Category: Ideas
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Using Google Analytics to track screencast usage
Paul Betty of Regis University offered the following link on the OFFCAMP listserve earlier today. Using Google Analytics to track screencast usage. In his screencast he covers how to embed a javascript call in Adobe Captivate, Qarbon ViewletBuilder, and Camtasia Studio, which will then allow Google Analytics to track pretty much whatever you might want…
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The Second International m-Libraries Conference
Received via email: The Second International m-Libraries Conference Vancouver, 23-24 June 2009 Call for papers Following the successful First International Conference on M-Libraries in 2007 we are delighted to call for papers for the Second International Conference in Vancouver in 2009. For more information about the conference visit http://library.open.ac.uk/mLibraries The conference, will be hosted by…
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Cuecast.com – free online teleprompter
Betsy Weber on the Techsmith Visual Lounge Blog posts about Cueprompter.com, a website that allows you to type or paste in a whack of text, and then scrolls it back at you just as a teleprompter would. She suggests it would work well for screencasting, but I think that’s only true if you have a…
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Counterintuitive research on how online articles are cited.
The July 18 issue of Science has an interesting article titled Electronic Publication and the Narrowing of Science and Scholarship, by James A. Evans, a sociologist at the University of Chicago (Science 18 July 2008: Vol. 321. no. 5887, pp. 395 – 399 DOI: 10.1126/science.1150473). I’ve seen research or statistics (note to self – go…
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Gale’s new eCatalog
Received an email about Gale’s new eCatalog which I almost deleted, but then decided to take a look at. I thought they did a good job in the email selling it as a green alternative, but was curious to see how useful it’d prove. It’s actually pretty nifty – you can link to a specific…
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This one’s for Walt C. – Create PDFs from RSS feeds
As reported on Lifehacker, Feedbooks will create a nice PDF of an RSS feed. I found it a little convoluted once I signed up for an account, but figured out I needed to choose to create a newspaper, then click the RSS tab. I was then able to create a custom PDF with one of…
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Canadian Library Association Position Statement on Open Access for Canadian Libraries
My colleague Andrew Waller, co-convener (with Heather Morrison) of the CLA Open Access Task Force sent this out today: (from the CLA Website): Whereas connecting users with the information they need is one of the library’s most essential functions, and access to information is one of librarianship’s most cherished values, therefore CLA recommends that Canadian…
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Assessing the Future Landscape of Scholarly Communication
From TL Infobits, news of a draft report from UC Berkeley called Assessing the Future Landscape of Scholarly Communication: An In-depth Study of Faculty Needs and Ways of Meeting Them. (This is almost exactly the topic we asked candidates for a recent position here at the U of C to address!) Some of the questions…
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Wikitannica
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that the Encyclopaedia Britannica is “about to launch a new initiative” that will allow users to participate in the EB Wikipedia-style. From the press release, “A complete redesign, editing tools, and incentive programs will give expert contributors and users the means to take part in the further improvement of…
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People and adults…
This week's TWIT (This Week in Technology) podcast was a particularly good one for anyone interested in copyright and the PATRIOT act. Brewster Kahle kicked things off with a discussion of his fight against a National Security Letter that was served to the Internet Archive. According to Brewster there have been approximately 200,000 of these…