Category: Electronic Reference
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More from Educause – Changing a Cultural Icon: The Academic Library as a Virtual Destination
As I was browsing around the Educause site looking for something for the previous post, I tripped across this Jan/Feb 2006 Educase Review article titled: Changing a Cultural Icon: The Academic Library as a Virtual Destination. Here’s the abstract: Deep into the digital age, academic libraries have relinquished much of their fundamental and sustaining role.…
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Handout from Internet Librarian 2005
I’m doing some work updating files etc and ran across the handout Sherri and I made for Internet Librarian 2005. There’s nothing you haven’t seen in here, but it is all in one spot and attractively presented :-). Web Tools for 21st-Century Learners (PDF – 3 pages)
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The state of co-browsing
Caleb at the Oregon Libraries Information Network blog has a lengthy post on the state of co-browsing and virtual reference. In large part, it’s a response to Sarah’s post on the Librarian In Black about what she heard at the most recent Virtual Reference Desk conference. Some difference in opinions here, and both posts are…
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7 Things You Should Know About Instant Messaging
A nice, concise, 2-page PDF from EDUCAUSE that summarizes what educators need to know about Instant Messaging. Nothing new here for those of you following the topic, but it’s a nice presentation from an authoritative source.
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Annals of Cool Library Innovations
While Peter is a pretty technologically advanced guy, he’s not a librarian, so it’s really nice when someone like him appreciates minor innovations: Annals of Cool Library Innovations.
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Wavago for IM
Wavago has been mentioned on a few other blogs, but I finally got a chance to try it this AM. The interface was a little confusing to me at first, but hey, it was the first time I looked at it so I suspect I’ll get used to it. I wanted to try it as…
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Instant Messaging: IM Online! RU? – EDUCAUSE REVIEW | November/December 2005, Volume 40, Number 6
Coming back from Internet Librarian I have finally swallowed the red IM pill and will be offering this service for my distance students. That sounds so nice of me 😉 I’m not "offering it", I’m finally starting to pay attention to the statistics and will likely join my students in this space, coming up from…
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New article on collaborative digital reference service
Stephen at the Digital Reference blog writes about a New article on collaborative digital reference service There’s an insightful article in the latest issue of College and Research Libraries (Vol. 66, No. 5) detailing the experiences of the libraries at the University of Illinois at Chicago with their digital reference services. Titled "Quantifying Cooperation: Collaborative…
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Next version of JYBE
Sarah reports there’s a new version of JYBE on the horizon: LibrarianInBlack: JYBE in all its rosy goodness. Lots of added features, and for the first time, a pricetag. Well, we don’t know what the pricetag will be exactly, but for the library version there will be one. Good idea to add customized toolbar options…
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Google Talk
I’m away on vacation now with only a Mac at my disposal so haven’t had a chance to try this, but Google has just announced an Instant Messaging solution called Google Talk – it requires a download. From the site: They say talk is cheap. Google thinks it should be free. Google Talk enables you…