Category: Ideas
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Guidelines for Distance Learning Library Services wiki
Rob Morrison writes to the OFFCAMP Listserv that the process of re-examining the current Guidelines for Distance Learning Library Services (ACRL) is now being managed through a wiki, which can be accessed at http://dls.schtuff.com/guidelines_for_distance_learning_library_services. But it’s not an entirely open wiki: Editing rights are currently limited to members of the DLS Guidelines Committee. To make…
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To whom do you teach?
Meredith Farkas is a newish distance education librarian, and has just posted a very good essay in which she comes to the conclusion that before she markets library resources to her students, she needs to market very heavily to faculty. Without faculty buy-in the students aren’t going to use the library no matter how good…
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Rex Libris #4
Rex Libris #4 appears to be out, as evidenced (is that a word?) by this scan of an order sheet for 20 librarian action figures! (“Each set of these fantastically detailed 54mm figures is cast in pure solid plastic… They carry books scaled accurately to edition size, and have inscribed titles such as ‘Being and…
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7 things you should know about Screencasting
The latest addition to the Educause “7 things you should know…” series is about Screencasting. The 7 questions answered are What is it? Who’s doing it? How does it work? Why is it significant? What are the downsides? Where is it going? and What are the implications for teaching and learning? To answer the question…
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Webcasting Pointers
David King has posted his tips for successful webcasting based on two recent online presentations he gave. DE Librarians are likely to find themselves using tools like Elluminate or who knows what else to deliver instruction in the same environment, and taking a look at these tips before you go online can only improve your…
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What Do Distance Education Faculty Want from the Library?
This was the last presentation of the conference, and was delivered by Samantha Schmehl Hines of the University of Montana-Missoula to a packed room. In preparation for launching a survey for faculty at her own institution, Samantha looked at 13 surveys of what faculty members wanted from the library (all listed in her bibliography). The…
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What’s in it for me?
A little rant based on a couple of the presentations I’ve seen here in Savannah. This mirrors several of the wrap-up posts I saw after Computers in Libraries earlier this spring. I come to conferences first and foremost to get new ideas for services I can implement back home. I want to be able to…
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Off Campus Library Services Conference Keynote – Marshall Keys
Last night the keynote was delivered by Marshall Keys, and was titled Lost in Translation: what today’s trends show about tomorrow’s libraries. As I mentioned briefly in a previous post, this turned out to be pretty much the same talk Stephen Abrams gives on Millennials and what they mean to our future, but it was…
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Online Research Toolkit presentation
I’m just now finally getting around to looking at some of the presentations from last week’s Library & Information Resources track of HigherEdBlogCon. Great idea in theory, but I’m still finding it difficult to set aside the time to give the presentations the full attention they deserve. One presentation I did spend some time with…
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50 Ways to Take Notes
I’ve mentioned Writely before, and while it’s not exclusively a tool to support distance learners, it’s damn useful and something you and your students should at least be aware of. Well I just learned about 49 similar tools! Fifty Ways to Take Notes is an annotated list of Web 2.0 tools that allow you to…