Category: Scholarship
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I have to go to the Euphamism
My colleague Margy keeps a blog for students in a Journalism class she teaches, and just posted about a piece in The Globe and Mail about an author who got nailed for plagiarism, though the admission is only that his book contains “elements [that] . . . closely resemble or are indistinguishable from passages”… I…
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Huge list of Web Presentation Tools (ppt alternatives)
Read in passing earlier today that Google may be readying a PPT alternative, but in the meantime if you don’t care for the way PPT translates to the web, here are a gazillion alternatives for publishing presentations to the web. OK, it’s probably only a couple dozen; I was too lazy to count. "The key…
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CFS: Internet Librarian International
This was going to be the year that I was going to go to Internet Librarian International. Alas, another opportunity came up and I’m being forced to save my money instead for a Caribbean cruise – poor me. If you’re thinking of heading to London in October, you’ll want to be aware of the call…
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Google Scholar’s as good as the library
This is the conclusion of a research study to be published in the next issue of Internet and Higher Education. I’ve emailed the authors to see if they’re planning on depositing the paper in their Institutional Repository… It’s only a pre-print right now so I can’t give you a complete citation, but if you subscribe…
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Me Day (publications and presentations)
A couple of self-referential links for you today. 1) The screencast of my SirsiDynix Institute presentation on Screencasting is now available online. Seems to work best with IE, as it’s being shown with an embedded Windows Media player (not Flash, as I recommend in my presentation 😉 If you’re using Firefox, may I recommend the…
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Survey: Blogs in Academic Libraries
Shelly Drumm (and colleagues) writes: We are exploring the uses of blogs in academic libraries. If you have experience with blogs as a means of communicating with your patrons, we would welcome your input in a brief survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=773202839763 The best part is that after completing the survey you can see how the other respondents…
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Blended Learning: Research Perspectives
Not a whole lot there right now, but Sloan-C (a consortium of institutions and organizations committed to quality online education) has a site dedicated to Blended Learning called, appropriately enough, Blended Learning: Research Perspectives. “Sloan-C will be using this web site to collect and share resources for educators and administrators involved with blended and hybrid…
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Publish far afield
A Library Writer’s Blog points to a call for papers for a special issue of the Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education: Web 2.0 and Social Software in Distance Education. Submissions must be in English… Technorati Tags: Distance_Education, Libraries
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Google offers to digitize journal back runs!
Well this is interesting, and if you’re not a journal aggregator, good news. According to Peter Suber, Google is offering to digitize and provide OA to the back runs of scholarly journals! Peter’s got all the details on his site, but I’ll jump right to one of his comments towards the bottom that says, "I…
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CFP: Journal of Access Services
I’m on the board of editors for the Journal of Access Services, and one of my roles is of course to drum up business. There’s a special issue coming up you might want to consider: Best Practices in Access Services. Laurie the Librarian has all the details. Deadline is Feb 1, 2007. Technorati Tags: JAS