Author: Paul R. Pival
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Counterintuitive research on how online articles are cited.
The July 18 issue of Science has an interesting article titled Electronic Publication and the Narrowing of Science and Scholarship, by James A. Evans, a sociologist at the University of Chicago (Science 18 July 2008: Vol. 321. no. 5887, pp. 395 – 399 DOI: 10.1126/science.1150473). I’ve seen research or statistics (note to self – go…
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Campus Community Advisory!
Bet most of you don’t have this much fun on YOUR campus! This arrived via email a short time ago: Moose tranquilized and safely removed from campus Alberta Fish and Wildlife Officers successfully tranquilized and removed a young moose from campus this morning. The moose wandered onto campus at about 8:20 a.m. and broke through…
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Road trip survival – children’s music you’ll actually enjoy too!
Absolutely no relevance to libraryland, but as a public service I thought I’d throw you the names of several artists your children will love to listen to in the car, and that you’ll actually appreciate too! Wiggles – NOT! They Might Be Giants – not only their three wonderful kids albums (123 and ABC are…
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Educause Webinar—The Gutenberg-e Project: Opportunities and Challenges in Publishing Born-Digital Monographs
Kate WittenbergDirector, Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia (EPIC)Columbia University Topic: The Gutenberg-e Project: Opportunities and Challenges in Publishing Born-Digital MonographsDate: August 1, 2008Time: 1:00 p.m. ET (12:00 p.m. CT, 11:00 a.m. MT, 10:00 a.m. PT).International participants: You may wish to visit this external time-conversion website to calculate the event’s start time in your time zone.Duration:…
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Jing has a Birthday, you get the gifts.
Jing is now a year old, and Techsmith is officially adopting it as a product (it used to be a project). In addition, the free Screencast.com account that comes with Jing (also free) has been upped to 2 GB of storage and 2 GB of transfer. The Jing Blog suggests that there will be some…
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O’Reilly starting to offer DRM-free PDFs
O’Reilly Press is now offering a small number of titles as print, DRM-free PDF, or both. They’ve got 30 titles where you can choose your medium, and a dozen of those are also available on the Kindle. Interesting comments, including a brief discussion of why electronic books aren’t 90% cheaper than print even though there’s…
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Where are the library-related iPhone apps?
Peter Brantley has an interesting blog post in which he laments the lack of ebook or library-related apps for the iPhone, citing this past weekend’s 3G launch as a missed opportunity. Is anyone working on such an application? If it’s for a small audience (patrons of one community or institution) will Apple even allow it…
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Bug Shooting – Poor Man’s Snag-it
Amit at Digital Inspiration writes about a pretty slick program called Bug Shooting that does much of what Snag-it does. That’s quick screen captures or area captures that can be marked up to illustrate or explain. It says it’s WinXP or Vista only, but it’s running on my Win2K machine as well. It’s not nearly…