Author: Paul R. Pival
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Demand for E-books in an Academic Library – Ellen Safley, U of T at Dallas
My penultimate post from last week’s Off Campus Library Services Conference. Ellen Safley took us on a tour of her institution’s exploration of E-book usage. Apparently there will be four new ebook appliances on the market in 06/07: iRex Technologies (Philips Electronics) Jinke (China) Polymer Vision (Philips spin-off) Plastic Logic (UK) One or more of…
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OCLSC presentations now available online
Not every single one, but many of the presentations (mostly ppt) from last week’s Off Campus Library Services Conference are now available online. Technorati Tags: OCLSC06
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Guidelines for Distance Learning Library Services wiki
Rob Morrison writes to the OFFCAMP Listserv that the process of re-examining the current Guidelines for Distance Learning Library Services (ACRL) is now being managed through a wiki, which can be accessed at http://dls.schtuff.com/guidelines_for_distance_learning_library_services. But it’s not an entirely open wiki: Editing rights are currently limited to members of the DLS Guidelines Committee. To make…
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To whom do you teach?
Meredith Farkas is a newish distance education librarian, and has just posted a very good essay in which she comes to the conclusion that before she markets library resources to her students, she needs to market very heavily to faculty. Without faculty buy-in the students aren’t going to use the library no matter how good…
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Rex Libris #4
Rex Libris #4 appears to be out, as evidenced (is that a word?) by this scan of an order sheet for 20 librarian action figures! (“Each set of these fantastically detailed 54mm figures is cast in pure solid plastic… They carry books scaled accurately to edition size, and have inscribed titles such as ‘Being and…
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7 things you should know about Screencasting
The latest addition to the Educause “7 things you should know…” series is about Screencasting. The 7 questions answered are What is it? Who’s doing it? How does it work? Why is it significant? What are the downsides? Where is it going? and What are the implications for teaching and learning? To answer the question…
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Webcasting Pointers
David King has posted his tips for successful webcasting based on two recent online presentations he gave. DE Librarians are likely to find themselves using tools like Elluminate or who knows what else to deliver instruction in the same environment, and taking a look at these tips before you go online can only improve your…
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Adobe Captivate 2.0 on the way…
Amit reports that Adobe is in the beta stage for the next version of Adobe Captivate (the screencasting software formerly known as Macromedia Captivate after it was formerly known as RoboDemo). My ramblings on the product. Technorati Tags: Screencasting, Captivate
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What Do Distance Education Faculty Want from the Library?
This was the last presentation of the conference, and was delivered by Samantha Schmehl Hines of the University of Montana-Missoula to a packed room. In preparation for launching a survey for faculty at her own institution, Samantha looked at 13 surveys of what faculty members wanted from the library (all listed in her bibliography). The…
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Journal of Library and Information Services for Distance Learning in trouble?
I chatted with Stephen Dew at the opening reception the other night ant learned that he’s stepping down as editor of JLISDL. Stephen’s technically the 2nd editor for this young journal, and as column editor I’m aware that it seems to be pretty difficult to raise content for this publication. Not really sure why that…