Category: Ideas
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Survey of Off-Campus Library Services
A month ago I noted the rebirth of the Canadian Library Association’s Services for Distance Learning Interest Group, and also noted that the new convener has a survey on what DE Librarians feel are the most important services to offer their patrons. At that time I found the survey wasn’t working correctly, but Laurie now…
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Microsoft Academic Search launches
Well it was supposed to launch yesterday, and I guess it did sometime late last night, but Microsoft’s Academic Search (beta!) is now live. I’m on vacation for the next week so really won’t have a chance to run through it until then, but you can get up to speed with Steven, Dean and Gary.
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Microsoft’s Academic Search
Maybe it’s just me, but the impending launch of Microsoft’s version of Google Scholar, Academic Search, seems to be slipping up without much notice in the blogosphere. They’ve mentioned it at Search Engine Watch, but apparently a week or so ago three of our colleagues were invited to Redmond to give the product a spin…
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The Myth about Student Competency – “Our Students Are Technologically Competent.”
Educause Review has a short editorial called The Myth about Student Competency – “Our Students Are Technologically Competent.” The article seems to bounce back and forth a little between what I would call technology literacy and information literacy, but the overall points are the same; that while students coming in to higher education today are…
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Australian Tome Raiders
See this article about a project to connect all Australian libraries and their collections of 40 million items on the internet will allow readers to find books, copy them or EVEN buy them from online stores. Technorati Tags: Libraries, Australia
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An Article on integrating library information into Course Management Systems
The most recent issue of Innovate, the Journal of Online Education, has an article by John Shank and Steven Bell called A_FLIP to Courseware: A Strategic Alliance for Improving Student Learning Outcomes (you’ll need to register with the site to be able to read it – it’s free). Basically this brief article discusses ways librarians…
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Intuitive Revelations: The Ubiquitous Reference Model
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How’s that for an ear-catching title? Brian Mathews at Georgia Tech is working on a really interesting project. OK, so we know some libraries have created pages in places where patrons hang out, like MySpace. I use a Pubsub feed to look for anyone who’s blogged about the University of Calgary, and on rare occasions…
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Learning without boundaries – Campus Calgary Digital Library
This press release was just sent to all staff at the U of Calgary (click for full size): I was trying to figure out if the marketing people created an entirely new planet for the model to gaze through, but then I figured out the camera is inside the globe – it’s just a different…
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Librarycasting SE
Chad at Library Voice points to Librarycasting SE (the SE is for Sciences and Engineering). This is a wonderful collection (blogged) of screencasts and podcasts put together by Pete Kirlew at Virginia Commonwealth University. A sampling of some of the recent posts include: Tutorials for Engineering Village, PubMed Video Tutorials, Finding Online Tutorials at VCU…
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VideoEgg – tiny screencasts
Want to see what your library screencast might look like on a video iPod? Head over to VideoEgg, which appears to be the latest in line along with YouTube and Google Video for sharing videos online. This one looks pretty nice, and I haven’t had time to do more than upload a test screencast to…