Category: Scholarship
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Publish, Not Perish: The Art & Craft of Publishing in Scholarly Journals
Awarded the August 2007 PRIMO Site of the Month, Publish, Not Perish is an online tutorial written by librarians at the University of Colorado, Boulder. “In this course you will learn to: Describe the role of scholarly publishing in an academic career List the essential steps of planning and writing a scholarly paper. Develop a…
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CFP: Special Innovate Issue on Multi-User Virtual Environments
No specific mention of library application in this CFP, but let’s hear from some of you Second Lifers: Innovate, published as a public service by the Fischler School of Education and Human Services and sponsored, in part, by Microsoft is soliciting manuscripts for a special issue on academics in virtual environments. This issue focuses on…
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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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Links mentioned in Chad and Paul’s IL2007 talk on Tech Tools for Library Outreach
In no particular order… Shifting Gears: Getting Up to Get Into the Flow (PDF) Joe Janes at IL2007 Facebook Meebo Jing Screencast-o-matic.com The BizWiki – Podcasts from Alden Library Audacity Wink Skype Camstudio FAQ software – KnowledgebasePublisher
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Back channel for Paul and Chad’s presentation at Internet Librarian 2007
Back channel for Paul and Chad’s presentation at Internet Librarian 2007: Tech Tools for Library Outreach. If you’ve got wireless and are in the room, feel free to chat amongst yourselves or provide us with live feedback during our presentation. Can’t promise we’ll be able to respond, but we’ll try!
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E-JASL: The Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship
I’ve had this one sitting in my to-read for too long – time to pass it on – E-JASL: The Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship v8 no2 includes a couple of interesting-sounding articles – Reaching Students with Facebook: Data and Best Practices and Reaching Out to Off-Campus Students via BlackboardTM: A Consortial Library’s…
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Two interesting developments from ProQuest re: Dissertations
A colleague passed along the following links you may also find of interest: ProQuest CSA has arranged with Google and Google Scholar to allow indexing and searching across bibliographic data for graduate works published in 2005 and forward. PQDT Open is an online repository of dissertations and theses published on an open access basis. The…
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Social Software, libraries & distance learners
Just learned about the Social Software, libraries & distance learners blog at the University of London – it’s part of their LASSIE (Libraries and Social Software in Education) Project. LASSIE "is exploring how social software might enhance distance learners’ use of libraries. It also considers more widely the value of new technologies, commonly called web…
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Free your content! RSS for Libraries: recording now available
Last month (August 7), Meredith Farkas and I did a SirsiDynix presentation called Free your content! RSS for Libraries. The recordings (audio and video) for that session are now available on the SirsiDynix website, as is a PDF of our slides. The video is in WMV format and doesn’t play very nicely for those of…
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Jossey-Bass O-T-L Conference Online
I’m cleaning out email after my vacation and wanted to get this one out as there’s a fee increase after August 31. I have no affiliation with this group, but Jossey-Bass is promoting several of its books through an online conference October 17-18. When you register you can also choose three book titles to keep. …