Author: Paul R. Pival
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“I want people to read my stuff”
I recently started reading the blog of the author (MCM) of The Pig and the Box (see my post from last week). He sells that title as a printed book, and as an ebook, but he also makes it available for free to download as a PDF from his website. Today he blogged about why…
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Call for Submissions: Journal of Library and Information Service for Distance Learning
The Journal of Library and Information Service for Distance Learning, a peer-reviewed journal published by Routledge/The Haworth Press, welcomes the submission of manuscripts. The journal is devoted to the issues and concerns of librarians and information specialists involved with distance education and delivering library resources and services to this growing community of students. Topics can…
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U of Calgary DSpace – 73rd-ranked instutional repository in the world!
Hey this is pretty cool, our Institutional Repository, DSpace at the University of Calgary, is ranked #73 in the world (looking at the top 300 Repositories). Yay us!
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Serenity Now! – Library Lullaby
"iSerenity offers a relaxing web-based experience that delivers soothing sounds and images designed to reduce stress and calm nerves. Use iSerenity while at work or at home. You can even leave it running in the background while you work on your computer." I just found Library Lullaby, which will provide background noise of, well, a…
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Google Unveils Cellphone Version of Digital-Book Collection
As reported in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Google has just made 1.5 million of their scanned books and made them available in a format suitable for reading on mobile devices. Oddly, at this moment getting there is not an option from their official iPhone app, nor does visiting http://books.google.com on the iPhone automatically redirect…
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New Journal: International Journal of Library and Information Science
Not entirely sure we need another one, but the International Journal of Library and Information Science will launch in May 2009. Oh, well this is good – it’s an Open Access publication. Grr, they offer email alerts for TOC, but no RSS. Doesn’t look like any of their titles do.
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Magic Sharing Box – USE IT!
Wow, hard to believe it was 2.5 years ago that I wrote about The Pig and the Box! Surely you remember the story of the pig named Pig who finds a magic box that can replicate anything? Well this kids book about the folly of Digital Rights Management (aka DRM) is being reprinted (here’s the…
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3 services to monitor website changes w/o RSS
Here are three free services that will monitor changes to websites and notify you by email when they do change. Watch That Page ChangeDetection.com Follow That Page
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Followup on New Media into Old
Last week I mentioned a couple of interviews that had tweaked my interest in a solution for automatically creating a printed "newspaper" of individual blog postings that I wanted to devote more time to. Clint Lalonde left a comment suggesting FeedJournal, so I went to take a peek, and it's almost perfect for what I…