Category: Ideas
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A Tale Of Two Travel Agencies
I can’t quite place it, but this story sounds vaguely familiar… Hmmm, what was it… A Tale Of Two Travel Agencies For years we’ve been hearing stories about how the ease of online travel booking meant that there was no more need for travel agents. It was one of those classic case studies about how…
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Opinions on Google and Libraries Sought
If you were at the last OCLS Conference in Carefree you’ll remember Siva was our keynote speaker…Opinions on Google and Libraries Sought Lots of you have strong opinions on Google Print, Google Scholar and Google’s deals with the G5–those libraries participating in the Google digitization of some/all of their materials. Well, here’s your chance to…
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Dilettante’s Ball: WAG the Monkey
Ross Singer – digital alchemist. OK admittedly it will be a loooong time before all our distance students will be using Firefox, but wow is this cool! This is the sort of thing that when shown in a training session would likely entice someone to switch to Firefox. To summarize, once you’ve (painlessly) installed Greasemonkey…
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Wonderful introduction to Wikis
Just finished the wiki article mentioned in Carolyn’s post and I highly recommend it. It’s well written and easy to understand, and it does a great job of addressing many of the fears and misconceptions about the use of wikis in Higher Education. Why librarians should care about EDUCAUSE I first discovered EDUCAUSE when I…
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Call for contributors #2 – J. of Lib & Info Services in Distance Learning
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It’s that time again – what may become my quarterly call to see if any gentle readers would like to contribute to the eServices in Libraries column for the Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning. I have several ideas for topics, but am also interested in you bringing your own ideas to…
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OpenURL-enabling Google Scholar
I too have been following the discussion on the SFX support list Peter mentions, and have been hoping he or someone of his calibre would blog about it, making it easier to summarize and include here. I didn’t do a count on the opinions, but I sense that many on the aforementioned list are leaning…
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CLA Calgary Wiki
I’ve never gotten into wikis. I just never found myself in a project where a wiki seemed the perfect solution. I’ve been toying with them for a couple weeks though, and then lo and behold, Meredith throws up the ALA Chicago Wiki. Now that makes sense to me! Know what? There’s a Canadian Library Association…
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Web Meetings for Nothing, Collaborate for Free
This looks pretty slick. ConVoq offers ASAP Express, a free, "Full-featured personal online meeting solution". As noted in the article, Web Meetings for Nothing, Collaborate for Free they’re offering the one-to-one option for free, forever. Included is a real-time presence indicator (an icon that lets folks know if you’re at your desk or not) that…
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DocDel Forms for Distance Students…
At the end of last week I was looking at the March statistics for Library Connection (our department offering service to distance students) and puzzling over the continued drop in number of items requested. Calendar year 2004 saw a drop in the number of items requested for the first time in the history of the…
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Using Blogdigger to create custom category RSS feeds
I love the Inkernets. Just the other day I helped Richard with something, and now he goes and posts this. I suspect it may have been Carolyn who put the category RSS bug in both our ears. Freakishly coincidental is the fact that not 3 hours ago I was poking at Feedburner to see if…