Category: Ideas
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EBSCO to deliver blog content
Sorry I couldn’t come up with anything more original than David Rothman’s original title, but that pretty much spells it out. What an interesting idea. David posts about a press release in which EBSCO and Newstex announce that EBSCO databases will begin delivering selected blog content alongside standard search results. Sure hope one can easily…
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She hearts ILL
LIS News points to a great piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education in which Professor Susanna Ashton tells the academic world how great ILL is in the US. In my limited experience, pretty much everything she says is true of ILL in Canada as well. A good read, and positive quotes from Michael Gorman…
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Mac Screencasting Tips
Still no perfect all-in-one package, but Miraz Jordan has a nice post with tips and tools for screencapture and screencasting on the Mac. Technorati Tags: Screencasting, OSX
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UNC Greensboro Information Literacy Game
This may be well-known in the InfoLit circles, but it was new to me. UNC Greensboro has a nifty little Information Literacy (board)Game you can play, and download for use at your institution! Go ahead and give it a try – it’ll only take a few minutes – think your students will go for it?…
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Interview with BookSwim
I mentioned BookSwim a couple of months ago. Being sold as Netflix for books, it’s still not available to the public, but Joe Wikert has a brief interview with co-founder George Burke that you might find interesting. Technorati Tags: Books, NetFlix
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A different name for Distance Librarian
Michael Stephens at Tame the Web points out an interesting job description at the Maricopa County Library: Virtual Branch Manager. After following the link in his post and reading a little more, I think this sounds a lot like what we DE folks do (though I don’t have all the techie skills).
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Pre-Publication Review Draft: Special Sloan-C/Eduventures Report: Blending in
Keith from the Sloan Consortium wrote to let me know they’ve posted a pre-pub draft of a report called Blending In: The Extent and Promise of Blended Education in the United States and they’re looking for feedback before making it a final report. It’s a 35-page PDF that attempts to answer the following questions,…
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Librarian Elevator Pitch
Late last month, David Warlick asked his readers how they would respond in one minute if they were asked why librarians are still relevant in schools. David’s not a librarian, so many of the comments came from folks who aren’t librarians either, which offers a bit of refreshing air to the conversation. There are currently…
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EDUCAUSE 2006 recording of The Embedded Librarian Program
Last November I noted an article in Educause Quarterly that described the Embedded Librarian program at the Community College of Vermont. If you didn’t get a chance to read that, maybe you have the time to listen to a recording of one of the authors at EDUCAUSE 2006. The recording is 34 minutes long, and…
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Research behind the news
The Auraria Library (CU Denver) Research Behind the News weblog was mentioned the other day on Web4Lib; what a great idea! I usually read the paper during breakfast and at least once a week read the AP sanitized version of some breaking research and wonder about the full paper. In fact that’s where I originally…