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  • Educause Quarterly – Embedded Librarian and Millennial Generational Values

    There are two library-related articles in the most recent issue of Educause Quarterly that you might want to read:Disconnects Between Library Culture and Millennial Generation Values, by Robert H. McDonald and Chuck Thomas (PDF 122KB  |  HTML Format), and The Embedded Librarian Program, by Victoria Matthew and Ann Schroeder  (PDF 190KB  |  HTML Format). The…

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  • Adobe PRIMO Sites of the Month (October and November 2006)

    Found on Laurie the Librarian’s blog, announcements for the October and November ALA/ACRL PRIMO (Peer-Reviewed Instructional Material Online) sites of the month.  October’s is made with Adobe Breeze, and November’s with Adobe Captivate.  Quick takeaways for me: I didn’t realize Breeze supported ppt slide transitions as well as it does.  That’s the way to deliver…

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  • But what if I just bought the old version?

    I’m slowly putting together the answers to all the questions that were asked during my SirsiDynix Institute session on Screencasting last week.  One person asked if I was sure that version 4 of Camtasia was out, as she had just bought version 3.x the previous week.  I am sure, and told her that if she’d…

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  • ACRL/ARL Webcast on Author’s Rights

    Registration is now open for a special joint Webcast “Author Rights.” Webcast Date: December 14, 2006 Webcast Time: noon to 1 p.m. Pacific, 1-2 p.m. Mountain, 2-3 p.m. Central, 3-4 p.m. Eastern Length: 1 hour ACRL and ARL, through the Institute on Scholarly Communication, along with SPARC are sponsoring a special joint Webcast on author…

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  • 2006 Edublogger Awards – Nominations Open

    Nominations are now being accepted for the 2006 Edublogger Awards “the independently run, community-based awards programme which recognizes and promotes excellence in the educational use of social software.”  There are 10 categories, one for Best library/librarian blog.  There is information on the site about how to nominate (“If you post publicly, and , you are…

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