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Sept PRIMO Site of the Month: Citing Your Sources: APA and MLA Citation Styles
Noticed a really nice Flash tutorial from Eastern Washington University was chosen as the September 2007 PRIMO Site of the Month – Citing Your Sources: APA and MLA Citation Styles. After learning about citation styles, users have the chance to click and drag various parts of the citation into the correct order, and then check…
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MozBackup – for transferring Thunderbird and Firefox profiles
So I moved offices this weekend, and also moved to a new desktop machine. Used MozBackup to transfer my Thunderbird and Firefox profiles, which includes all bookmarks, preferences, extensions, cookies, etc. In a nutshell, after only about 10 minutes, I was fully functional w/o having to hunt down and reinstall anything – wonderful time saver!
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Trillian coming to the Mac
The Cerulean Studios blog reports that they’re going to be bringing Trillian Astra to OSX. Technorati Tags: Trillian, OSX, Reference, IM
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Becoming slightly more Distant
Starting next week I’ve got a new job, at least for the next 6 months. Our Public Services Systems librarian recently left for the warmer pastures of British Columbia, and rather than operate with a hole in a critical position we’re filling the position on a 6-month interim basis with me. During that time we’ll…
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IM Reference launches at the U of Calgary
Yesterday we soft-launched our IM reference service here at the U of Calgary. We’re using Meebo to handle all our accounts, and also chose it for the ability to use the MeeboMe widgets. Back when I did my screencasting seminar for the SirsiDynix Institute, Sarah Houghton-Jan asked a question that really stuck with me; “can…