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PSA – Zombie Season Approaches

Oct 25, 2012

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We’re within a week of Halloween, so the zombie references are popping out of the woodwork. First up, CommonCraft has updated their previous video, Zombies Explained: Next, from the Zombie Research Society, we have a scientific look at what might be going on in a zombie’s brain to make it a zombie: Zombies seem to…

Canadian Learning Commons Conference Proceedings

Aug 3, 2012

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Paul R. Pival

in Discovery, Ideas, Scholarship, Service

On May 7-9, 2012 the University of Calgary hosted the 6th Canadian Learning Commons Conference. The theme of the conference was New Media, New Fluencies and Life Skills Development: Preparing Learners for the 21st Century. The proceedings for that conference have now been posted in the UofC Institutional Repository. Enjoy!

What about those graduate students?

Jul 9, 2012

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Paul R. Pival

in Ideas, Scholarship, Service, Social Networks

Maybe it's because I don't actually look for it, but it seems that most of the research / survey results I see is geared towards learning about how undergrads use / perceive the library, and services surrounding information seeking. JISC and The British Library have just released a "major study into the behavioural habits of…

How to make library instructional (or other educational) videos and screencasts

Jun 13, 2012

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Paul R. Pival

in Electronic Reference, Service, Tutorials

Chad Boeninger continues to make good use of both screencasting and traditional video in introducing research topics to his business students at Ohio University. In this post Chad "discusses the inexpensive equipment and software needed, and shows how to make a video from start to finish. Discusses camera selection, how to use Screencast-o-matic.com, how to…

Change to Google Scholar Advanced Search

May 31, 2012

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Paul R. Pival

in Discovery, Scholarship, Service, Tutorials

Thanks to a thread on the Web4Lib list I just learned that Google Scholar has changed the way you get to the Advanced Search options. Instead of looking for a link, you'll now hit the down arrow at the right side of the search box: At that point you'll see the advanced search options:

Game Changers – new ebook from Educause

May 10, 2012

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Paul R. Pival

in Books, Ideas, Scholarship, Service, Web/Tech

Educause has just released a new ebook called Game Changers: Education and Information Technologies, which you can download for free. I just ran a quick search through the 388-page PDF version and see that libraries are mentioned in a significant way about a half-dozen times, so you might find it worth your while to take…

GoneReading: buy book stuff for a cause

Mar 5, 2012

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Paul R. Pival

in Ideas, Miscellaneous, Service

I get about 2-3 "cold call" emails per month asking me to consider posting something "of interest to my readers" on this blog. They're pretty much never of interest to me, and thus I don't feel compelled to pass them along to you. Here's an exception. GoneReading is a small website that sells stuff related…

First Annual Open Education Week – March 5-10, 2012

Feb 23, 2012

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Paul R. Pival

in Ideas, Scholarship, Service, Social Networks, Web/Tech

The OpenCourseWare Consortium announces the first annual Open Education Week from March 5-10, 2012. Open Education Week is a global event that seeks to raise awareness about the benefits of free and open sharing in education, especially Open Educational Resources (OER). OER are high-quality, free and open educational materials that offer opportunities for people anywhere…

How Users Search the Library from a Single Search Box

Feb 9, 2012

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Paul R. Pival

in Discovery, Ideas, Scholarship, Service, Web/Tech

A preprint from College & Research Libraries is well worth your read, even if you're not a webmaster: How Users Search the Library from a Single Search Box (from NCSU, Cory Lown, Tito Sierra, and Josh Boyer) Abstract Academic libraries are turning increasingly to unified search solutions to simplify search and discovery of library resources. Unfortunately, very…

Call for nominations – Springhare Innovation in Academic Libraries Award

Feb 9, 2012

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Paul R. Pival

in Ideas, Scholarship, Service

The Academic Division of SLA is very proud to present for the second year an award for academic libraries, sponsored by Springshare, Inc., creator of LibGuides! This annual award recognizes a new program or service that demonstrates an innovative approach to academic librarianship. Please feel free to distribute to all innovative academic libraries you may…

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