Category: Service
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Trends in e-learning: What does it mean for libraries?
From Stephen’s Lighthouse: Upcoming free SirsiDynix Institute Event Trends in e-learning: What does it mean for libraries?Date : May 21, 2008Start Time : 11 a.m. EasternLength : 1 hour While in some sectors e-learning may seem “old hat”, the world of e-learning continues to change at a rapid pace. With newer technologies such as mobile…
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Open Doors and Open Minds: What faculty authors can do to ensure open access to their work through their institution
SPARC and Science Commons have released “Open Doors and Open Minds: What faculty authors can do to ensure open access to their work through their institution.” The new white paper assists institutions in adopting policies that ensure the widest practical exposure for scholarly works produced, such as that adopted by the Harvard Faculty of Arts…
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Survey on the use of IM Widgets
Danielle Dennie at Concordia University asks for your assistance in a survey she’s running on your use of Instant Messaging Widgets: Dear all, I will be conducting a study to learn about and compare usage of IM widgets on online subject/research guides from different North American academic libraries. I would like to see the types…
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Survey of Library Services for Distance Learning Programs
Primary Research Group is about to release the results of their Survey of Library Services for Distance Learning Programs. I participated in this survey and am supposed to receive a free copy – will let you know if it’s worth buying, but here’s what it covers. This 145 page report gives extensive data, broken out…
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What’s up with Amazon’s Search Inside this Book?!?
Search Engine Showdown posts that Amazon appears to be dropping the Search Inside this Book feature! And the end of the post they note the apparent partial reappearance of the links, but when I went in today, while I could find plenty of logos on the book covers, I couldn’t search inside books that I…
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Peter Rukavina – Canada’s Superpatron?
I’ve followed Peter Rukavina’s weblog for a number of years. Can’t quite remember how I decided he was a kindred spirit – it might have been when I was researching my newly-discovered Croatian heritage and I somehow learned he are one too. Anyway, he’s a programmer geek who appreciates libraries, and from time to time…
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Distant/Remote Librarian Employment?
Dear Hive Mind, I just got an interesting question which I was unable to answer, and wondered if any of you had any suggestions. The paraphrased question is, "I have an MLIS, but reside several hours away from the closest university. I remember hearing about these remote librarian employment opportunities while in Library School. I…
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EZProxy and OvidSP Round 2 – Removing the Tip Box
Last month I wrote about how to use EZProxy’s find and replace feature to change the unhelpful text on a database tab to something more helpful:EZProxy Find and Replace: when the vendor says they can’t… Well the Medical Librarians at U of C had another request; to see if we could get rid of that…
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Criteria for tenure and promotion: a review of practices among members of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries
Just posted to our institutional repository is a brief report (13 pages plus an appendix) entitled Criteria for tenure and promotion: a review of practices among members of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries. The abstract reads as follows: This study reviews current practice relating to tenure and promotion to the highest rank by examining…