How do I search for books on Bison

Follow this link from the Virtual Information Commons.

More on Libguide

I gather you've wrestled with libguides in the past. I was introduced to them just last month, and I'd like to give it a go. I desperately need something flashier for the Off-Campus Students, but would also like to put something together for social work (my other constituency). The latter is a clean slate, and I'd like to get going with that first.


I have a few questions.
Is there a cost, and if free, what's the catch (advertising, valuable information stored off-site in a foreign country etc)?
In your experience is this best managed by the individual librarian, or by committee, for standardisation, ease of use? What has been the student response?
How's it different from a blog? I've been trying to put one together, but I don't like it at all. It is very limiting in so many ways.
learning curve? Time.
does it have usage stats collecting capabilities?
If I think of others, I'll let you know.

libguide

I've recently been informed about libguide, a nice little tool for creating customizable library resources. U Brandon has been using them for some time. I'm curious if anybody else has has much experience with these?

Uses for VCR cases

OCLS is getting rid of a number of VCR cassettes, and while there is a firm that will destroy our cassettes, they won't destroy the cases, so we are stuck being imaginative. I found a few uses on line. Who knew, but apparently they make attractive display boxes for the model soldiering crowd; an open case, painted with roof tiles, makes a lovely roof for a miniature house. Otherwise the cases make good display cabinets. Any other uses, I'd love to hear from anybody.

longevity of DVDs etc.

Interesting comment from LoC on longevity of DVDs etc.

With so much material available on the web, much of it useful, we are still wrestling with providing complete course readings for what are otherwise online courses. And the struggle is not the technology, but working around restrictive / non-existent copyright legislation. Even many of our e-books in the library provide only limited access where the print version very easily (and within the law) provided opportunities to copy selected materials under fair use provisions. I wonder if any other libraries have struggled with this?