The Distant Librarian

Author: Paul R. Pival

  • Who links to you?

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    Remember the good old days when you could trust Google to accurately display who linked to a given page when using the link: syntax?  They’ve long ago stopped doing that, opting instead to show you a "representative sample" of incoming links to your site.  At yesterday’s Cool Web Tools for Webmasters session, Darlene Fichter mentioned…

  • Lee Rainie – Pew Internet and American Life Project

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    Lee Rainie of the Pew Internet and American Life Project delivered the opening keynote for Internet Librarian on Monday morning.  You can find coverage of his comments in lots of places so I won’t add to those here (I really enjoyed his talk though).  What you will find here is a 46 minute mp3 of…

  • Mobile Learning – where will it take us?

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    Steve Shafer is the the Library Director at Athabasca University in Alberta, and his presentation is one of the few here at Internet Librarian that specifically mention distance education, so of course I had to attend and blog that one for y’all.  Steve started with some background on Athabasca, but then eventually got in to…

  • RIP ResearchBuzz Extra

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    Got an email last week from Tara Calishain informing me as a subscriber to the ResearcBuzz Extra newsletter that she’s discontinuing this paid version of her incredibly useful ResearcBuzz weekly newsletter.  Extra was one of the few subscriptions I ever bought, and it was well worth it.  Won’t bore you with all you missed if…

  • Monterey Multimedia

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    Well I’ve landed safe and sound in Monterey, and while it’s been mostly foggy since arrival, I’ve done a lot of walking and thought I’d share some of the sights and sounds (the conference doesn’t officially start until tomorrow 🙂 The California sea lions are abundant and pretty noisy out on the breakwater (15 minute…

  • Making a Feed Where None Exists

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    Ken at RSS4Lib points to a really neat-looking tool called FeedTier that, given a URL, will attempt to create an RSS feed for that page.  Coming back from the Access conference another librarian and I were wondering how we could have our electronic reserves readings automagically appear in BlackBoard, and this tool almost does the…

  • edugadget powercast – powerpoint presentations for ipods

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    Looks like Steve over at Edugadget is thinking along the same lines I am with the new iPod, ‘cept he does more than just talk about it 🙂  Link: powercast – powerpoint presentations for ipods.

  • GPO fast tracks FDSys project

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    My GovDocs Librarian passed this on to me: GPO fast tracks FDSys project. – Almost all US Gov Docs from 1787 to present are supposed to be available online starting in July 2007.

  • Online Tutorial Investigation

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    I’m here at the Access 2005 conference in Edmonton and finally have something to share that may be of interest to the distance folks.  There’s a sort of preconference to Access called Hackfest, where a large wishlist is considered and a small number of projects are tackled in an all-day brainstorming / programming session.  This…

  • Another article comparing Schoogle to traditional library databases

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    Both TJ and Dean have pointers to this new article: Susan Gardner Susanna Eng, Gaga over Google? Scholar in the Social Sciences, Library Hi-Tech News, 22, 8 (2005) pp. 42-45. As usual, I haven’t read it yet, but it’s sitting on my printer 🙂  Gardner and Eng draw pretty much the same conclusion as Giustini…