21st century librarians

Ran across this article while researching sources for an Advanced Advertising library session:

"As 21st century librarians, we must add strategic planning, financial, human resource, and marketing skills to those we traditionally associate with librarianship. Skills in developing our message and advocating for it have become embedded in the profession's consciousness as a requirement for ensuring that our voices are heard when funding is being considered. Skills in crafting fundraising proposals, identifying funding sources, and effectively reaching out to potential contributors are becoming essential parts of the new mix of knowledge required for library leaders."

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Global Researcher Cancellation

The Global Researcher portion of our CQ subscription is coming to an end, access expires 8/31/2011 and the title will no longer appear on the A-Z list as of Saturday, August 20, 2011.

Credo Reference Cancellation

Our subscription to Credo Reference expires on August 24, 2011. Please remove all links to Credo early, as to prevent any confusion for the Fall 11 trimester.

PowerSearch Enhancements

"New features, improved search functionality, and more relevant results are now available in Gale PowerSearch and InfoTrac collections.

Based on your valuable input, users will discover engaging features like:

• Search Assist Autocomplete
• Enhanced Publication and Subject Search
• Language Customizability

And for Gale In Context subscribers, these new enhancements mean users will experience cross-searching functionality across select Gale In Context titles, including Biography, Science, History and others, for the very first time.

Learn about these new features by viewing presentations, guided tours and more >>"

IOP Science Downtime

"IOPscience will be unavailable for two periods of time on Monday 18 July 2011. The first period of outage will be between 5.00 am and 6:15 am, the second will be between 12:30 pm and 1:45 pm, all times are GMT.

This work is part of an ongoing programme of improvements, designed to maximise the reliability and performance of our web sites and services. We apologise for any inconvenience caused."

Ulrighsweb Enhancements & Downtime

"The following new features and functionality will be released to Ulrichsweb during our upgrade on July 15, 2011.

• Make Key Features Facet options Boolean AND: Previously, the operator for the Key Features facet was "OR;" however, now it is "AND." So now you can combine the specific features you want every title in your search results to have. For example, if you tick the boxes for "Journal Citation Reports" and "Refereed/Peer-Reviewed," all of the titles that result from that action will be both peer-reviewed and listed in the most recent edition of JCR® Web. This enhancement provides functionality similar to what was an Advanced-Search screen feature in the legacy Ulrichsweb service.
• The column named "Select Columns" has been changed to "Change Columns," for clarity.
• Refereed/Peer-Reviewed icon: This icon has been set as a default column on the search results screen. The Title History icon and other icons and columns may still be displayed for the duration of a session by selecting columns from the Change Columns option.
• The option named "Retain my search options" has been changed to Retain my Advanced Search options, for clarity.
• Title Details page: A new Price Comments field has been added to the Price Details section; the display of Editor information has been reformatted; contact information has been added for Corporate Authors; and the Status field now displays status history data.
• The WorldCat target link is now WorldCat.org, making it possible for users at any institution to look for publications in a local library. FirstSearch authorization is not required, but FirstSearch users may log in from the WorldCat.org site for additional options.
• Mutual subscription-service links, such as JCR® Web and ScienceDirect, are now available from either the print edition or online edition record of the same title.
• Updates to Search Results online contextual Help.

Bug fixes in this release will:

• Make LC Number searches case-insensitive
• Enable OpenURL links directly to Title Details after users log in to Ulrichsweb
• Improve access to, and readability of, online Help pages
• Correct the telephone number in new "My Ulrich's" account email confirmations
• Correct alignment of OPAC and linking-partner icons in Internet Explorer 7 (IE7)
• Allow IE7 users to uncheck the "Retain my Advanced Search options" link
• Let users of Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) use the Enter key to submit searches
• Eliminate IE7 and IE8 errors when Help links are selected in certain languages

To effect this release of new features and bug fixes, there will be some service downtime. From Friday, July 15, from 8:00 p.m. to Saturday, July 16, at 5:00 a.m. Ulrichsweb™ will be unavailable."

360 Link Downtime

Notice from Serials Solutions: "360 Link customers may experience approximately 20 minutes of outage between 8:00 and 9:00 p.m. Friday, July 15."