Category: Service
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Innovation in a book about Innovation
OK, I’m sure it’s not really an innovation, but it was the first time I’d ever seen it, and it makes so much sense! I just finished reading The myths of Innovation, by Scott Berkun, and instead of offering the standard semi-useful bibliography, at the end of this book he provides a ranked bibliography. The…
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Ovid responds to customer desires on tab naming
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about how to use EZProxy to change the default wording on the tabs in the new OvidSP interface. Seems we weren’t alone in desiring a better name for the Ovid Syntax tab, and Ovid reports that on Friday, Feb 1 they’re going to automagically switch the name of…
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Online Workshop: Building a Community that Values Academic Integrity
You might be interested in this online workshop from the Center for Intellectual Property at UMUC ($150) Building a Community that Values Academic IntegrityDates: February 25 – March 7, 2008 (early registration by February 8 )Moderators: Gary Pavela, M.A., J.D., Director of Judicial Programs and Student Ethical Development, University of Maryland — College Park &…
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Information Literacy Programs in the Digital Age: Educating College and University Students Online
A new book from ACRL: Information Literacy Programs in the Digital Age: Educating College and University Students Online. Information Literacy Programs in the Digital Age: Educating College and University Students Online describes significant and innovative online instruction programs in a straightforward, narrative way, focusing on the development, implementation, and assessment of each institution’s online information…
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EZProxy Find and Replace: when the vendor says they can’t…
Earlier this week we switched to the new interface for OvidSP (an attempt, I believe, at integrating the Silver Platter (SP) platform into Ovid). It’s nice, but the default configuration includes a Basic Search table, an Ovid Syntax tab, and a SilverPlatter Syntax tab. Ovid Syntax and SilverPlatter Syntax don’t mean anything to our users,…
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Survey of Library Services for Distance Learning Students
Posted to the Web4Lib mailing group: Primary Research Group (http://www.primaryreserch.com/) is planning to publish a survey of college libraries that provide library services to distance learning students. This survey is open to accredited colleges from all countries. Participants receive a free PDF copy of the estimated 100-page report. Data is broken out by type and…
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Followup on Facebook Advertising
A month ago I offered my initial thoughts on the University of Calgary’s experiment with placing social ads within Facebook. Here are the results of our second round of advertising, where we switched the content of the ads to see if students seemed to be responding more to the type of ad or the content…
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Canadian universities’ resource sharing agreement extends from coast to coast
There are definitely advantages to working in a country with a smallish number of universities… Toronto, Ontario: Effective January 2, 2008, Canadian university faculty, students and staff will now be supported by one Resource Sharing Agreement amongst institutions. The new agreement will extend standardized reciprocal interlibrary loan / document delivery privileges across Canada. Read the…
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InfoLit with a sense of humour
The University of Alberta Augustana Library has made their award-winning DVD, It Changed the Way I Do Research – Period: Augustana Talks Information Literacy, available for free online. Here’s a promo teaser from YouTube: This isn’t something to show to your students; it’s much more a multimedia explanation of how the InfoLit program runs at…