Author: Paul R. Pival
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Google Scholar – half way there?
OK, here’s where we stand on making Google Scholar (aka Schoogle) work much better for distance students. Ross Singer from Georgia Tech has modified a bookmarklet for Google Scholar that works in Firefox 1.0, Mozilla 1.73 (according to my testing), and IE 6.0. His bookmarklet furthers the work of Peter Binkley (U of Alberta) and…
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Full stream ahead: database instruction through online videos
Just finished a really good article in the most recent issue of Library Hi Tech: Title: Full stream ahead: database instruction through online videosAuthor(s): Daniel Yi Xiao; Barbara A. Pietraszewski; Susan P. GoodwinJournal: Library Hi TechYear: 2004 Volume: 22 Issue: 4 Pages: 366-374 I believe this link should take you directly to the PDF if…
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Distance Learning Section Meetings at Midwinter
Stephen Dew posted the following to the OffCamp Listserv the other day: ALA has recently announced the tentative meeting times and locations for all divisions and sections at Midwinter, and I want to let everyone know about the times and tentative locations for the meetings of the Distance Learning Section, ACRL. They are as follows:…
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12th Off-Campus Library Services – CFP
The Call for Papers for the Twelfth Off-Campus Library Services Conference has just come out. The conference runs April 26-28, 2006, so you have some time to clear your calendar, though the paper proposals are due March 22, 2005. This time around it’ll be held in Savannah, GA (more details on the website). From the…
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“I Wouldn’t Have Asked for Help if I had to go to the Library
A different kind of distance librarianship. In this article from the most recent issue of Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, three of my U of C colleagues describe projects where they inserted themselves into the faculties they support. Rather than wait in the library for their students to come to them, they went out…
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update – Google Scholar OpenURLs – Firefox Extension
Well Peter posted some better instructions on how to edit the extension, and I’m happy to report that if I can do it, pretty much anyone who has the desire to try will be able to do it . I don’t want to post the U of Calgary extension that points to our resolver until…
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Google Scholar OpenURLs – Firefox Extension
Ahh, the Alberta Advantage! 🙂 Peter Binkley up the road at the University of Alberta has taken my original idea and run long and far with it. Programming his first Firefox extension, Peter has built a proof-of-concept OpenURL extension for Google Scholar. Basically if you have this extension installed in your version of Firefox, anytime…
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Multimedia Search Monday
Quite some time ago I had read an interesting article about Singingfish, a beta multimedia search engine. That article (no idea where it was, so no link for you) was mostly concentrating on how Singingfish could be used to search NPR content, a neat idea, especially for one who so rarely gets to listen to…
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Powerpoint To Flash Conversion Tools – The PPT2Flash Top20 – Robin Good’ Sharewood Tidings
I haven’t followed the links on this page, but it certainly looks like a valuable resource. I am familiar with a half dozen of the tools mentioned, and unfortunately some of the information on this page pertaining to those is erroneous (price, product name, etc). That’s probably just an indication of how fast this area…
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Learner Support Services in Distance Education System (A Case Study of Turkey)
This is nice to see. Any time I find an article that mentions support services for distance students the first thing I do is search through it for any mention of the importance of library services. It seems like more often than not, the library doesn’t even get mentioned, but here’s a report from Turkey…