Victoria Matthew and Ann Schroeder, “The Embedded Librarian Program,” Educause Quarterly, Vol. 29, Number 4, 2006.
http://www.educause.edu/apps/eq/eqm06/eqm06410.asp

–Pam

http://washington.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2006/10/09/daily22.html

Blackboard is teaming up with Google to integrate a Google Scholar search interface into the learning management system. Although this step may make finding some resources easier, librarians are all too aware of the limitations of Google Scholar. All the more reason to actively educate students and faculty about the pros and cons of Google Scholar and options for the most effective research methods. See the Library’s Google Scholar page: http://infodome.sdsu.edu/research/googlescholar.shtml

–Pam

Sent to us by Jon Cawthorne via Lynn Hawkes:

College Officials Question Blackboard About Controversial Patent During Educause Gathering
http://chronicle.com/temp/email2.php?id=fpnnvpZFRWswJmh8Tcsx8jYmszwvcMmh

–Pam

Sent to us by Jim Julius:

Hi all,
Interesting stuff from the blogosphere this AM – apparently, Blackboard has obtained a patent on just about everything related to
learning management systems: http://mfeldstein.com/index.php/weblog/permalink/blackboard_patents_the_lms

and has immediately sued Desire2Learn: http://www.jarche.com/?p=840

These two posts led me to some other interesting links:

The best set of “Web 2.0″ links I’ve seen on one page:
http://judybrown.com/tools.html

A couple of “alternative” e-learning hosts/portals:
http://www.nuvvo.com
http://openacademic.org (which combines Moodle, Drupal, elgg, OpenID,
and MediaWiki)

-

–Pam

Sent to Pam by Carol Phillips:

There is an on-going effort on IMS TIF (http://www.imsglobal.org/ti/) - Tool Interoperability Framework. The hope is to enable adoption of tools of different LMS’es into others with ‘minimum’ effort of re-engineering; i.e. Bb’ers can use WebCT/Sakai/Moodle tools thru a B4 (Bb Building Block) and vise versa. This will really encourage CSU campuses in favor of different LMS’es to co-op on developing “common interest” LMS tools, and, perfectly, in open source.

If you are interested, email me to join this blog: http://ims-tif.blogspot.com/

Cheers -Max

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Max J. Tsai
Development Lead and Integration Specialist

Digital Campus, California State University, Fresno