CNI Project Briefing, Monday December 10th at 3:15 pm by Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard of the State and University Library Aarhus, Denmark How should I position my talk? How many in the room are technical, how many are in management? Exploring integrated search. Trying to change the way that we are serving the information to our users.... Continue Reading →
cni opening plenary: tim berners-lee and cni director clifford lynch
Tim Berners-Lee presenting the Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration. Tim: I'm a "fan of open source and all good things." Purpose of the awards is to highlight those who were part of the open source community and involved in moving it forward. Awards limited to Mellon constituencies that contribute to open source development 10 awards... Continue Reading →
cni fall task force meeting
I'll be blogging and presenting at the Coalition for Networked Information Fall 2007 Task Force Meeting tomorrow - I've wanted to attend one of these conferences for some time due to their innovative and collaborative focus, and I'm also interested to see how my reference-centric "project briefing" is received amid the other sessions, many of... Continue Reading →
growth in online education
From a two-part NPR series on online education, thanks to the Distant Librarian: The source document for this table is a Sloan Consortium study, Online Nation: Five Years of Growth in Online Learning.
meebo in the catalog.
In Mashing on the Library, Part 1 Jenny over at the Shifted Librarian profiles examples of libraries who have integrated Meebo widgets into their OPAC. Sarah at Librarian in Black has a similar post. Judging from our incredibly positive experience with Meebo reference the in-catalog widget approach couldn't help but be a success, and Sarah... Continue Reading →
learning spaces
EDUCAUSE has an ongoing project worth highlighting - "Photojournalism of Your Learning Spaces" asks students and staff at universities and colleges to photograph positive and negative aspects of their learning environments and and upload them to Flickr, tagged publicly with "learningspaces" or "learning_spaces." Although many of the photos don't have explanatory notes that would help... Continue Reading →
more uses for skype at the university of canterbury libraries
I posted on a Skype pilot at the University of Canterbury Libraries in New Zealand a while back - it looks like they're now using Skype instead of traditional AV equipment as an aspect of usability testing for a website redesign... great idea, and one that can save a lot of money and trouble in... Continue Reading →
two rad firefox extensions
It's been a long while since I posted - it's been snowy in these parts, which is sure to put any Texan off her game for a spell. First off, I've lately been impressed with a Firefox extension that lets you edit web images in-browser - snipshot. You can right-click on any web image (or... Continue Reading →
group chat in gmail
Gmail recently added a new feature - group chat: It's simple to use - one click in the chat window to search existing contacts and add another user: I find that I use Gmail chat more than any other service these days, and this is definitely a welcome addition. Still no voice, video, or easy... Continue Reading →
must… acknowledge… kindle.
Of course everyone has been blogging about the atrociously-named ebook/blog reader, the Kindle - billed self-importantly by Amazon as a "revolutionary wireless reading device." I've been putting it off out of sheer ennui, but like many others I believe it's a step on the long and dreary march towards a usable portable electronic reader, which... Continue Reading →
info-mational 