Category: Document Delivery
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Weapon of Mass Instruction
I used to have a sticker showing some books with the text "Weapons of Mass Instruction" on my laptop, but I think this example of a Weapon of Mass Instruction is better by far!
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EBSCO exclusive content
Last Saturday EBSCO held a luncheon at ALA in which they dropped several interesting bits of information. First, in all EBSCO products they'll be switching the default from date to relevancy ranking sometime in the Summer of 2010. You'll still be able to change this in the Admin interface, but something to be aware of. …
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Relais International announces the next generation resource sharing solution
This could prove interesting and useful for consortia that support distance students: Relais International announces D2D – Discovery to Delivery – the next generation resource sharing solution. From the writeup at Library Technology guides: D2D allows users to search across multiple catalogs and targets to find items held by their library and library partners. Targets…
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Dropbox – Random Tech Tip Thursday
I searched my archives and was surprised to learn I hadn't ever recommended Dropbox before. I was reminded when I received an email from them letting me know they had a new video from CommonCraft (the xxx in Plain English folks) explaining how it all works. In a nutshell, Dropbox is a cross-platform folder synchronization…
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Apparently people want scholarly articles
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports on a recently-published study that monitored a file-sharing site where almost 5,500 scholarly articles were traded over a 6-month period, “costing journals about $700,000 in that time, or about $1.4-million a year.” Interestingly, the study is freely available online from The Internet Journal of Medical Informatics. I call BS…
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Books of enduring scholarly value
I found a link to this video on the TeleRead blog. It's a 4:00 overview of how Cambridge University Press and Cambridge University Library are partnering to both bring back OOS press titles and to digitize library titles in a print-on-demand operation. Nothing we haven't seen before, but a nice look into how some are…
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Tune In September 2: The Google Book Scanning Project–Issues and Updates
Educause Live presents:Topic: The Google Book Scanning Project—Issues and UpdatesDate: September 2, 2009Time: 1:00 p.m. EDT (12:00 p.m. CDT, 11:00 a.m. MDT, 10:00 a.m. PDT). International participants: You may wish to visit this external time-conversion website to calculate the start time in your time zone.Duration: 1 hour For about five years, Google has been scanning…
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JISC Academic Database Assessment Tool (ADAT)
I recently learned through a colleague of this wonderful database comparison tool from JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) in the UK – the Academic Database Assessment Tool (ADAT). “This site from JISC Collections aims to help libraries to make informed decisions about future subscriptions to bibliographic and full text databases.” You can use it to…
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RenewBot vs Library Elf
Fight! (I looked, but couldn't find a picture of a robot fighting an elf) I just discovered RenewBot, which will automatically renew your library books X # of days before they come due, where X is set by you. First two months are free, then if you want to continue it'll cost $2.99 per year…
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RSS to PDF
Since February I've been happily using Tabbloid to receive PDFs of blog posts I want to read on paper (that's what you're getting if you view my shared posts in Google Reader – those are things I've tagged to be delivered to me by Tabbloid). I just ran across FiveFilters.org, which offers an open-source solution…