Author: Paul R. Pival
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CFP: Extend and Unify: Outreach and Education for Scholarly Communication and Information Literacy Programs
Call for Proposals: Book chapters on scholarly communication and information literacy Title: Extend and Unify: Outreach and Education for Scholarly Communication and Information Literacy ProgramsBook editors: Stephanie Davis-Kahl, Scholarly Communication Librarian at Illinois Wesleyan University and Merinda Kaye Hensley, Instructional Services Librarian/Coordinator, Scholarly Commons at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Estimated publication date: ALA…
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Lifehacker’s best screencasting and screen capture apps
Over the past several weeks, Lifehacker has listed what they believe to be the best screencasting and screen capture tools for both Windows and Mac. In each post they cover the tool's Features, Where it excels, Where it falls short, and The Competition. Here they are: Best Screen capture tool for Windows (I had never…
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Tips for making mobile-friendly screencasts
Over at The Screening Room, the blog to support the Mac-only screencasting product, ScreenFlow, you'll find a recent post with some guidelines for creating screencasts optimized for the iPhone and iPad. Note though that down in the comments you'll find some corrected information, so you should probably go with those figures. While this post talks…
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ebrary launches an iOS app
Well I was gonna give a complete review, but got called away for the afternoon, but you should should go check out the new ebrary iOS app (links to the Cdn iTunes store, so YMMV). I can tell you that it works pretty well, though is a little light on the feature set. You'll need…
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Mentoring a New Distance Education Librarian
A newish book popped up for me on an ego alert, and I learned that Mentoring in Librarianship: Essays on Working with Adults and Students to Further the Profession contains a chapter specifically on Mentoring a New Distance Education Librarian (it’s chapter 27, written by Annie Knight). It’s also available on Amazon, where you can…
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2011- my year in reading
I started the first couple of weeks of 2011 on vacation, and was reading books on my iPhone at the time. I thought it'd be interesting to track how many books I read in 2011, something I'd never done before. I switched to reading on an iPad 2 when I got one in April, and…
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OverDrive Posts Public Comment Apparently in Response to Librarian in Black Post
A quick followup to my post earlier this month noting Sarah Houghton-Jan's (LiB) rant about Overdrive's different catalogues. TeleRead point out that OverDrive has in fact clarified their position, but without making any mention of Sarah's post, which is likely the cause of theirs. It'd be great to hear a debate between these two parties…