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Qarbon Stimulus Program
I received the following email from Qarbon, the folks who first introduced me to screencasting with their ViewletBuilder product oh so long ago. To help both new and existing customers during the economic recovery, Qarbon has created its own Stimulus Package that will begin on July 15th, 2009 and run through August 15th, 2009. This…
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LJ Webcast Archives
I haven’t had a chance to listen to/watch them myself, and am bookmarking them here as much for my use as yours, but two recent webcasts in the Returning the Researcher to the Library series are now archived at the LJ website: Webcast: Returning the Researcher to the Library: Building ROI through Discovery Webcast: Returning…
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American Chemical Society (ACS) heading towards online-only
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports, "the American Chemical Society, which publishes several dozen academic journals, is moving to end print editions and produce journals only online." You can read more at Ars Technica.
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ALA Conference 2009: Ubiquity of Mobiles Greatly To Affect Libraries
Library Journal reports, "Libraries had better prepare for an explosion in the capacity of mobile devices as well as the transformative increase in user capacity and expectations. This was the message conveyed by a panel yesterday at the American Library Association's (ALA) Annual Conference on Libraries and Mobile Devices: Public Policy Considerations."
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RSS to PDF
Since February I've been happily using Tabbloid to receive PDFs of blog posts I want to read on paper (that's what you're getting if you view my shared posts in Google Reader – those are things I've tagged to be delivered to me by Tabbloid). I just ran across FiveFilters.org, which offers an open-source solution…
Posted Under: Document Delivery