The Distant Librarian

Author: Paul R. Pival

  • Everything you’d want to know about Full-text searching in Books

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    The title’s obviously a bit of an exaggeration, but LISNews has posted an article by Scott Boren that is in fact crammed full of interesting information about the state of full-text book searching.  Scott appears to have initially written the article for the National Library of Education, and credits a talk given by Greg Notess…

  • CafeScribe – online textbooks

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    Not very much content there yet, mostly law titles, but CafeScribe seems to be somewhat like ebrary for textbooks – you can search, highlight and take notes in the volumes you purchase. Found via Mashable.

  • Social Bookmarking in Plain English

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    The latest tutorial from Common Craft is out – Social Bookmarking in Plain English.  I learned that I no longer have to remember where the dots go in del.icio.us, I can just type delicious.com: Technorati Tags: Delicious, Common_Craft

  • Demotivator Lithographs on Sale

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    It’s Friday, it’s raining, and the end of the summer is in view already.  It’s time for some Demotivators.  Despair.com has a sale on all their Demotivator Lithographs ("they’re like posters, only swankier") until August 15th.  Not familiar with them?  Here are a few of my faves:   $9.95 for 24"x30" – what’s not to…

  • Adobe Captivate 3 Library examples

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    In response to my earlier post about the pre-release of Adobe Captivate 3 (screencasting product), Kristofer Scheid at The Nexus 6 has posted his initial thoughts on the product, along with a couple of examples.  Thanks Kristofer! Technorati Tags: Screencasting, Captivate

  • EBSCO RSS Feeds

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    Jenny Levine at The Shifted Librarian breaks the news that EBSCO has finally fully integrated their RSS alerts.  Confirmed on my institution’s subscription as well.  See her post for full details. Technorati Tags: RSS, EBSCO

  • WIMZI – AIM anonymous chat widget (like MeeboMe)

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    If for some reason you wanted to have a single-platform embedded widget to allow users to talk to your AIM account, you now have WIMZI, which is exactly like MeeboMe, except it only connects to AIM. Technorati Tags: IM, AIM, WIMZI, Meebo

  • Top 10 e-learning tools

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    From the July issue of TL Infobits comes mention of the results of a survey conducted by the Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies in the UK in which 64 e-learning experts (I saw one librarian on the list) recommended their top e-learning tools.  The results of the survey can be found at http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/recommended/index.html.  #1…

  • APA Exposed!

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    No, there’s no scandal, I just threw the exclamation point on there to catch your eye.  APA Exposed is the title of a really well-done tutorial on how to format papers using APA style.  Put together as a flash slideshow by Wendy Mages, a Harvard Graduate School of Education, it runs 40 minutes, so is…

  • CFP: Off-Campus Library Services Conference

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    The Call for Participation for the Thirteenth Off-Campus Library Services Conference has been posted.  The deadline for submission is September 30, 2007. All presenters will be notified regarding their proposal status by October 31, 2007. The written paper will be due January 5,  2008.  Submissions are accepted for Presentations, Workshops, Panel discussions or Poster sessions.…