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  • Canadian Learning Commons Conference – registration now open

    Looking for an excuse to come check out our awesome new library building? Why not register for the 6th Canadian Learning Commons Conference, to be held here at the University of Calgary, May 7-9, 2012. The theme of the conference is New Media, New Fluencies and Life Skills Development: Preparing Learners for the 21st Century, and

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  • The importance of sweater vests and screencasting

    Over at Library Voice, Chad Boeninger pops out of hibernation with an excellent post titled How I make instructional library web videos and screencasts and how you can too. In this post Chad distills his six years of experience with screencasting by answering the following questions: Why Web Video? What type of content? How much time

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  • Tips for making mobile-friendly screencasts

    Over at The Screening Room, the blog to support the Mac-only screencasting product, ScreenFlow, you'll find a recent post with some guidelines for creating screencasts optimized for the iPhone and iPad. Note though that down in the comments you'll find some corrected information, so you should probably go with those figures. While this post talks

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  • ebrary launches an iOS app

    Well I was gonna give a complete review, but got called away for the afternoon, but you should should go check out the new ebrary iOS app (links to the Cdn iTunes store, so YMMV). I can tell you that it works pretty well, though is a little light on the feature set. You'll need

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  • Mentoring a New Distance Education Librarian

    A newish book popped up for me on an ego alert, and I learned that Mentoring in Librarianship: Essays on Working with Adults and Students to Further the Profession contains a chapter specifically on Mentoring a New Distance Education Librarian (it’s chapter 27, written by Annie Knight). It’s also available on Amazon, where you can

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