Category: Web/Tech
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ProQuest RSS Feeds
There’s not a whole lot there just yet, but the mockups look pretty 🙂 ProQuest is working towards making content from their databases available as RSS feeds. They do have some feeds going, but what caught my eye were the mockups for a library page, a faculty page, and a course syllabus. Link: ProQuest RSS…
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Wonderful introduction to Wikis
Just finished the wiki article mentioned in Carolyn’s post and I highly recommend it. It’s well written and easy to understand, and it does a great job of addressing many of the fears and misconceptions about the use of wikis in Higher Education. Why librarians should care about EDUCAUSE I first discovered EDUCAUSE when I…
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Re-syndication: sidebar updates and more
Library Clips posts a nice list of tools that can help you embed your RSS feed in another page (think Blackboard or WebCT or whatever…) The only one of these I’ve personally played with is Feed2JS, and I’ve been really happy with that one. Link: Library clips :: Re-syndication: sidebar updates and more :: May…
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Call for contributors #2 – J. of Lib & Info Services in Distance Learning
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It’s that time again – what may become my quarterly call to see if any gentle readers would like to contribute to the eServices in Libraries column for the Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning. I have several ideas for topics, but am also interested in you bringing your own ideas to…
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Audio for Mac ViewletBuilder
As a followup to last night’s post about the introduction of the Mac version of Qarbon ViewletBuilder (incidentally there’s also a Linux version, but I have no way to play with that), I was able to sucessfully import the ViewletBuilder project I created with my iBook into my Windows version of the software to add…
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OpenURL-enabling Google Scholar
I too have been following the discussion on the SFX support list Peter mentions, and have been hoping he or someone of his calibre would blog about it, making it easier to summarize and include here. I didn’t do a count on the opinions, but I sense that many on the aforementioned list are leaning…
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Preorder The Search
Just ordered for the U of C collection: The Search : The Inside Story of How Google and Its Rivals Changed Everything Preorder The Search You can now start preordering John Battelle’s book The Search at Amazon. John’s the co-founding editor of Wired, author of Searchblog, and brand manager of Boing Boing. [via Google Blogoscoped]
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RAKIM Open Source Chat Reference Software
The current issue of Computers in Libraries introduced me to an open source chat reference software called RAKIM. The article, Implementing RAKIM Open Source Chat Reference Software, describes how librarians at Midlands Technical College decided to try this package (mostly because it’s free), and their impressions of its capabilities and limitations. A couple of the…
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Google Scholar continues to expand (and listen to librarians, it seems)
Gary Price has a great writup called Direct Links to Articles: Be It Resolved that Google Scholar is Now Open to More Libraries on Resource Shelf today. Really exciting stuff. In a nutshell, now any library with link resolver software can now ensure that links to their content will appear along with Google Scholar results. …
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Jybe at Northern Illinois University Libraries
Northern Illinois University Libraries is (are?) using Jybe as their virtual reference service offering. If you visit their homepage, browse to Services and More and then Ask a Librarian, which is the first option on the list. If you already have Jbye installed you can just click the link to be connected to a librarian,…