Category: Service
-
Window of Opportunity for DE Librarians?
The New York Times reports that “Colleges will no longer be required to deliver at least half their courses on a campus instead of online to qualify for federal student aid.” Wonder how many new DE Librarian positions will be created to help with the expected increase in distance education programs across the nation? This…
-
Unyte has some real potential!
Over the past couple of days I’ve had a chance to briefly try out a couple of co-browsing tools I mentioned last Friday. Vyew doesn’t look like it’ll be of use to me – no opportunity for co-browsing that I can see – it just allows me to share a whiteboard and files, but Unyte…
-
TechSmith Astoria Project (beta)
TechSmith, makers of screencasting software Camtasia Studio, is looking for beta testers for a new product that appears to be geared towards remote usability testing, but I signed up for the beta ’cause I want to see how easy it is to use with remote library database users – might be a useful tool for…
-
Meredith rolls another wiki – Computers in Libraries 2006
Meredith Farkas, who first appeared on many radar screens last year after starting up the first Unofficial ALA Conference Wiki, has produced another conference-related wiki, this time for Computers in Libraries, 2006, held in the DC area March 22-24. She’s investing just a little less of her soul in this one, opting for a PBWiki…
-
COPPUL Animated Tutorial Sharing Project
Earlier this week an official announcement was made to the COPPUL (Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries) Regional Consortium introducing an idea that’s been in the works for almost two years – The COPPUL Animated Tutorial Sharing Project. In a nutshell, this is an attempt to share the source code for screencasts that have…
-
SnagIt 8 released
Sometime late last summer, Techsmith sent me a licensed copy of SnagIt 7 and Camtasia Studio to evaluate, in hopes that I would like them and tell the world. At the time, I was a staunch user of Qarbon ViewletBuilder Pro for my screencasting, and of Pixelmetrics CaptureWiz Lite for my average static screen capture…
-
Finding libraries near you
Libraries411 grabs your location and draws a Google or Yahoo map of the immediate area with pushpins for all the Public Libraries in the vicinity. This would be a really useful tool for distance students if it also included Academic Libraries. And what if we (librarians) could interact with it so we could also display…
-
Interactive Workshop – Guidelines for Distance Learning Library Services
A little late on re-publishing this from the OFFCAMP list, but Rob Morrison, Chair of the DLS Guidelines Committee writes about an upcoming workshop at ALA Midwinter: Guidelines for Distance Learning Library Services Interactive WorkshopALA Midwinter ConferenceSaturday, January 21, 1:30-3:30 pmHotel Menger, Ballroom AACRL Distance Learning Section Help brainstorm ideas and draft new language in…
-
More from Educause – Changing a Cultural Icon: The Academic Library as a Virtual Destination
As I was browsing around the Educause site looking for something for the previous post, I tripped across this Jan/Feb 2006 Educase Review article titled: Changing a Cultural Icon: The Academic Library as a Virtual Destination. Here’s the abstract: Deep into the digital age, academic libraries have relinquished much of their fundamental and sustaining role.…
-
Google Video Store and Distance Education
The Google Video Store has launched with paid content. I haven’t visited Google Video for some time, so a lot of this may have been in there for a while now, but I thought I’d see what was available for the search library or libraries, and got 1,171 results! There seems to be a whole…