Author: Paul R. Pival
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Librarian 2.0 – Interviews on the future of libraries
A couple of months ago Will Sherman, writing for DegreeTutor.com, interviewed me as part of a series on the Future of Libraries. Will came to the attention of the library world earlier this year with his good piece, 33 Reasons Why Libraries and Librarians are Still Extremely Important. The series of interviews with Librarians and…
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Recommended article in ONLINE
I second Judith’s recommendation to read William Badke’s new column, InfoLit Land, in ONLINE. You can’t find it on the open web, but it’s in all the big aggregators (ProQuest, EBSCO, InfoTrac, though none yet have the July/August issue up). Last issue’s column (May/June Vol. 31(3), pp. 50-52) was Bill’s intro, A Champion of Information…
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Setting them free
I did some searching on Google News and it doesn’t look like this story was widely-distributed, so here’s a link to my local paper’s version. Unfortunately my local paper’s website sucks and this link will most likely disappear within the week, so read it quickly if this interests you. The article profiles three authors who’ve…
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Trillian Astra to include web option
One of the nicest features of Meebo is that it can be used w/o any installation – if you’ve got access to the web you can use it. One of the nicest features of Trillian is that it also includes Google Talk in its stable. I just saw this video of the upcoming release (no…
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Science Direct showing up in Google Scholar
O’Reilly Radar reports that Google Scholar is now indexing content from Science Direct. Is this the end of Scopus? Technorati Tags: Scopus, Schoogle
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CFP: Online Learning Article for Academic Exchange Quarterly
Library Writer’s Blog reports that Academic Exchange Quarterly is looking for a short article or two to fill out the summer issue: “If you have an article of approximately 3,000 words focusing on “Online Learning,” please consider placing it with our journal.” More details at http://rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/5onlin.htm
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POD Friday!
Couple of really interesting developments in the print-on-demand world today: Amazon has partnered with four (soon to be more?) libraries to digitize public domain books and then sell them in paper to consumers.See coverage from: The Centered Librarian ACRLog Chronicle of Higher Education Original Press Release The New York Public Library appears to be the…