Category: Miscellaneous
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Window of Opportunity for DE Librarians?
The New York Times reports that “Colleges will no longer be required to deliver at least half their courses on a campus instead of online to qualify for federal student aid.” Wonder how many new DE Librarian positions will be created to help with the expected increase in distance education programs across the nation? This…
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What’s wrong with this picture?
I was doing some collection development this AM and noticed something a little odd on the cover of the following book: Integrating Print and Digital Resources in Library Collections. It’s actually two things wrong with the same part of the picture. First correct comment wins, um, well hey, how about a copy of the book! …
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ALA Annual Meeting – Distance Learning Section meeting dates and times
Jack Fritts writes to the OffCamp listserve: We are sticking to the same format as previously (with the new time limits factored in), so at Annual:DLS Program Saturday, 4:00 – 5:30 p.m.DLS All-Committees Meeting Sunday, 8:00…
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Olympic update – Curling rocks!
OK, time for a brief bout of edumacation from my adopted home (Canada). Jonathan Coulton has released a song about Curling – it’s quite catchy and I think you’ll like it. But you need to know more about curling to truly appreciate it. First, you should rent Men with Brooms. Or maybe first, cause it’s…
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I’m it
This is my first time being tagged with one of these memes. Whenever they go around I always wonder if I’ll ever be tagged, but secretly dread the possibility, as to participate would lay bare my currently rather uneventful existence for all to see. But hey, let’s just go ahead anyway and see if you…
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COPPUL Animated Tutorial Sharing Project
Earlier this week an official announcement was made to the COPPUL (Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries) Regional Consortium introducing an idea that’s been in the works for almost two years – The COPPUL Animated Tutorial Sharing Project. In a nutshell, this is an attempt to share the source code for screencasts that have…
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CFP – Internet Librarian 2006
Hadn’t seen an announcement on this one, but Meredith just pointed out to me that the Call for Speakers for Internet Librarian 2006 is out. Deadline is March 22, and the theme is “Integrated Experiences: Compelling Content Combinations”. I attended Internet Librarian for the first time last year and really enjoyed it, not only for…
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Gun-toting Librarian
My campus comix shop has been good enough to order in a few copies of the first two issues of Rex Libris for me (first mentioned here last August), and I’ll continue to patronize them, but good news for the rest of you – according to this press release, Slave Labor Graphics is re-releasing issue…
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It’s good to give it a name
Earlier this week Geoff Harder gave an online talk about RSS. I had to miss it, but just got a chance to look at the slides he used during the talk. He started by explaining how the consumption of RSS feeds can help with the following two afflictions: NADD and RII. NADD is Nerd Attention…
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More from Educause – Changing a Cultural Icon: The Academic Library as a Virtual Destination
As I was browsing around the Educause site looking for something for the previous post, I tripped across this Jan/Feb 2006 Educase Review article titled: Changing a Cultural Icon: The Academic Library as a Virtual Destination. Here’s the abstract: Deep into the digital age, academic libraries have relinquished much of their fundamental and sustaining role.…