Author: Paul R. Pival
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E-JASL: The Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship
I’ve had this one sitting in my to-read for too long – time to pass it on – E-JASL: The Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship v8 no2 includes a couple of interesting-sounding articles – Reaching Students with Facebook: Data and Best Practices and Reaching Out to Off-Campus Students via BlackboardTM: A Consortial Library’s…
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2007 Virtual Reference Symposium presentations available
Sarah points out that the presentations from the 2007 Virtual Reference Symposium are now available. Lots of stuff on the big fee services, and on IM as well. Technorati Tags: IM, VR
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Meebo Alert for Firefox
Yet another reason to use Firefox – Aaron just pointed out that there’s a new plug-in for Firefox and Meebo that will really help with the alerts – you still have to have Meebo open in a tab, or a sidebar, but you no longer have to have that tab in the foreground for fear…
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Meredith on Online learning and its impact on public libraries
Meredith Farkas has a lengthy post discussing the problems of distance education programs not supporting their students adequately, or possibly just not informing them of the resources available to them, and the burden those students sometimes place on their local public libraries. Some good comments starting to pile up already.
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Improving the SFX menu
David Walker at Cal State has a really compelling presentation on why they’ve modified their SFX menu to look the way it does. It’s a 20-minute Captivate presentation. If you look after SFX at your school, you really should give this a look. (thanks for the tip, Jennifer)
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Two interesting developments from ProQuest re: Dissertations
A colleague passed along the following links you may also find of interest: ProQuest CSA has arranged with Google and Google Scholar to allow indexing and searching across bibliographic data for graduate works published in 2005 and forward. PQDT Open is an online repository of dissertations and theses published on an open access basis. The…
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Camtasia Studio 5 Review
I mentioned at the beginning of the month that Camtasia Studio 5 was being released, and also that because I’m still on Win2K at the office I hadn’t had a chance to play with it. Still true, but Michael Pick at Web TV Wire has a very comprehensive overview and review of the screencasting product,…
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Meebo Widgets – Trouble in Paradise
So I’ve recently noticed that our Meebo Widgets are not correctly showing our status for our reference service; they almost always display that we’re offline even when we’re logged in. Looks from the support forums like we’re not the only ones, and it’s frustrating that nobody from Meebo is chiming in to offer a solution. …
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Sept PRIMO Site of the Month: Citing Your Sources: APA and MLA Citation Styles
Noticed a really nice Flash tutorial from Eastern Washington University was chosen as the September 2007 PRIMO Site of the Month – Citing Your Sources: APA and MLA Citation Styles. After learning about citation styles, users have the chance to click and drag various parts of the citation into the correct order, and then check…
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MozBackup – for transferring Thunderbird and Firefox profiles
So I moved offices this weekend, and also moved to a new desktop machine. Used MozBackup to transfer my Thunderbird and Firefox profiles, which includes all bookmarks, preferences, extensions, cookies, etc. In a nutshell, after only about 10 minutes, I was fully functional w/o having to hunt down and reinstall anything – wonderful time saver!