Bibliographers such as Miriam Allman and Karen Vagts choose the libraries’ hard copy and e-resources, which involves negotiating with suppliers and managing a substantial proportion of the materials budget. There is a general fund for the purchase of multi-disciplinary aggregated materials such as JSTOR and Science Direct. Bibliographers also work on the reference desk but tend not to undertake teaching. Tufts is moving inexorably to e-reference maintaining only a core collection of hard copy reference materials. The OPAC is augmented with an electronic journals list and a database finder. The latter was developed in house and works in MYSQL. Research guides (using Libguides software) guide the use of electronic resources. The Library has been well resourced - the 4 user seats to SciFinder being indicative (Loughborough has only one!) RefWorks, Endnote and Zotero are the citation managers used – Tufts is one of the top 10 users of Refworks. Refworks is the tool of choice for undergraduates, postgraduates and faculty favouring EndNote which can be bought at the campus bookstore at a discount.
Travelling Librarian Award
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