Category: Web/Tech
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Global Librarian
Rachel at The Liminal Librarian posts about a craigslist Bangalore ad for a telecommuting “highly proficient and experienced researcher.” A while back I thought about applying for a job exchange program in India, and wondered, if I wanted to, would I be able to support my U of C distance students from there? I figured…
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Rothman’s RSS to Web Page examples
Wow, I’ve played with these types of tools for a couple of years now, but I tend to stick with what works for me, and thus haven’t even heard of about half of these, but David Rothman put together a nice page showing default output for nine different tools that allow RSS to be output…
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Wii can screencast!
I guess I was a good boy last year, as my wife was able to score me a Wii for Xmas! The Wii includes an internet browser (based on Opera), and of course as a library geek I just had to see what it was capable of. Viewing Screencasts? Check! Accessing databases via EZProxy? Check! …
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Blended Learning: Research Perspectives
Not a whole lot there right now, but Sloan-C (a consortium of institutions and organizations committed to quality online education) has a site dedicated to Blended Learning called, appropriately enough, Blended Learning: Research Perspectives. “Sloan-C will be using this web site to collect and share resources for educators and administrators involved with blended and hybrid…
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UPenn Online Books Page
The Centered Librarian points to The Online Books Page at the University of Pennsylvania, a listing of over 25,000 free books on the Web. While the site does appear to be indexed in Google, it might still be worth a personal visit if you’re searching for something. Probably because it only appeared on the site…
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Ultimate Guide to the Invisible Web
Continuing on the vein of their Research Beyond Google page, the Online Education Database has recently posted The Ultimate Guide to the Invisible Web, which looks like a really good resource. There you will find background on the concept of the invisible web, 9 reasons a web page is invisible, 10 ways to make invisible…
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Google offers to digitize journal back runs!
Well this is interesting, and if you’re not a journal aggregator, good news. According to Peter Suber, Google is offering to digitize and provide OA to the back runs of scholarly journals! Peter’s got all the details on his site, but I’ll jump right to one of his comments towards the bottom that says, "I…
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Embedding Flash in a wiki
Chad at Library Voice posts about an extension for MediaWiki that allows Flash to be embedded. He was originally looking for a way to embed a MeeboMe widget, but after I asked he determined that it could just as easily be used to embed a screencast. Cool, thanks Chad! Technorati Tags: Flash, MediaWiki, Screencasts
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Idea for Screencasting on YouTube
Well I couldn’t get it to work in the 2 minutes I had left at the end of the day to play with it, but YouTube now allows you to record yourself from within YouTube, using your own webcam. So what’s the next obvious choice? Allow you to record your own desktop directly to YouTube! …
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Your own personal repository
So you say you work at a smaller academic institution without an institutional repository, or even in a non-academic setting? But you still publish work related to Library and Information Science? Have I got a site for you! I know I’m not the first to find it, but I haven’t seen it mentioned as much…