Author: Paul R. Pival
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SPARC calls on campuses to coordinate open-access policy efforts
For immediate release August 5, 2009 For more information, contact Jennifer McLennan (202) 296-2296 ext 121 jennifer [at] arl [dot] org SPARC CALLS ON CAMPUSES TO COORDINATE OPEN-ACCESS POLICY EFFORTS Introduces centralized resource and group of experts to advise policy development Washington, DC – Last month, the University of Kansas became the first public university…
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Screencasting Tool comparison chart
Dr. Stephen Ransom has a great chart loaded on Scribd comparing a large number of screencasting tools. There are some screen capture tools listed as well that I wouldn’t have put on a screencasting chart, but it’s a nice simple overview indicating whether the tool is online or “local”, which OS, cost, formats, shareability, and…
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JISC Academic Database Assessment Tool (ADAT)
I recently learned through a colleague of this wonderful database comparison tool from JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) in the UK – the Academic Database Assessment Tool (ADAT). “This site from JISC Collections aims to help libraries to make informed decisions about future subscriptions to bibliographic and full text databases.” You can use it to…
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Sol on Discovering Discovery Services
Over at the Federated Search Blog, Sol has a great post called Discovering discovery services, where he explains what these new search products are, how they work, and how they differ from Federated Search. I’ll be including a link to this post when I introduce and open up our beta of Summon to our full…
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RenewBot vs Library Elf
Fight! (I looked, but couldn't find a picture of a robot fighting an elf) I just discovered RenewBot, which will automatically renew your library books X # of days before they come due, where X is set by you. First two months are free, then if you want to continue it'll cost $2.99 per year…
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No place for state in our hard drives?
U of Calgary affiliate Kris Kotarski has a thought-provoking op-ed in the Calgary Herald about the Copyright/DRM debate that’s about to be reborn here in Canada. “Simply put, if society settles on laws enforcing copyright provisions such as a ban on breaking DRM locks on CDs and DVDs, or taking down SIM locks on cellular…
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Qarbon Stimulus Program
I received the following email from Qarbon, the folks who first introduced me to screencasting with their ViewletBuilder product oh so long ago. To help both new and existing customers during the economic recovery, Qarbon has created its own Stimulus Package that will begin on July 15th, 2009 and run through August 15th, 2009. This…
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LJ Webcast Archives
I haven’t had a chance to listen to/watch them myself, and am bookmarking them here as much for my use as yours, but two recent webcasts in the Returning the Researcher to the Library series are now archived at the LJ website: Webcast: Returning the Researcher to the Library: Building ROI through Discovery Webcast: Returning…