The Distant Librarian

Author: Paul R. Pival

  • eBooks galore!

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    I’ve had the TOC for Volume 23 Issue 1 of The Electronic Library sitting in my inbox for two months now; it’s a special issue on Electronic Books and I was going to read at least some of the articles and let you know all about ’em, but HA!  If it didn’t happen in the…

  • ProQuest RSS Feeds

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    There’s not a whole lot there just yet, but the mockups look pretty 🙂  ProQuest is working towards making content from their databases available as RSS feeds.  They do have some feeds going, but what caught my eye were the mockups for a library page, a faculty page, and a course syllabus. Link:  ProQuest RSS…

  • Wonderful introduction to Wikis

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    Just finished the wiki article mentioned in Carolyn’s post and I highly recommend it.  It’s well written and easy to understand, and it does a great job of addressing many of the fears and misconceptions about the use of wikis in Higher Education.  Why librarians should care about EDUCAUSE I first discovered EDUCAUSE when I…

  • Promising Tool goes away

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    Last month I wrote about a neat-looking virtual reference tool called Convoq ASAP, which had a really nice feature in that the one-to-one version was free. (Web Meetings for Nothing, Collaborate for Free).  A couple of days ago a colleage asked me about the free version, and when I went to the Convoq website to…

  • Re-syndication: sidebar updates and more

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    Library Clips posts a nice list of tools that can help you embed your RSS feed in another page (think Blackboard or WebCT or whatever…)  The only one of these I’ve personally played with is Feed2JS, and I’ve been really happy with that one. Link: Library clips :: Re-syndication: sidebar updates and more :: May…

  • Call for contributors #2 – J. of Lib & Info Services in Distance Learning

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    It’s that time again – what may become my quarterly call to see if any gentle readers would like to contribute to the eServices in Libraries column for the Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning. I have several ideas for topics, but am also interested in you bringing your own ideas to…

  • Audio for Mac ViewletBuilder

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    As a followup to last night’s post about the introduction of the Mac version of Qarbon ViewletBuilder (incidentally there’s also a Linux version, but I have no way to play with that), I was able to sucessfully import the ViewletBuilder project I created with my iBook into my Windows version of the software to add…

  • ViewletBuilder for the Mac is here!

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    OK all you Mac folk, now you too can join the screencasting revolution!  As far as I know, this is the first software of this type that is available for the Mac.  I was a beta tester for this version and I was pleasantly surprised to find how closely it mirrored the Windows version I…

  • OpenURL-enabling Google Scholar

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    I too have been following the discussion on the SFX support list Peter mentions, and have been hoping he or someone of his calibre would blog about it, making it easier to summarize and include here.  I didn’t do a count on the opinions, but I sense that many on the aforementioned list are leaning…

  • Preorder The Search

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    Just ordered for the U of C collection:  The Search : The Inside Story of How Google and Its Rivals Changed Everything Preorder The Search You can now start preordering John Battelle’s book The Search at Amazon. John’s the co-founding editor of Wired, author of Searchblog, and brand manager of Boing Boing. [via Google Blogoscoped]