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Campus Community Advisory!
Bet most of you don’t have this much fun on YOUR campus! This arrived via email a short time ago: Moose tranquilized and safely removed from campus Alberta Fish and Wildlife Officers successfully tranquilized and removed a young moose from campus this morning. The moose wandered onto campus at about 8:20 a.m. and broke through…
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Road trip survival – children’s music you’ll actually enjoy too!
Absolutely no relevance to libraryland, but as a public service I thought I’d throw you the names of several artists your children will love to listen to in the car, and that you’ll actually appreciate too! Wiggles – NOT! They Might Be Giants – not only their three wonderful kids albums (123 and ABC are…
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Educause Webinar—The Gutenberg-e Project: Opportunities and Challenges in Publishing Born-Digital Monographs
Kate WittenbergDirector, Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia (EPIC)Columbia University Topic: The Gutenberg-e Project: Opportunities and Challenges in Publishing Born-Digital MonographsDate: August 1, 2008Time: 1:00 p.m. ET (12:00 p.m. CT, 11:00 a.m. MT, 10:00 a.m. PT).International participants: You may wish to visit this external time-conversion website to calculate the event’s start time in your time zone.Duration:…
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Jing has a Birthday, you get the gifts.
Jing is now a year old, and Techsmith is officially adopting it as a product (it used to be a project). In addition, the free Screencast.com account that comes with Jing (also free) has been upped to 2 GB of storage and 2 GB of transfer. The Jing Blog suggests that there will be some…
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O’Reilly starting to offer DRM-free PDFs
O’Reilly Press is now offering a small number of titles as print, DRM-free PDF, or both. They’ve got 30 titles where you can choose your medium, and a dozen of those are also available on the Kindle. Interesting comments, including a brief discussion of why electronic books aren’t 90% cheaper than print even though there’s…