Author: Paul R. Pival
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They blog from the Land Down Under…
The nominees for the 2006 Edublog awards have now been announced; voting closes on Saturday, December 16th, so look quick! (it’s not entirely clear to me, but I think you pop an email to 2006awards@gmail.com with your vote(s)). Of the 5 nominees for Best Library/Librarian Blog, 3 are from Australia, one (bookseller) from Switzerland, and…
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Tim says Book Search Should Work Like Web Search
Tim O’Reilly, long a proponent of Google Book Search, has a post in which he laments the fact that books housed in the different book scanning projects (Google Books, OCA, Amazon Search Inside) are not searchable by search engines other than those provided by their hosts. Surely it will only be a matter of time…
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The greatest digital library Canada has ever seen!
This is a scan of a thank-you ad that appeared in this past weekend’s local paper. On Friday, December 8, it was announced that Don and Ruth Taylor had donated $25 million to what was until then known as the Campus Calgary Digital Library, and is now known as the Taylor Family Digital Library. …
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Idea for Screencasting on YouTube
Well I couldn’t get it to work in the 2 minutes I had left at the end of the day to play with it, but YouTube now allows you to record yourself from within YouTube, using your own webcam. So what’s the next obvious choice? Allow you to record your own desktop directly to YouTube! …
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Your own personal repository
So you say you work at a smaller academic institution without an institutional repository, or even in a non-academic setting? But you still publish work related to Library and Information Science? Have I got a site for you! I know I’m not the first to find it, but I haven’t seen it mentioned as much…
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Get paid $100/hour to search Google
Wow, that really sounds like spam, doesn’t it! Hope I don’t end up on blacklists for anyone receiving my posts via email… Anyhoo, I don’t know how to land such a choice gig, but Jon Udell has an interesting post about what goes on in his mind as he works through internet searches that are…
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Citation Managers Galore
We have the web-based RefWorks here at the U of C, and are in the middle of a big marketing campaign for it. It’s pretty slick, but if you don’t have it at your school (or, gasp! don’t go to school), what are you to do? Lorcan Dempsy points to a long list of suggestions…
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ProQuest – Scholarly Journals, Trade Publications, and Popular Magazines
This is certainly not a new resource, but it’s one I keep misplacing, so I’m sticking it here where I know I’ll be able to find it again 🙂 It’s a two-page PDF chart that addresses the following criteria in helping students determine if a journal is scholarly or not: Appearance, Content, and Publising (with…
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Using interactive technology to teach info lit concepts to undergrads
That’s a shortened version of an article title I just finished: Armstrong, A. & Georgas, H. (2006). Using Interactive technology to teach information literacy concepts to undergraduates. Reference Services Review, Vol. 34(4) pp. 491-497. Just a short article describing how they put together a flash tutorial to teach some basic boolean concepts (specifically, AND), and…