Author: Paul R. Pival
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Google’s Library Digitization Project: Reports from Michigan and Oxford
This sounds like a good way to spend an hour next week – I’m registered! Your host, Steve Worona, will be joined by John P. Wilkin and Reginald Carr, and the topic will be "Google’s Library Digitization Project: Reports from Michigan and Oxford." Late last year, Google announced agreements with five major libraries (Harvard, the…
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Rain, rain, go away…
It’s been raining here lately. A lot. Pretty much hasn’t stopped enough for the sidewalk to dry since last Thursday or so. One of the things I do here at the U of C is warm the seat over lunch at our MADGIC desk (Maps, Academic Data, Geographic Information Centre), so I get to see…
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ACRL Distance Learning Section Program at ALA
Frank Cervone writes to the OffCamp list: The ACRL Distance Learning Section invites you to join us for our 15th anniversary program entitled "Distance Learning: We Know Where We’ve Been, But Where Are We Going?" on Saturday, June 25, from 1:30-3:30 p.m. in Ball Room V at the Sheraton. Our program will explore some of…
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Athabasca U Digital Thesis & Project Room
Athabasca University Library is demonstrating the power of their Digital Reading Room by making the full text of a couple dozen Masters in Distance Education (MDE) theses available. Links to these resources can be found in both Google and Google Scholar, so it’s likely your distance students will run across them at some point…Link: DTR…
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Pandora Archive – Preserving and Accessing Networked Documentary Resources of Australia
Hey neat – it’s like the Internet Archive for Australia, but since it’s run by libraries it even has a collection development policy! The purpose of the PANDORA Archive is to collect and provide long-term access to selected online publications and web sites that are about Australia, are by an Australian author on a subject…
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Opinions on Google and Libraries Sought
If you were at the last OCLS Conference in Carefree you’ll remember Siva was our keynote speaker…Opinions on Google and Libraries Sought Lots of you have strong opinions on Google Print, Google Scholar and Google’s deals with the G5–those libraries participating in the Google digitization of some/all of their materials. Well, here’s your chance to…
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Listen to Flash
So for ages and ages folks have used frames to present instructions on one side of the screen and a live database on the other. Guided tutorial is what I call it. Recently we began using Macromedia Breeze on my campus, and colleagues seem freshly intrigued with the possibilities of incorporating audio into online instruction. …
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Library Journal – UK Offers Free, 24/7 Online Reference
I have a suspicion that I missed the boat on this one and the announcement has already been widely, um, announced, but this was the first I’d heard of it, and it seems a valid tool for distance students (though of course you should be the primary provider of reference services for your own students). …
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Dilettante’s Ball: WAG the Monkey
Ross Singer – digital alchemist. OK admittedly it will be a loooong time before all our distance students will be using Firefox, but wow is this cool! This is the sort of thing that when shown in a training session would likely entice someone to switch to Firefox. To summarize, once you’ve (painlessly) installed Greasemonkey…
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Open Stacks: Education Podcast Network
Nice site if you’re looking for topical (education!) podcasts.Link: Open Stacks: Education Podcast Network.