Category: Document Delivery
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DocDel Forms for Distance Students…
At the end of last week I was looking at the March statistics for Library Connection (our department offering service to distance students) and puzzling over the continued drop in number of items requested. Calendar year 2004 saw a drop in the number of items requested for the first time in the history of the…
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O’Reilly and Safari Books Online Launch SafariU
I had heard about SafariU earlier this week while listening to an IT Conversations Podcast and remember thinking, "what’s the big deal?" I figured you could probably just build permanent links to various chapters in the Safari Tech Books online database, so why pay to do the same thing through another interface? As always, when…
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Google’s Library Up and Running
Sure enough! For fun, here’s the only result for a book search on "distance education librarian"… Seems to me I should be able to whip up a bookmarklet to search just Google Print – I’ll see if I have time to play with that later today… Slashdot | Google’s Library Up and Running Anonymous Patron…
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Using RSS Enclosures for document delivery?
Heyyyyyy, here’s a post that takes a little bit of info about the Podcasts I’ve mentioned from time to time, and points out that enclosures (the bit of RSS that makes podcasts truly a new thing) can be used to deliver more than just mp3 files: Weblogg-ed – Using RSS Enclosures in Schools. So why…
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Call for contributors – Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning
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Hello reader! (I’m kidding, I know there are at least three of you out there!) I’m looking for your help. I recently agreed to assume the editorship of the eServices in Libraries column for the Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning, and I’m looking for contributors for the column. I have several…
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Getting closer to linking into Digital Dissertations
New category added for my blog today: Linking. One of the things I use this blog for is as a reference tool, a place to keep annotated bookmarks. As a new semester begins I’m asked by faculty to help them build persistent links to articles to insert into BlackBoard, and I can do the common…
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OCLC’s Data Visualization Pilot with Antarctica Systems Inc.
This is pretty neat. I’ve seen other pilots of Antarctica’s visual catalogue interface before, but this is the first one I’ve seen that attempts to lead you to an online version of the book in question. The interface is really fast, which I appreciate. Maybe that’s because this is a small test set of data? …
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ebrary Introduces Isaac; Launches Custom Collections; Announces Perpetual Access Model; Distributes Via Blackwell’s; Partners with BookSurge
My library doesn’t subscribe to ebrary, but this is certainly news of interest to those supporting distance education… ebrary Introduces Isaac; Launches Custom Collections; Announces Perpetual Access Model; Distributes Via Blackwell’s; Partners with BookSurge [via EContent: Breaking News]
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The Future of Books
I think Technology Review might be my new favorite publication. Just finished a short article called The Future of Books, by Jason Epstein, who "…worked in book publishing for more than 4o years. He was editorial director of Random House and founded Anchor Books, the New York Review of Books, the Library of America, and…
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Sending Large Attachments
The LibrarianInBlack posts a brief blurb about two digital dropbox services that you might find useful if you don’t have Prospero for document delivery. Of course here in Canada we’re not allowed to scan and drop articles anyway, but I’ve used YouSendIt for large files of other sorts. I suppose there may be some privacy…