Category: Web/Tech
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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…
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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…
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New Journal Portal “Open J-Gate” Launches
Another story picked up from LISNews; the announcement of “the world’s biggest Open Access English Language Journals Portal – Open J-Gate. From the website, “Open J-Gate is the contribution of Informatics (India) Ltd to promote OAI. Open J-Gate provides seamless access to millions of journal articles available online. Open J-Gate is also a database of…
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What’s wrong with this picture?
I was doing some collection development this AM and noticed something a little odd on the cover of the following book: Integrating Print and Digital Resources in Library Collections. It’s actually two things wrong with the same part of the picture. First correct comment wins, um, well hey, how about a copy of the book! …
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Online Degree Study – Call for Participation
LISNews reports that Kathryn Kennedy at the University of Florida is seeking participants for a survey on "perceptions and prejudices of online degrees in the hiring process in academic libraries. The papers that we have seen in publication about this subject have been broad, covering employment in academic libraries but also in public libraries and…
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Co-browsing tools to try
These have been taking up space in a couple Firefox tabs all week, and I have yet to get around to trying them. First up, theory.isthereason points to Vyew.com, a free, browser-based web meeting application. They tout “Unique real-time photo charing, One-click screen & file sharing, Whiteboarding for all participants, No downloads, and Unlimited use.” …
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Webcast – Just-in-Time Tutorials using ViewletBuilder
The Partnership is a relatively new network of provincial and territorial library associations across Canada. One of the services they offer is a series of online webinars called The Education Institute, and one of the upcoming sessions will be of interest to distance librarians – Karen Hunt from the University of Winnipeg will be presenting…
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Free Full Text
The Librarian in Black posted about an interesting resource called Free Full Text, which has a tagline of “A supplement to every library catalogue on the planet!” Basically this is a non-searchable directory of “over 7,000 scholarly periodicals which allow some or all of their online content to be viewed by anyone…” Here at the…
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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…
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HarperCollins online
Two months ago I posted about how HarperCollins was going to go it alone, scanning their own titles and making them available to search engines, but keeping the content themselves instead of having Google or Yahoo scan the books. The first title in this experiment seems to have hit the web – The aptly titled,…