Category: Scholarship
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RSS Updates
A couple of things to note before the weekend – Roddy MacLeod has a really good overview article on RSS in the most recent issue of the FreePint Newsletter: “RSS Update: It’s RSS, Jim, but Not as We Know It“. Lots of good links in there, including one to a project he’s working on called…
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Blogs vs traditional literature
The opening section in Walt Crawford’s most recent issue (August 2007) of Cites & Insights really resonated with me. Entitled On the Literature, he begins with, "I believe that gray literature—blogs, this ejournal, a few similar publications and some lists—represents the most compelling and worthwhile literature in the library field today." He goes on to…
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Librarian 2.0 – Interviews on the future of libraries
A couple of months ago Will Sherman, writing for DegreeTutor.com, interviewed me as part of a series on the Future of Libraries. Will came to the attention of the library world earlier this year with his good piece, 33 Reasons Why Libraries and Librarians are Still Extremely Important. The series of interviews with Librarians and…
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Recommended article in ONLINE
I second Judith’s recommendation to read William Badke’s new column, InfoLit Land, in ONLINE. You can’t find it on the open web, but it’s in all the big aggregators (ProQuest, EBSCO, InfoTrac, though none yet have the July/August issue up). Last issue’s column (May/June Vol. 31(3), pp. 50-52) was Bill’s intro, A Champion of Information…
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Science Direct showing up in Google Scholar
O’Reilly Radar reports that Google Scholar is now indexing content from Science Direct. Is this the end of Scopus? Technorati Tags: Scopus, Schoogle
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CFP: Online Learning Article for Academic Exchange Quarterly
Library Writer’s Blog reports that Academic Exchange Quarterly is looking for a short article or two to fill out the summer issue: “If you have an article of approximately 3,000 words focusing on “Online Learning,” please consider placing it with our journal.” More details at http://rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/5onlin.htm
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New Blog for the LITA Distance Learning Interest Group
The LITA Distance Learning Interest Group has a new blog at http://dlig.wordpress.com/ It’s brand new and quite empty at the moment, but plug in that RSS feed and wait for content to arrive 🙂
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Conference: m-libraries Information on the move..
This is way beyond what we’re currently playing with at the U of C, but there’s a conference coming up in November in the UK that “aims to explore and share work carried out in libraries around the world to deliver services and resources to users ‘on the move,’ via a growing plethora of mobile…
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CFP: The Journal of Web Librarianship
Boy, Haworth does crank out the LibSci journals, doesn’t it? Just received a call for papers for a new title, Journal of Web Librarianship. The Journal of Web Librarianship is a vital journal perfect for Web librarians, digital services librarians, electronic resources librarians, and researchers who see an application for Web librarianship to their own…
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Blogger Perceptions on Digital Preservation
Researchers at UNC Chapel Hill are conducting a survey on blogger’s perceptions on digital preservation – specifically of blogs and their content and layout. Took about 12 minutes for me to fill out the survey, and I found some of the questions quite interesting. I think there’s a potential business opportunity here depending on how…