The Distant Librarian

Author: Paul R. Pival

  • Recordings of The Battle Over Books now available

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    As reported on BoingBoing, here’s where you can get the .mp3 or .mov (as a torrent) of the Battle over Books debate on the Google Book Search project that was held Nov 17th at NYPL.  I don’t recall hearing any buzz after the event, so am looking forward to listening.

  • Open Access Librarian blog

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    One of my colleagues here at the U of Calgary is a contributor to this new group-blog: OA Librarian is a new, cooperatively produced weblog, which combines a pathfinder function with news and commentary on open access and librarianship. Please visit us here: http://oalibrarian.blogspot.com/ Under OA Resources on the right-hand side of the page, you’ll…

  • PubMed Search Result RSS Feeds

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    This has probably been mentioned before, but I don’t recall seeing it.  Just logged on to PubMed and was greeted with this very obvious and cool announcement:

  • LIRT seeks e-poster presentations for ALA annual conference in New Orleans

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    Sue Sykes Berry writes to the OFFCAMP listserv:  (this would be ideal for anyone who’s got some great screencasting ability) The Library Instruction Round Table’s Conference Program Committee and Teaching Learning and Technology Committee are currently accepting electronic poster (e-poster) proposals for the ALA annual conference to be held in New Orleans June 22-28, 2006.…

  • Amazon Tag Cloud

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    Hey, Amazon does tag clouds (aka concordance) – I hadn’t seen this before!  (click for full size).  Interesting text stats too…

  • Persistent URLs in CSA Illumina

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    Ahh, lovely customer service.  I emailed the support desk at CSA Illumina to see if there was any way to create a persistent URL to an article in their product (no mention in the help files that I could find) and they responded a couple hours later with what amounted to a "nope, sorry".  In…

  • Free RSS to JavaScript Service

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    RSS-to-JavaScript.com appears to be a good alternative to Alan Levine’s Feed2JS service.  Both of these allow you to repurpose an RSS feed in the style of your choosing simply by inserting a small snippet of javascript and some CSS code (both generated by these services) into your website.  RSS-to-JavaScript.com also has a nifty little animated…

  • New website – Google Librarian

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    Eugene left a comment on one of my posts that he and a friend have  started a new website called Google Librarian.  It’s nice and clean, and there are a few good tip sheets up already – looks like he wants to create a community.

  • A Risky Gamble with Google

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    Siva Vaidhyanathan, friend to librarians, has a lengthy piece in today’s Chronicle of Higher Education called A Risky Gamble with Google (the link goes to his blog where the full text of the article is reproduced).  The piece is mostly a discussion about the copyright implications of the Google Book Search project (this post describes…

  • Slides Synched to Sound

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    Someday you or I might have an audio recording made during a live talk (with ppt or Keynote) that we’d then want to post for our distance students.  Doug’s soliciting solutions and if there’s a good way to do it, it’ll probably show up in the comments section: Slides Synched to Sound.