Author: Paul R. Pival
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Google Book Search vs Live Search Books
Stephen Leary at The Reflective Librarian has an interesting post in which he compares the shifting number of results he gets over time with Google Book Search. Live Search Books (MSN) provides stable results, but neither service actually allows you to see the results after a certain point. I tried to leave him this comment,…
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New Blog for the LITA Distance Learning Interest Group
The LITA Distance Learning Interest Group has a new blog at http://dlig.wordpress.com/ It’s brand new and quite empty at the moment, but plug in that RSS feed and wait for content to arrive 🙂
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Buy O’Reilly Books by the Chapter
Yesterday Tim O’Reilly posted about a new option for O’Reilly books – buy them by the chapter for $3.99 each! Keeping in mind that many of O’Reilly’s offerings are techie references, this might just work well for them. Personally, $3.99 is a little steep for me to consider it, but personally, I don’t buy songs…
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Conference: m-libraries Information on the move..
This is way beyond what we’re currently playing with at the U of C, but there’s a conference coming up in November in the UK that “aims to explore and share work carried out in libraries around the world to deliver services and resources to users ‘on the move,’ via a growing plethora of mobile…
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The Ultimate RSS Toolbox – 120+ RSS Resources
Mashable has just posted The Ultimate RSS Toolbox – 120+ RSS Resources which provides briefly annotated links to tools in the following categories: RSS Readers for Windows, Mac, Linux, Web, Cross-platform, and Mobile, RSS to email converters, Feed validators, Browser plugins, RSS Managers, Feed mixers, Ping tools, Feed Directories, Tips and Hacks, and Miscellaneous. Impressive! …
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Lat/Long Bookmarklet for Google Maps
Not your typical distance education-related posting, except you might want to know where your students are – yeah, that’s the connection! 😉 Last week my family started geocaching – great fun and I highly recommend it if you don’t live deep in a big city. Even then it can be done, but it’s different. Anyhoo,…
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CFP: The Journal of Web Librarianship
Boy, Haworth does crank out the LibSci journals, doesn’t it? Just received a call for papers for a new title, Journal of Web Librarianship. The Journal of Web Librarianship is a vital journal perfect for Web librarians, digital services librarians, electronic resources librarians, and researchers who see an application for Web librarianship to their own…
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Room Change: LITA Distance Learning Interest Group meeting at ALA
FYI, from Karen Wetzel, co-chair of the group, this is the updated room information for this meeting – the information in the printed guide is incorrect: What: LITA Distance Learning Interest Group MeetingWhere: Renaissance Washington – Room 2When: Saturday, June 23rd, 10:30 a.m. – 12 noon These meetings have been fairly informal in the past,…
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Web-based IM – More than just Meebo
Meebo certainly seems to be the weapon of choice, at least amongst libraries, but did you realize there are other web-based IM options out there? Robin Good provides details on a cool dozen in his post, Web-Based Instant Messengers: A Mini-Guide. Don’t want to Meebo, why not Snimmer or Mabber? (the names aren’t all that…