Category: Electronic Reference
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Ask.com lays off 40 – to refocus on librarians
I couldn’t resist the headline when I saw that as part of the layoffs they were going to refocus on “providing answers to its core audience of women searching on… reference topics”. 😉 Stephen Abram has a good number of links on this shakeup. Technorati Tags: Ask.com, restructuring
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Running Meebo as an application (no web browser needed!)
OK gang, the biggest strength of Meebo, that it’s web-based, has also been the biggest strike against it. For those of us who are using it as a service, it’s a bit of a pain to remember to fire it up, and to have the web browser open. Accidentally shut down the page or have…
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How to embed a MeeboMe widget on a Mac desktop
Yesterday I posted a screencast about how to embed a MeeboMe widget right on the desktop using ActiveDesktop. While surfing around to see who else had made use of this, I found a link to a Flickr page from late 2005 where someone was using ActiveDesktop to show their Meebo account, and in the comments…
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How to embed a MeeboMe widget on your desktop
Hey, I’m excited about this one! At a meeting yesterday we were considering additional places we could stick our MeeboMe widget (you may recall we’ve had it embedded in our catalogue since the beginning of October, 2007). Someone wondered if we could embed it on the desktop, and I recalled that Microsoft has something called…
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Survey of Library Services for Distance Learning Students
Posted to the Web4Lib mailing group: Primary Research Group (http://www.primaryreserch.com/) is planning to publish a survey of college libraries that provide library services to distance learning students. This survey is open to accredited colleges from all countries. Participants receive a free PDF copy of the estimated 100-page report. Data is broken out by type and…
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Hab.la – when procrastination is a good thing
Just before I went on vacation in the middle of December, Dan Sich at the U of Waterloo really hit his stride in experimenting with Hab.la as an alternative to MeeboMe widgets. When I returned from vacation I let his posts sit until I made the time to digest them, and today noticed this update:…
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Evaluating Remote Reference Service: A Practical Guide to Problems and Solutions
From the most recent issue of portal: Libraries and the Academy (Volume 8, Number 1, January 2008): Pomerantz, Jeffrey. Mon, Lorri M. McClure, Charles R. Evaluating Remote Reference Service: A Practical Guide to Problems and Solutions[Access article in HTML] [Access article in PDF] Subject Headings: Electronic reference services (Libraries) — United States — Evaluation. Academic…
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You think you’ve got it rough?
Going the Extra Mile: Supporting Distance Education at University of Alaska Fairbanks, Suzan Hahn, Lisa Lehman, Rheba Dupras Abstract:The Elmer E. Rasmuson Library at the University of Alaska Fairbanks has a long history of supporting distance education through state-of-the-art, remote access services. Harsh climate conditions (heavy snowfall and icing, high winds, and extreme temperatures), rugged…
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Zero-Install Remote Screen Sharing Apps?
Scott Leslie at edtechpost is seeking a zero-install remote screen sharing application – something that would allow him to see his patron’s screen w/o the patron having to download an application. I think Yugma might do the trick, do any of you have actual experience with Yugma, or with any application that would fit the…
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Instantbird – New Open Source Cross Platform IM client
Learned from Tom Boone at Library Laws that there’s a new cross-platform IM client out called InstantBird, “based on Mozilla technologies and Pidgin”. And it’s open source. It’s pretty spartan right now being on its first release, but worked right out of the box for me. Just enter your account details in the account wizard,…