RefWorks 2.0 Switch and Compatibility Issues

Two quick reminders:

2.0 switch date:

All schools will have their default interface switched to RefWorks 2.0 on Tuesday, October 25. New users will automatically create an account in 2.0. Users who have been working in Classic will be able to remain in Classic until the end of the 2011. All users will have the option to toggle back and forth between the two interfaces until then.


Known compatibility issues:

• Write-N-Cite is not compatible with the new Mac OS, Lion. We do not have a release date for a compatible version, but it is expected this fall.
• Write-N-Cite is not compatible with Word 2011 (Mac). The new version of WNC should also address this issue.
• Write-N-Cite often has trouble working with .docx files. Please resave the file as a .doc and try running your bibliography again.
• Internet Explorer 9 users will need to turn on Compatibility Mode in order to have full functionality (they will otherwise be unable to edit the Title field when entering references manually)

Please let us know if you have questions.

Jacqueline Whyte Appleby
Client Services Librarian
Scholars Portal, Ontario Council of University Libraries
jacqueline@scholarsportal.info
416-946-8212

HIN Open Access Week Events

October 25

Location: Holy Cross Touch Down Suite
Time: 10 am - 11 am
Details: Join your colleagues Xanthoula Kostaras, Lorraine Shack and Bejoy Thomas as they discuss their experiences in Open Access publishing.
[Download the flyer]

October 27

Location: Alberta Children's Hospital, Conference Room 2
Time: 9 am - 10 am
Details: Join Tanis Fenton and Andrew Waller as they discuss Open Access publishing in health care.

Tanis is the author of "A new growth chart for preterm babies: Babson and Benda's chart updated with recent data and a new format," the fifth most accessed article of all time in BioMed Central, a world-wide repository for Open Access articles in health. (http://www.biomedcentral.com/mostviewedalltime/)

[Download the flyer]

Leisure Reading Trial at TBCC Knowledge Centre

Starting today, the Health Information Network (HIN) and Calgary Public Library (CPL) are piloting a leisure reading program at the Tom Baker Cancer Knowledge Centre.

A brief about the program:

CPL is leaving some of their popular leisure materials with us to lend to patients, families and staff at the hospital. We are piloting this program at TBCC for three months, improving the service as we go along. If the pilot is successful, we plan to roll this service out to other KCs.

• Items are entered into our system with brief title records and distributed using HIN library cards.
• The collection will be refreshed from CPL as needed.
• Items can be returned to any KC. If you receive one, please send back to TBCC.
• We will not enforce fines on these items.
• Full details on the circulation procedure in the HIN Policy and Procedure Manual: R:\Knowledge-Centers\HIN Policy & Procedure Manual\Circulation\Z. Circulation of Calgary Public Library (CPL) Materials – Pilot.

There is a quick information sheet available for clients in the Knowledge Centre and online here: http://hinc.ucalgary.ca/content/leisure-reading-tom-baker-cancer-knowledge-centre-pilot-project.

If you have any questions about this program, feel free to direct them to Kathryn, Julie or Yongtao.

Keeping Current Blog - Our Blog!

Keeping Current Blog - Our Blog!

Yes, the Blog is intended for YOU, to communicate and share information with your library colleagues on new and existing resources, education events, tips on providing reference, instruction services, and much more!

You can BLOG!

• Find it a constant pain to search for a particular message from among the thousands of e-mails in your Inbox? Try blogging! All messages will be automatically archived. They are easy to browse and search with a Google Search engine.

• New to social media? Try blogging! It's an easy gateway to connect with other social media tools.

• Lost in a long chain of group email discussions/comments on one thing? Try blogging! You know when and who commented, and know exactly where you left.

• Concerned that blog posts are not received/read faster than emails? That's why we need YOU, everyone of us, to start using Keeping Current Blog and make this a vibrant repository of pertinent library news.

To win the prize of Most Popular Post (most read) between now and December 16th:

1. Save the Blog (http://healthlibrarystaff.blogspot.com/) in your bookmark toolbar
2. Read the blog guidelines
3. Read other people's posts
4. OR: Set up an RSS feed for your feed reader and get to read every new post (not sure how? Please attend the Current Awareness For You sessions on Oct. 26th.)
5. Blog!
6. Add tags to your post - so we can find your post easily!

We will be handing out a Chapter's gift card on December 19!

Questions/comments, please let us know!

Melanie, Kathryn, Marcus & Yongtao