Category: Ideas
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Local blogging space for Calgary – CalgaryBlogs.net
D’Arcy Norman in our Teaching and Learning Centre appears to have had some spare time over the past couple days and has unleashed an altruistic project upon the citizens of Calgary – CalgaryBlogs.net. The front page of the site reads: CalgaryBlogs.net is a free weblog hosting service. There are no ads, and no subscription fees.…
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Latest versions of Word include built-in citation management
Haven’t yet laid eyes on the latest version of MS Word myself, but in reading a review of the upcoming MS Word 2008 for the Mac I noticed it will include built-in citation management tools. Went and checked and see that it’s already available in the Windows version. Interesting. Technorati Tags: OSX, Word, Citations
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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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Using Google SMS to find the way
You may recall that a week or two ago I had some trouble finding my way from the Monterey airport to the San Francisco airport. The woman at the car rental counter didn’t have any maps outside of Monterey, and couldn’t give me directions up to SFO. I don’t have a fancy phone, but the…
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Jon Udell on remixing the library
Abstract: In an online world of small pieces loosely joined, librarians are among the most well qualified and highly motivated joiners of those pieces. Library patrons, meanwhile, are in transition. Once mainly consumers of information, they are now, on the two-way web, becoming producers too. Can libraries function not only as centers of consumption, but…
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E-JASL: The Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship
I’ve had this one sitting in my to-read for too long – time to pass it on – E-JASL: The Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship v8 no2 includes a couple of interesting-sounding articles – Reaching Students with Facebook: Data and Best Practices and Reaching Out to Off-Campus Students via BlackboardTM: A Consortial Library’s…
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Meredith on Online learning and its impact on public libraries
Meredith Farkas has a lengthy post discussing the problems of distance education programs not supporting their students adequately, or possibly just not informing them of the resources available to them, and the burden those students sometimes place on their local public libraries. Some good comments starting to pile up already.
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Improving the SFX menu
David Walker at Cal State has a really compelling presentation on why they’ve modified their SFX menu to look the way it does. It’s a 20-minute Captivate presentation. If you look after SFX at your school, you really should give this a look. (thanks for the tip, Jennifer)
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Two interesting developments from ProQuest re: Dissertations
A colleague passed along the following links you may also find of interest: ProQuest CSA has arranged with Google and Google Scholar to allow indexing and searching across bibliographic data for graduate works published in 2005 and forward. PQDT Open is an online repository of dissertations and theses published on an open access basis. The…
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IM Reference launches at the U of Calgary
Yesterday we soft-launched our IM reference service here at the U of Calgary. We’re using Meebo to handle all our accounts, and also chose it for the ability to use the MeeboMe widgets. Back when I did my screencasting seminar for the SirsiDynix Institute, Sarah Houghton-Jan asked a question that really stuck with me; “can…