Category: Ideas
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Thoughts on textbook use in distance education
Rebecca has a good post with lots of links and thoughts about whether textbooks are the best way to go in higher education.
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COPPUL Animated Tutorial Sharing Project
Earlier this week an official announcement was made to the COPPUL (Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries) Regional Consortium introducing an idea that’s been in the works for almost two years – The COPPUL Animated Tutorial Sharing Project. In a nutshell, this is an attempt to share the source code for screencasts that have…
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Federated Search Symposium wrap-up
Warning: long post! I’ve just spent the last day and a half at a federated search symposium sponsored by The Alberta Library. I went in with some preconceived ideas about the state of federated search, and while they weren’t totally assuaged, I think I feel a little more confident about the future of this idea. …
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LiB has concerns about the QuestionPoint Flash Interface
We’re not a QuestionPoint user here at the U of C, but I’m sure some of you out there are. Sarah, Librarian in Black, has some concerns about the upcoming release of the Flash interface to the product. Worth a look if you use or are considering using QuestionPoint… Technorati Tags: VirtualReference, QuestionPoint
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EBSCO and Grokker
Finally read an EBSCO newsletter that’s been sitting in my inbox all week, and discovered that in February EBSCO will introduce a “Visual Search” feature to all (?) of their databases. When you watch this 30-second flash video of how it will work, you’ll see that it’s Grokker that’s been licensed. Time to update those…
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CFP – Internet Librarian 2006
Hadn’t seen an announcement on this one, but Meredith just pointed out to me that the Call for Speakers for Internet Librarian 2006 is out. Deadline is March 22, and the theme is “Integrated Experiences: Compelling Content Combinations”. I attended Internet Librarian for the first time last year and really enjoyed it, not only for…
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Gun-toting Librarian
My campus comix shop has been good enough to order in a few copies of the first two issues of Rex Libris for me (first mentioned here last August), and I’ll continue to patronize them, but good news for the rest of you – according to this press release, Slave Labor Graphics is re-releasing issue…
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Finding libraries near you
Libraries411 grabs your location and draws a Google or Yahoo map of the immediate area with pushpins for all the Public Libraries in the vicinity. This would be a really useful tool for distance students if it also included Academic Libraries. And what if we (librarians) could interact with it so we could also display…
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Interactive Workshop – Guidelines for Distance Learning Library Services
A little late on re-publishing this from the OFFCAMP list, but Rob Morrison, Chair of the DLS Guidelines Committee writes about an upcoming workshop at ALA Midwinter: Guidelines for Distance Learning Library Services Interactive WorkshopALA Midwinter ConferenceSaturday, January 21, 1:30-3:30 pmHotel Menger, Ballroom AACRL Distance Learning Section Help brainstorm ideas and draft new language in…
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Google’s version of weeding the collection
Not sure how this one slipped by me, but this article from a reputable source dates from August, 2005, and describes the Google Purge project. Interesting concept – wonder if any libraries have tried this?