Author: Paul R. Pival
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RSS – Not with it yet?! (Bloglines)
A nice tutorial on basic Bloglines use made by Rich Hoeg at Honeywell with Macromedia Breeze. RSS – Not with it yet?! (Bloglines) Okay, if you’re reading this blog, and have not started using a RSS feed reader to subscribe …. get with it! The ability to customize searches and knowledge delivery to your own…
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Federated searching and why users aren’t finding/using your electronic materials
A nice rant on what’s wrong with federated searching from Meredith Farkas. Link: Federated searching and why users aren’t finding/using your electronic materials. She’s thinking pretty much along the same lines as Marshall Breeding in his Feb 2005 Computers in Libraries piece, Plotting a new course for metasearch (direct link to Academic Search Premier). Pretty…
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Advice for a Librarian
Seems the readers of this blog could probably offer a lot of ideas to Meredith… Advice for a Librarian Meredith blogs: “I’m going to be doing a presentation on information literacy in a few weeks, and I’m planning on looking at how new technologies can be used in information literacy instruction. I was thinking of…
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ebrary reader now supports Firefox and Mozilla
U of C picked up a subscription to ebrary a couple of months ago and at that time the ebrary reader (necessary to actually view the books) didn’t really work with Mozilla or Firefox. It could be done, but you had to manually add something to the registry, which is not very nice to ask…
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EdTechPost: Thin-Client Desktop Viewing with VNC
I played with RealVNC once and couldn’t get it to work, but this sounds like a compelling reason to try again. Scott says using TightVNC (Virtual Network Computing) "you can share a view of your desktop (and any running applications) with multiple other users simultaneously using the VNC server without your viewers having to install…
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Visual Quickstart Guide – Macromedia Captivate for Windows
A couple of weeks ago the U of C got a subscription to Safari Tech Books Online, and I just found VISUAL QUICKSTART GUIDE Macromedia Captivate FOR WINDOWS in there 🙂 the above link will recognize your IP address if you also subscribe. This link is proxied to the U of C so *I* can…
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Electronic or print books: Which are used?
Only got a chance this AM to skim this article from Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services, Volume 29, Issue 1, March 2005, Pages 71-81. Electronic or print books: Which are used? (non-proxied link to Science Direct). The authors describe a study done at Louisiana State University where they compared the usage of books that…
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Macromedia – Captivate TechNote : Guidelines for integrating Breeze and Captivate
We’ve got both Breeze and Captivate available on campus (Well, the campus has Breeze and Rod and I have Captivate), so this information will likely come in handy someday soon: Macromedia – Captivate TechNote : Guidelines for integrating Breeze and Captivate.
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Gary Roberts is writing for Computers in Libraries
Sometime in the past two years I tripped across the blog of Gary Roberts at Alfred University. (It turns out the server that hosted his blog was recently hacked, so no link for you). For some reason, last week I began wondering why Gary wasn’t posting anymore and I finally dropped him an email. He…
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Schoogle and understanding link resolvers
I’ve been doing some thinking about Google Scholar since the U of C became a participant in the beta institutional access preferences option. My institution uses SFX as its link resolver, and one of the biggest problems has always been getting students to understand that just because there’s an SFX button after a citation in…