How Our Open-Access Repository Drives Traffic to UNL Scholarship

"My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard": How Our Open-Access Repository Drives Traffic to UNL Scholarship … Including (Potentially) Yours

Learn how to reach one billion online users. Find the thousands of readers who want to see what you've got. Your free online articles get reception that will astonish you.

Special workshop to celebrate Open Access Week
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
1:00 – 2:00 pm
Library Instruction Room, Love Library
City Campus

Moderated by Paul Royster.
Sponsored by UNL Graduate Student Association & UNL Libraries Office of Scholarly Communication.

 

Snacks provided during mid-terms week

Not only are therapy dogs in the library for you to play with during mid-terms week but Love Library is also giving out coffee and snacks.

The Dean’s Office in the library is sponsoring coffee, granola bars, tea, hot cocoa and possibly cookies.  All of this will take place in the Talk Zone of Love Library South, Oct. 14-16 at 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. (not all day).

So if you’re busy studying, do all of it at the library while drinking some caffeine and eating granola bars.

Bibliography on the Ogallala Aquifer wins award

The Geoscience Information Society Best Paper Award Committee has selected "The Ogallala Aquifer in Nebraska: Gray Literature (1891-2010)" by Adonna Fleming, Leslie M. Delserone and Elaine Nowick for this year's Best Paper Award. It was published in 2012 in volume 13 of the Journal of Agricultural and Food Information. The members of the committee found it to be a very timely discussion of the issues involved in compiling an Ogallala Aquifer bibliography and especially of the importance of gray literature to the topic and its lack of representation in the library and digital information worlds. This paper highlights a specific gap in environmental information, but it is a common problem for researchers in a variety of subjects and it deserves more attention by the information community.

Full text available at: http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/libraryscience/275/

Want a break? Miss your pets at home?

Come to Love Library October 14-16 to meet some very special dogs.  The dogs and their human team members are volunteers from Healing Hearts Therapy Dogs. As certified therapy dogs, they must pass personality and obedience tests, love people, and remain calm around large groups of people in many different settings.

Visit with the Healing Hearts Therapy Dogs before they arrive next week with these animated gifs.
http://unl.libguides.com/therapydogs

Monday, October 14^th

2-4 pm in Room 111

Teams: Shirley Salber and Kaya (Pomeranian), Judy Boucher and Bernice (Chihuahua),

Sue Shearer and her lab/border collie mix, Lucy

Tuesday, October 15^th

9-11 am Room 110

Teams: Gary Royal and Boo (medium mixed breed), Joy Blythe and Heidi (Golden Retriever), Randy Farmer and Tide (Lab/Boxer Mix)

Wednesday, October 16^th

11-1 pm Room 111

Teams: Tammy Hanel and Barley (Goldendoodle), Tina Gaines and Tank (French Bull Dog)

http://www.healinghearttherapydogs.org/

Happenings in the Engineering Library

The Engineering library is full of many perks.  Today marked the highly anticipated return of free, freshly made popcorn on Wednesdays.  They also offer free BYOM (bring your own mug) coffee in the mornings Monday-Friday.  But that’s not all, the engineering library’s microwave is also back in business. 

Besides going there for just the free popcorn and coffee, you can sit down and study in their three new study rooms that are now open north of the library.  They are open on a first come, first serve basis.

Lastly, the clutter in the Engineering library is finally going to be put away.  Their new Library Services desk has been installed and will soon be put to use.  This means that everything will finally be put back in to its rightful place and that we will see the engineering library back in order soon.