Category: Service
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Thanks for nothing, big guys (UofT and UWO cave to Access Copyright)
This made a big splash up here in Canada last week, but then seemed to quickly quiet down, and I'm not sure why. Maybe I'm just looking in the wrong spots. Read many of the details on the Excess Copyright blog, but as Howard Knopf points out, "In an astonishing development that has caught all…
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Mentoring a New Distance Education Librarian
A newish book popped up for me on an ego alert, and I learned that Mentoring in Librarianship: Essays on Working with Adults and Students to Further the Profession contains a chapter specifically on Mentoring a New Distance Education Librarian (it’s chapter 27, written by Annie Knight). It’s also available on Amazon, where you can…
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CFP – 6th Canadian Learning Commons Conference
Deadline for Submissions extended to Friday, January 13, 2012 Call for Proposals – 6th Canadian Learning Commons Conference New Media, New Fluencies and Life Skills Development: Preparing Learners for the 21st Century We invite submissions for the 6th Canadian Learning Commons Conference, May 7 – 9, 2012 to be held at the University of Calgary…
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Sarah calls out OverDrive
If you currently subscribe or are considering subscribing to OverDrive's ebook service, you owe it to yourself to go read Sarah's (LiB) post about how OverDrive is offering different catalogues to libraries based on how those libraries define their service areas. Apparently it is in OverDrive's TOS, but it's not very clear, and OverDrive hasn't…
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ScreenConnect – another remote-assistance tool
A year ago I blogged about an article I had read that looked at different tools that could be used to either create screencasts, or allow screen sharing, in support of virtual reference transactions. Six months ago a representative from ScreenConnect sent me an email suggesting that tool would be a good addition to the…
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Lifehacker’s Five Best Screencasting or Screen Recording Tools
No surprises in here really, as Lifehacker rounds up the five best screencasting tools as submitted by its readers. My fav, Camtasia Studio, comes out on top all around, offering both a Windows and Mac version. There seem to be a lot of folks who like the free CamStudio though, if the after-poll is to…
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New (DE) Kid on the Block
When I first started this blog (7 years ago!) it was in part to fill a perceived gap in the blogosphere on the topic of library service to distance students. Since then I've broadened the scope of The Distant Librarian to library tech in general, and there have been a fair number of other blogs…