Category: Service
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You think you’ve got it rough?
Going the Extra Mile: Supporting Distance Education at University of Alaska Fairbanks, Suzan Hahn, Lisa Lehman, Rheba Dupras Abstract:The Elmer E. Rasmuson Library at the University of Alaska Fairbanks has a long history of supporting distance education through state-of-the-art, remote access services. Harsh climate conditions (heavy snowfall and icing, high winds, and extreme temperatures), rugged…
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Wetpaint Education Wikis Are Now Ad-free!
I really like the interface and options at wetpaint, one of the free wiki-hosting companies. Like most free services, they embed ads on pages that you create. Except now, if you create an education-based wiki with them, you can email them and they’ll remove the ads! Visit http://www.wetpaint.com/category/Education–Ad-Free for more details. They say: Who qualifies…
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2008 Off-Campus Library Services Conference Scholarship
The Thirteenth Off-Campus Library Services Conference will be held in Salt Lake City on April 23-25. The conference is offering a comprehensive scholarship to a librarian or prospective librarian who meets the following requirements: has never attended an Off-Campus Library Services Conference must either be a library science student interested in distance education or a…
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Meredith on Online learning and its impact on public libraries
Meredith Farkas has a lengthy post discussing the problems of distance education programs not supporting their students adequately, or possibly just not informing them of the resources available to them, and the burden those students sometimes place on their local public libraries. Some good comments starting to pile up already.
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Improving the SFX menu
David Walker at Cal State has a really compelling presentation on why they’ve modified their SFX menu to look the way it does. It’s a 20-minute Captivate presentation. If you look after SFX at your school, you really should give this a look. (thanks for the tip, Jennifer)
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Becoming slightly more Distant
Starting next week I’ve got a new job, at least for the next 6 months. Our Public Services Systems librarian recently left for the warmer pastures of British Columbia, and rather than operate with a hole in a critical position we’re filling the position on a 6-month interim basis with me. During that time we’ll…
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IM Reference launches at the U of Calgary
Yesterday we soft-launched our IM reference service here at the U of Calgary. We’re using Meebo to handle all our accounts, and also chose it for the ability to use the MeeboMe widgets. Back when I did my screencasting seminar for the SirsiDynix Institute, Sarah Houghton-Jan asked a question that really stuck with me; “can…
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Jossey-Bass O-T-L Conference Online
I’m cleaning out email after my vacation and wanted to get this one out as there’s a fee increase after August 31. I have no affiliation with this group, but Jossey-Bass is promoting several of its books through an online conference October 17-18. When you register you can also choose three book titles to keep. …
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Gale now offers RSS feeds
As part of a suite of interface changes, Gale is now offering the ability to subscribe to search alerts via RSS. Just as with EBSCO, when I added the alert to Google Reader it came back with no results, so I’m assuming it will start feeding me new results when they’re added to the database. …
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ARL White Paper on Interlibrary Loan
Stephen Abram points to a recently-released white paper on interlibrary loan, from ARL. You won’t find any actual numbers in this 4 (barely)-pager, but you will find some interesting trends. ILL for returnables (books) is generally up, according to statistics from several sources, but ILL for non-returnables is generally pretty far down. There are some…