Category: Linking
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Tim says Book Search Should Work Like Web Search
Tim O’Reilly, long a proponent of Google Book Search, has a post in which he laments the fact that books housed in the different book scanning projects (Google Books, OCA, Amazon Search Inside) are not searchable by search engines other than those provided by their hosts. Surely it will only be a matter of time…
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Your own personal repository
So you say you work at a smaller academic institution without an institutional repository, or even in a non-academic setting? But you still publish work related to Library and Information Science? Have I got a site for you! I know I’m not the first to find it, but I haven’t seen it mentioned as much…
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2006 Edublogger Awards – Nominations Open
Nominations are now being accepted for the 2006 Edublogger Awards “the independently run, community-based awards programme which recognizes and promotes excellence in the educational use of social software.” There are 10 categories, one for Best library/librarian blog. There is information on the site about how to nominate (“If you post publicly, and , you are…
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SirsiDynix Screencasting Links
These are the links that I referenced during my Introduction to Screencasting seminar for the SirsiDynix Institute. The archived seminar will soon be available online, and when it is I’ll replace this sentence with a link to it. The examples that I hope to show include: Book Title Search from Central Michigan University’s Off Campus…
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Research Beyond Google: 119 Authoritative, Invisible, and Comprehensive Resources
Got an email from Jimmy Atkinson of the recently-launched Online Education Database, a site that’s attempting to collect information about institutions offering degrees online. I don’t see anywhere in the few profiles I checked where the library’s mentioned, but Jimmy was asking me to take a look at a research guide he’d just posted called…
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Good to know about Feed2JS and Spam
Hot on the heels of the talk Meredith Farkas and I gave at Internet Librarian on using Feed2JS (and some other tools) comes this post from RSS4Lib warning about the misappropriation of a locally installed version of Feed2JS. Basically, if you do choose to install the software on your own server, Ken points out that…
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Have our toes just been stepped upon? Google Scholar within BlackBoard
Dean Giustini at the UBC Academic Search – Google Scholar Blog brings us news that Google and Blackboard are going to team up, with Google Scholar somehow being integrated within the Blackboard CMS. From the Washington Business Journal story, "As part of the partnership, Blackboard’s learning system will be integrated with Google Scholar, providing quick…
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Book sales get a lift from Google scan plan
Hmm, looks like I was right (me and every other sane person); publishers are starting to admit that the books that are available through Google Book Search and Amazon’s Search Inside program are <gasp!> actually selling more copies! Some quotes from the Reuters piece: ""Google Book Search has helped us turn searchers into consumers," said…
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Huge list of screen sharing tools
I’ve mentioned sceen sharing / co-browsing tools like Jybe and Unyte before, but holy cow, take a look at the list compiled at Kolabora.com! That is all. Technorati Tags: Screen_sharing, co-browsing