Category: Ideas
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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…
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oskope.com – a potental catalogue interface?
Just learned about the oSkope visual search engine, currently searching Amazon, eBay, Flickr and Youtube. Kind of fun to play with – here’s a quick screencast. Would a display like this make it more "fun" to use the library catalogue? Technorati Tags: oskope
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CafeScribe – online textbooks
Not very much content there yet, mostly law titles, but CafeScribe seems to be somewhat like ebrary for textbooks – you can search, highlight and take notes in the volumes you purchase. Found via Mashable.
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2007 Survey of the Biblioblogosphere
Meredith Farkas is repeating the survey she did a couple of years ago to try and get another snapshot of the Biblioblogosphere. If you’re involved in the library world and are a blogger, please consider taking her survey. I just finished it and have a couple of suggestions for clarification in the next iteration 🙂 …
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Self-destructing email
BigString Originally uploaded by ppival Saw this post at Ars Technica describing a service called BigString that allows one to send self-destructing email. They do it by sending an image of whatever text you type, and then depending on the parameters you set, make that image (still actually hosted at BigString) expire after…
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Worldcat Meets Wikipedia: Open Library
I haven’t been paying much attention to the announcement early this week about the new demo of Open Library, but I finally found myself on the site of the Disruptive Library Technology Jester, Peter Murray, and he’s got a 12-minute screencast of how the thing works. In a nutshell, to me it seems like Worldcat…
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Technology Readiness
Stephen Bell at ACRLog posts about data from a survey of technology readiness that may help explain why you feel overwhelmed by all this new stuff there is to play with, but also why your more experienced colleagues are even less likely to want to play with it. Interesting stuff.