Roy Jakobs -- Elsevier Managing Director Academic & Government Sales

Roy Jakobs

  Roy Jakobs talks about research performance management and Elsevier's upcoming workflow solution tools (Video opens in Windows Media)

What is Elsevier hearing regarding the hot topic of research performance management? How can libraries and Elsevier work together to support RPM needs? Watch this video and get the answers from Elsevier's Managing Director Academic & Government Sales Roy Jakobs. (Recorded in August 2008)

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Risa Blumlein -- MLIS Student

David Turney (left) & Risa Blumlein

  Risa Blumlein talks about interning with Elsevier (Audio file opens in Windows Media)

What's it like to work as an intern with Elsevier? How are librarianship skills applicable to marketing at a publishing company? In this recording, Elsevier Customer Marketing Manager David Turney interviews San Jose State University MLIS student Risa Blumlein and gets answers to those questions and more. (Recorded in July 2008)

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Tom Rosenthal -- Elsevier Electronic Product Sales Senior Manager

Tom Rosenthal

  Tom Rosenthal talks about using eBook readers to access Elsevier titles (Video file opens in Windows Media)

Do you want to get the skinny on how Elsevier is making its books accessible via eBook readers? In this video, Tom - who's watched the P-to-E revolution up close and personal during his carreer in publishing - discusses with Elsevier's Senior Library Communications Manager Daria DeCooman how Elsevier is broadening its book distribution to meet users' preferences in terms of choice and convenience. (Recorded in July 2008)

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Jay Bhatt -- Engineering Librarian

Jay Bhatt

  Jay Bhatt talks about using 2.0 to reach Millennials (Audio file opens in Windows Media)

In this recording,   Jay - an engineering librarian with Drexel University - discusses with Elsevier's Engineering Information Marketing Manager Alicia Burns ways to use 2.0 tools to inform engineering students about new information resources and how tagging records and creating records in Engineering Village can help students. (Recorded in June 2008)

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Judy Luther -- Independent Information Professional

  Judy Luther talks about evaulating the academic library ROI (Audio file opens in Windows Media)

During the 2008 ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim, California,  Informed Strategies LLC President Judy Luther sat down with Elsevier Senior Communications Manager Kira Cooper to discuss the process involved in evaluating a university's return on investments in its library. As part of an Elsevier-sponsored pilot study with Paula Kaufman at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign during 2007, Judy developed a formula demonstrating how a university's investments in its library yield a 4-to-1 return in grant income to the institution. Find more details by listening to   this recording discussing "  University investment in the library: What's the return? A case study at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign." (Recorded in June 2008)

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Carlos Machado -- Medical Illustrator

Carlos Machado

  Dr. Machado talks about science and art (Audio file opens in Windows Media)

The connection between science and art is evident in the work of Dr. Carlos Machado who has illustrated all aspects of medicine in his career and has contributed over 1,000 drawings and paintings to the   Netter Collection of Medical Illustrations. An artist since childhood and a cardiologist by training, Dr. Machado now serves as a medical illustrator for Elsevier and spoke to an audience of 200 at the 2008 Medical Library Association/Library Connect luncheon hosted by Elsevier.

In this audio file, Dr. Machado shares his thoughts on art and medicine with Elsevier's Vice President of Global Customer Marketing Chrysanne Lowe. (Recorded in May 2008)

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Suzie Kardong-Edgrin -- Journal Editor

Megan Curran (left) & Suzie Kardong-Edgrin

  Suzie Kardong-Edgrin talks about educational practices in nursing simulation (Audio file opens in Windows Media)

Clinical simulation technologies allow nurses to learn how to perform procedures before testing their skills on humans. The new Elsevier journal Clinical Simulation in Nursing covers the amazing strides taking place in mannequin technology and educational practices in nursing simulation.

In this audio file, the journal’s editor Suzie Kardong-Edgrin shares her thoughts on the present and future of clinical simulation technologies with Elsevier's Associate Marketing Manager for Nursing & Health Professions Journals Megan Curran. (Recorded in June 2008)

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