Author: Paul R. Pival
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Unified Discovery Services
As we continue to charge towards the Taylor Family Digital Library here at the U of Calgary, the idea of unified discovery services is suddenly popping up frequently in casual (work) conversations and meetings. This is especially relevant at the UofC as our umbrella organizational structure is called Libraries and Cultural Resources (LCR) and consists…
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Second thoughts on Shortcovers
Yesterday I blogged about the new Shortcovers service. Last night I read a short story and have the following observations. I like how I can browse the website from my desktop, bookmark titles, and then have them appear on my iPhone for reading. (I can also, of course, browse and bookmark from the iPhone). I…
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Is ProQuest missing the boat with mobile SafariBooksOnline?
Earlier this week, Safari Books Online launched a mobile interface to their product at http://m.safaribooksonline.com. The University of Calgary has an institutional subscription to Safari Books Online via ProQuest, and I naively assumed after we threw this new URL into our ezproxy configuration I'd be able to access the new site via my iPhone. Nope. …
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Now THIS is how to promote your collaboration suite!
Wimba, one of several collaboration suites (like WebEx, DimDim, or Elluminate), may have just stumbled upon a winning way to get people to try their product: make it entertaining! Their next open meeting is called What to Expect When We’re Exploding: Different Religions’ Beliefs about the End-Times March 5, 2009 12:00 pm MST Presenter: Rob Kutner, The…
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Mobile Drupal
Really excited to find the following post: An overview of Mobile modules for Drupal on Tom Deryckere's new blog, Making mobile web sites with Drupal. Haven't really had a chance to go through it yet, but wanted to share :-)
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Wowbrary Notifies You of New Library Books, Movies or Music
Lifehacker points to a service called Wowbrary, which, regularly informs you by email and/or RSS about your chosen public library’s newest books, movies and music. We make it easy for you to browse through the latest additions and place a hold on a new title. This is a free user service supported by grants, donations,…
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ScreenFlow 1.5 released
I'm still holding out for the Techsmith Camtasia offering for OSX, but it's getting harder and harder to resist purchasing ScreenFlow, by almost all accounts the best screencasting software for the Mac. They've just released version 1.5, and The Unofficial Apple Weblog has an overview.
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Dalhousie LibCasts – what you want to learn, when and where you want it
Wow, check out the Dalhouse University LibCasts page! Too many to count, most available in multiple formats, with an RSS feed and a dedicated search engine. Very nicely done! Camtasia Studio seems to be the screencasting tool of choice.
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Posted: m-libraries 2009 Program
The Program(me) for the 2009 m-libraries conference is up. Not surprisingly, when you think about it, lots of international content (you know, from countries where they actually USE cell phones to do stuff).