Author: Paul R. Pival
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Introducing WISPR – Workshop on the Information Search Process for Research
OK, here’s the final post about OffCamp 2006 in Savannah; I saved the best for last ;-), as this was the presentation I gave with Shauna Rutherford, my colleague from the U of C. The paper was actually written by three of us (though mostly by Shauna and Alix), but Dr. Alix Hayden wasn’t able…
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Weather update
I catch flak from some of my U of C colleagues for complaining about the weather here. To present all sides of the story, it’s been lovely for two or three straight days – hot even – and promises to remain so for the next few as well. Trees are in bloom, the sky is…
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Down to earth a little
Having spent a lot of time this week thinking about the issues in my privacy and social networks post, I don’t want to head home this weekend w/o a brief followup, which comes from an exchange I had with our manager of integrated systems (aka OPAC Wrangler). David pointed out a couple of gaps in…
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Moving Day: Making the Most of Your Message with RSS and Syndicated Content
Volume 52(2) of Feliciter, the Canadian Library Association’s bi-monthly publication, is a theme issue on Social Software (RSS, Blogs, Etc – Impact on Libraries, Staff and Clients) and was guest-edited by Geoff Harder at the U of Alberta. If you want to check out the entire issue and are a subscriber to Academic Search Premier,…
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WebMeeting tips
Laurie posts her reflections on hosting her first webmeeting (practice session). Pretty much all of these would stand for delivering remote synchronous instruction as well, so if that’s something you’ve never done you might tuck these away. She makes it sound like a really scary experience, but I’ll bet if you wrote down all the…
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Browsing Library Collections: From the Shelf to the Online Catalog
I’ve recently been involved in some planning meetings for our new Campus Calgary Digital Library, and one idea that came up was whether we’d move older materials to storage, and someone mentioned how tough that makes it to browse and thus invite serendipity. I realized (not for the first time) that this is one of…
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Thoughts on privacy and libraries and social networks
OK, actually I’m mostly curious about your thoughts, ’cause I haven’t sorted mine out yet. This post is a result of the social network stuff Brian Mathews has been working on (honest, this will be the last time I mention him today, unless he does something else interesting ;-). When I first saw Brian’s post…
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Flash in the pan?
Brian Mathews thinks it’s a waste of time to create a library profile on Facebook. You may recall Brian had the neat presentation called Intuitive Revelations: The Ubiquitous Reference Model, in which he created a library identiy in LiveJournal. In that project he concluded that it seemed to work a lot better when he showed…
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Jasco pans MS Academic Search
I’m really glad the world is filled with people who have more time, and more importantly, more brains than I do, so they can critically analyze new search tools like Microsoft’s Academic Search (aka Windows Live Academic, or WLA). Peter Jasco has reviewed it, and doesn’t like it much. Here’s an earlier review he did…