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Free and good: Screencastle and Greenshot (and Jing too)
I recently came across two solid free screencast and screencapture resources and finally got a chance to run them through a quick demo. Thought I’d go all recursive and do a screencast of a screencast of the screenshot tool 🙂 The tools involved: Screencastle – web-based screencast tool. Doesn’t get much much simpler – there’s…
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Introducing RefMobile
From the Press Release (PDF): Introducing RefMobile RefMobile is a version of RefWorks for mobile and smart phones, as well as PDAs, that allows you to access and view your references, manage folders and even add information to the Notes field of your references. In addition to being able to access and manage your references,…
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Federated or Broadcast or what do we call this stuff?
There's an interesting discussion happening right now on the Web4Lib Code4Lib mailing list – you can access it via the April archives; scroll down and look for the first post entitled Serials Solutions Summon. Basically it started as a discussion about whether Summon is a revolutionary or evolutionary product, and quickly turned into a discussion…
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More on New Discovery Tools for Online Resources From OCLC and EBSCO
Info Today NewsBreaks has a comprehensive look at the announcement I mentioned earlier this week about OCLC and EBSCO teaming up on a new Discovery tool. In it, Paula Hane does a good job explaining, comparing and contrasting the two front-runners in this "Holy Grail" as she puts it. (Actually I used to describe it…
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WASSAIL InfoLit assessment tool released as open source
The Augustana Campus Library of the University of Alberta has released its Information Literacy assessment and survey software called WASSAIL as an open source application. WASSAIL enables users to: Track assessment data by course, by instructor and by academic year Collect and manage institution-specific questions (including Likert-style, open-ended, subjective or qualitative questions, or pre-defined multiple-choice-style…
Posted Under: Web/Tech