http://insidehighered.com/news/2005/12/22/hours

This discusses the proportions of time faculty in different disciplines spend doing research, teaching, admin., etc.

http://lcsh.orhost.org/

Try out this neat quick search of LCSH. Results are ranked by the number of holdings in Worldcat.

http://fraser.typepad.com/edtechuk/2005/12/
edublog_awards__1.html

Syndication for Higher Ed: Exploring Emerging Practice in RSS, Podcasting, and Blogging on Higher Ed Websites.
[ http://syndicateblog.petersons.com/ ]

In particular, you must Read/See the screencast by Dan Karleen

“Podcasting: How It Can Work for Student Recruiting” available from

[ http://syndicateblog.petersons.com/wordpress/index.php/non-classroom-college-and-university-podcasts/ ]

The screencast itself is available from
[ http://syndicateblog.petersons.com/files/Aacrao-talk.html ]

The PPT slides are accessible from
[ http://syndicateblog.petersons.com/files/Podcasting.ppt ]

An associated Blog has a list /links to site at
[ http://dan-karleen-aacrao-sem-podcast-talk.blogspot.com/ ]

BTW: Includes an Excellent History of Podcasting in Higher Ed !!!

You can now comment to the blog, thanks to Ellyssa fixing it!

The latest thing in the blogosphere is Librarian Trading Cards! If you haven’t made yours already you can sign up with Flickr (if you have a Yahoo! mail account you can sign in through your user/pass) and upload a photo of yourself. Then go to Flickr Toys and design your trading card and send it to the group.

You can check out mine here. I will be bringing my digital camera today if anyone wants their pic taken and I’m willing to help anyone who wants to make a card.

The New York Public Library is now offering RSS feeds for their patrons, including a feed which serves to notify patrons when they subscribe to new online databases!

Did you know that your subject guides or other web pages can include direct links to CLIO records? I learned this from Cathy Thomas while working on the religion subject guide, and apparently it’s already been used on Business and Music pages, but it doesn’t seem to be widely known.

There is a SWIFT link to a resource that will take the long session-dependent URL for a CLIO record, and strip off all the session-dependent code, leaving a direct link to to the record itself. So, if your subject guide includes print resources, you can have a link directly to the CLIO record for that title.

The direct URL to the resource is https://www1.columbia.edu/sec/cu/libraries/staffweb/clio/ search_generator.html

You can also get there by clicking on CLIO on SWIFT (under DIGITAL), and then clicking on “Canned CLIO Search Generator” in the lower right quadrant of the page.

An example of how this has been used is here http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/ music/reserves/music_hum.html

I agree with Cathy that it makes sense to have the link read “Click here for CLIO record” rather than linking the actual title of the print resource, as the latter method might confuse people into thinking that the link would lead to an online resource.

Hope you find this as useful as I have!

From: http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/051211-213738

One of those SearchDay stories was titled: A Hearty Buffet of Look-Up Databases, and looked at the many and free online databases that Melissa Data made available. Melissa Data is a mailing company and offers these online tools as a public service. Everything from “Zip Codes within a certain radius” to Income Tax stats to “area codes within a certain radius.” Most of the databases listed in my 2003 article are still available.

Ok, so after looking at that overview (an invite to do so) you’ll be happy to know that Melissa Data continues to offer free lookup databases. In fact, when I wrote the article in 2003, 18 databases were listed.

It’s almost 2006 and that “hearty buffet” of databases, has grown even larger, now home to more than 30 databases and tools. Here are links to some of the latest offerings. Google Maps mashup folks will be happy to learn that several of these new databases utilize Google Maps.

+ ZIP Code Maps
“Displays a map with the boundary of a 5-digit ZIP Code”
Uses Google Maps

+ City Maps
“Displays a city or town boundary map and demographics.”
Uses Google Maps

+ Congress Maps
“Maps of a congressional districts and information about representative.”
Uses Google Maps

+ Home Sales
“Get the monthly home sales and selling price by ZIP Code.”
See Also: HomePages.com

+ County Maps
“Displays a county boundary map.”
Uses Google Maps

+ School District Maps
“Displays public school district boundary maps nationwide.”
Uses Google Maps

Melissa Data is a fantastic one-stop shop for this ready reference type of data. A user gets 500 lookups per day for free. It’s possible to get more by subscribing to one of two plans.

What is the image of at the top of this page? I can’t manage to associate it with anything having to do with either Butler or Butler Reference, and I’m so confused.