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  • Got something to say to Facebook?

    Brian Matthews has a meeting next week with Mike Murphy of Facebook, and is looking for reasons why libraries and other service units on campus belong in facebook.  You may recall that several weeks ago, it appeared that Facebook was deleting the profiles of libraries, arguing that Facebook was a place for individuals.  If you…

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  • SirsiDynix Screencasting Links

    These are the links that I referenced during my Introduction to Screencasting seminar for the SirsiDynix Institute.  The archived seminar will soon be available online, and when it is I’ll replace this sentence with a link to it.  The examples that I hope to show include: Book Title Search from Central Michigan University’s Off Campus…

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  • Dotto on Libraries

    Here in Canada we have a TV tech show for the layman called DottoTech, and a couple of months ago Steve Dotto ran a brief segment about using your local Public Library to access licensed databases.  That clip (about 3 minutes) is now available online.  I hope you won’t learn anything as a librarian from…

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  • Camtasia Studio vs. Adobe Captivate

    The WebBriefcase Blog has just put up a comparison of Camtasia Studio 4 and Adobe Captivate 2.  The author is a long-time Captivate user, and while it seems pretty close, decides in the end to stick with Captivate rather than switch to Camtasia Studio.  He found the output formats superior in Camtasia Studio, but the…

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  • If you build it, will they learn?

    I recently finished the following article: If you buld it, will they learn? Assessing online information literacy tutorials, by Elizabeth Blakesley Lindsay, Lara Cummings, Corey M. Johnson and B. Jane Scales, College and Research Libraries, September 2006, Vol. 67, No. 2.  Should be freely available online around March. Here’s the abstract: With the support of…

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