Category: Service
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Another RSS to E-mail service
Amit blogs that there’s a new kid on the block when it comes to RSS to Email services, and it’s likely to prove to be a big kid ’cause it’s a service from Feedburner! I haven’t had a chance to try it yet, but I guess you can add it to the rest of the…
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Microsoft’s Academic Search
Maybe it’s just me, but the impending launch of Microsoft’s version of Google Scholar, Academic Search, seems to be slipping up without much notice in the blogosphere. They’ve mentioned it at Search Engine Watch, but apparently a week or so ago three of our colleagues were invited to Redmond to give the product a spin…
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Australian Tome Raiders
See this article about a project to connect all Australian libraries and their collections of 40 million items on the internet will allow readers to find books, copy them or EVEN buy them from online stores. Technorati Tags: Libraries, Australia
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An Article on integrating library information into Course Management Systems
The most recent issue of Innovate, the Journal of Online Education, has an article by John Shank and Steven Bell called A_FLIP to Courseware: A Strategic Alliance for Improving Student Learning Outcomes (you’ll need to register with the site to be able to read it – it’s free). Basically this brief article discusses ways librarians…
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Intuitive Revelations: The Ubiquitous Reference Model
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How’s that for an ear-catching title? Brian Mathews at Georgia Tech is working on a really interesting project. OK, so we know some libraries have created pages in places where patrons hang out, like MySpace. I use a Pubsub feed to look for anyone who’s blogged about the University of Calgary, and on rare occasions…
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Learning without boundaries – Campus Calgary Digital Library
This press release was just sent to all staff at the U of Calgary (click for full size): I was trying to figure out if the marketing people created an entirely new planet for the model to gaze through, but then I figured out the camera is inside the globe – it’s just a different…
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Librarycasting SE
Chad at Library Voice points to Librarycasting SE (the SE is for Sciences and Engineering). This is a wonderful collection (blogged) of screencasts and podcasts put together by Pete Kirlew at Virginia Commonwealth University. A sampling of some of the recent posts include: Tutorials for Engineering Village, PubMed Video Tutorials, Finding Online Tutorials at VCU…
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Statistics Canada to make all electronic publications available for free
I couldn’t find this announcement on the StatsCan website, but this press release was sent to the Data Liberation Initiative listserv on Monday: As of April 24, 2006, all electronic publications available on the Statistics Canada website will become free of charge. The purpose of this message is to inform you about this change in…
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CLA Services for Distance Learning Interest Group
After a hiatus of several years, the Canadian Library Association Services for Distance Learning Interest Group is back. Laurie Prange at Yukon College is the new convener, and she has a section of her blog dedicated to this group. First order of business is to complete a survey on the top 10 services necessary in…
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Creating RSS feeds where none exist
Is there something magic about the number 20? Why don’t individual wiki pages offer RSS feeds? These are two of the questions I’ve been forced to ponder this week. Here’s my story. A month ago I blogged about the launch of the COPPUL Animated Tutorial Sharing (ANTS) Project. We’re using a wiki (MediaWiki) to track…