Category: Document Delivery
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Harvard Business School Publishing not allowing UK libraries to build PURLs in EBSCO – are we next?
Just read a couple of deeply troubling posts at Libreaction and the library staff blog at the University of Lincoln in which librarians are crying foul over what appear to be mafia tactics by Harvard Business School Publishing. According to the Libreaction post: For a few years now HBSP have been requesting payments of as…
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Many libraries are lending Kindles
While we wait to see if BYU will reinstate their Kindle lending program, take a look at the list of libraries that are still lending them put together by iReaderreview. I's not just a list; there's a fair bit of supporting content in the post. Kindle, Libraries
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BYU suspends Kindle program over legal concerns
Sometimes it’s a problem pushing the envelope – seems that the BYU Library initiative to use Kindles instead of getting books via ILL has been suspended after “some buzz on library-related blogs for breaking ground in the uncertain area of lending books on the Kindle.” “We are playing it safe,” Layton said. “Two people here…
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Citations your way – beta test SiteCite
Andrew Pasterfield, one of our library programmers, has built a tool for himself that you might also find useful. Site Cite allows you to bookmark websites with a URL of your choosing, so you can recite it to another person w/o having to look it up. As long as you can remember the URL of…
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Reviews and comparisons of ebook readers – Link Dump
All this week I've noticed a large number of other bloggers posting their thoughts on various things related to ebooks; Kindle for the iPhone, other iPhone readers, dedicated ebook readers, etc. Here's the list that I've got: Further thoughts on the Kindle iPhone experience "As the market opens up, more choices will appear. That's all…
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Second thoughts on Shortcovers
Yesterday I blogged about the new Shortcovers service. Last night I read a short story and have the following observations. I like how I can browse the website from my desktop, bookmark titles, and then have them appear on my iPhone for reading. (I can also, of course, browse and bookmark from the iPhone). I…
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Followup on New Media into Old
Last week I mentioned a couple of interviews that had tweaked my interest in a solution for automatically creating a printed "newspaper" of individual blog postings that I wanted to devote more time to. Clint Lalonde left a comment suggesting FeedJournal, so I went to take a peek, and it's almost perfect for what I…
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New media into old
I just finished listening to episode 64 of CBC’s Spark, and it began with a couple of really interesting interviews with people who are turning new media into old (ie. newspapers or magazines). Ben Terret and his friend Russell collected their favourite blog posts from 2008 and arranged to have them printed on actual newsprint…
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Read my feed for free (on the Kindle)
And more Kindle news. Earlier this month I found out my blog was available for purchase via the Kindle store. MakeUseOf.com has a post about how you can subscribe to RSS feeds on the Kindle for free using Kindlefeeder.com. Act fast though, as the following notice appears on the kindlefeeder home page: Someone has brought…