Category: Ideas
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Google formally declares war on Microsoft
The Centered Librarian has an interesting post – Google formally declares war on Microsoft GOOGLE HAS confirmed that it will launch free spreadsheet and word-processing software online and take on Microsoft in one of its biggest markets. Under the deal, Google will allow web users to access Sun’s OpenOffice from a toolbar. More at the…
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CaptivatePlayer: Delivering Captivate Content on the Web
Hey, check this out! Greg Szczyrbak, one of the first people I knew who jumped on the Captivate bandwagon, pointed me to CaptivatePlayer: Delivering Captivate Content on the Web. Basically it’s a menu wrapper for Captivate Flash files- a simple way to organize and make them available to the end user. Looks pretty straightforward in…
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PROWE – Personal Repositories Online: WIKI Environment
Richard, of Science Library Pad, pointed me towards PROWE, Personal Repositories Online: WIKI Environment. This initiative was just launched by JISC in the UK, and while there’s nothing to see there yet, the project description sounds like something distance librarians would want to participate in. I won’t reproduce the whole description here, but here’s the…
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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…