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Comment on A challenge – what are the three best articles about open access ? by gazjjohnson

gazjjohnson — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:23:47 +0000

What? Read them myself? I’m far too laz…busy! I was hoping for some personal favourites – “I read this and my eyes were opened” – or even “I read this and I relaised how wrong it all is” – happy for ones that DON’T like the idea too

Comment on A challenge – what are the three best articles about open access ? by AJ Cann

AJ Cann — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:03:53 +0000

Have a trawl through: http://delicious.com/AJCann/open_access

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Comment on FIL @ the BL: November 2009 by gazjjohnson

gazjjohnson — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:12:34 +0000

It is? Maybe they nicked the idea from Amazon then

Comment on FIL @ the BL: November 2009 by Chris Keene

Chris Keene — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:06:34 +0000

“As an interface it looks closer to Amazon, and indeed may well be using the same technology at a guess, or is inspired by it at least. ”

The BL beta catalogue uses Ex Libris’ Primo discovery application.

Comment on FIL @ the BL: November 2009 by New Beta British Library Catalogue: Initial Impressions « Researching Usability

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:54:23 +0000

[...] search is still available but less prominent than before. As BL currently state that 75% of their users are academic researchers (including students), it seems likely that many will want to use the advanced search. Therefore [...]

Comment on Alternatives to using a wiki to teach? by selinalock

selinalock — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:28:13 +0000

Somone recommended http://www.etherpad.com which allows simultaneous document editing. It doesn’t say how many can edit at once, but there are comments from people who have used it in classrooms. So I think I’m going to try creating 7 documents for 7 groups of up to ten people.

We’ll see how it goes this afternoon! Will report back on the blog next week.

Comment on Alternatives to using a wiki to teach? by stujohnson

stujohnson — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:58:02 +0000

Just thought – you could use digress.it maybe? But probably a bit late and you’ve probably thought of something better by now anyway

Comment on Alternatives to using a wiki to teach? by ajcann

ajcann — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:33:04 +0000

Twitter, via a hashtag?
Next year, use Google Wave

Comment on Kindle: First impressions in the Library by emmakimberley

emmakimberley — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:10:52 +0000

Joanne passed it on to me, so I’ll bring it to the meeting!

Comment on Kindle: First impressions in the Library by gazjjohnson

gazjjohnson — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:25:38 +0000

Aye, maybe for £99, definitly for £50 it’d be worth it. But for £200 smackers I can get a PDA or netbook that will read my PDFs and a whole lot more. In colour.

Comment on Kindle: First impressions in the Library by ajcann

ajcann — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:24:32 +0000

Wrong price point, innit?

Comment on Kindle: First impressions in the Library by gazjjohnson

gazjjohnson — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:24:11 +0000

What meeting? I’m interviewing all morning…

I’ll be passing it to Joanne shortly so you’ll need to ask her!

Comment on Kindle: First impressions in the Library by sarahw9

sarahw9 — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:23:04 +0000

Are you (or someone else) bringing it to the meeting on Friday am?

Comment on Glyndwr University’s new librarianship foundation degree by gazjjohnson

gazjjohnson — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:56:04 +0000

Cheers for the comments Andrea – and yeah, I’ll give anything a go (even if it might not work for sure!). The snap of Paul was me just taking a quick shot with the camera – so yes he wasn’t posed or ready for it!

Hope to be back at Glyndwr just as soon as they invite me back (or I pop over for a visit one weekend!)