Author: Paul R. Pival
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College & Research Libraries online
As pointed out by David (and others), College & Research Libraries is now freely available online six months after the original publication date. They’re back to 1997 now, which is further back than I get through Wilson Education Full Text (mid 1998). Some other nice tidbits from the press release: "ACRL supports open access to…
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ACRL/DLS Haworth Press Distance Learning Librarian Conference Sponsorship Award
FYI: This conference sponsorship award honors any individual ACRL member working in the field of, or contributing to the success of distance learning librarianship or related library service in higher education. — $1200 to help defray the costs of travel to and participation in the ALA Annual Meeting and a citation plaque sponsored by Haworth…
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ProQuest Dissertations and Theses RSS Feed
OK idea for ProQuest to offer an RSS feed for dissertations and theses in seven subject areas, but my campus runs everyone (even on-campus users) through EZProxy before accessing this database, so even on campus when I click a link in the resulting feed I can’t get to the actual content. I need a way…
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Location of Librarian Bloggers
Via Steven at Library Stuff, a link to librarian bloggers on the Frapr mapping service (indicate your location on a Google Map). Man, I had forgotton how far south Chicago is! 😉
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Off-Campus Library Services Conference Workshops
There are three workshops being held in conjunction with the Off Campus Library Services Conference next year. They’ll be held concurrently with other sessions. What I like about this listing page is that in addition to descriptions, it lists assumptions, objectives and outcomes for each workshop. The workshop titles are: Using Web Site Usability Testing…
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Innovate and Motivate: Next Generation Libraries – ALA | ACRL/CNI/EDUCAUSE Joint Virtual Conference
Would seem to be plenty of room for Distance Librarians at this conference: ALA | ACRL/CNI/EDUCAUSE Joint Virtual Conference – Innovate and Motivate: Next Generation Libraries. Submissions will be accepted through January 6, 2006
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Where Learners Go – Library Journal
Good solid article from a good solid source (Joan K. Lippincott, Ph.D., is Associate Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information) This article will be a good one to pull out if you need to convince your administrators of the importance of whatever newfangled thing it is you’re trying to do right now… Link: Library Journal…
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Busy Day for Digital Books: News from Amazon and Google
Search Engine Watch reports that Amazon will begin allowing customers to purchase individual pages from certain books: Busy Day for Digital Books: News from Amazon and Google. Another press release had a great quote showing to whom this is going to be of interest (hint – it’s our students): "For scholars and people who are…
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Allan Carrington on the scene with a group from Penn State talking about Instructional Design Librarians | connect.educause.edu
Great short podcast (about 12 minutes) from Educause 2005 in which Allan Carrington is on the scene with a group from Penn State talking about Instructional Design Librarians. I think being an Instructional Design Librarian would be really neat. The most interesting thing I got from this was that when developing this position, apparently it…
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Instant Messaging: IM Online! RU? – EDUCAUSE REVIEW | November/December 2005, Volume 40, Number 6
Coming back from Internet Librarian I have finally swallowed the red IM pill and will be offering this service for my distance students. That sounds so nice of me 😉 I’m not "offering it", I’m finally starting to pay attention to the statistics and will likely join my students in this space, coming up from…