Author: Paul R. Pival
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ACRL/DLS Haworth Press Distance Learning Librarian ALA Conference Sponsorship Award
Are you a member of ACRL? Does any part of your job pertain to the support of distance students? Why not apply for the $1,200 ACRL/DLS Haworth Press Distance Learning Librarian Conference Sponsorship Award? Deadline is December 1, 2006, and all the details are here. Technorati Tags: ACRL, ALA, Distance_Education, Librarians
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Download books for free from Google Book Search
Business Week and BoingBoing both alerted me to the fact that you can now download public domain books in their entirety from Google Book Search! I haven’t visted GBS for a while, but when I went to check it out tonight I see that there’s a new search option radio button to limit to Full…
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Off Campus Library Services Conference 2008
The following was just posted to the OFFCAMP list: The Thirteenth Off-Campus Library Services Conference will be held at the Hilton Hotel in Salt Lake City. This entry in Wikipedia gives a good overview of Salt Lake City Mark April 23-25, 2008 on your calendars and be prepared for another great conference. If you are…
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RSS – Information Pizza
Steven Cohen points to Luke Rosenberger’s great tutorial on RSS. Questions asked and answered: What is RSS? What kind of information can I get via RSS? How do I subscribe to and use RSS feeds? How can I fit RSS into my workflow? What about content from online journals and library databases? How can I…
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Why D’Arcy Norman is a minor deity – reason #27 (Screencasting on the Mac)
D’Arcy Norman works in the Teaching and Learning Centre here at the University of Calgary, and has helped me with at least 26 projects or ideas prior to this, but I just wanted to share the latest with you. As you know, I’ve been looking for a tool that will produce screencasts on the Mac…
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So close it’s painful – Screencasting on the Mac
Well I finally found a nice screencasting app for the Mac that outputs to Flash – Screen Mimic. Dead simple to use, and a great price of $25. But it doesn’t record audio, and doesn’t allow for annotations to be added after the fact, so there’s no way to explain what’s happening in the screencast. …
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Listen to why it’s good to give books away
Just finished listening to a short CBC piece in which SciFi author and BoingBoing.net contributor Cory Doctorow ‘splains how much sense it makes for books to be discoverable via Google Book Search and the like, and how he’s more sucessful commercially for having given away copies of his books. He points out that people don’t…