Author: Paul R. Pival
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AAAS Says Science Will Remain in JSTOR
No real details, but Library Journal reports that: Under pressure from libraries for its 2007 decision to pull its flagship publication, Science, from JSTOR, the popular electronic journals database, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) said today that it has reversed course, and that Science will remain in JSTOR. Citing a confidentiality…
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MIT Lecture Browser
From Carolyn Kotlas at TL INFOBITS: This fall researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology released the MIT Lecture Browser, “a web interface to video recordings of lectures and seminars that have been indexed using automatic speech recognition technology.” Users can search on terms or phrases and then play the video at the point(s) in…
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ACRL 2007 Environmental Scan
Last Spring the Research Committee of ACRL proposed their top ten assumptions for the future of academic and research libraries. They’ve just released the latest version and are looking for comments for ALA Midwinter. The 2007 environmental scan by the Research Committee of the Association of College and Research Libraries (available at http://www.acrl.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/whitepapers/Environmental_Scan_2.pdf ) (29…
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CFP: Inaugural Conference of the Canadian Network for Innovation in Education
Just posted is a call for papers for the Inaugural Conference of the Canadian Network for Innovation in Education, to be held in Banff, Alberta, Canada, April 27-30, 2008. The deadline is January 15. Banff is kinda one of the prettiest spots in the world – you should think about visiting!
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FeedYes.com no longer free
Last month I received an email as a registered user of FeedYes.com, one of the first RSS Feed-creation tools I liked. Seems they’re no longer offering any free options. From the email: FeedYES Update FeedYES increases servers and support, becomes paid service Last month, FeedYES was bought by a new owner. FeedYES has grown over…
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Canadian universities’ resource sharing agreement extends from coast to coast
There are definitely advantages to working in a country with a smallish number of universities… Toronto, Ontario: Effective January 2, 2008, Canadian university faculty, students and staff will now be supported by one Resource Sharing Agreement amongst institutions. The new agreement will extend standardized reciprocal interlibrary loan / document delivery privileges across Canada. Read the…
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InfoLit with a sense of humour
The University of Alberta Augustana Library has made their award-winning DVD, It Changed the Way I Do Research – Period: Augustana Talks Information Literacy, available for free online. Here’s a promo teaser from YouTube: This isn’t something to show to your students; it’s much more a multimedia explanation of how the InfoLit program runs at…
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January Innovate-Live Webcast Schedule
FYI – some good-looking sessions on January 10th: Innovate (www.innovateonline.info) is published bimonthly as a public service by the Fischler School of Education and Human Services at Nova Southeastern University and is sponsored, in part, by Microsoft. Innovate-Live webcasts, produced as a public service by our partner, ULiveandLearn, allow you to synchronously interact with authors on…
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Frugality in Practice: Using the Public Library
I’ve never really made New Year’s resolutions, but one thing my wife and I have decided to do this year is really tackle our debt and increase our retirement contributions. It’ll be a tough year (or several) for a gadget junkie like me, but I’m committed (and now also in public!). I’ve been following a…