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Distant/Remote Librarian Employment?
Dear Hive Mind, I just got an interesting question which I was unable to answer, and wondered if any of you had any suggestions. The paraphrased question is, "I have an MLIS, but reside several hours away from the closest university. I remember hearing about these remote librarian employment opportunities while in Library School. I…
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As of yet, no copyright bill has been introduced…
As mentioned last week, Industry Minister Jim Prentice spoke at the U of C on Friday, February 8, 2008. He didn’t end up speaking about copyright, though the audience sure did. His topic was on policy making around greenhouse gas reductions, but 5 of the 8 questions asked were about copyright law. He seemed to…
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EZProxy and OvidSP Round 2 – Removing the Tip Box
Last month I wrote about how to use EZProxy’s find and replace feature to change the unhelpful text on a database tab to something more helpful:EZProxy Find and Replace: when the vendor says they can’t… Well the Medical Librarians at U of C had another request; to see if we could get rid of that…
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Canadian Copyright updates
The Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) has just released a really good 11-page document called The Copyright Act and Academic Staff (February 2008) (pdf). It discusses what they feel needs to be addressed of concern to Higher Education in any upcoming copyright legislation. And on that note, rumour has it that tomorrow will be…
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Random Tuesday Tech Tip #5 – Aardvark Firefox Extension
The other day I came across a Firefox extension called Aardvark that makes it really easy to clean up websites to print, or even to read online w/o lots of advertisements and fluff around the text. Here’s a quick demo of it in action: