Author: Paul R. Pival
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Alberta Distance Education & Training Association (ADETA) Newsletters
Yeah, I know you’re not in Alberta, but the resources discussed in the monthly ADETA newsletter will still be of interest to you if you have anything to do with distance education. The newsletters are published through Google Docs, and once you’re a member of ADETA (free) you can contribute to future newsletters via the…
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ACRL – Getting Started with Screencasting
ACRL is offering a 2-hour webcast on Thursday, April 26, 2:00 EDT: Getting Started with Screencasting. From the site: Webcast Description:This two hour session will explore screencasting—delivering screen captures via RSS—and its potential applications in the academic library. Participants will be provided with examples of screencasts, information on various software applications used to create screencasts,…
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Gaim renamed Pidgin
While more people seem to use Trillian, Gaim was a nice open-source alternative IM aggregator, and had the advantage of being able to incorporate Google Talk alongside AIM, MSN and Yahoo chat. Seems that after a long battle with AOL, Gaim has had to change its name to Pidgin. You can read about it at…
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ACRL’s top ten assumptions for the future
At their recent annual meeting, the ACRL Research Committee released a list of their top ten assumptions for the future of academic and research libraries. Coming in at #8: "Distance Learning will be an increasingly common option in higher education, and will co-exist but not threaten the traditional bricks-and-mortar model." If you visit that link…
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New York TimesSelect – Do Over! (may not be free for YOU!)
Following up on last month’s announcement that the New York TimesSelect service was opened up to all educational institutions, The Chronicle of Higher Education is now reporting that NYT is backtracking and now “says that Times Select archives will be available only to students of colleges that subscribe to database companies that carry Times content.” …
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CFP extended: Special Issue of Journal of Access Services
For a forthcoming double issue of the Journal of Access Services, a recent call for papers has been extended until May 15. The theme is Best Practices in Access Services, and the full details are as follows: The Journal of Access Services is currently accepting manuscripts for consideration of publication in a special issue on…
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Run Meebo in Firefox Sidebar
Lots of libraries seem to be using Meebo or MeeboMe to collect IM requests from multiple clients (AOL, MSN, Yahoo!, GTalk). Up until today I used Trillian to manage all my accounts. While Meebo works just fine, I didn’t like the fact that I had to have a web page open in order to see…
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Followup: A preliminary assessment of Google Scholar as a source of EAP students’ research materials
Just a quick followup to my Jan 25 post about this article – it’s now in print, though still nowhere to be seen in the U of T Institutional Repository 🙁 Helms-Park, R., Radia, P., & Stapleton, P. (2007). A preliminary assessment of Google Scholar as a source of EAP students’ research materials. The Internet…
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Co-Browsing Tools And Technology: A Mini-Guide
Ahhh, how time flies. It was just about two years ago that my fellow bibliobloggers and I were agog over the co-browsing potential shown by a product called Jybe. Just visited their website and it’s all gone – hope the developers have moved on to other good things – they seemed like good guys. Anyhoo,…