Category: Miscellaneous
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Canadian libraries are doing just fine in the digital age
Nice article from the Globe and Mail about public libraries in Canada: Libraries turn page to thrive in digital age. Basically it talks about how libraries are changing to keep up with different demands; offering services to teens (including the obligatory DDR night), spending more of their budgets on electronic resources. Nothing we librarians don’t…
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ProQuest – Scholarly Journals, Trade Publications, and Popular Magazines
This is certainly not a new resource, but it’s one I keep misplacing, so I’m sticking it here where I know I’ll be able to find it again 🙂 It’s a two-page PDF chart that addresses the following criteria in helping students determine if a journal is scholarly or not: Appearance, Content, and Publising (with…
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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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Dotto on Libraries
Here in Canada we have a TV tech show for the layman called DottoTech, and a couple of months ago Steve Dotto ran a brief segment about using your local Public Library to access licensed databases. That clip (about 3 minutes) is now available online. I hope you won’t learn anything as a librarian from…
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Expanding Demand for Online Higher Education – Eduventures Report
According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, a soon-to-be released report says “the online-education market has the potential to grow significantly, with about half of potential college students interested in earning a degree online, according to a survey conducted by Eduventures Inc.” Should be good news for librarians comfortable supported students in a virtual environment……
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IL2006 Lightning Talk
No, there are no lightning talks at Internet Librarian, but during my presentation with Meredith yesterday I thought I’d do something fun since I wasn’t going to be using my laptop. I turned it around to face the audience and used the built-in iSight along with Gawker to record a time-lapse movie of the "crowd"…
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This American Life – back and legit
Nope, I’m not moving back to the States 😉 You may recall that back in June Jon Udell (and some others) had figured out how to build an RSS feed to receive episodes of This American Life that were already available for free on the web, but only in a streaming, listen while connected, format. …
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Just what am I looking at?
I have been increasingly interested in how flat the world of research literature seems to appear to the average undergraduate student. I say "seems to appear" because I haven’t actually talked to any students about this, so it’s really just a wild theory. Here goes. I think students who have only researched through their computer…