Category: Web/Tech
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The Case of the Missing Dissertation
The U of Calgary has the full-meal-deal with ProQuest Digital Dissertations, or I guess it’s now called "ProQuest Dissertations and Theses – Full Text". That means we’re supposed to have full access in PDF to pretty much everying in the database from 1997 to present. Yes, it is nice 🙂 The other day though, my…
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Amazon.ca Launches “Search Inside”
Amazon.ca Launches “Search Inside” Amazon.ca today announced the launch of its Search Inside! feature which allows consumers to find and discover books by searching the full text inside them, not just matches to author or title keywords. [via Digital Home Canada] Wow, this has been available so long (since 2003) on the main Amazon.com site…
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::schwagbag::: Presence for everyone!
Just caught up to Sherri, who posted a couple of weeks ago about Jyve, a real-time presence indicator for Skype. Over on the upper right you can now learn my Skype status, and click the button to connect. This will also be made available for my distance students on the Library Connection homepage, and in…
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Narrowcasting 101: Using Blogs, Podcasts, and Videoblogs in Higher Education
No specific mention of libraries here, but interesting topics nonethless, and some that will likely impact distance education. Link: EDUCAUSE | EDUCAUSE Live! July 21, 2005. A key element of the new Web is narrowcasting, which includes Weblogs, podcasts, and video blogs. Practices surrounding narrowcasting that use RSS feeds and aggregators…
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Libraries that are IMing?
Sarah and Aaron would like your help identifying Libraries that are IMing. There are two wiki lists of libraries offering virtual reference. LibSuccess’s list of libraries using IM reference & Jybe LIS Wiki’s list of libraries providing virtual reference services (including IM, web-based chat, Jybe, etc.) Aaron at Walking Paper and I are trying to…
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Integration of Breeze and Captivate Enables Easy Creation, Distribution, and Presentation of E-Learning Simulations for Virtual Classrooms
I was really excited when I first saw this on OLDaily, but it seems the big news is for those who have both Captivate and the full blown version of Breeze; my campus just has a mini-version it seems, so none of this new functionality is supported. Regardless, there’s an update to Captivate out there…
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Library materials given to search engines
I missed this announcement it seems. No libraries outside the US are involved in the beta – are any of you? Can you share your experience and/or some screenshots on how the final link is made? A leading library supplier is allowing the Internet’s top search engines to index its previously restricted reference material, hoping…
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Google Scholar Terms of Service
The Digital Librarian weblog was down for quite a while – I was waiting for it to come back up before linking to this interesting tidbit. The blog came back earlier this month but I missed it – here’s the new RSS 2.0 feed. Google Scholar Terms of Service So, I started reading Google Scholar’s…
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SanDisk Introduces FlashCP — Technology To Put Student Textbooks on a USB Flash Drive (MobileBurn)
Guess it’s gotta be tried to see if it’ll actually fly…Link: SanDisk Introduces FlashCP — Technology To Put Student Textbooks on a USB Flash Drive (MobileBurn).
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Podcast Coverage of Google’s Library Digitization Project: Reports from Michigan and Oxford (ELIVE)
A couple of weeks ago I was unable to participate in an Educause webcast on the Google Library Digitization Project. However, I just finished listening to Podcast Coverage of Google’s Library Digitization Project: Reports from Michigan and Oxford and I think it was a better use of my time than sitting watching the ppt and…