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Experience | Database dweller
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Janice Winkler, MLIS Student. I earned an honours undergraduate degree in sociology at the University of Western Ontario in 2013, favouring courses about contemporary theory and social inequality, and completing challenging but rewarding coursework in both quantitative and qualitative research methods and statistics. I have also taken on two new roles in academic reference work for the fall of 2014. I have been fortunate enough to be working in an exciting position as a virtual reference mentee throu...
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Children in Academic Libraries | Database dweller
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Janice Winkler, MLIS Student. Children in Academic Libraries. This past week I was lucky enough to attend my first OLA Superconference, and I walked away with more than just 17ish ACRs and assorted conference swag. While I don’t have time to explore everything, I wanted to share one of the more fun ideas I brought home. But I am seeing kids in the library all of the time. And I think it’s great! One of the presenters apologies for not writing down her name! I was also reminded of a visit that a friend to...
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Participant Experiences of MOOC Noncompletion and Librarianship Recruitment | Database dweller
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Janice Winkler, MLIS Student. Participant Experiences of MOOC Noncompletion and Librarianship Recruitment. Researchers are seeking participants aged 18 or over, who have enrolled in at least one MOOC, for which they did not complete all course requirements. The MOOC(s) must have ended. You would be asked to participate in one interview session, either by phone or Skype, lasting between 30 minutes and 1 hour. Participants will be asked about their experiences with taking MOOC(s). Jwinkle3 at uwo.ca. On Ci...
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Now and Then | Database dweller
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Janice Winkler, MLIS Student. I’m very tempted to write up another blog post starting with Another busy week of LIS! But let’s be honest, every week is busy and that will get repetitive. So instead, let’s make a deal. If you agree to take that as a given, I’ll agree not to start every post the same way. Deal? Highlights of my week so far:. I was lucky enough to see a thought provoking talk by Dr. John Buschman. I also interviewed for an internship with the askON virtual reference service. With women work...
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I Heart Poultry, or: The Importance of the Reference Interview | Database dweller
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Janice Winkler, MLIS Student. I Heart Poultry, or: The Importance of the Reference Interview. Sharing a post I enjoyed – a funny anecdote about the importance of open-ended questions in the reference interview. With Valentine’s Day coming up, this reference interaction popped into my head. Now I normally don’t blog about specific patron encounters, but this one was years ago circa 2003 when I was a newbie librarian. A man approached the reference desk and asked a simple question:. He wanted romantic poems.
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Citation Management 101 – Zotero | Database dweller
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Janice Winkler, MLIS Student. Citation Management 101 – Zotero. Welcome to the first discussion of a resource for my Citation Management 101 series. You can read the introduction to the series here. I’m kicking off with a discussion of Zotero, because it was the first program I tried. Why? Because a techy, smart professor of mine recommended it. ( Recommended might not actually be a strong enough word, actually; by the end of her pitch I was almost convinced it was actually magic.). For librarians and ot...
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Citation Management 101 – Mendeley | Database dweller
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Janice Winkler, MLIS Student. Citation Management 101 – Mendeley. I’d intended to continue the Citation Management 101 Series. With a post on RefWorks, and I will, but I’ve decided to focus first on Mendeley. I am impressed with how user-friendly. Mendeley is it was easy to sign up and install the program, and the bookmarklet is a very quick install as well. The layout is intuitive and this makes it quite easy to navigate. Additionally, their video tutorials. That Zotero doesn’t have. Both of these a...
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DatabaseDweller | Database dweller
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Janice Winkler, MLIS Student. Participant Experiences of MOOC Noncompletion and Librarianship Recruitment. Researchers are seeking participants aged 18 or over, who have enrolled in at least one MOOC, for which they did not complete all course requirements. The MOOC(s) must have ended. You would be asked to participate in one interview session, either by phone or Skype, lasting between 30 minutes and 1 hour. Participants will be asked about their experiences with taking MOOC(s). Jwinkle3 at uwo.ca. Anoth...
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Citation Management 101 Series | Database dweller
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Janice Winkler, MLIS Student. Citation Management 101 Series. Because I’ve found that writing helps me learn more about things than I might otherwise, and because I’m interested in learning more about citation management tools, I’ve decided to write a short series of posts presenting an introduction to some of the most popular tools. I initially thought I’d only write one post, but it became quite long so quickly that I realized I’d need to divide it up. Citation Management 101 – Zotero. And second, I ex...
