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Meredith on Online learning and its impact on public libraries
Meredith Farkas has a lengthy post discussing the problems of distance education programs not supporting their students adequately, or possibly just not informing them of the resources available to them, and the burden those students sometimes place on their local public libraries. Some good comments starting to pile up already.
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Improving the SFX menu
David Walker at Cal State has a really compelling presentation on why they’ve modified their SFX menu to look the way it does. It’s a 20-minute Captivate presentation. If you look after SFX at your school, you really should give this a look. (thanks for the tip, Jennifer)
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Two interesting developments from ProQuest re: Dissertations
A colleague passed along the following links you may also find of interest: ProQuest CSA has arranged with Google and Google Scholar to allow indexing and searching across bibliographic data for graduate works published in 2005 and forward. PQDT Open is an online repository of dissertations and theses published on an open access basis. The…
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Camtasia Studio 5 Review
I mentioned at the beginning of the month that Camtasia Studio 5 was being released, and also that because I’m still on Win2K at the office I hadn’t had a chance to play with it. Still true, but Michael Pick at Web TV Wire has a very comprehensive overview and review of the screencasting product,…
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Meebo Widgets – Trouble in Paradise
So I’ve recently noticed that our Meebo Widgets are not correctly showing our status for our reference service; they almost always display that we’re offline even when we’re logged in. Looks from the support forums like we’re not the only ones, and it’s frustrating that nobody from Meebo is chiming in to offer a solution. …
Posted Under: Electronic Reference