The Distant Librarian

Author: Paul R. Pival

  • Sending Large Attachments

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    The LibrarianInBlack posts a brief blurb about two digital dropbox services that you might find useful if you don’t have Prospero for document delivery. Of course here in Canada we’re not allowed to scan and drop articles anyway, but I’ve used YouSendIt for large files of other sorts. I suppose there may be some privacy…

  • Most Depressing Moment of the CIL Conference

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    This post about Instant Messaging reminded me that I need to experiment with offering IM as a service for my students. No idea really if they’d use it – nobody’s asked me, but lots of people (Jenny) seem to think lots of other people use it! I tried setting up a Trillian account a while…

  • SafariX Textbooks Online

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    SafariX Textbooks Online is to be launched this summer – no mention on the website that these titles will be available to libraries, but this might be a resource of interest to some of your students. The big draw is that the textbooks are available for about 50% of the price of the printed volumes,…

  • CFP: IEEE Transactions on Education

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    IEEE Transactions on Education has a call for papers on an upcoming special issue:Web-Based Instruction. The initial manuscript submission deadline is August 2, 2004, and the tentative publication date is November 2005. Lots of time for peer review and revisions in there! IEEE Transactions on Education — The CFP is third from the bottom, or…

  • Growing

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    I’ve had a blog with Blogger for a year now (wow, hadn’t realized it was that long!) – it was a spot where I was basically collecting annotated bookmarks, and over the next few days I’ll be bringing some posts over from there, hopefully with comments more specific to the scope of this blog.

  • OCLS Conference 2004

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    A couple of weeks ago I had a V-8 moment and realized I should be blogging about the fine art of Distance Librarianship. Last week (May 5-7) I was at the 11th Off Campus Library Services Conference in Carefree AZ and realized there’s plenty going on to keep an endeavor like this going, so here…

  • Faxing to students

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    For many years now I’ve been suggesting to my students that they get themselves a free eFax account that they can use to receive faxes as attachments in their email box. David Pogue of the NY Times just had a brief mention of another service called Faxaway that you might want to look in to…