Category: Ideas
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Google Scholar Bookmarklet
Haven’t seen anyone else pop up with this yet, but I was able to modify the Google Bookmarklet (which they call the Google Button) and make it search Google Scholar instead. Here’s one for Mozilla / Firefox / Opera: Google ScholarHere’s one for Safari: Google Scholar (thanks to Steve DiDomenico)And here’s one for IE: Google…
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Wow!!! It’s Google Scholar
Well this is likely to be all over the library web today, but Google Scholar has just launched and will have a big impact on our distance students. I predict they will find it easier to use this less comprehensive tool and will for the most part start trickling away from our quality full text…
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Who needs libraries?
The other day I was pointed by LIS News to an interesting documentary at Soundprint called Who Needs Libraries? It’s a half-hour streaming audio piece that takes a look at the relevance of libraries in today’s Webworld. There’s nothing in here you haven’t read in a dozen other places, but it’s neat to hear it…
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Podcasting in education
Here’s another person interested in the idea of Podcasting for education… Podcasting in education I have been thinking a lot of the potential of the medium. I really think there is something here for education! In my opinion Podcasting is a great tool: for distance learning to facilitate self-paced learning for remediation of slower learners…
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Podcasting for Education
I’ve been listening to Podcasts for about six weeks now, and every once in a while the thought occurs to me that they could be useful in Higher Education, if not the library world. Never got around to drafting my thoughts on the subject, but my colleague D’Arcy just did, so I’ll drop you off…
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Born with the Chip – Library Journal
I read this article on NextGens a couple of weeks ago and was really struck by a couple of the things it had to say. Born with the Chip. I’ve heard Stephen Abram talk on this subject a couple times and didn’t expect much new, but I guess it always pays to give a guy…
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ALA | 10 Reasons Why the Internet Is No Substitute for a Library
This article, originally published in 2001, was noted in this week’s CIT Infobits. A nice reminder of why we DE librarians are still here working behind the scenes to support our DE students, IMHO. ALA | 10 Reasons Why the Internet Is No Substitute for a Library