Category: Scholarship
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Google Scholar takes on web-based citation managers (sort of)
Yesterday, Google Scholar announced Scholar Library. This would initially appear to be a shot across the bow of Zotero and Mendeley and the like, but at this time Scholar Library doesn't allow you to *import* anything that you've found outside of Google Scholar. Still, it's an interesting move. Also at this time, they still allow…
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Knowledge Creation Platforms – what a wonderful start to a story
Yesterday a colleague passed on a link to a wonderfully thoughtful journal article: Knowledge Creation Platforms: The Next Step after Web-Scale Discovery, by Carl Grant, whom I am now following on Twitter. In this piece, Carl brings us up to speed with a brief history of how technology has gotten us (libraries) to our current…
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Survey of library services for distance learning programs
Primary Research Group, publisher of research reports and surveys about libraries, is surveying academic libraries world wide for a report on how libraries serve distance learning programs. Participants receive a free PDF copy of the report generated from the survey data. Participants are listed in the report but answers are confidential. To take the survey…
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Some skills you might want for the 21st century
I just finished reading a report called Working together: evolving value for academic libraries, and found it a good read. Presenting the results of several surveys, the authors describe the areas in which academic libraries have traditionally attempted to demonstrate value (embedded teaching), and the areas in which they should probably start putting more focus…
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CFP: Workshop on Digital Surfaces in Libraries (DSL)
http://libraryworkshop.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on Digital Surfaces in Libraries (DSL) ======================================= We invite you to join DSL, a venue for collaboration and discussion on the successes and pitfalls encountered in working in with interactive surfaces in library spaces by bringing together researchers, designers, practitioners, and librarians. This full day workshop is held in conjunction…
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Free ebook: The Teacher-Librarianship by Distance Learning program at the University of Alberta
The Teacher-Librarianship by Distance Learning program at the University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada) is pleased to announce the publication of a new free ebook: Becoming and Being: Reflections on Teacher-Librarianship, edited by Jennifer Branch-Mueller, Kandise Salerno, and Joanne de Groot. Each chapter was written by 25 graduating (or soon to graduate) TLDL students as part…
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Excited about Netspeed 2013
Netspeed is Alberta's library technology conference, and it's been a few years since I've attended 'cause it always seemed to be about a year behind the times to me. I know, I'm responsible for the content too, and I have spoken at the conference in the past, but overall it just hasn't floated my boat…
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Alberta Open Data Portal
I haven't had a chance to look through it at all, but was really pleased to learn about the new Alberta Open Data Portal, which, …makes data the provincial government collects on behalf of citizens publicly available in machine readable formats with an open licence. This means there are no technical or legal restrictions for…
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Who does screencasting help the most?
An interesting report on the Casting Out Nines Blog (part of the Chronicle of Higher Education Blog Network): Who does screencasting help the most? The author summarizes the results of a Winter 2011 paper in Advances in Engineering Education (PDF), and concludes that, I think it suggests that screencasts, when done well and deployed properly, help…