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  • ProQuest and Google Strike Deal To Digitize Newspaper Pages

    oooh, now this is interesting. We already have http://news.google.com  Will this be http://newspapers.google.com? google, proquest, newspapers

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  • Canadian Library Association Grassroots Copyright Advocacy Kit

    The CLA has a Grassroots Advocacy Kit for Fair and Balanced Copyright for Canadians, including background information and advice for speaking with your local MP. Of course the point may be moot what with a new election coming up, but it’s still very good information to have. Did I mention that our Prime Minister called…

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  • Screencast.com now has Commenting

    Just like YouTube, Screencast.com now allows viewers to leave comments below screencasts hosted on that site. This includes stuff created in Jing. More details are at the Screencast.com blog. While YouTube is more popular and free, you’ll get much better video quality out of the screencasts you post on Screencast.com, and you can still embed…

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  • JSTOR – PDF Incompatibility with Mac Preview

    JSTOR reports “We are glad to report that we have located and fixed a problem that caused an incompatibility between JSTOR PDF files and older versions of Mac Preview. This problem caused only part of the article to be viewable in Preview. The fix released today means that JSTOR PDF files should now be viewable…

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  • 2010 Off-Campus Library Services Conference – Cleveland

    Timothy Peters writes to the OFFCAMP mailing list: After having reviewed proposals from nearly forty hotels in eight different cities in the United States and Canada, the decision has been made to hold the 2010 Off-Campus Library Services Conference at the Cleveland Marriott Downtown at Key Center in Cleveland, Ohio from Wednesday, April 28 through…

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