Comments on the world of Distance Librarianship

Just learned about the oSkope visual search engine, currently searching Amazon, eBay, Flickr and Youtube. Kind of fun to play with - here's a quick screencast. Would a display like this make it more "fun" to use the library catalogue?...

To go along with the previous post, Stephen Abram also notes an interesting statistic about DE: the U of Phoenix and Western International University are among the top 5 largest US Universities.

The Chronicle of Higher Ed has a very short piece about the rising stock (as in stock market) of Capella University - lots of support in the comments from Capella grads! I've met librarians from the U of Phoenix, but...

I haven't heard of any libraries making use (or wishing they could) of file transfer over meebo, but it could be useful to push a subject guide or something. Meebo just announced they now support file transfer between the different...

Last month (August 7), Meredith Farkas and I did a SirsiDynix presentation called Free your content! RSS for Libraries. The recordings (audio and video) for that session are now available on the SirsiDynix website, as is a PDF of our...

Chad Boeninger has a comprehensive post at Library Voice describing how to view your MeeboMe widgets while using Pidgin (formerly GAIM), thus obviating the need to have Meebo open in a website at all. I haven't tried Pidgin in a...

You've probably heard of Jon Udell before, possibly as the guy who built the first Library Lookup bookmarklet, or perhaps as the guy who's credited with coining the term "screencasting". Today though, I heart Jon because he built an unofficial...

The DLS Liaison Committee has compiled a list of programs at ALA Annual in New Orleans later this month, that may be of interest to the DLS membership. This was originally sent to the OFFCAMP mailing list:Friday, June 23(Pre-Conference)Reinvented Reference:...

Found this great list of screencasting resources as a result of a post by Amit at Digital Inspiration. This week (June 1), Jeremy Wagstaff's Loose Wire column in the Wall Street Journal is about Screencasting. You can't read the column...

Techsmith is looking for 25 beta testers for upcoming releases of their SnagIt (screen capture) and Camtasia Studio (sreencasting) products.Technorati Tags: Screencasting, Beta,...