Category: Ideas
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Web-based Information Science Education (WISE)
Thinking about where to get your library degree?Peter Scott posts about WISE, which stands for Web-based Information Science Education. A collaboration between 14 of America’s North America’s the world’s (there’s a school from New Zealand participating, which makes a pat coverage statement difficult!) top library schools, "the vision of this initiative is to provide a…
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WAG the Dog Web Localizer, by Ross Singer
Back last November when Google Scholar appeared, I wrote up a little piece about how it needed to work for the distance student, and others agreed. Fast forward a few months, and holy cow, take a look at what Ross Singer at the Georgia Institute of Techology has built: WAG the Dog Web Localizer. Wow! …
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Why can’t you pay attention anymore?
Boy Howdy! Attention Deficit Trait. I don’t think I’m there yet, but I sure believe I could be if I’m not careful… Particularly catchy quote: We need to take charge of it. Right now, it’s taking charge of us. We need to preserve time to stop and think. If you don’t allow yourself to stop…
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FreePint Newsletter 179 – Freedom of Information
A nice editorial in today’s FreePint Newsletter. Here’s a snippet: This is a great time to be working in the information industry. However it’s up to us to define and shape it, through energy and willingness to share our experiences, by supporting each other and by keeping up with the latest technology. Doing these things…
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EdTechPost: Thin-Client Desktop Viewing with VNC
I played with RealVNC once and couldn’t get it to work, but this sounds like a compelling reason to try again. Scott says using TightVNC (Virtual Network Computing) "you can share a view of your desktop (and any running applications) with multiple other users simultaneously using the VNC server without your viewers having to install…
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Schoogle and understanding link resolvers
I’ve been doing some thinking about Google Scholar since the U of C became a participant in the beta institutional access preferences option. My institution uses SFX as its link resolver, and one of the biggest problems has always been getting students to understand that just because there’s an SFX button after a citation in…
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The integrated library system that isn’t
Link: Lorcan Dempsey’s weblog: The integrated library system that isn’t. Increasingly, the library needs to bring its services to the user within their work- or learn-flow, and be seen to be adding value to the collection of resources. Oh that’s kind of neat – I just realized that if I highlight some text on the…
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Using RSS Enclosures for document delivery?
Heyyyyyy, here’s a post that takes a little bit of info about the Podcasts I’ve mentioned from time to time, and points out that enclosures (the bit of RSS that makes podcasts truly a new thing) can be used to deliver more than just mp3 files: Weblogg-ed – Using RSS Enclosures in Schools. So why…
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The Digital Librarian: R.I.P 2005 – Federated Search
I tried to leave the following comment at The Digital Librarian, but there seems to be an error in their comment code – several tries and I couldn’t get it to go. I also couldn’t find any contact information, so I’m hoping posting here will eventually get back to the author. (c’mon, not even an…
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Comments on Macromedia Captivate & Qarbon ViewletBuilder?
Sherri at UNLV is looking for other opinions… Comments on Macromedia Captivate & Qarbon ViewletBuilder? I’m currently evaluating tutorial software for both instruction (emphasis: tutorials, scoring and evalution mechanisms) and distance education (emphasis: not so much the scoring aspect but learning and instructional applications). I’ve worked previously with Qarbon’s ViewletBuilder and really enjoyed the…