The Distant Librarian

Author: Paul R. Pival

  • 20th Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning

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    I’ve always wanted to go to this conference, but there only ever seems to be one or two sessions relating to the library each year. Maybe I should do something about that instead of just complaining 😉 Anyhoo, there is at least one session this for distance librarians – Linking to journal articles in online…

  • Born with the Chip – Library Journal

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    I read this article on NextGens a couple of weeks ago and was really struck by a couple of the things it had to say. Born with the Chip. I’ve heard Stephen Abram talk on this subject a couple times and didn’t expect much new, but I guess it always pays to give a guy…

  • ALA – Management Tools for Digital Reference

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    Another DE-related session at ALA: Management Tools for Digital Reference Sponsored by the RUSA MARS Management of Electronic Reference Services (MERS) Committee The Peabody Orlando Hotel, Florida Ballroom I Sunday, June 27, 1:30-3:30 PM As digital reference services are integrated into the fabric of libraries, what are librarians doing to manage those services? In allocating…

  • Wink vs Viewlets

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    I’ve been using the Qarbon ViewletBuilder for online tutorials for a couple of years now and have been very pleased with it.  At a recent meeting a colleague mentioned a freeware alternative called Wink that does pretty much the same thing, so I thought I’d give it a go for comparison’s sake. In a nutshell…

  • Canadian Copyright Concerns

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    Ever send your distance students a link to a website? Michael Geist has an interesting legal piece in the Toronto Star entitled Will copyright reform chill use of Web?. In it, he discusses a recent parliamentary committee report (44 page PDF) on copyright reform that, if adopted, would mean that Canadian educational institutions would be…

  • Distance Ed at ALA

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    I won’t be attending ALA, but Jerilyn Marshall Chair, DLS Liaison Committee, just sent the following list of programs related to distance library services to the OffCamp listserv: Going the Distance: Librarians Supporting Online Courses RUSA-MARS Saturday, June 26, 8:30 am – 10:00 am; Peabody Plaza International BR F/G Librarians are taking active roles in…

  • Recent articles

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    Back from vacation – here are some recent articles dealing with distance librarianship (courtesy of Erik Arfeuille’s New Technologies in Libraries email service): Collaboration: The Key to Unlocking the Dilemma of Distance Reference Services / Sherry Hawkins Backhus, Terri Pedersen Summey. In: The Reference Librarian. (2003)83/84; p. 193-202. Distant education offerings are growing at a…

  • Web Search Garage

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    Distance students search the web, don’t they? Librarians search the web too…. This book will definitely be on my bookshelf once it’s released. Tara Calishain of ResearchBuzz has a new book called Web Search Garage coming out around August. In her most recent ResearchBuzz Extra newsletter she writes, Web Search Garage is my attempt to…

  • ALA | 10 Reasons Why the Internet Is No Substitute for a Library

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    This article, originally published in 2001, was noted in this week’s CIT Infobits. A nice reminder of why we DE librarians are still here working behind the scenes to support our DE students, IMHO. ALA | 10 Reasons Why the Internet Is No Substitute for a Library

  • Go Flames Go!

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    Mostly just looking for an excuse to try uploading a picture, but wow, these guys are good and they’re going to the Stanley Cup Final!