Category: Scholarship
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Off-Campus Library Services Conference Workshops
There are three workshops being held in conjunction with the Off Campus Library Services Conference next year. They’ll be held concurrently with other sessions. What I like about this listing page is that in addition to descriptions, it lists assumptions, objectives and outcomes for each workshop. The workshop titles are: Using Web Site Usability Testing…
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Innovate and Motivate: Next Generation Libraries – ALA | ACRL/CNI/EDUCAUSE Joint Virtual Conference
Would seem to be plenty of room for Distance Librarians at this conference: ALA | ACRL/CNI/EDUCAUSE Joint Virtual Conference – Innovate and Motivate: Next Generation Libraries. Submissions will be accepted through January 6, 2006
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Let down by Keynote
Sherri and I presented today at Internet Librarian, and while the content was delivered well, the flash that we had hoped would do nothing but enhance the presentation actually let us down. We were both on iBooks, and were going to use Keynote (Mac version of PPT) for a few screenshots, and it was going…
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Online Tutorial Investigation
I’m here at the Access 2005 conference in Edmonton and finally have something to share that may be of interest to the distance folks. There’s a sort of preconference to Access called Hackfest, where a large wishlist is considered and a small number of projects are tackled in an all-day brainstorming / programming session. This…
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Another article comparing Schoogle to traditional library databases
Both TJ and Dean have pointers to this new article: Susan Gardner Susanna Eng, Gaga over Google? Scholar in the Social Sciences, Library Hi-Tech News, 22, 8 (2005) pp. 42-45. As usual, I haven’t read it yet, but it’s sitting on my printer 🙂 Gardner and Eng draw pretty much the same conclusion as Giustini…
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A look at Google Scholar, PubMed, and Scirus
I’ve just printed this out and will read later today. to whet your appetite, here’s a line from the conclusion: In summary, information professionals have no choice but to recommend Google Scholar under certain conditions and caveats. Link: A look at Google Scholar, PubMed, and Scirus.
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Copyright panelists needed
Julie Garrison writes to the OFFCAMP list: For the upcoming 12th Off-Campus Library Services Conferences in Savannah GA in April, we are hoping to put together a panel discussion on "Copyright issues in Distance Education and Current Library Practices". We are looking for potential panel members who are doing anything they feel is particularly unique…
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Off-Campus Library Services Conference | Presentation Titles
Was just poking around on the OCLS Conference site and notice that they have posted the titles (draft) of the presentations that will be given at this conference next year (April 26-28). Also see that they seem to have lined up Marshall Keyes (whom I do not know) as the keynote speaker, though the featured…
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Internet Librarian 2005
Mostly because I was able to integrate the little "hear me speak" image over there on the right (goes pretty well with the colors of the site, don’t you think?) I thought I’d mention that Sherri and I are presenting together at Internet Librarian in Monterey this October. We’re on day 2; here’s the abstract…
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Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning
The earlybird registration deadline for the Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning in Madison is fast approaching. As per usual there’s not much related directly to library support of distance education, but this is reported to be just an excellent conference for all things related to distance education. Some more details: 21st Annual Conference…