Category: Scholarship
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Distance education librarians in the U.S. Arl libraries and library services provided to their distance users
Just finished a really interesting article and marked it all up in green highlighter. Abstract: This paper examines the extent to which U.S. Association of Research Libraries (ARL) are providing services to their distance education library patrons, it reveals whether each U.S. ARL library has a designated librarian in charge of services to distance education…
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Horizon Wimba Live Classroom
At the beginning of the month I posted about an online presentation called The Attributes and Experiences of Librarians Who Earned a Graduate Degree via Distance Education: Findings and Implications. I participated in the session (well, I lurked – and I saw you too Rebecca! 😉 and while it didn’t end up being of interest…
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Distance Librarians needed for survey
Allyson Washburn, Distributed Learning Services Librarian at Brigham Young University writes: Please help me by completing a short survey I’m doing on the career paths of distance education librarians. The survey is anonymous and will take between 10 and 15 minutes to complete. I hope to present my findings at the upcoming Off-Campus Library Services…
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Electronic or print books: Which are used?
Only got a chance this AM to skim this article from Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services, Volume 29, Issue 1, March 2005, Pages 71-81. Electronic or print books: Which are used? (non-proxied link to Science Direct). The authors describe a study done at Louisiana State University where they compared the usage of books that…
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Gary Roberts is writing for Computers in Libraries
Sometime in the past two years I tripped across the blog of Gary Roberts at Alfred University. (It turns out the server that hosted his blog was recently hacked, so no link for you). For some reason, last week I began wondering why Gary wasn’t posting anymore and I finally dropped him an email. He…
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Upcoming proposals deadline for OCLS Conference
Connie Hildebrand reminds us that the deadline for proposals for the 12th Off Campus Library Services conference (held April 26-28 2006 in Savannah GA) is Tuesday, March 22nd. I think I’ve finally figured out what I’ll be proposing, and I hope to see you there!
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Macromedia Breeze presentation available
Macromedia Breeze is a tool that, among other things, converts PowerPoint presentations to a Macromedia Flash file for easy viewing via the web. This isn’t a cheap tool (as evidenced by the "contact us for pricing" links on the product page), so it’s not likely something you’ll just go out to buy, but if your…
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The Attributes and Experiences of Librarians Who Earned a Graduate Degree via Distance Education: Findings and Implications
Just received the March schedule for the free Horizon Wimba Desktop Lecture series, and have signed up for this one:The Attributes and Experiences of Librarians Who Earned a Graduate Degree via Distance Education: Findings and Implications. A growing number of library schools accredited by the American Library Association have begun offering graduate degrees via distance…
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Rick’s Café Canadien: Inaugural CIDER presentation
Back in December I posted about the launch of something called CIDER, the Canadian Institute for Distance Education Research. Next Friday, March 11 (wow does time fly!), CIDER is offering an online presentation through Elluminate which will look at "the state of distance education research in Canada and at CIDER, present a rationale for increasing…
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Congratulations Martha!
This was just posted to the OFFCAMP Listserv – it’s not yet replicated on the ACRL website :-/ Contact: Megan BielefeldACRL Program Coordinatormbielefeld@ala.orgFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEFebruary 11, 2005 Kreszock named 2005 ACRL DLS Haworth Press Distance Learning LibrarianConference Sponsorship Award Winner CHICAGO – Martha Kreszock, coordinator of distance learning studies forAppalachian State University, has been named…