{"id":915,"date":"2021-04-02T18:23:11","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T18:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/eeblog\/?p=915"},"modified":"2021-05-11T17:43:12","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T17:43:12","slug":"news-and-notes-from-your-librarian-naming-birds-and-new-systems-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/eeblog\/2021\/04\/02\/news-and-notes-from-your-librarian-naming-birds-and-new-systems-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"News and notes from your librarian: naming birds and new systems edition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"Spring
Spring flowers peeking through the leaf litter at Scott’s house. Image: Scott Martin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

by Scott Martin, Biological Sciences Librarian, University of Michigan Library<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spring, at last, has sprung! The daffodils are opening, and garden prep for the season has started in earnest; Emily has Big Plans for a radical expansion of her gardening space this year (and extending into years to come) that have been keeping her well-occupied. I\u2019ve put in some time contributing labor to the project \u2013 moving dirt, pounding fenceposts, that sort of thing \u2013 but my primary role is to be appreciative of the astonishing amount of planning that she puts into realizing these efforts, and to share her joy as they come to fruition. And to help cook and eat the results, of course. For my part, I\u2019m using the warming temperatures to reinvigorate my sword practice<\/a> after a long winter of not-enough-room-to-swing-a-blade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of you, I\u2019m sure, are enjoying the spring temperatures by going out birdwatching. If so, you may be interested to know that Birds of the World<\/em><\/a> has added a new feature (or rather, reintroduced an old feature from Handbook of the Birds of the World<\/em>): they\u2019ve integrated information from Jobling\u2019s Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology<\/em> into species records. Simply click on the blue \u201ci\u201d icon next to the scientific name in the species header for information about earlier and variant names, the etymological meanings of names, and the stories behind eponymous bird names. You can also use the dedicated Key to Scientific Names<\/em> launch page<\/a> (U-M authentication required) to search for info or read more about nomenclature conventions in ornithology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our library\u2019s back-end system may not be quite<\/em> as venerable as the Linnean classification system, but it\u2019s getting up there \u2013 thirty years and counting! Since computing capabilities change faster than biology (generally speaking!), it\u2019s long past time for an update. My colleagues in our Technical Services department have been hard at work on this issue for some time now, and we\u2019re pleased to announce that a new back-end platform should roll out sometime in early August. The good news is that from a user perspective, very little should change: you\u2019ll have more complete information about your library activities in your My Account page, but other services should stay the same. The major exception is Mirlyn Classic, which is dependent on the old system and will be retired when we change over. We\u2019ve been incorporating some of Mirlyn Classic\u2019s specific features into the existing Catalog Search tool, so hopefully any of you still using Classic will be able to adapt your workflows. For more information, check out the library\u2019s dedicated info page<\/a> on the change in systems. Back to blade-swinging before these temperatures go behind a cloud again! Let me know if I can help out with your research, teaching, or other library-related needs; my email, Twitter handle, and Zoom office hour info can all be found on my library profile page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Scott Martin, Biological Sciences Librarian, University of Michigan Library Spring, at last, has sprung! The daffodils are opening, and garden prep for the season has started in earnest; Emily has Big Plans for a radical expansion of her gardening space this year (and extending into years to come) that have been keeping her well-occupied.… Continue reading News and notes from your librarian: naming birds and new systems edition<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":188,"featured_media":916,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[515,528,527,525,513,529,519,526],"class_list":["post-915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eeblog","tag-birds","tag-birds-of-the-world","tag-birdwatching","tag-garden","tag-library","tag-library-systems","tag-scott-martin","tag-spring","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/eeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/863\/2021\/04\/MartinScottSpringGarden1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/eeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/eeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/eeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/eeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/188"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/eeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=915"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/eeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":951,"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/eeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions\/951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/eeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/eeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/eeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/eeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}