No.20
Sept 2007
Karmen Pemberton - New Morris Miller Librarian
Introducing the New Morris Miller Librarian
Karmen E. Pemberton was delighted to take up the position of Morris Miller Librarian on 13 August 2007. She was fascinated to learn that E. Morris Miller was also born in South Africa and that his ideas of the purpose of the University and the Library relate to aspects of what we refer to now as “lifelong learning” - extending learning in the community, to improve society and the lives of people - something Karmen is passionate about. Morris Miller’s book, Libraries and Education (1912) also put forward the idea that a fundamental role of librarians is to develop students’ “bibliothecal knowledge” – today the term “information literacy” describes these indispensable skills of finding, evaluating and using information. Karmen comes to us from a long and varied career with the State Library of Tasmania. In 1981, after spending some years in Tennant Creek, and where she was offered the first librarian position in the town, Karmen and her husband arrived in Tasmania. Karmen has greatly enjoyed worked in most city public libraries around the state – Burnie, Devonport, Kingston, Hobart, Rosny and, most recently, Glenorchy. In 1997 she took up the position of Young People’s Librarian and was promoted to Senior Librarian (Young People’s Services) two years later. Karmen has always enjoyed input and feedback from young people and takes a keen interest in popular youth culture. As Senior Librarian, Karmen oversaw a major refurbishment of the Glenorchy Library which reopened as the Glenorchy Library + Online Access Centre in July 2006. The combined services represent a new model of public library service for the state, offering free access to computers and online information sources as well as training opportunities. The service has been an outstanding success, reaching out further into new sectors of the community, with over 40,000 internet bookings in the first year and over 900 people completing training courses. Library staff worked hard to upgrade their IT skills and knowledge and make the integration of services a reality. Karmen is looking forward the new challenges ahead of her as Morris Miller Librarian. She is passionate about promoting libraries and responding to customer needs, about libraries being places of learning and about giving people tools to collaborate and create knowledge in the new digital environments. She notes with interest that Google and Web 2.0 developments such as Wikipedia and MySpace encompass all the values that she believes libraries stand for – ease of access, participation, sharing knowledge and collaboration. Karmen believes the next decade will present even more exciting opportunities and challenges for the University Library. Academic libraries will continue to provide high quality learning spaces such as the Learning Hubs, take the lead in teaching information literacy, offer virtual services but other developments will also be required to accommodate the increasingly digital environment and change in research, study and learning styles. |
New ZPortal Document Delivery requesting system now ‘live’ .
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What will the new system mean for you?
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Electronic delivery to your desktop: All copies are now supplied electronically to the ZPortal, or as email attachments. No more snail mail for Document Delivery photocopies.
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Federated searching: Search across national library catalogues and place a request automatically. See straight away if Utas already has the item.
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Time saving: the request form is populated with your search results – no more cutting and pasting into a blank request form (unless you prefer).
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Monitor you own requests: You will be able to track the changing status of your requests through a link on ZPortal called ‘My requests’.
Do I need to register for the new requesting system?
Only new requestors will register for the new system. Register on our Document Delivery web pages. Access details will then be emailed to new clients within 24hrs.
What if I am already registered with the old Document Delivery system?
Use your Staff/Student ID number in the User ID box plus your existing Document Delivery PIN in the Password box. **Note- if your password has a letter at the end, this is case sensitive and must be in upper case.
How do I make a request ? Go the the Document Delivery pages and login to the Request Form
The new request form has 2 choices:
Search for an item first. Once you are ready to make a request, click on "Get it". Details will be populated into the Request Form automatically.
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You can use the link ‘Create request’ which allows you to begin with a blank request form.
For example, search for a book title, or a journal title (NOT a Journal article title) before you place a request. Then click on ‘Get it’ and then fill in the chapter or journal article title, volume number, page numbers, etc.
Need Help?
There is a step by step 'User Guide to Requesting’ (pdf) via Document Delivery web pages.
Can I check my own requests which I have submitted?
Yes. Simply check under the link ‘My requests’ in ZPortal. The new system allows you to track the ‘status’ of your requests as they are processed by the Document Delivery staff.
How do I collect my copies? Your copy requests will be supplied electronically direct to your ‘My requests’. An email notification will be sent to you.
Please contact Liaison Librarians or Document Delivery staff directly if you have any questions about the new system.Hobart Phone: 03 6226 2230 or 2880
E-mail docdel.hbt@lib.utas.edu.au
Launceston Phone: 03 6324 3571
E-mail docdel.ltn@lib.utas.edu.au
Quaker Collection going digital via ePrint archive
Staff are gradually scanning rare and special items from the Quaker collection and making them digitally available to researchers around the world.
Search the Utas ePrint archive
Quaker Collection, Franklin - Jane ( 1843 )
Letter from Lady Franklin to George Washington Walker 25th Oct. 1843.
University of Tasmania Library Special and Rare Materials Collection , Australia .
Joshua Andersen-Ward digitising the Quaker Collection
Quaker Collection, Walter - G. ( 1850 )
Letter from G. Walter to George Washington Walker regarding the death penalty.
11 April 1850. University of Tasmania Library Special and Rare Materials Collection , Australia .
Approximately 1450 items are in ePrints now, including129 theses which are doing particularly well with the number of downloads; Typically, highest visitor numbers are coming from the following domains: .au, .com, .net, .uk, .edu, with more than 90% of the hits coming via Google.
ePrints is bedding down as an invaluable marketing and scholarly communications tool for UTAS researchers. Many researchers have started to upload their complete publication portfolios, a time-consuming but relatively easy task which may have long-term benefits for them as individuals, for their research group or centre and also for the University. Early career researchers may find ePrints a useful tool for building their profile as an author, gaining a reputation as a researcher in a specific field and attracting attention of potential employers or collaborators for the future.
Are academics finding ePrints useful?
“The ePrints archive provides a great opportunity for identifying and tracking the take-up of research. Two papers (from different conferences) I deposited in December 2006 have managed approximately 70 plus downloads from 13 separate countries in the nine months to date. While I cannot yet say that any or all these downloads will lead to citations in publications it gives you a good, quick and useful indication of the number of people accessing the results of your research. The provision of monthly data on downloads is interesting and helps indicate the number and spread of your research, complementing and extending the use of citation indices or other bibliometric sources.”
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ePrints has a role within the RQF too, housing and providing full-text access to the “4 best” publications of each participating researcher. The Pro-Vice Chancellor (Research), Allan Canty, has created a position for a Scholarly Publications Librarian to assist researchers with the uploading of these items. In this position Meredith McCoy is liaising closely with Lynn Davies, the Digital Archives Librarian, as well as working alongside Susan Newman in the TasARK office, to support WARP activity for the RQF.
UTAS ePrints - Lynn Davies & Derek Rowlands
Liaison Librarians have been doing their bit too, to support researchers at UTAS. Web pages focused on the information needs of researchers have recently been developed and launched. Explore these pages to ascertain their relevance to you: http://www.utas.edu.au/library/assist/research/index.html
From 1 September to 30 November 2007 there's free online access to the Royal Society archive (dating back to 1665 and in excess of 60,000 articles).
http://www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk/home/main.mpx
During August approximately 80 international students arrived to undertake the Direct Entry Academic Programme (DEAP). The students participated in library tours and worksops to help gain familiarity with the library and information skills for their assignments.
Liaison Librarian Scott Wylie and students
Welcome to Karmen Pemberton the new Morris Miller Librarian
Karmen comes to us from the State Library of Tasmania, where she has worked since 1981, with significant responsibility for the provision of information services. Most recently she has been responsible for the integration of the Online Access Centre and Library Service at Glenorchy. With her experience at the State Library she brings an enthusiasm for the use of digital resources to provide information services, and she recognises the rewards of learning throughout life.
Since the last update, we have welcomed Sharn Davies on secondment from the State Library of Tasmania. Sharn is working in the Collection Management Unit. CMU also welcomes Liz Badcock who is working on the AMC integration project.
In the Copyright and Digital Assets area, Meredith McCoy will be the Scholarly Publications Librarian, working with Lynn Davies and the Research Office on EPrints for the RQF. Christian McGee will be the manager of the Equella project and provide software management for ePrints. He will be based in Launceston.
Welcome back to Luana Nandan to Hobart following her sojourns in Papua New Guinea and Newcastle. Luana will neatly fit in with the storage project, which will require a major effort over the vacation period. Luana has agreed to act as Executive Officer for this project, supporting Graeme Rayner as Project Manager.
For any enquiries/comments please contact:
Heather.Mitchell @utas.edu.au
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