Category: Miscellaneous
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2008 Off-Campus Library Services Conference Scholarship
The Thirteenth Off-Campus Library Services Conference will be held in Salt Lake City on April 23-25. The conference is offering a comprehensive scholarship to a librarian or prospective librarian who meets the following requirements: has never attended an Off-Campus Library Services Conference must either be a library science student interested in distance education or a…
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Survey on trends in document delivery for distance education
Michele D. Behr writes to the OFFCAMP list: For a presentation at the upcoming Off Campus Library Services Conference we are researching trends in document delivery fordistance learners. We are investigating factors that may impact use of document delivery services, i.e. level of automation, marketingefforts, number of electronic journal subscriptions and e-books, etc. We have…
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R-mail now SendMeRSS
R-mail, one of the first RSS to Email utilities I really liked, was acquired earlier this year by NBC, of all things. After quite a bit of development work, R-mail has now been re-introduced as SendMeRSS. Site looks really slick, and if you click on the banner at the top of the page (only later…
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WikipediaVision
Found a link to this on the ResearchBuzz blog: WikipediaVision allows you to see in almost real-time, random English-language edits to WikiPedia according to where they happen on Google Maps. When you watch it in real time it gives you about 5-8 seconds or so to read the title of the entry that’s being edited,…
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The impression that I get
So I, like many others, was fogged in as I tried to leave Monterey on Wednesday night. For me, the only thing United could offer was another attempt out 24 hours later. Not a single meal voucher, no help with a hotel, wouldn’t pay for me to get up to SFO where I could grab…
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Need some current stats on distance education in the US?
As reported in the Chronicle, the Sloan Consortium has just released a report titled Online Nation: Five Years of Growth in Online Learning. The study addresses the following questions: How Many Students are Learning Online? Where has the Growth in Online Learning Occurred? Why do Institutions Provide Online Offerings? What are the Prospects for Future…
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Becoming slightly more Distant
Starting next week I’ve got a new job, at least for the next 6 months. Our Public Services Systems librarian recently left for the warmer pastures of British Columbia, and rather than operate with a hole in a critical position we’re filling the position on a 6-month interim basis with me. During that time we’ll…
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It’s coming…
Too busy to blog about anything substantial these days, but I needed to pop on and note that flurries were spotted in the air this AM. Mark the date – September 19, first “snowfall”… Might try a linkdump later in the week. Until then…
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Featured speaker announced for OCLSC 2008 in Salt Lake
Connie Hildebrand writes to the OFFCAMP discussion list that Lynn Copeland, Dean of Library Services at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, BC has been selected as the featured speaker for the 2008 Off Campus Library Services Conference to be held in Salt Lake City, UT. From the announcement, Lynn’s own words: “Among the accomplishments I…
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How big is Distance Education?
To go along with the previous post, Stephen Abram also notes an interesting statistic about DE: the U of Phoenix and Western International University are among the top 5 largest US Universities.