Category: Ideas
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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?
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Library Stuff on ITI/Quint Podcasting
Another Steven with which to agree – this time at Library Stuff, where Steven points out that just making files available as a downloadable mp3 but at a different URL each month does not a podcast make. I would add this to my list of subscribed podcasts in a heartbeat, but I’m not going to…
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The Future of Electronic Texbooks
Stephen posts about a Bill Gates quote in which Bill claims students will all be using electronic textbooks within 4-5 years. Stephen thinks not, at least not that quickly, and I agree. Just too many different formats and DRM non-standards out there to make this work even within 5 years, IMHO. I can see some…
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It’s good to give it a name
Earlier this week Geoff Harder gave an online talk about RSS. I had to miss it, but just got a chance to look at the slides he used during the talk. He started by explaining how the consumption of RSS feeds can help with the following two afflictions: NADD and RII. NADD is Nerd Attention…
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More from Educause – Changing a Cultural Icon: The Academic Library as a Virtual Destination
As I was browsing around the Educause site looking for something for the previous post, I tripped across this Jan/Feb 2006 Educase Review article titled: Changing a Cultural Icon: The Academic Library as a Virtual Destination. Here’s the abstract: Deep into the digital age, academic libraries have relinquished much of their fundamental and sustaining role.…
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Handout from Internet Librarian 2005
I’m doing some work updating files etc and ran across the handout Sherri and I made for Internet Librarian 2005. There’s nothing you haven’t seen in here, but it is all in one spot and attractively presented :-). Web Tools for 21st-Century Learners (PDF – 3 pages)
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Canada’s Version of the Google Book Search Fight – Michael Geist
Canadian copyright legal scholar Michael Geist writes about a mini version of the Google Book Search copyfight happening in Newfoundland. "The President of the Writers’ Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador has expressed concern that the plan will make it harder to sell books." Sigh. Michael points out that it’s more likely people will find out…
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Google Video Store and Distance Education
The Google Video Store has launched with paid content. I haven’t visited Google Video for some time, so a lot of this may have been in there for a while now, but I thought I’d see what was available for the search library or libraries, and got 1,171 results! There seems to be a whole…