The Distant Librarian

Author: Paul R. Pival

  • 7 Things You Should Know About E-Books

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    The latest entry in the excellent EDUCAUSE series is the 2-page 7 Things You Should Know About E-Books.  On a related note, I have had the Califa E-books, E-audio and other E-content website open in a Firefox tab for about three weeks now, but have not yet spent the time to go through it. Technorati…

  • Me Day (publications and presentations)

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    A couple of self-referential links for you today. 1) The screencast of my SirsiDynix Institute presentation on Screencasting is now available online.  Seems to work best with IE, as it’s being shown with an embedded Windows Media player (not Flash, as I recommend in my presentation 😉  If you’re using Firefox, may I recommend the…

  • Talking with Talis – changing library buildings

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    I’ve only listened to the first 15 minutes or so of this Talking with Talis recording, but was pleased that within the first 10 minutes they were talking extensively about distance education and how different the social requirements are for distance graduate students than they are for traditional undergraduates, who look to the library as…

  • Global Librarian

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    Rachel at The Liminal Librarian posts about a craigslist Bangalore ad for a telecommuting “highly proficient and experienced researcher.”  A while back I thought about applying for a job exchange program in India, and wondered, if I wanted to, would I be able to support my U of C distance students from there?  I figured…

  • Rothman’s RSS to Web Page examples

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    Wow, I’ve played with these types of tools for a couple of years now, but I tend to stick with what works for me, and thus haven’t even heard of about half of these, but David Rothman put together a nice page showing default output for nine different tools that allow RSS to be output…

  • Wii can screencast!

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    I guess I was a good boy last year, as my wife was able to score me a Wii for Xmas!  The Wii includes an internet browser (based on Opera), and of course as a library geek I just had to see what it was capable of.  Viewing Screencasts?  Check!  Accessing databases via EZProxy?  Check! …

  • Canadian libraries are doing just fine in the digital age

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    Nice article from the Globe and Mail about public libraries in Canada: Libraries turn page to thrive in digital age.  Basically it talks about how libraries are changing to keep up with different demands; offering services to teens (including the obligatory DDR night), spending more of their budgets on electronic resources.  Nothing we librarians don’t…

  • Survey: Blogs in Academic Libraries

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    Shelly Drumm (and colleagues) writes: We are exploring the uses of blogs in academic libraries. If you have experience with blogs as a means of communicating with your patrons, we would welcome your input in a brief survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=773202839763 The best part is that after completing the survey you can see how the other respondents…

  • Blended Learning: Research Perspectives

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    Not a whole lot there right now, but Sloan-C (a consortium of institutions and organizations committed to quality online education) has a site dedicated to Blended Learning called, appropriately enough, Blended Learning: Research Perspectives.  “Sloan-C will be using this web site to collect and share resources for educators and administrators involved with blended and hybrid…

  • Publish far afield

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    A Library Writer’s Blog points to a call for papers for a special issue of the Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education: Web 2.0 and Social Software in Distance Education.  Submissions must be in English… Technorati Tags: Distance_Education, Libraries