Author: Paul R. Pival
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EBSCOhost 2.0 to debut on Wed July 16?
I’ve been wondering when in July EBSCOhost 2.0 was going to go live – just heard a rumour that it’ll be this Wednesday, July 16th. TWT.
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Distance Education in the world of Document Delivery
It appears that the current issue of the Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery & Electronic Reserve has a whack of articles around Distance Education: Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery & Electronic Reserve (ISSN: 1072-303X)Volume: 18 Issue: 2Cover Date: 2008 While the Haworth Press Website says the issue’s not yet published, you can at…
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Registration now open for Internet Librarian 2008
Monterey, CA • October 20 – 22, 2008Monterey Conference Center Full details at http://www.infotoday.com/il2008/
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5 Things You Should Read about Copyright and Sharing Instructional Materials
The ACRL Instruction Session is adopting the Educause “7 things you should know about…” model with a new series entitled Five Things You Should Read About… The first publication is 5 Things You Should Read about Copyright and Sharing Instructional Materials (PDF) and was brought to my attention because it mentions the ANTS (Animated Tutorial…
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Gale’s new eCatalog
Received an email about Gale’s new eCatalog which I almost deleted, but then decided to take a look at. I thought they did a good job in the email selling it as a green alternative, but was curious to see how useful it’d prove. It’s actually pretty nifty – you can link to a specific…
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Call for Chapters: Using Emerging Technologies in Distance Education
You are invited to submit a chapter for a new publication on using emerging technologies in distance education. Details and submission guidelines are below. “Using Emerging Technologies in Distance Education” – edited by George Veletsianos Part of the “Issues in Distance Education” series – edited by Terry Anderson – planned publication online and in paper…
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University of Calgary Funds Open Access Authors Fund
There was a great announcement yesterday here at the U of C. The text below differs a little from the official press release. Thomas Hickerson, Vice Provost for Libraries and Cultural Resources and University Librarian, announced today the establishment of an annual $100,000 Authors Fund to provide University of Calgary faculty and graduate students with…
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TeamViewer for Desktop Sharing
Haven’t had a chance to try this, but TeamViewer, free for non-commercial use, offers desktop sharing for both Windows and Mac. They claim 10 million users – wonder if they were known as something else before?
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That won’t work for us – Jim Prentice ducks questions about Bill C-61
Wow, just finished listening to an interview with Industry Minister Jim Prentice on the CBC Search Engine podcast. Apparently Minister Prentice did stick around for his promised 10 whole minutes, but no longer, as he hung up on the host of the show rather than take any additional questions. During the interview Minister Prentice contradicted…
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This one’s for Walt C. – Create PDFs from RSS feeds
As reported on Lifehacker, Feedbooks will create a nice PDF of an RSS feed. I found it a little convoluted once I signed up for an account, but figured out I needed to choose to create a newspaper, then click the RSS tab. I was then able to create a custom PDF with one of…