Category: Books
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Is Screencasting coming to SafariU?
I’m recommending another Jon Udell production to you; this time a 43-minute interview with CJ Rayhill of SafariU about their product, and technology in education in general. SafariU is an O’Reilly customized textbook product that allows profs to pick and choose content to create a customized copyright-cleared textbook for sale to students, and that also…
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Some thoughts on ‘Scan This Book’
Other people have dissected Kevin Kelley’s Scan This Book! article from the NYT much more effectively than I ever could, but I still wanted to jot down some random thoughts and quotes I lifted from the article. If you still haven’t read it, I think you should. Here are some of the quotes/figures I found…
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Browsing Library Collections: From the Shelf to the Online Catalog
I’ve recently been involved in some planning meetings for our new Campus Calgary Digital Library, and one idea that came up was whether we’d move older materials to storage, and someone mentioned how tough that makes it to browse and thus invite serendipity. I realized (not for the first time) that this is one of…
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Demand for E-books in an Academic Library – Ellen Safley, U of T at Dallas
My penultimate post from last week’s Off Campus Library Services Conference. Ellen Safley took us on a tour of her institution’s exploration of E-book usage. Apparently there will be four new ebook appliances on the market in 06/07: iRex Technologies (Philips Electronics) Jinke (China) Polymer Vision (Philips spin-off) Plastic Logic (UK) One or more of…
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Rex Libris #4
Rex Libris #4 appears to be out, as evidenced (is that a word?) by this scan of an order sheet for 20 librarian action figures! (“Each set of these fantastically detailed 54mm figures is cast in pure solid plastic… They carry books scaled accurately to edition size, and have inscribed titles such as ‘Being and…
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Australian Tome Raiders
See this article about a project to connect all Australian libraries and their collections of 40 million items on the internet will allow readers to find books, copy them or EVEN buy them from online stores. Technorati Tags: Libraries, Australia
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Learning without boundaries – Campus Calgary Digital Library
This press release was just sent to all staff at the U of Calgary (click for full size): I was trying to figure out if the marketing people created an entirely new planet for the model to gaze through, but then I figured out the camera is inside the globe – it’s just a different…
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Access Copyright And Creative Commons Canada Launch Public Domain Registry
As brought to my attention by colleagues here, here and here, Access Copyright (our version of the US Copyright Clearance Center) and Creative Commons Canada have announced a partnership to establish a public domain registry. They’re going to use MediaWiki to "create an online, globally searchable catalogue of published works that are in the Canadian…
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European Digital Library announced
Any readers in Europe should be pleased about the just announced European Digital Library: The European Commissions’ plan to promote digital access to Europe’s heritage is rapidly taking shape. At least six million books, documents and other cultural works will be made available to anyone with a Web connection through the European Digital Library over…
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What’s wrong with this picture?
I was doing some collection development this AM and noticed something a little odd on the cover of the following book: Integrating Print and Digital Resources in Library Collections. It’s actually two things wrong with the same part of the picture. First correct comment wins, um, well hey, how about a copy of the book! …