Category: Books
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A few thoughts in favour of the Google Books project
Charles Edward Smith has a brief piece in Educause Quarterly in which he points out why he thinks Google Books Search is a good thing. A curious amount of unease surrounds Google’s initiative to scan thousands of books in major research libraries and make them available online. Although I understand the concerns, I don’t entirely…
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Innovation in a book about Innovation
OK, I’m sure it’s not really an innovation, but it was the first time I’d ever seen it, and it makes so much sense! I just finished reading The myths of Innovation, by Scott Berkun, and instead of offering the standard semi-useful bibliography, at the end of this book he provides a ranked bibliography. The…
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Library 2.0 Initiatives in Academic Libraries and wiki
Just learned that the new ACRL book Library 2.0 Initiatives in Academic Libraries has an accompanying wiki. And of course Meredith has a website where she constantly refreshes links for her book, Social Software in Libraries. Neat ways to keep traditional print current!
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Information Literacy Programs in the Digital Age: Educating College and University Students Online
A new book from ACRL: Information Literacy Programs in the Digital Age: Educating College and University Students Online. Information Literacy Programs in the Digital Age: Educating College and University Students Online describes significant and innovative online instruction programs in a straightforward, narrative way, focusing on the development, implementation, and assessment of each institution’s online information…
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Librarian Chick Free eBooks Wiki
Stacy Reed of Librarian Chick has a pretty nice list of free e- and audio book sites on her wiki, which is dedicated to free online resources for educators – lots of other good stuff here too. Technorati Tags: ebooks, wikis
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Recommended Book for Canadians
I suppose some from other countries might be interested as well, but Laura Murray’s book, Canadian copyright, a citizen’s guide, is about to or has just been released. No reviews yet, but I’ve followed her writing at faircopyright.ca (now a blog with an RSS feed – yay!) for some time and am really looking forward…
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Two interesting developments from ProQuest re: Dissertations
A colleague passed along the following links you may also find of interest: ProQuest CSA has arranged with Google and Google Scholar to allow indexing and searching across bibliographic data for graduate works published in 2005 and forward. PQDT Open is an online repository of dissertations and theses published on an open access basis. The…
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Sept PRIMO Site of the Month: Citing Your Sources: APA and MLA Citation Styles
Noticed a really nice Flash tutorial from Eastern Washington University was chosen as the September 2007 PRIMO Site of the Month – Citing Your Sources: APA and MLA Citation Styles. After learning about citation styles, users have the chance to click and drag various parts of the citation into the correct order, and then check…
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CafeScribe – online textbooks
Not very much content there yet, mostly law titles, but CafeScribe seems to be somewhat like ebrary for textbooks – you can search, highlight and take notes in the volumes you purchase. Found via Mashable.
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Worldcat Meets Wikipedia: Open Library
I haven’t been paying much attention to the announcement early this week about the new demo of Open Library, but I finally found myself on the site of the Disruptive Library Technology Jester, Peter Murray, and he’s got a 12-minute screencast of how the thing works. In a nutshell, to me it seems like Worldcat…