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  • The ABCs of Online Teaching

    From an email I received. Not sure how much is relevant to librarians…: You are invited to contribute and participate in this week’s FridayLive! session. Join the FridayLive! online discussion: Friday, May 30, 2008. Topic: The ABCs of Online Teaching Speakers: Steve Gilbert, TLT Group and Kathy Saville, Northern Michigan University Description: Today, there are…

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  • People and adults…

    This week's TWIT (This Week in Technology) podcast was a particularly good one for anyone interested in copyright and the PATRIOT act. Brewster Kahle kicked things off with a discussion of his fight against a National Security Letter that was served to the Internet Archive. According to Brewster there have been approximately 200,000 of these…

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  • Bye-bye Live Search Books and Live Search Academic

    Roy Tennant points out that as of next week(!) Microsoft is switching off Live Search Books and Live Search Academic. Wow. I didn't go there first (ever), but it was good to have some competition for Google Book Search and Google Scholar. Interesting, definitely.

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  • Two new online programs for Archives and LibSci

    Library Journal reports that San José State University's School of Library and Information Science is offering two new online programs; a Master of Archives and Records Administration (MARA) degree and a "Gateway Ph.D. Program" in conjunction with Queensland University of Technology Faculty of Information Technology.

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  • Specifying privacy amongst your Facebook friends

    Well that's annoying, ScribeFire ate my original post :-/ At the beginning of the month I mentioned a keynote called Social Networking in the Academy.  During the Q&A session someone asked if it was possible to limit how much of your profile is shown to different "levels" of friends, and I didn't think it was. …

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