Category: Scholarship
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DistLib LinkDump
Gosh I hate to do a link dump; each of these deserve their own post, but I’ve just had so little time over the past couple of weeks, and see no real openings in the next few that I’ve got to clear these "to blog" tidbits out. Lots of good stuff here, and I’m sure…
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Libraries and Google – Internet Reference Services Quarterly
I wonder if I’ll ever fully understand the World of Serials. I just got an email alert that Volume 10(3/4) 2005 of Internet Reference Services Quarterly is a special issue titled "Libraries and Google". We have a paper and electronic subscription so I checked and see that we received this 2005 volume one week ago. …
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How does your site stack up?
I only finished this short article today, but it was "published" a year ago – not sure how I missed it then, or found it now – probably someone’s delicious feed. Regardless of the provenance, I’d like to recommend the following article: Nicholas, M., Tomeo, M. (2005). Can You Hear Me Now? Communicating Library Services…
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CFP: Loex 2007
LOEX (Library Orientation Exchange) 2007 will be held in San Diego, CA May 3-5. The call for papers was recently announced, and when I read it I thought it sure sounded like a natural fit for DE Librarians. The theme of the conference is Uncharted Waters: Tapping the Depths of Our Community to Enhance Learning,…
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ACRL/DLS Haworth Press Distance Learning Librarian ALA Conference Sponsorship Award
Are you a member of ACRL? Does any part of your job pertain to the support of distance students? Why not apply for the $1,200 ACRL/DLS Haworth Press Distance Learning Librarian Conference Sponsorship Award? Deadline is December 1, 2006, and all the details are here. Technorati Tags: ACRL, ALA, Distance_Education, Librarians
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Off Campus Library Services Conference 2008
The following was just posted to the OFFCAMP list: The Thirteenth Off-Campus Library Services Conference will be held at the Hilton Hotel in Salt Lake City. This entry in Wikipedia gives a good overview of Salt Lake City Mark April 23-25, 2008 on your calendars and be prepared for another great conference. If you are…
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Rice University Relaunches University Press – Online Only
Tim O’Reilly reports on a Wall Street Journal article about the online-only relaunch of Rich University Press. An excerpt: Although the new press will solicit and edit manuscripts the old-fashioned way, it won’t produce traditional books. The publishing house will instead post works online at a new Web site, where people can read a full…
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Call for Chapters – casebook on online information literacy programs
As noted on the OffCamp listserv, and in A Library Writer’s Blog, there is a call for chapters for an upcoming casebook on online information literacy programs. Chapter proposals are due on or before Sept. 30, and if accepted, they’ll be looking for about 15-pages by Feb 2007. “The goal of the book is to…
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Wiki Webcast Week
In addition to Meredith’s wiki webcast this Thursday, the authors of Uses and Potentials of Wikis in the Classroom, S. Pixy Ferris and Hilary Wilder, will be participating in a free webcast for Innovate, the Journal of Online Education. This is a neat idea in that Innovate invites people to interact with the authors of…