Category: Miscellaneous
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Jasco pans MS Academic Search
I’m really glad the world is filled with people who have more time, and more importantly, more brains than I do, so they can critically analyze new search tools like Microsoft’s Academic Search (aka Windows Live Academic, or WLA). Peter Jasco has reviewed it, and doesn’t like it much. Here’s an earlier review he did…
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Adobe Captivate 2.0 on the way…
Amit reports that Adobe is in the beta stage for the next version of Adobe Captivate (the screencasting software formerly known as Macromedia Captivate after it was formerly known as RoboDemo). My ramblings on the product. Technorati Tags: Screencasting, Captivate
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Journal of Library and Information Services for Distance Learning in trouble?
I chatted with Stephen Dew at the opening reception the other night ant learned that he’s stepping down as editor of JLISDL. Stephen’s technically the 2nd editor for this young journal, and as column editor I’m aware that it seems to be pretty difficult to raise content for this publication. Not really sure why that…
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Off Campus Library Services Conference Keynote – Marshall Keys
Last night the keynote was delivered by Marshall Keys, and was titled Lost in Translation: what today’s trends show about tomorrow’s libraries. As I mentioned briefly in a previous post, this turned out to be pretty much the same talk Stephen Abrams gives on Millennials and what they mean to our future, but it was…
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It’s so green!
Have landed safely in Savannah for the 2006 Off Campus Library Services Conference, which is more than I can say for my luggage. Hopefully it will arrive sometime tonight, as my presentation is at 8:30 AM on Thursday. TWT. (my co-presenter arrived late last night and still doesn’t have her luggage!) I’d forgotten what green…
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Online Research Toolkit presentation
I’m just now finally getting around to looking at some of the presentations from last week’s Library & Information Resources track of HigherEdBlogCon. Great idea in theory, but I’m still finding it difficult to set aside the time to give the presentations the full attention they deserve. One presentation I did spend some time with…
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The all-important weather update
It’s been a while since I provided the all-important weather update on the blog, but hoo-ie, it’s actually hot today! Right now it’s 22C (72F) and it feels much warmer here in my stuffy office. Oh, but of course it wouldn’t be Calgary if that was all there was to the story. Here’s the forecast…
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Survey of Off-Campus Library Services
A month ago I noted the rebirth of the Canadian Library Association’s Services for Distance Learning Interest Group, and also noted that the new convener has a survey on what DE Librarians feel are the most important services to offer their patrons. At that time I found the survey wasn’t working correctly, but Laurie now…
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Another RSS to E-mail service
Amit blogs that there’s a new kid on the block when it comes to RSS to Email services, and it’s likely to prove to be a big kid ’cause it’s a service from Feedburner! I haven’t had a chance to try it yet, but I guess you can add it to the rest of the…
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Microsoft Academic Search launches
Well it was supposed to launch yesterday, and I guess it did sometime late last night, but Microsoft’s Academic Search (beta!) is now live. I’m on vacation for the next week so really won’t have a chance to run through it until then, but you can get up to speed with Steven, Dean and Gary.