Hey, come work with me at the University of #Manitoba Libraries in #Winnipeg, #Canada, we're hiring!
We are currently recruiting for the positions of Arts & Humanities Liaison Librarian and Social Sciences Liaison Librarian. Please see below links to the detailed job posting:
Here's my experience with Queens #Library for those who like out of area cards:
$50 USD per year, not bad
Ebooks and streaming services
If you browse, selection is good. If you want specific titles, then not great.
How to renew/cancel - I chatted with them on their site & the person didn't know. Monday I got an email saying "call us." I called & learned it autocancels, you have to call to renew. Just put that on the site or in email/chat.
Lately I've been making very good use of my local library. It's just so much fun browsing books and being able to take books with you that you wouldn't necessarily buy. This week's stack includes some vegan cook books, some books about local history and traditions, a comic, historical fiction, a children's book and a historical film.
#Library guest: “I don’t think you can help me. I don’t remember the title or the author but one of the detectives is named Pentecost.” Oh ye of little faith. #mystery#bookstodon@librarians
Any #librarians or other #library folks out there have experience of setting up a book swap shelf in your library? Particularly in an academic library? I've wanted to try this for a while but concern has been raised about "swappable" books being confused with library stock... @librarians
Proof that education is no guarantee of intelligence or wisdom:
"the new process, intended to ensure library books are inclusive, appears to have led some schools to remove thousands of books solely because they were published in 2008 or earlier."
I am determined to finish a book this weekend. I have a couple going from before we came back from the cabin at the beginning of last month.
What are you #reading this weekend?
Dear academics,
Sorry if this is a dumb question, but is there any reliable way to search specifically for a literature review?
Like suppose I don't want to become an expert on the psychology of moral learning, but I do want to have a sense of the general literature and positions in that literature. I find myself on Google Scholar sorting through hundreds of articles, and it feels extremely inefficient. Is there a better way?
Trying to find only research articles (or review essays) is an interesting puzzle.
As others have mentioned, checking with an academic librarian for a curated list, and conducting boolean searches, are great starting points.
Some journals publish literature reviews (we don't, specifically, though we do publish evidence summaries of specific research articles).
However, there are some really cool tool you can use to improve the chances of finding things!
ResearchRabbit and Connected Papers allow you to find work that is connected, in some way, to a work that you specify - could be same author, same field, cited by, etc.
2Dsearch can be helpful, especially for anyone not used to boolean searching.
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, by Michael Chabon. You, alone of your family escape the holocaust as a teenager, and parlay your drawing skills into a lucrative career cartooning superheroes in America; but even with a side gig as a magician, you can not escape the past, can not avenge it, and struggle to keep it out of your future. 3 of 5 library cats 🐈 🐈 🐈
The English Understand Wool, by Helen Dewitt. You are an extremely wealthy young lady who does not blink an eye when everything you thought was true turns out to be a lie, and by avoiding actions in bad taste, defeat some who would take advantage of your situation. 5 of 5 library cats 🐈 🐈 🐈 🐈 🐈
Of Love and Libraries is a sweet second chance romcom which smells like books, cinnamon and apple cider. It is the story of two women who reconnect after decades.