Category: Scholarship
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Ex Libris e-book focus group
Via my library’s Collections and Acquisitions blog, Ex Libris announces an e-book focus group. Follow the link for more information, but “the ultimate goal of this effort is to provide the academic and research library market a set of solutions to the challenges presented by e-books.” Technorati Tags: ebooks, Ex_Libris
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Google Book Search: is it Good Enough?
Good post at the American Historical Association blog called Google Books: What’s Not to Like? In it, a historian points out three big things not to like: Poor Scan Quality, Faulty Metadata, and Truncated Public Domain. Well-supported with examples, it gets even more interesting in the comments where people point out that crappy though it…
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HardPlay – Game-based Learning for Information Seekers
Hot on the heels of the McMaster announcement about the appointment of their Immersive Learning (Gaming) Librarian comes word from two of my U of C colleagues about a related research project. Jerremie Clyde and Chris Thomas are putting together a website called HardPlay to document a study that "seeks to examine the potential of…
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Alberta Distance Education & Training Association (ADETA) Newsletters
Yeah, I know you’re not in Alberta, but the resources discussed in the monthly ADETA newsletter will still be of interest to you if you have anything to do with distance education. The newsletters are published through Google Docs, and once you’re a member of ADETA (free) you can contribute to future newsletters via the…
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ACRL – Getting Started with Screencasting
ACRL is offering a 2-hour webcast on Thursday, April 26, 2:00 EDT: Getting Started with Screencasting. From the site: Webcast Description:This two hour session will explore screencasting—delivering screen captures via RSS—and its potential applications in the academic library. Participants will be provided with examples of screencasts, information on various software applications used to create screencasts,…
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New York TimesSelect – Do Over! (may not be free for YOU!)
Following up on last month’s announcement that the New York TimesSelect service was opened up to all educational institutions, The Chronicle of Higher Education is now reporting that NYT is backtracking and now “says that Times Select archives will be available only to students of colleges that subscribe to database companies that carry Times content.” …
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CFP extended: Special Issue of Journal of Access Services
For a forthcoming double issue of the Journal of Access Services, a recent call for papers has been extended until May 15. The theme is Best Practices in Access Services, and the full details are as follows: The Journal of Access Services is currently accepting manuscripts for consideration of publication in a special issue on…
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Followup: A preliminary assessment of Google Scholar as a source of EAP students’ research materials
Just a quick followup to my Jan 25 post about this article – it’s now in print, though still nowhere to be seen in the U of T Institutional Repository 🙁 Helms-Park, R., Radia, P., & Stapleton, P. (2007). A preliminary assessment of Google Scholar as a source of EAP students’ research materials. The Internet…
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EBSCO to deliver blog content
Sorry I couldn’t come up with anything more original than David Rothman’s original title, but that pretty much spells it out. What an interesting idea. David posts about a press release in which EBSCO and Newstex announce that EBSCO databases will begin delivering selected blog content alongside standard search results. Sure hope one can easily…