Category: Web/Tech
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Scholar on the Home Page
TJ notes that Google Scholar is now appearing as a link on the Google homepage, but possibly only if one is at a .edu domain. I see it here in Calgary with my .ca domain as well, but again I’m sitting on a campus (just not with a .edu domain). Regardless of where (when) the…
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Quick Searchguide at Blekinge Institute of Technology
Eva at the library at the Blekinge Institute of Technology in Sweden sent me a link to their Quick Searchguide, which is a Flash-based menu system to direct students to research resources at their library. Nice marketing PDF shows the important student thumbs-up, and notes that libraries can buy the sourcecode to customize the resource…
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Google’s Library Digitization Project: Reports from Michigan and Oxford
This sounds like a good way to spend an hour next week – I’m registered! Your host, Steve Worona, will be joined by John P. Wilkin and Reginald Carr, and the topic will be "Google’s Library Digitization Project: Reports from Michigan and Oxford." Late last year, Google announced agreements with five major libraries (Harvard, the…
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Athabasca U Digital Thesis & Project Room
Athabasca University Library is demonstrating the power of their Digital Reading Room by making the full text of a couple dozen Masters in Distance Education (MDE) theses available. Links to these resources can be found in both Google and Google Scholar, so it’s likely your distance students will run across them at some point…Link: DTR…
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Pandora Archive – Preserving and Accessing Networked Documentary Resources of Australia
Hey neat – it’s like the Internet Archive for Australia, but since it’s run by libraries it even has a collection development policy! The purpose of the PANDORA Archive is to collect and provide long-term access to selected online publications and web sites that are about Australia, are by an Australian author on a subject…
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Opinions on Google and Libraries Sought
If you were at the last OCLS Conference in Carefree you’ll remember Siva was our keynote speaker…Opinions on Google and Libraries Sought Lots of you have strong opinions on Google Print, Google Scholar and Google’s deals with the G5–those libraries participating in the Google digitization of some/all of their materials. Well, here’s your chance to…
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Listen to Flash
So for ages and ages folks have used frames to present instructions on one side of the screen and a live database on the other. Guided tutorial is what I call it. Recently we began using Macromedia Breeze on my campus, and colleagues seem freshly intrigued with the possibilities of incorporating audio into online instruction. …
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Dilettante’s Ball: WAG the Monkey
Ross Singer – digital alchemist. OK admittedly it will be a loooong time before all our distance students will be using Firefox, but wow is this cool! This is the sort of thing that when shown in a training session would likely entice someone to switch to Firefox. To summarize, once you’ve (painlessly) installed Greasemonkey…
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Open Stacks: Education Podcast Network
Nice site if you’re looking for topical (education!) podcasts.Link: Open Stacks: Education Podcast Network.
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eBooks galore!
I’ve had the TOC for Volume 23 Issue 1 of The Electronic Library sitting in my inbox for two months now; it’s a special issue on Electronic Books and I was going to read at least some of the articles and let you know all about ’em, but HA! If it didn’t happen in the…