Author: Paul R. Pival
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How Individual Book Buying Experiences are Reshaping Academic Library User Expectations for Ebooks
When I recently posted a summary of Jane Burke's posts on the InfoViews blog, I hadn't realized InfoViews was owned by a ProQuest employee. Mike does point out that the views posted are his, and not those of ProQuest, but it's something to be aware of, and explains why he's collecting so many guest posts…
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Must Read: Library Technology Reports – Web Scale Discovery
Back in March I noted that the January 2011 issue of Library Technology Reports was dedicated to Web Scale Discovery Services. Well folks, I finally made the time to read that issue, and if your library is considering Web Scale Discovery you must read it too! Note that LTR is available in Academic Search Complete…
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What’s missing from EVERY iOS cycling app
I've tried a fair few of them by now, and have settled on iMapMyRide, because it's accurate (most are), and it shows hill categorizations, which I think is tres cool. There are a lot of hills in Calgary, so it's nice to get some tiny tangible recognition for climbing them. But there's something EVERY iOS…
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New (DE) Kid on the Block
When I first started this blog (7 years ago!) it was in part to fill a perceived gap in the blogosphere on the topic of library service to distance students. Since then I've broadened the scope of The Distant Librarian to library tech in general, and there have been a fair number of other blogs…
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CFP: 15th Distance Library Services Conference
The Fifteenth Distance Library Services Conference (Memphis, TN, April 18-20, 2012) is an opportunity to present your research, knowledge and experience to your peers. All professional, faculty, administrative, and staff members who are involved in providing library services for students at a distance are invited to submit. The proceedings will be published separately and featured…
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Screencasting on the iPad (almost)
Just ran across a link to an in-development iPad app called ShowMe, which acts as a whiteboard, recording whatever happens within the app, including audio, and then exports that to a website. I would SO love to have an app like this that can record whatever is happening on the iPad rather than just itself,…
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EBSCOHost releases an iPhone app
I haven't seen a press release or anything, but someone mentioned it on Twitter last night, so I went looking and found that EBSCO has just released an iPhone app. It'll also work on an iPad, but not at full screen. So how does it work? Log in to one of your EBSCO databasese and…
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User perceptions of the academic library and how Discovery Systems can help
I wanted to wait until the final post before mentioning Jane Burke's guest 6-part series about user perceptions of the library and how Discovery Systems can help on the InfoViews blog. Jane is Senior Vice President of ProQuest and the executive sponsor of Serials Solutions (who makes Summon). In the first four posts Jane paints a…