To meet the needs of a growing population of postdocs and junior researchers, librarians are launching more educational programs and services for this specific group. Resources on Elsevier’s Biggerbrains website can help. Biggerbrains offers a free career guide, video tutorials and even a game to walk through four stages of career development: Search and Discovery, Writing and Publishing, Networking and Funding. Put some pizzazz into your next library seminar with one of the Biggerbrains videos, and help guide your researchers in setting a successful career path.....Read more

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In April 2012 Perm National Research Polytechnic University (PNRPU) completed a five-year project to develop an electronic library (EL). The goals of the project were to substantively improve the quality of data support for the educational and scientific-pedagogical activity of our university, and ensure access to academic and methodical literature for students in the extension department and in the distance-learning faculty of educational technologies. The following stages describe the project’s evolution. Stage 1 – Staff development for library employees....Read more

With the trend toward e-book publishing and subsequent adoption by libraries accelerating, how can librarians ensure their users are making the most of what they have to offer? Kasetsart University Library in Bangkok, Thailand, answered this question with a robust six-month outreach program. The goal was to raise awareness of e-book resources and drive the use of online books for research and learning.....Read more

Social media is very popular in Singapore. A high percentage of the 5 million inhabitants have Facebook accounts and use smartphones daily, particularly the younger generation in our schools and universities. Due to this huge social media following, our library at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) must have a presence there. If we want to influence our users, we need to be on the same playing field.....Read more

It was my pleasure and privilege to be able to attend the annual Medical Library Association Annual Meeting in Seattle in May. In addition to the many individual tracts, there were excellent plenary sessions that I highlighted in the Library Connect blog and more than 100 librarians attended Glen Campbell’s Publishing Ethics lunch presentation (Campbell is Elsevier’s Executive Vice President, Global Medical Research Journals).....Read more

The Elsevier Foundation is seeking new grant proposals for the 2012 Innovative Libraries in Developing Countries program. The deadline for proposals is June 24, 2012. Grants will be awarded in December 2012 and provide one-, two- and three-year awards between US $5,000 to US $50,000 per year for a total of $100,000. The Elsevier Foundation will accept proposals from May 1 through June 24 (apply online).....Read more

Librarians know that the container of the print publication has been supplanted by online access to individual articles. It was time Library Connect addressed this issue on our website by placing your articles front and center. The new Library Connect website brings a host of wonderful resources together, including our LC blog, and makes them easier to find via topic, resource type and organic search.....Read more