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Featured speaker announced for OCLSC 2008 in Salt Lake
Connie Hildebrand writes to the OFFCAMP discussion list that Lynn Copeland, Dean of Library Services at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, BC has been selected as the featured speaker for the 2008 Off Campus Library Services Conference to be held in Salt Lake City, UT. From the announcement, Lynn’s own words: “Among the accomplishments I…
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oskope.com – a potental catalogue interface?
Just learned about the oSkope visual search engine, currently searching Amazon, eBay, Flickr and Youtube. Kind of fun to play with – here’s a quick screencast. Would a display like this make it more "fun" to use the library catalogue? Technorati Tags: oskope
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How big is Distance Education?
To go along with the previous post, Stephen Abram also notes an interesting statistic about DE: the U of Phoenix and Western International University are among the top 5 largest US Universities.
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Invest in Distance Education
The Chronicle of Higher Ed has a very short piece about the rising stock (as in stock market) of Capella University – lots of support in the comments from Capella grads! I’ve met librarians from the U of Phoenix, but never from Capella, though the website says they exist. Can’t actually get to the Capella…
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Meebo does file transfer
I haven’t heard of any libraries making use (or wishing they could) of file transfer over meebo, but it could be useful to push a subject guide or something. Meebo just announced they now support file transfer between the different networks. Technorati Tags: Meebo