Category: Service
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Co-Browsing Tools And Technology: A Mini-Guide
Ahhh, how time flies. It was just about two years ago that my fellow bibliobloggers and I were agog over the co-browsing potential shown by a product called Jybe. Just visited their website and it’s all gone – hope the developers have moved on to other good things – they seemed like good guys. Anyhoo,…
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A different name for Distance Librarian
Michael Stephens at Tame the Web points out an interesting job description at the Maricopa County Library: Virtual Branch Manager. After following the link in his post and reading a little more, I think this sounds a lot like what we DE folks do (though I don’t have all the techie skills).
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Librarian Elevator Pitch
Late last month, David Warlick asked his readers how they would respond in one minute if they were asked why librarians are still relevant in schools. David’s not a librarian, so many of the comments came from folks who aren’t librarians either, which offers a bit of refreshing air to the conversation. There are currently…
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EDUCAUSE 2006 recording of The Embedded Librarian Program
Last November I noted an article in Educause Quarterly that described the Embedded Librarian program at the Community College of Vermont. If you didn’t get a chance to read that, maybe you have the time to listen to a recording of one of the authors at EDUCAUSE 2006. The recording is 34 minutes long, and…
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Huge list of Web Presentation Tools (ppt alternatives)
Read in passing earlier today that Google may be readying a PPT alternative, but in the meantime if you don’t care for the way PPT translates to the web, here are a gazillion alternatives for publishing presentations to the web. OK, it’s probably only a couple dozen; I was too lazy to count. "The key…
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Help Tod with his radio piece on Google Downloadable Books
I haven’t taken the time yet to read up on the reports of Google’s proposed book download project, but CBC Technology Reporter Tod Maffin is asking for your help in fact-checking a piece he’s putting together for a Thursday AM airing. For a really short piece aimed at the general public I think he’s pretty…
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Me Day (publications and presentations)
A couple of self-referential links for you today. 1) The screencast of my SirsiDynix Institute presentation on Screencasting is now available online. Seems to work best with IE, as it’s being shown with an embedded Windows Media player (not Flash, as I recommend in my presentation 😉 If you’re using Firefox, may I recommend the…
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Global Librarian
Rachel at The Liminal Librarian posts about a craigslist Bangalore ad for a telecommuting “highly proficient and experienced researcher.” A while back I thought about applying for a job exchange program in India, and wondered, if I wanted to, would I be able to support my U of C distance students from there? I figured…
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Canadian libraries are doing just fine in the digital age
Nice article from the Globe and Mail about public libraries in Canada: Libraries turn page to thrive in digital age. Basically it talks about how libraries are changing to keep up with different demands; offering services to teens (including the obligatory DDR night), spending more of their budgets on electronic resources. Nothing we librarians don’t…