Category: Web/Tech
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Meredith rolls another wiki – Computers in Libraries 2006
Meredith Farkas, who first appeared on many radar screens last year after starting up the first Unofficial ALA Conference Wiki, has produced another conference-related wiki, this time for Computers in Libraries, 2006, held in the DC area March 22-24. She’s investing just a little less of her soul in this one, opting for a PBWiki…
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Librarian named as Director of Online Information Resources for Ask Jeeves
Gary Price, of SearchEngineWatch, ResourceShelf, and DocuTicker, has been named Director of Online Information Resources for Ask Jeeves! You can read about his new duties, which include outreach to the library and education communities and product development. Should be interesting to see what library-related/friendly stuff comes from Jeeves in the near future. Good luck, Gary!
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The Search
I’ve been home sick much of this week, and the only good thing to come of it is that I finally had enough time to finish John Battelle’s book The Search, which is about web searching in general, but mostly about Google. I quite enjoyed it; lots of interesting background on the evolution of search…
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Thoughts on textbook use in distance education
Rebecca has a good post with lots of links and thoughts about whether textbooks are the best way to go in higher education.
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COPPUL Animated Tutorial Sharing Project
Earlier this week an official announcement was made to the COPPUL (Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries) Regional Consortium introducing an idea that’s been in the works for almost two years – The COPPUL Animated Tutorial Sharing Project. In a nutshell, this is an attempt to share the source code for screencasts that have…
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Federated Search Symposium wrap-up
Warning: long post! I’ve just spent the last day and a half at a federated search symposium sponsored by The Alberta Library. I went in with some preconceived ideas about the state of federated search, and while they weren’t totally assuaged, I think I feel a little more confident about the future of this idea. …
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LiB has concerns about the QuestionPoint Flash Interface
We’re not a QuestionPoint user here at the U of C, but I’m sure some of you out there are. Sarah, Librarian in Black, has some concerns about the upcoming release of the Flash interface to the product. Worth a look if you use or are considering using QuestionPoint… Technorati Tags: VirtualReference, QuestionPoint
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Distance Ed and redistribution of TV footage
A brief blurb in the Chronicle of Higher Education Blog about how the Library Copyright Alliance is fighting against the latest incarnation of the broadcast flag, arguing that is “could counteract the Technology Education and Copyright Harmonization Act, which allows educators and libraries to transmit material from news and entertainment programs to students over the…
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EBSCO and Grokker
Finally read an EBSCO newsletter that’s been sitting in my inbox all week, and discovered that in February EBSCO will introduce a “Visual Search” feature to all (?) of their databases. When you watch this 30-second flash video of how it will work, you’ll see that it’s Grokker that’s been licensed. Time to update those…
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SnagIt 8 released
Sometime late last summer, Techsmith sent me a licensed copy of SnagIt 7 and Camtasia Studio to evaluate, in hopes that I would like them and tell the world. At the time, I was a staunch user of Qarbon ViewletBuilder Pro for my screencasting, and of Pixelmetrics CaptureWiz Lite for my average static screen capture…