Author: Paul R. Pival
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Survey on trends in document delivery for distance education
Michele D. Behr writes to the OFFCAMP list: For a presentation at the upcoming Off Campus Library Services Conference we are researching trends in document delivery fordistance learners. We are investigating factors that may impact use of document delivery services, i.e. level of automation, marketingefforts, number of electronic journal subscriptions and e-books, etc. We have…
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R-mail now SendMeRSS
R-mail, one of the first RSS to Email utilities I really liked, was acquired earlier this year by NBC, of all things. After quite a bit of development work, R-mail has now been re-introduced as SendMeRSS. Site looks really slick, and if you click on the banner at the top of the page (only later…
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WikipediaVision
Found a link to this on the ResearchBuzz blog: WikipediaVision allows you to see in almost real-time, random English-language edits to WikiPedia according to where they happen on Google Maps. When you watch it in real time it gives you about 5-8 seconds or so to read the title of the entry that’s being edited,…
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The impression that I get
So I, like many others, was fogged in as I tried to leave Monterey on Wednesday night. For me, the only thing United could offer was another attempt out 24 hours later. Not a single meal voucher, no help with a hotel, wouldn’t pay for me to get up to SFO where I could grab…
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Links mentioned in Chad and Paul’s IL2007 talk on Tech Tools for Library Outreach
In no particular order… Shifting Gears: Getting Up to Get Into the Flow (PDF) Joe Janes at IL2007 Facebook Meebo Jing Screencast-o-matic.com The BizWiki – Podcasts from Alden Library Audacity Wink Skype Camstudio FAQ software – KnowledgebasePublisher
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Back channel for Paul and Chad’s presentation at Internet Librarian 2007
Back channel for Paul and Chad’s presentation at Internet Librarian 2007: Tech Tools for Library Outreach. If you’ve got wireless and are in the room, feel free to chat amongst yourselves or provide us with live feedback during our presentation. Can’t promise we’ll be able to respond, but we’ll try!
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Recommended Book for Canadians
I suppose some from other countries might be interested as well, but Laura Murray’s book, Canadian copyright, a citizen’s guide, is about to or has just been released. No reviews yet, but I’ve followed her writing at faircopyright.ca (now a blog with an RSS feed – yay!) for some time and am really looking forward…
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Instantbird – New Open Source Cross Platform IM client
Learned from Tom Boone at Library Laws that there’s a new cross-platform IM client out called InstantBird, “based on Mozilla technologies and Pidgin”. And it’s open source. It’s pretty spartan right now being on its first release, but worked right out of the box for me. Just enter your account details in the account wizard,…
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Need some current stats on distance education in the US?
As reported in the Chronicle, the Sloan Consortium has just released a report titled Online Nation: Five Years of Growth in Online Learning. The study addresses the following questions: How Many Students are Learning Online? Where has the Growth in Online Learning Occurred? Why do Institutions Provide Online Offerings? What are the Prospects for Future…
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Jon Udell on remixing the library
Abstract: In an online world of small pieces loosely joined, librarians are among the most well qualified and highly motivated joiners of those pieces. Library patrons, meanwhile, are in transition. Once mainly consumers of information, they are now, on the two-way web, becoming producers too. Can libraries function not only as centers of consumption, but…