The Distant Librarian

Author: Paul R. Pival

  • RSS Tutorials for Law Librarians

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    Jason Eiseman has a series of three really comprehensive screencasts explaining how Law Librarians can use RSS.  Really though, anyone can learn from these; it’s just that the examples he uses are of interest to law librarians.  Looks like these were done about 8 months ago, with PubSub (now defunct) appearing prominently in Part 3,…

  • Librarian Elevator Pitch

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    Late last month, David Warlick asked his readers how they would respond in one minute if they were asked why librarians are still relevant in schools.  David’s not a librarian, so many of the comments came from folks who aren’t librarians either, which offers a bit of refreshing air to the conversation.  There are currently…

  • EDUCAUSE 2006 recording of The Embedded Librarian Program

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    Last November I noted an article in Educause Quarterly that described the Embedded Librarian program at the Community College of Vermont.  If you didn’t get a chance to read that, maybe you have the time to listen to a recording of one of the authors at EDUCAUSE 2006.  The recording is 34 minutes long, and…

  • $19.1 million for new Canadian desktop access

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    Yesterday “the Canada Foundation for Innovation announced a $19.1 million investment to support the development of a new infrastructure for social sciences and humanities research.  The funds were awarded to the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) — a consortium of Canadian universities that provides its members with desktop access to a wide range of research…

  • Research behind the news

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    The Auraria Library (CU Denver) Research Behind the News weblog was mentioned the other day on Web4Lib; what a great idea!  I usually read the paper during breakfast and at least once a week read the AP sanitized version of some breaking research and wonder about the full paper.  In fact that’s where I originally…

  • One of these things is not like the others

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    SDI Originally uploaded by ppival. So I get an alert from Ingenta whenever they’ve got new content that matches the string distance and librar* – you may be interested to know that the proceedings from last year’s OffCamp conference have now all been republished in the Journal of Library Administration (as per this screen shot).…

  • Show off Vista with a Library example

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    I’m not planning on installing Vista anytime soon, but if you happen to have access to a new Vista machine you should take a look at the updated version of British Library Turning The Pages. The application developer, Tim Sneath, makes it sound like a pretty nice thing to behold!  (btw, the WPF mentioned by…

  • How to export citations from Google Scholar

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    Speaking of remembering to cite your sources, there’s actually some useful content at the Google Librarian Central Blog!  Ben Bunnell, Library Partnerships Manager, has a post about how to make sure you see the option to export citations from Google Scholar (not a new feature, but new to me).  Also interesting to me is that…

  • I have to go to the Euphamism

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    My colleague Margy keeps a blog for students in a Journalism class she teaches, and just posted about a piece in The Globe and Mail about an author who got nailed for plagiarism, though the admission is only that his book contains “elements [that] . . . closely resemble or are indistinguishable from passages”…  I…

  • OOF! POW!!! Captain Copyright is dead!

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    Via Michael Geist’s blog, Captain Copyright is no more.  Back in August 2006, just before the CC site was taken down, the Canadian Library Association had “insisted” upon this action.  On the former lair of The Captain one will now find the following lament, “We truly hope that there will come a time when the…