Category: Web/Tech
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CFP: IRSQ – special issue focusing on social software and libraries
Michael Stephens has posted that he’s editing an upcoming issue of Internet Reference Services Quarterly: Internet Reference Services Quarterly, a refereed journal published by The Haworth Press Inc., invites proposals for a special issue focusing on social software and libraries. The issue (12/3) will tentatively be published in Winter 2007, edited by Michael Stephens, Instructor,…
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Huge collection of ebrary screencasts
ebrary has used Camtasia Studio to put together a very comprehensive list of brief screencasts on how to use their product. Nothing too fancy, but it saves me from having to build ’em, so thanks Janet at Ebrary! From their email to customers: ebrary is pleased to announce that we have launched the first version…
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Podcasts about Podcasts and Podcasting
This AM on the way in to work I finished listening to a podcast version of Greg Schwartz’s SirsiDynix session, A Beginner’s Guide to Podcasting: Part 1 – A Consumer’s Guide, and if you’re at all interested in learning about podcasts I recommend it. I’ve been on the podcasting bandwagon since it left the station,…
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iPod has new role as educational tool
I love it when my tech/gadget fetish crosses over into my everyday world of education. For example, Engadget reports that Pearson Education has just announced plans to release downloadable study guides for their textbooks. Technorati Tags: ebooks, iPod, audio_books
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Finding a Screencasting Tool for Mac OS X
I have been asked several times if I knew of a solid screencasting tool for the Mac, and while for a short time Qarbon offered a version of ViewletBuilder for the Mac, there didn’t seem to be any packages nearly as nice as the Windows heavyweights. Duane points to a package called ScreenRecord that looks…
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New Peer-Reviewed Journal: Journal of Web Librarianship
Library Writer’s Blog reports the announcement of a new peer-reviewed journal called the Journal of Web Librarianship. Examples of topics appropriate for the Journal of Web Librarianship include but are not limited to: web page design, usability testing of library or library-related sites, cataloging or classification of Web information, international issues in web librarianship, scholars’…
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Internet Librarian 2006 program announced
The program for Internet Librarian 2006 has just been posted. To be held Oct 23-25 in Monterey, CA, I attended for the first time last year and found it to be one of the best conferences I’ve ever attended. Full of cutting-edge ideas and interesting people. I’m honored to be speaking with Meredith Farkas on…
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Some thoughts on ‘Scan This Book’
Other people have dissected Kevin Kelley’s Scan This Book! article from the NYT much more effectively than I ever could, but I still wanted to jot down some random thoughts and quotes I lifted from the article. If you still haven’t read it, I think you should. Here are some of the quotes/figures I found…
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Introducing WISPR – Workshop on the Information Search Process for Research
OK, here’s the final post about OffCamp 2006 in Savannah; I saved the best for last ;-), as this was the presentation I gave with Shauna Rutherford, my colleague from the U of C. The paper was actually written by three of us (though mostly by Shauna and Alix), but Dr. Alix Hayden wasn’t able…