The Distant Librarian – Thoughts on technology and libraries

2/23/2012

First Annual Open Education Week – March 5-10, 2012

The OpenCourseWare Consortium announces the first annual Open Education Week from March 5-10, 2012. Open Education Week is a global event that seeks to raise awareness about the benefits of free and open sharing in education, especially Open Educational Resources (OER). OER are high-quality, free and open educational materials that offer opportunities for people anywhere
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Posted Under: Ideas, Scholarship, Service, Social Networks, Web/Tech
2/16/2012

10% of English book sales in Canada are now in digital format

I can't find the press release on the National Reading Campaign website, but a press release crossed my inbox this AM that sounds pretty interesting. Here's the PDF for your reading pleasure. In a nutshell, the NRC now has data from a week in Jan 2011, and a week in Jan 2012, so they're able
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Posted Under: Books, m-libraries, Web/Tech
2/12/2012

Libraries & the Post-PC era

Jason Griffey's currently Down Under, and last week he gave a plenary address at VALA2012 entitled Libraries & the Post-PC era. The whole address is available online, and it's a good use of an hour of your time. When it started, I remembered a quote I'd heard a while back that if a keynote speaker said
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Posted Under: Ideas, m-libraries, Scholarship, Social Networks, Web/Tech
2/12/2012

Free And Premium Video Hosting Platforms – Best Of

Looking for somewhere to host your videos or screencasts besides YouTube? Hongkiat.com has a nice annotated list of 19 video hosting services for you to take a look at.
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Posted Under: Tutorials, Web/Tech
2/9/2012

How Users Search the Library from a Single Search Box

A preprint from College & Research Libraries is well worth your read, even if you're not a webmaster: How Users Search the Library from a Single Search Box (from NCSU, Cory Lown, Tito Sierra, and Josh Boyer) Abstract Academic libraries are turning increasingly to unified search solutions to simplify search and discovery of library resources. Unfortunately, very
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Posted Under: Discovery, Ideas, Scholarship, Service, Web/Tech

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First Annual Open Education Week – March 5-10, 2012

10% of English book sales in Canada are now in digital format

Libraries & the Post-PC era

Free And Premium Video Hosting Platforms – Best Of

How Users Search the Library from a Single Search Box