How to find the right job or, at least, avoid the failure of choosing the wrong one

This paper aims to help medical librarians spot potential friction with a would-be employer. This is achieved by naming the most important aspects to focus on while choosing a new position, in order to avoid disappointment in a new role. It summarises anecdotal evidence based on personal experience

Re-inventing the e-book: how tablets increased e-book take-up at Bern University

This paper reports how at Bern University the medical library services successfully used the tablet platform to significantly improve students’ acceptance of e-books and other e-resources.Although Bern University had closed its main medical library with the loss of its print monograph collection, students until recently rejected e-books as too inconvenient for intense revision. Only when over the last two years tablets became part of students’ basic toolkit, and the library selected e-books, apps, interface and ancillary software to work with tablets, e-books became more palatable to readers

Memories from EAHIL+ICAHIS+ICLC Workshop Edinburgh, 10-12 June 2015

Notes and pictures of the Welcome Reception, Gala Dinner and Ceilidh, Visit to the Signet Library, Edinburgh history, the Library of the Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh, historic Edinburgh Veterinary locations, St Andrwes and the East Neuk of Fife, Royal Botanic Garden of Edinburgh Libraru and Archive, the day trip for accompanying persons, and invitation to Seville

Metadata for digital collections

Review of: Miller, Steven Jack: Metadata for digital collections, Second edition. London: Facet Publishing; 202

“E-Day” in Bern: promoting e-resources through an all-day event

For the first time a joint event between the library, the Medical Faculty and external partners was held at the medical library of Bern University. With a combination of promotional and social activities and information skills taster sessions the library tried to raise awareness of e-resources and increase their use

Interview with Petra Hauke: Sustainable Development Goals in medical libraries

The role of libraries in achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has become an increasingly important topic in the last years. The authors of this paper talked to Petra Hauke, convenor of the “Environment, Sustainability and Libraries Special Interest Group” (ENSULIB) at the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) about her work and the ways medical libraries might contribute to implementing the SDGs

Increasing transparency for e-journal subscriptions and Big Deals. A comprehensive assessment of e-journals in Science, Technology and Medicine (STM)

The University library of Bern carried out a one-year survey of the frequency of use, cost and cost-per-article-use (CPU) of its e-journals. The collected data allows a comparison of journal bundles and individual subscriptions. The results show that the CPUs for Big Deals are in an acceptable range; however because of their high cost they limit the library’s flexibility to provide user-oriented resources