Author: Paul R. Pival
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American Chemical Society (ACS) heading towards online-only
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports, "the American Chemical Society, which publishes several dozen academic journals, is moving to end print editions and produce journals only online." You can read more at Ars Technica.
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ALA Conference 2009: Ubiquity of Mobiles Greatly To Affect Libraries
Library Journal reports, "Libraries had better prepare for an explosion in the capacity of mobile devices as well as the transformative increase in user capacity and expectations. This was the message conveyed by a panel yesterday at the American Library Association's (ALA) Annual Conference on Libraries and Mobile Devices: Public Policy Considerations."
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RSS to PDF
Since February I've been happily using Tabbloid to receive PDFs of blog posts I want to read on paper (that's what you're getting if you view my shared posts in Google Reader – those are things I've tagged to be delivered to me by Tabbloid). I just ran across FiveFilters.org, which offers an open-source solution…
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Screencasting programs for Linux
Tux Radar posts today with mid-length reviews of a half-dozen screencasting programs for Linux: Group test: screencasting apps. They like DemoRecorder the best. How you know you’re not ready for Linux? The post concludes with a suggestion that if none of these meet your needs, you could “roll your own. Almost all GUI apps on…
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Summon: And then there were two
Last month Dartmouth opened its instance of Summon to the world, and now you can compare that to Summon at the University of Liverpool. Read the press release at Library Technology Guides.
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Wikipedia in the catalogue?
Image via Wikipedia I learned from Eric Rumsey that the State Library of Kansas includes Wikipedia articles in their OPAC. Here are some examples: http://topekalibraries.info/search/awikimedia. About 15 minutes later I saw that Aaron Schmidt posted on the DCPL Labs site that in a recent survey 88% “of people responded that they prefer the content from…
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Yet another followup post on Harvard and EBSCO linking
Peter Murray at Distruptive Library Technology Jester (aka DLTJ) has done a bunch of reading and thinking about the recently-hot issue of Harvard Business School Publishing charging extra to allow the use of persistent URLs in course reserves and content management systems. in his post, EBSCO in Cahoots With Harvard Business Press, he goes in…
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ACRL/DLS Haworth Press Distance Learning Librarian Conference Sponsorship Award
If you’re going to ALA in Chicago this year, here’s a session you may want to attend: ACRL Distance Learning SectionALA Annual Conference Meeting Invitation Please join us in Chicago for the presentation of the ACRL/DLS Haworth Press Distance Learning Librarian Conference Sponsorship Award to this year’s recipient Jack Fritts, immediately followed by a lively…
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A little more info on the Harvard linking BS
Following up on yesterday’s post about Harvard Business School Publishing not allowing PURLs within EBSCO, I received an email from a librarian at a small school who pointed out that the following appears at the bottom of each HBS publication within Business Source Premier/Complete: “Harvard Business Review Notice of Use Restrictions, May 2009 Harvard Business…