[SSC] reading list

[Paul Stainthorp]

Dear all,
 
I've been following the SSC mailing list with interest over the past few
months. I'm not (at the moment) a member of the SSC. I work in the
Library at the University of Lincoln. 
 
I'd be very interested in helping to put together information (in the
form of a printable guide and/or set of web pages on
http://socialsciencecentre.org.uk/ ?) about such a "comprehensive
resource centre" for SSC students and staff.
 
Some thoughts on what might be included:
 
*Not only Betterworld Books, but perhaps also some links to local chain
and indie booksellers, including the University's mini Blackwell
bookshop - http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/lincoln
<http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/lincoln>  - which will pop up again on
17 September 2012.
 
*Guidance on getting the best out of public libraries for academic
research/study, including links to key contacts and services at
Lincolnshire public libraries.
 
*Advice on becoming an external borrower at the University of Lincoln,
Bishop Grosseteste, University of Nottingham(?) libraries, using the
British Library as a reader, etc
 
*Perhaps a representative from the SSC might consider joining the
Lincolnshire Information Services Network (LISN -
http://www.lisn.org.uk/ <http://www.lisn.org.uk/> ) which coordinates
library and information services across the county?
 
*Specialist libraries and collections - Working Class Movement Library,
etc.
 
*The University Library at Lincoln are about to launch a "walk-in
access" service to key electronic databases (ASSIA, IBSS, Zetoc,
ScienceDirect, JSTOR, e-books, etc.). The University of Nottingham
offers a similar service already. Certain academic publishers offer free
access to databases for non-affiliated users (for example, ProQuest's
UDINI - http://udini.proquest.com/?cid=20120501_PQ_whatsnew_HP
<http://udini.proquest.com/?cid=20120501_PQ_whatsnew_HP> ). It might
also be useful to provide links to key Open Access search and discovery
services (Google Scholar), free reference/bibliography management
software (Mendeley, Zotero), etc.
 
*I know there has been some talk about the SSC holding a small private
library itself. Depending on how small it remains, there are a number of
free and open source tools for managing library collections and making
them searchable - the lowest-rent of all being a LibraryThing account:
http://www.librarything.com/ <http://www.librarything.com/> 
 
*Finally and perhaps rather tediously - some advice to SSC members on
copyright and the licensed re-use of material in teaching might be
necessary and save the SSC unwanted attention from bodies like the CLA,
who can be rather predatory.
 
Happy to help in any way I can.
 
With best regards,
 
Paul (Stainthorp)
 
 

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I think Joss's idea is excellent. Here are a couple of further thoughts:
 
I think the reading list should be just a part of a far more
comprehensive resource centre, which includes other aides to learning
such as lists of or links to important films, websites and music (more
on this one later), and any other educational medium - such as the
artwork of a particular painter, say.
 
You probably know about it, but the open materials section at MIT is
pretty impressive:
 
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
 
I also think it would help if suggested inputs to the reading
list/resource centre included the name of the person suggesting them
(and they should be known SSC members), and some sort of basic guide to
the relative importance of the suggestion (according to the person
recommending it). For example, the reading list that I started compiling
a couple of years ago uses a simple star-rating system, so that one star
= "interesting", two stars = "important" and three stars = "essential".
A book isn't included on the list unless it is at the very least
"interesting".
 
It might also be worth suggesting alternative sources to Amazon, such as
the British-based "Betterworld Books", which seems to have a fairly
ethical operating policy that resonates more closely with LSSC than
Amazon:
 
http://www.betterworldbooks.co.uk/
 
Hope that helps.
 
j

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