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:...

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...

Yesterday we soft-launched our IM reference service here at the U of Calgary. We're using Meebo to handle all our accounts, and also chose it for the ability to use the MeeboMe widgets. Back when I did my screencasting seminar...

The Chronicle has a very brief piece mentioning San Jose State University's use of Second Life to deliver instruction to distance students enrolled in their SLIS program. Also included is a video segment from their local PBS station in which...

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?...

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:...