Category: Ideas
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What does a distance MLIS really cost?
A couple of months ago when Walt Crawford put out his Great Middle list of library blogs, I picked a few to watch in a separate folder before fully committing. One of the ones that graduated to my “real” subscription list is OPL Plus, the blog for librarians in one-person libraries, written by Judith Siess. …
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What would you like to know about screencasting?
As I wrap up my final prep for next week’s SirsiDynix Institute, an Introduction to Screencasting, I thought I’d check to see what you thought I should be including. Either because you’re going to attend and want to learn, or if there’s something you think I should be sure to cover, will you let me…
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CFP: What is the role of distance education in the implementation of the right to education?
This might be an interesting idea for some of you: The Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, in collaboration with 5 international journals, is launching a call for research and “effective practices” papers to be published in 2008 concerning distance education and the right to education (in particular reference to article 26 of the Universal Declaration…
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Book sales get a lift from Google scan plan
Hmm, looks like I was right (me and every other sane person); publishers are starting to admit that the books that are available through Google Book Search and Amazon’s Search Inside program are <gasp!> actually selling more copies! Some quotes from the Reuters piece: ""Google Book Search has helped us turn searchers into consumers," said…
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Just what am I looking at?
I have been increasingly interested in how flat the world of research literature seems to appear to the average undergraduate student. I say "seems to appear" because I haven’t actually talked to any students about this, so it’s really just a wild theory. Here goes. I think students who have only researched through their computer…
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Collaborative Screencasts and Blog Recommendation
I’ve got an undersung blog to recommend to you: Brain_blog from the Library at Mohawk College in Hamilton, Ontario. The librarians there are using this blog more as a newsletter, and only publish to it once per month, with a single lengthy post, and that’s why it’s probably not as well-known as it should be. …
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Linking to chat services in the catalogue
Stephen Francoeur at Digital Reference has an intriguing post about how the New Jersey Instititute of Technology has a feature in their catalogue where a search result that ends in no hits provides a link to the school’s virtual reference service. That’s a great idea! I’ve already told our Catalogue Wrangler how lucky he is…
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Camtasia studio on the Mac?
Techsmith is trying to justify developing a version of Camtasia Studio for the Mac. As you know, this is something I’d love to see, and I’ve been contacted by other librarians looking for this to happen as well. Troy Stein, product manager for Camtasia Studio, has a survey up at http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?p=WEB225KKUB3JMP – if you’re a…
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Why D’Arcy Norman is a minor deity – reason #27 (Screencasting on the Mac)
D’Arcy Norman works in the Teaching and Learning Centre here at the University of Calgary, and has helped me with at least 26 projects or ideas prior to this, but I just wanted to share the latest with you. As you know, I’ve been looking for a tool that will produce screencasts on the Mac…