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Top 10 Feed & RSS Technologies of 2011

Dec 24, 2011

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ReadWriteWeb lists their Top 10 Feed & RSS Technologies of 2011, and there are a few on the list that were new to me, so I thought I'd share. Path caught my eye, and while I need another social networking/check-in app like I need a hole in the head, I'll probably give it a try.…

That’s what I said! (student awareness of ebook usage)

Dec 6, 2011

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Paul R. Pival

in Books, Discovery, Linking, Scholarship

Last week I got an email from ebrary as a followup to their recent survey on ebook usage. The following paragraph caught my eye (emphasis mine), Some of the results were surprising. For instance, patron awareness of e-books has not increased over the last three years and reported usage of e-books has not increased significantly…

No more blog posts in Facebook?

Nov 20, 2011

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Paul R. Pival

in Linking, Social Networks

I noticed this message at the top of my Facebook page the other day: You currently automatically import content from your website or blog into your Facebook notes. Starting November 22nd, this feature will no longer be available, although you'll still be able to write individual notes. The best way to share content from your…

ScreenConnect – another remote-assistance tool

Oct 26, 2011

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Paul R. Pival

in Electronic Reference, Linking, Random Tech Tips, Service, Tutorials, Web/Tech

A year ago I blogged about an article I had read that looked at different tools that could be used to either create screencasts, or allow screen sharing, in support of virtual reference transactions. Six months ago a representative from ScreenConnect sent me an email suggesting that tool would be a good addition to the…

Google Kills Its Other Plus, and How to Bring It Back

Oct 26, 2011

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Paul R. Pival

in Discovery, Electronic Reference, Linking, Social Networks, Tutorials, Web/Tech

From the Wired article you really should read: (Last) Wednesday, Google retired a longer-standing “plus”: the + operator, a standard bit of syntax used to force words and phrases to appear in search results. The operator was part of Google since its launch in 1997 and built into every search engine since. Of course I…

RSS Feed Aggregator – ChimpFeedr

Aug 8, 2011

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Paul R. Pival

in Linking, Social Networks

Gasp – two posts in one day! Lifehacker links to a nice simple utility called ChimpFeedr (from the makers of MailChimp). Give it as many RSS feeds as you like and it will spit out a single feed combining them all. That's all it does, but it does it well. (See also FeedSnitch and Feed…

Some Discovery-related Reading

Mar 17, 2011

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Paul R. Pival

in Discovery, Ideas, Linking

I've had a few posts about Discovery Services piling up in Google Reader: Library Technology Reports, Volume 47, Number 1 / January 2011, is an issue dedicated to Web Scale Discovery Systems. "This report describes in detail the content, interface, and functionality of web scale discovery services developed by four major library vendors: OCLC, Serials Solutions,…

Hosted Proxy Servers

Dec 10, 2010

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Paul R. Pival

in Discovery, Linking, Service, Web/Tech

Today Serials Solutions announced "the industry’s first hosted proxy service: 360 Access Control". That caught my eye as a little odd, as on Dec 1, OCLC announced that EZproxy is now available as a hosted option as well. Regardless of who was first, this is probably pretty good news for the smaller institutions out there. There…

EBSCO Publishing and Thomson Reuters Agreement Enables Mutual Customers Access to Web of Science via EBSCO Discovery Service

Jul 13, 2010

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Paul R. Pival

in Discovery, Linking

EBSCO just put out a press release (PDF) announcing that “institutions subscribing to both EDS and Web of Science may conduct their search via the single search box of EBSCO Discovery Service, access the valuable content in Web of Science within the results and be able to link over to the full Web of Science…

Canadian DMCA (Bill C-32) is an improvement

Jun 8, 2010

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Paul R. Pival

in Books, Legal, Linking, Scholarship, Service, Web/Tech

If it makes Access Copyright unhappy, and the Canadian Library Association happy(ish), Canada's newly-proposed Copyright Modernization Act must be doing something right. It's still got a major flaw in that it's always illegal to crack a digital lock, which effectively removes many of the rights the Bill introduces. As always, Michael Geist has all the…

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