Category: Service
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Jon Udell, God of So Many Things
You’ve probably heard of Jon Udell before, possibly as the guy who built the first Library Lookup bookmarklet, or perhaps as the guy who’s credited with coining the term “screencasting“. Today though, I heart Jon because he built an unofficial RSS feed to receive episodes of This American Life as a podcast. When I moved…
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ALA Programs of possible Interest to DLS members
The DLS Liaison Committee has compiled a list of programs at ALA Annual in New Orleans later this month, that may be of interest to the DLS membership. This was originally sent to the OFFCAMP mailing list: Friday, June 23(Pre-Conference) Reinvented Reference: The Integration of Digital and Traditional Reference Services — 8:00 a.m. – 4:30…
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Podcasts about Podcasts and Podcasting
This AM on the way in to work I finished listening to a podcast version of Greg Schwartz’s SirsiDynix session, A Beginner’s Guide to Podcasting: Part 1 – A Consumer’s Guide, and if you’re at all interested in learning about podcasts I recommend it. I’ve been on the podcasting bandwagon since it left the station,…
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CFP: Academic Exchange Quarterly articles on Online Learning
A Library Writer’s Blog has another DE-related CFP for you – The Academic Exchange Quarterly is soliciting articles for an issue dealing with Online Learning. Submissions are accepted until the end of August. Technorati Tags: Distance_Education
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New Peer-Reviewed Journal: Journal of Web Librarianship
Library Writer’s Blog reports the announcement of a new peer-reviewed journal called the Journal of Web Librarianship. Examples of topics appropriate for the Journal of Web Librarianship include but are not limited to: web page design, usability testing of library or library-related sites, cataloging or classification of Web information, international issues in web librarianship, scholars’…
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Down to earth a little
Having spent a lot of time this week thinking about the issues in my privacy and social networks post, I don’t want to head home this weekend w/o a brief followup, which comes from an exchange I had with our manager of integrated systems (aka OPAC Wrangler). David pointed out a couple of gaps in…
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WebMeeting tips
Laurie posts her reflections on hosting her first webmeeting (practice session). Pretty much all of these would stand for delivering remote synchronous instruction as well, so if that’s something you’ve never done you might tuck these away. She makes it sound like a really scary experience, but I’ll bet if you wrote down all the…
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Browsing Library Collections: From the Shelf to the Online Catalog
I’ve recently been involved in some planning meetings for our new Campus Calgary Digital Library, and one idea that came up was whether we’d move older materials to storage, and someone mentioned how tough that makes it to browse and thus invite serendipity. I realized (not for the first time) that this is one of…
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Flash in the pan?
Brian Mathews thinks it’s a waste of time to create a library profile on Facebook. You may recall Brian had the neat presentation called Intuitive Revelations: The Ubiquitous Reference Model, in which he created a library identiy in LiveJournal. In that project he concluded that it seemed to work a lot better when he showed…
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OCLSC presentations now available online
Not every single one, but many of the presentations (mostly ppt) from last week’s Off Campus Library Services Conference are now available online. Technorati Tags: OCLSC06