Comments on the world of Distance Librarianship

Abstract: In an online world of small pieces loosely joined, librarians are among the most well qualified and highly motivated joiners of those pieces. Library patrons, meanwhile, are in transition. Once mainly consumers of information, they are now, on the...

I've had this one sitting in my to-read for too long - time to pass it on - E-JASL: The Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship v8 no2 includes a couple of interesting-sounding articles - Reaching Students with Facebook:...

Sarah points out that the presentations from the 2007 Virtual Reference Symposium are now available. Lots of stuff on the big fee services, and on IM as well. Technorati Tags: IM, VR

Yet another reason to use Firefox - Aaron just pointed out that there's a new plug-in for Firefox and Meebo that will really help with the alerts - you still have to have Meebo open in a tab, or a...

Meredith Farkas has a lengthy post discussing the problems of distance education programs not supporting their students adequately, or possibly just not informing them of the resources available to them, and the burden those students sometimes place on their local...

David Walker at Cal State has a really compelling presentation on why they've modified their SFX menu to look the way it does. It's a 20-minute Captivate presentation. If you look after SFX at your school, you really should give...

A colleague passed along the following links you may also find of interest: ProQuest CSA has arranged with Google and Google Scholar to allow indexing and searching across bibliographic data for graduate works published in 2005 and forward. PQDT Open...

I mentioned at the beginning of the month that Camtasia Studio 5 was being released, and also that because I'm still on Win2K at the office I hadn't had a chance to play with it. Still true, but Michael Pick...

So I've recently noticed that our Meebo Widgets are not correctly showing our status for our reference service; they almost always display that we're offline even when we're logged in. Looks from the support forums like we're not the only...

Noticed a really nice Flash tutorial from Eastern Washington University was chosen as the September 2007 PRIMO Site of the Month - Citing Your Sources: APA and MLA Citation Styles. After learning about citation styles, users have the chance to...