Category: Scholarship
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Microsoft’s Academic Search
Maybe it’s just me, but the impending launch of Microsoft’s version of Google Scholar, Academic Search, seems to be slipping up without much notice in the blogosphere. They’ve mentioned it at Search Engine Watch, but apparently a week or so ago three of our colleagues were invited to Redmond to give the product a spin…
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The Myth about Student Competency – “Our Students Are Technologically Competent.”
Educause Review has a short editorial called The Myth about Student Competency – “Our Students Are Technologically Competent.” The article seems to bounce back and forth a little between what I would call technology literacy and information literacy, but the overall points are the same; that while students coming in to higher education today are…
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Intuitive Revelations: The Ubiquitous Reference Model
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How’s that for an ear-catching title? Brian Mathews at Georgia Tech is working on a really interesting project. OK, so we know some libraries have created pages in places where patrons hang out, like MySpace. I use a Pubsub feed to look for anyone who’s blogged about the University of Calgary, and on rare occasions…
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CLA Services for Distance Learning Interest Group
After a hiatus of several years, the Canadian Library Association Services for Distance Learning Interest Group is back. Laurie Prange at Yukon College is the new convener, and she has a section of her blog dedicated to this group. First order of business is to complete a survey on the top 10 services necessary in…
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Access Copyright And Creative Commons Canada Launch Public Domain Registry
As brought to my attention by colleagues here, here and here, Access Copyright (our version of the US Copyright Clearance Center) and Creative Commons Canada have announced a partnership to establish a public domain registry. They’re going to use MediaWiki to "create an online, globally searchable catalogue of published works that are in the Canadian…
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Podcasting at the U of Calgary
Nope, not me, but D’Arcy pointed me to this press release that announces the U of Calgary is going to introduce podcasting to four courses this summer and fall, involving about 700 students. Apparently we will the first university in the country to officially integrate podcasting into the curriculum this way. Not sure if we’re…
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New Journal Portal “Open J-Gate” Launches
Another story picked up from LISNews; the announcement of “the world’s biggest Open Access English Language Journals Portal – Open J-Gate. From the website, “Open J-Gate is the contribution of Informatics (India) Ltd to promote OAI. Open J-Gate provides seamless access to millions of journal articles available online. Open J-Gate is also a database of…
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Online Degree Study – Call for Participation
LISNews reports that Kathryn Kennedy at the University of Florida is seeking participants for a survey on "perceptions and prejudices of online degrees in the hiring process in academic libraries. The papers that we have seen in publication about this subject have been broad, covering employment in academic libraries but also in public libraries and…
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ALA Annual Meeting – Distance Learning Section meeting dates and times
Jack Fritts writes to the OffCamp listserve: We are sticking to the same format as previously (with the new time limits factored in), so at Annual:DLS Program Saturday, 4:00 – 5:30 p.m.DLS All-Committees Meeting Sunday, 8:00…
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Webcast – Just-in-Time Tutorials using ViewletBuilder
The Partnership is a relatively new network of provincial and territorial library associations across Canada. One of the services they offer is a series of online webinars called The Education Institute, and one of the upcoming sessions will be of interest to distance librarians – Karen Hunt from the University of Winnipeg will be presenting…