Category: Ideas
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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…
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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…