Author: Paul R. Pival
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Tomorrow’s Library Today – Internet Librarian 2012
So you may have noticed I haven't been blogging much over the past year or so. In part, this presentation explains why. At the University of Calgary we (not so) recently opened a new building, the Taylor Family Digital Library (aka TFDL). I was heavily involved not so much in choosing, but in implementing a…
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PSA – Zombie Season Approaches
We’re within a week of Halloween, so the zombie references are popping out of the woodwork. First up, CommonCraft has updated their previous video, Zombies Explained: Next, from the Zombie Research Society, we have a scientific look at what might be going on in a zombie’s brain to make it a zombie: Zombies seem to…
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Upcoming Webinar: “Start with Summon”: Information Literacy in the Age of Web-Scale Discovery
Note the Distance Education angle in this upcoming Webinar from Serials Solutions: “Start with Summon” is what novice and experience researchers at Royal Roads University hear. Easy for novices and great for experienced researchers conducting interdisciplinary searches, the Summon service exposes students to many things they might not otherwise find. How are students introduced to…
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Calgary Mini Maker Faire = Awesome fun!
I took the kids down to the East Village today for the inaugural Calgary Mini Maker Faire, and we all had a blast! I've been wanting to get involved somehow in the maker movement for quite some time, but never made the effort to get down to our local hacker lab, Protospace. That'll probably change…
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Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning Summer Reading List
Just received via email: The Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning is excited to offer FREE access to its Summer Reading List: a collection of Editor selected articles from its archives centered on the theme of Online Instruction. Articles include: Using Adobe Connect to Deliver Online Library Instruction to the RN to…
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Canadian Learning Commons Conference Proceedings
On May 7-9, 2012 the University of Calgary hosted the 6th Canadian Learning Commons Conference. The theme of the conference was New Media, New Fluencies and Life Skills Development: Preparing Learners for the 21st Century. The proceedings for that conference have now been posted in the UofC Institutional Repository. Enjoy!
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The Fourth International m-libraries Conference
Registration for the Fourth International m-libraries Conference is now open. The conference will be held 24-26 September 2012 at The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK. The main theme for the conference this year is "From margin to mainstream: mobile technologies transforming lives and libraries". I attended the 2nd m-libraries conference in Vancouver in 2009 and found it quite useful. Won't…
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Netspeed 2012 program announced
The program (pdf) for Netspeed 2012, to be held in Edmonton, AB, Oct 18-19, has just been released. Information about this year's conference seems to be a little scattered, with the official page linking to an official blog, and no link (except in the email I got) to the registration site, which is currently the only…
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How to make library instructional (or other educational) videos and screencasts
Chad Boeninger continues to make good use of both screencasting and traditional video in introducing research topics to his business students at Ohio University. In this post Chad "discusses the inexpensive equipment and software needed, and shows how to make a video from start to finish. Discusses camera selection, how to use Screencast-o-matic.com, how to…