COPPUL has added two databases to its list of subscriptions and consolidated the individual subscriptions of several members since these databases are now available exclusively from EBSCO:
• AgeLine focuses on issues related to aging in the population aged 50+ and aging-related content from the health sciences, psychology, sociology, social work, economics, and public policy. Designed for researchers, professionals, students, and general consumers, this database addresses aging issues from individual, national, and global perspectives.
• Alternative Press Index is a bibliographic database of journal, newspaper, and magazine articles from over 300 international alternative, radical, and left periodicals. Born of the New Left, the API was launched in 1969 to provide access to the emerging theories and practices of radical social change.
For more information on these products, please contact Debbie Braun, COPPUL Licensing Coordinator.
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Nominations Sought for the COPPUL Outstanding Contribution Award
Nominations are now open for the COPPUL Outstanding Contribution Award for 2010.
This award may be given to an individual or team, working in a member library, that has made an outstanding contribution to the consortium.
Eligibility:
Individuals currently employed by COPPUL member institutions. Note: COPPUL Board members and COPPUL staff are not eligible.
Criteria:
Contributions should enhance service in multiple COPPUL libraries, i.e. have an impact within the region.
Procedures:
Nominations can be made by staff of any COPPUL member library, and should be no more than two pages in length.
Nominations must include:
* Name of individual being nominated, and home institution
* Description and impact of the exemplary contribution
* Contribution to the COPPUL mission
* Other supporting/relevant documentation
* Name of nominator and home institution
* One letter of support (the ‘seconder’)
Deadline for nominations:
January 28, 2011.
Nominations are to be sent to Sandy Slade at the COPPUL Office. A decision will be made by the Directors at the spring 2011 meeting. All nominations will remain confidential to the COPPUL Directors and staff.
The award will consist of a plaque and a cheque for $200.
This award may be given to an individual or team, working in a member library, that has made an outstanding contribution to the consortium.
Eligibility:
Individuals currently employed by COPPUL member institutions. Note: COPPUL Board members and COPPUL staff are not eligible.
Criteria:
Contributions should enhance service in multiple COPPUL libraries, i.e. have an impact within the region.
Procedures:
Nominations can be made by staff of any COPPUL member library, and should be no more than two pages in length.
Nominations must include:
* Name of individual being nominated, and home institution
* Description and impact of the exemplary contribution
* Contribution to the COPPUL mission
* Other supporting/relevant documentation
* Name of nominator and home institution
* One letter of support (the ‘seconder’)
Deadline for nominations:
January 28, 2011.
Nominations are to be sent to Sandy Slade at the COPPUL Office. A decision will be made by the Directors at the spring 2011 meeting. All nominations will remain confidential to the COPPUL Directors and staff.
The award will consist of a plaque and a cheque for $200.
Thursday, May 27, 2010
New Products
COPPUL has recently added two products to its list of subscriptions.
• GREENR (Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources), a new database from Gale Cengage.
• IBISWorld Industry Reports which provides over 700 industry research reports that include industry characteristics, conditions, performance, trends, and statistics.
In addition, COPPUL has helped members acquire two non-subscription e-book collections from Morgan and Claypool: Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science, and Colloquium Digital Library of Life Sciences.
For more information on these products, please contact Debbie Braun, COPPUL Licensing Coordinator.
• GREENR (Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources), a new database from Gale Cengage.
• IBISWorld Industry Reports which provides over 700 industry research reports that include industry characteristics, conditions, performance, trends, and statistics.
In addition, COPPUL has helped members acquire two non-subscription e-book collections from Morgan and Claypool: Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science, and Colloquium Digital Library of Life Sciences.
For more information on these products, please contact Debbie Braun, COPPUL Licensing Coordinator.
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
COPPUL Private LOCKSS Network recognized by CACUL award
COPPUL is pleased to announce that its Private LOCKSS Network (PLN) is the co-recipient of the 2010 CACUL Innovation Achievement Award. CACUL (Canadian Association of College and University Libraries) is a division of the Canadian Library Association.
The award recognizes institutions that have contributed to the development and advancement of academic librarianship through innovative programs, services, projects, or events. COPPUL is sharing the 2010 award with the Islandora Project at the University of Prince Edward Island.
The COPPUL PLN is a distributed digital preservation system that archives collections of local significance that are not being preserved by other means. LOCKSS (“Lots of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe”) is an open source system that allows libraries to collect, store, preserve, and provide persistent access to their own local copy of authorized content they have purchased.
More information on the award is available at: http://www.cla.ca/AM/TemplateRedirect.cfm?template=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=9308
Congratulations to the PLN Steering Committee for its success with the project!
The award recognizes institutions that have contributed to the development and advancement of academic librarianship through innovative programs, services, projects, or events. COPPUL is sharing the 2010 award with the Islandora Project at the University of Prince Edward Island.
The COPPUL PLN is a distributed digital preservation system that archives collections of local significance that are not being preserved by other means. LOCKSS (“Lots of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe”) is an open source system that allows libraries to collect, store, preserve, and provide persistent access to their own local copy of authorized content they have purchased.
More information on the award is available at: http://www.cla.ca/AM/TemplateRedirect.cfm?template=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=9308
Congratulations to the PLN Steering Committee for its success with the project!
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Alexander Street Press
COPPUL has added the following two Alexander Street Press products to its inventory of database subscriptions:
• Counseling and Therapy in Video is a landmark collection in the Alexander Street Press Critical Video Editions™ series, containing more than 300 hours of training videos, reenactments, and footage of actual therapy sessions conducted by renowned psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers. The videos are designed for training and continuing education, for providing an invaluable firsthand look at the realities of working with clients, and the challenges associated with putting theoretical concepts into practice.
• Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works contains more than 2,000 transcripts of actual therapy sessions—almost 40,000 pages of first-person accounts, together with 25,000 pages of major reference works. There are diaries, letters, autobiographies, oral histories, and personal memoirs along with the full-text of the sessions themselves. All accounts are non-fiction, delivered in the first person and, where possible, contemporaneous.
Both products are available as an outright purchase or as an annual subscription from Gibson Library Connections Inc. Please contact Debbie Braun, COPPUL Licensing Coordinator, for more information.
• Counseling and Therapy in Video is a landmark collection in the Alexander Street Press Critical Video Editions™ series, containing more than 300 hours of training videos, reenactments, and footage of actual therapy sessions conducted by renowned psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers. The videos are designed for training and continuing education, for providing an invaluable firsthand look at the realities of working with clients, and the challenges associated with putting theoretical concepts into practice.
• Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works contains more than 2,000 transcripts of actual therapy sessions—almost 40,000 pages of first-person accounts, together with 25,000 pages of major reference works. There are diaries, letters, autobiographies, oral histories, and personal memoirs along with the full-text of the sessions themselves. All accounts are non-fiction, delivered in the first person and, where possible, contemporaneous.
Both products are available as an outright purchase or as an annual subscription from Gibson Library Connections Inc. Please contact Debbie Braun, COPPUL Licensing Coordinator, for more information.
Monday, March 29, 2010
New COPPUL member
COPPUL is pleased to announce that Mount Royal University will become a full member of the consortium on April 1, 2010. Mount Royal has been an Affiliate Member of COPPUL for many years.
Mount Royal University, located in Calgary, has a FLE enrollment of approximately 8,000. Areas of collection specialization, in addition to Arts and Science, include Business Administration, Computer Information Systems, Communication, Design, Nursing, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, and the Holocaust.
As a COPPUL member, Mount Royal will be participating in the national reciprocal borrowing and resource sharing agreements. They will also be part of COPPUL's interlibrary loan centralized invoicing program.
Welcome to Mount Royal University!
Mount Royal University, located in Calgary, has a FLE enrollment of approximately 8,000. Areas of collection specialization, in addition to Arts and Science, include Business Administration, Computer Information Systems, Communication, Design, Nursing, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, and the Holocaust.
As a COPPUL member, Mount Royal will be participating in the national reciprocal borrowing and resource sharing agreements. They will also be part of COPPUL's interlibrary loan centralized invoicing program.
Welcome to Mount Royal University!
Monday, March 22, 2010
COPPUL Outstanding Contribution Award Winner
COPPUL is pleased to announce that the winner of its 2010 Outstanding Contribution Award is Mark Jordan, Head of Library Systems, Simon Fraser University.
Mark is being recognized for his many contributions to the COPPUL Private LOCKSS Network (PLN) where played a key role in identifying and resolving technical challenges that had to be overcome to ensure the successful implementation of the network.
The PLN is a project that utilizes the LOCKSS digital preservation system as a means to archive collections of local significance to members of COPPUL that are not being preserved through any other means. There are only a handful of Private LOCKSS Networks currently in production and the COPPUL PLN is the first such initiative in Canada.
Congratulations to Mark!
A press release about the award can be found on the COPPUL website.
Mark is being recognized for his many contributions to the COPPUL Private LOCKSS Network (PLN) where played a key role in identifying and resolving technical challenges that had to be overcome to ensure the successful implementation of the network.
The PLN is a project that utilizes the LOCKSS digital preservation system as a means to archive collections of local significance to members of COPPUL that are not being preserved through any other means. There are only a handful of Private LOCKSS Networks currently in production and the COPPUL PLN is the first such initiative in Canada.
Congratulations to Mark!
A press release about the award can be found on the COPPUL website.
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