Author: Paul R. Pival
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Assessing the Future Landscape of Scholarly Communication
From TL Infobits, news of a draft report from UC Berkeley called Assessing the Future Landscape of Scholarly Communication: An In-depth Study of Faculty Needs and Ways of Meeting Them. (This is almost exactly the topic we asked candidates for a recent position here at the U of C to address!) Some of the questions…
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Google Book Search Bibliography
Charles W. Bailey, Jr. has published version 2 of his Google Book Search Bibliography. From the introduction: “This bibliography presents selected English-language articles and other works that are useful in understanding Google Book Search. It primarily focuses on the evolution of Google Book Search and the legal, library, and social issues associated with it. Where…
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Wikitannica
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that the Encyclopaedia Britannica is “about to launch a new initiative” that will allow users to participate in the EB Wikipedia-style. From the press release, “A complete redesign, editing tools, and incentive programs will give expert contributors and users the means to take part in the further improvement of…
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The ABCs of Online Teaching
From an email I received. Not sure how much is relevant to librarians…: You are invited to contribute and participate in this week’s FridayLive! session. Join the FridayLive! online discussion: Friday, May 30, 2008. Topic: The ABCs of Online Teaching Speakers: Steve Gilbert, TLT Group and Kathy Saville, Northern Michigan University Description: Today, there are…
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People and adults…
This week's TWIT (This Week in Technology) podcast was a particularly good one for anyone interested in copyright and the PATRIOT act. Brewster Kahle kicked things off with a discussion of his fight against a National Security Letter that was served to the Internet Archive. According to Brewster there have been approximately 200,000 of these…
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Bye-bye Live Search Books and Live Search Academic
Roy Tennant points out that as of next week(!) Microsoft is switching off Live Search Books and Live Search Academic. Wow. I didn't go there first (ever), but it was good to have some competition for Google Book Search and Google Scholar. Interesting, definitely.
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Two new online programs for Archives and LibSci
Library Journal reports that San José State University's School of Library and Information Science is offering two new online programs; a Master of Archives and Records Administration (MARA) degree and a "Gateway Ph.D. Program" in conjunction with Queensland University of Technology Faculty of Information Technology.
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OSX Screencasting Faceoff
The Unofficial Apple Weblog has a good roundup of free through expensive screencasting applications for OSX (Mac). Taking the top spot for freebies is Jing. Screenflick gets the nod for the “casual user”, and ScreenFlow is the best overall. I love Jing for quick and dirty, and I own iShowU and SnapZ Pro for longer…
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How a Lawsuit Over Electronic Reserves Could Affect Colleges
From the Chronicle’s Wired Campus, Laura N. Gassaway, associate dean for academic affairs and a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law, says that a lawsuit recently filed against Georgia State University regarding electronic reserves could have implications for how colleges distribute course material online. Full post.