The Distant Librarian

Author: Paul R. Pival

  • How big is Distance Education?

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    To go along with the previous post, Stephen Abram also notes an interesting statistic about DE: the U of Phoenix and Western International University are among the top 5 largest US Universities.

  • Invest in Distance Education

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    The Chronicle of Higher Ed has a very short piece about the rising stock (as in stock market) of Capella University – lots of support in the comments from Capella grads!  I’ve met librarians from the U of Phoenix, but never from Capella, though the website says they exist.  Can’t actually get to the Capella…

  • Meebo does file transfer

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    I haven’t heard of any libraries making use (or wishing they could) of file transfer over meebo, but it could be useful to push a subject guide or something.  Meebo just announced they now support file transfer between the different networks. Technorati Tags: Meebo

  • Free your content! RSS for Libraries: recording now available

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    Last month (August 7), Meredith Farkas and I did a SirsiDynix presentation called Free your content! RSS for Libraries.  The recordings (audio and video) for that session are now available on the SirsiDynix website, as is a PDF of our slides.  The video is in WMV format and doesn’t play very nicely for those of…

  • Accessing MeeboMe Widgets in Pidgin

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    Chad Boeninger has a comprehensive post at Library Voice describing how to view your MeeboMe widgets while using Pidgin (formerly GAIM), thus obviating the need to have Meebo open in a website at all.  I haven’t tried Pidgin in a long time, but would LOVE not to have to have a web page open in…

  • Jossey-Bass O-T-L Conference Online

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    I’m cleaning out email after my vacation and wanted to get this one out as there’s a fee increase after August 31.  I have no affiliation with this group, but Jossey-Bass is promoting several of its books through an online conference October 17-18.  When you register you can also choose three book titles to keep. …

  • On vacation

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    Neglected to warn y’all that I’m on vacation almost until the end of the month.  Installed Google Gears earlier today and really do like it in my situation of very limited wireless access – am going to be able to keep up with the RSS feeds at my leisure now 🙂  See you when the…

  • Gale now offers RSS feeds

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    As part of a suite of interface changes, Gale is now offering the ability to subscribe to search alerts via RSS.  Just as with EBSCO, when I added the alert to Google Reader it came back with no results, so I’m assuming it will start feeding me new results when they’re added to the database. …

  • Comparison of online Powerpoint hosting options

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    Amit at Digital Inspiration has a great comparison of the following tools, all of which can be used to host PowerPoint presentations online: Zoho Show, SlideShare, Scribd, SlideAware, and Splashcast.  You can also skip to the end result and see the same slideshow displayed from each site all on the same page. Technorati Tags: PowerPoint,…

  • iLibrarian: Subscribed

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    Over the past few weeks especially I keep seeing references to the iLibrarian blog run by Ellyssa Kroski at Columbia University.  If you’re at all interested in the stuff that makes up “Library 2.0” you should check it out.