Category: Ideas
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Screencastvertising
A colleague working on the ANTS project pointed me to the slick introduction to the Encyclopedia of Life on their homepage. It’s mostly a screencast, but in addition to being informational, it’s also inspirational. They don’t intend to show step by step how to use their site, but they do show off some of the…
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The Commercial Librarian
I have an interesting conundrum on this, the third anniversary of the birth of this blog. For the first and second times ever, this past week I have received inquiries about placing advertisements on specific posts on my blog. The ads would be for products or websites that relate to posts I already made that…
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Wanna be a beta tester for Adobe Captivate 3?
No promises, but if you can fill out their 25-question survey by Thursday May 3rd (hopefully the end of the day) you’ve got a chance at being a beta tester for Adobe’s Screencasting product. Technorati Tags: Adobe, Captivate, Screencasting
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The Ultimate Distance Librarian Position
Next space tourist dreams of library. Thanks for the tip, Adriana. Technorati Tags: Spaaaaaaaace
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HardPlay – Game-based Learning for Information Seekers
Hot on the heels of the McMaster announcement about the appointment of their Immersive Learning (Gaming) Librarian comes word from two of my U of C colleagues about a related research project. Jerremie Clyde and Chris Thomas are putting together a website called HardPlay to document a study that "seeks to examine the potential of…
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LiB on how to talk to IT about Instant Messaging (IM) and security issues
Sarah at Librarian in Black has a good post that will help you arm yourself against IT folk who claim allowing IM in a library is too dangerous. Sarah’s had a lot of experience in this area, and provides links to the two articles security people always seem to quote, along with links to three…
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ACRL’s top ten assumptions for the future
At their recent annual meeting, the ACRL Research Committee released a list of their top ten assumptions for the future of academic and research libraries. Coming in at #8: "Distance Learning will be an increasingly common option in higher education, and will co-exist but not threaten the traditional bricks-and-mortar model." If you visit that link…
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Co-Browsing Tools And Technology: A Mini-Guide
Ahhh, how time flies. It was just about two years ago that my fellow bibliobloggers and I were agog over the co-browsing potential shown by a product called Jybe. Just visited their website and it’s all gone – hope the developers have moved on to other good things – they seemed like good guys. Anyhoo,…