q10 or Q010 in most years) and province, and noting down the % of daily smokers, occasional smokers, and non-smokers.

I encourage you to try the same thing, in SDA, and in to see the differences.

One major difference: in SDA the resulting table is by default weighted to the population, while in Nesstar (ie ) you need to add the weight variable. If you do not use the weight, you can only talk about the prevalence of smoking _in the sample_, while if you do use the weight, you are generating estimates of and can talk about the prevalence of smoking _in the Ontario population_ 15 years of age and over."

Qualitative Research Nursing assignment

My email response you can use for Masters of Nursing students looking for qualitative research in CINAHL:

"Hi _______,

I am attaching a handout with some tips for using CINAHL. Feel free to email ask.gerstein@utoronto.ca if you need any assistance with it. [CINAHL 2010 handout is located in the sidebar of the blog])

As for finding qualitative research articles you can copy and paste this text and search for it in CINAHL (**Make sure you UNCHECK the box that says 'Suggest Subject Terms' before searching for this. That will allow it to be searched as a phrase**)

(MH "cluster sample+") or TX life experiences or TX human science or TX discourse* analysis or TX narrative analysis or TX lived experience* or TX field research or TX field studies or TX field study or TX giorgi* or TX husserl* or TX merleau ponty* or TX van kaam* or TX van manen* or TX spiegelberg* or TX colaizzi* or TX heidegger* or TX participant observ* or TX data saturat* or TX semiotics or TX heuristic or TX hermeneutic* or TX etic or TX emic or TX focus group* or TX purpos* sampl* or TX constant comparison or TX constant comparative or TX grounded research or TX grounded studies or TX grounded study or TX grounded theor* or TX phenomenol* or TX ethnon* or TX qualitative or (MH "ethnological research") or (MH "ethnography") or (MH "phenomenology") or (MH "focus groups") or (MH "discourse analysis") or (MH "theoretical sample") or (MH "field studies") or (MH "constant comparative method") or (MH "thematic analysis") or (MH "content analysis") or (MH "observational method+") or (MH "purposive sample") or (MH "qualitative validity+") or (MH "grounded theory") or (MH "ethnonursing research") or (MH "phenomenological research") or (MH "ethnographic research") or (MH "qualitative studies")

This will look for all qualitative studies. If you want to, you can modify it and take out any of the terms that you are not interested in finding.
Then you can combine these results with your search subject terms (__[suggest some relevant terms based on their topic]__) in the search history screen.

These terms were found here: http://www.library.vcu.edu/tml/bibs/nursingevidencefilters.html (scroll to bottom)

There's also a good article on search strategies here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2288/4/5 for your information."

email dated March 25, 2010