The Distant Librarian

Author: Paul R. Pival

  • Two more screen sharing tools

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    I’ve had each of these on my "to-try" pile for a week and haven’t gotten around to it, but they each look promising and you might want to give them a go.  Both offer web-based cross-platform (Mac, Windows, Linux) compatibility.  Both appear to be free. LiveLook – http://www.livelook.net/ Easy as 1-2-3(1) Click "Show My Screen"…

  • 7 Things You Should Know About RSS

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    Another in a long line of shorties but goodies, Educause recently released 7 Things You Should Know About RSS. Useful for explaining how RSS is used especially in higher education, I learned about a new-to-me resource maintained by Peterson’s: College and University Feed Directory.  It has, amongst the other categories, links for Libraries – General,…

  • Cute Movie about Plagiarism

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    The Chronicle points to Rutgers University’s 4-part flash animated video explaining plagiarism.  It’s cute.  I only won 4 million guacamoles though! Technorati Tags: plagiarism

  • Blogger Perceptions on Digital Preservation

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    Researchers at UNC Chapel Hill are conducting a survey on blogger’s perceptions on digital preservation – specifically of blogs and their content and layout.  Took about 12 minutes for me to fill out the survey, and I found some of the questions quite interesting.  I think there’s a potential business opportunity here depending on how…

  • Comments restored

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    Just a quick note that there was a glitch preventing comments from being left on my Commercial Librarian post from last Friday – it’s been resolved.  Thanks for letting me know David!

  • Screencastvertising

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    A colleague working on the ANTS project pointed me to the slick introduction to the Encyclopedia of Life on their homepage.  It’s mostly a screencast, but in addition to being informational, it’s also inspirational.  They don’t intend to show step by step how to use their site, but they do show off some of the…

  • The Commercial Librarian

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    I have an interesting conundrum on this, the third anniversary of the birth of this blog.  For the first and second times ever, this past week I have received inquiries about placing advertisements on specific posts on my blog.  The ads would be for products or websites that relate to posts I already made that…

  • Blended Learning Guide for Libraries – Web Junction

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    From Rod Corbett’s EdTech Review, a link to a huge (45 page PDF) Web Junction report on Blended Learning, a guide for libraries. Here’s the TOC to whet your appetite: Table of Contents1 Introduction    Structure of this Guide    Defining Blended Learning    Advantages    Challenges    Making the Case for Blended Learning    Tips to Get Started    Designing    Implementation4…

  • Ex Libris e-book focus group

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    Via my library’s Collections and Acquisitions blog, Ex Libris announces an e-book focus group.  Follow the link for more information, but “the ultimate goal of this effort is to provide the academic and research library market a set of solutions to the challenges presented by e-books.” Technorati Tags: ebooks, Ex_Libris

  • Google Book Search: is it Good Enough?

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    Good post at the American Historical Association blog called Google Books: What’s Not to Like?  In it, a historian points out three big things not to like: Poor Scan Quality, Faulty Metadata, and Truncated Public Domain.  Well-supported with examples, it gets even more interesting in the comments where people point out that crappy though it…