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Screencasting programs for Linux
Tux Radar posts today with mid-length reviews of a half-dozen screencasting programs for Linux: Group test: screencasting apps. They like DemoRecorder the best. How you know you’re not ready for Linux? The post concludes with a suggestion that if none of these meet your needs, you could “roll your own. Almost all GUI apps on…
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Summon: And then there were two
Last month Dartmouth opened its instance of Summon to the world, and now you can compare that to Summon at the University of Liverpool. Read the press release at Library Technology Guides.
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Wikipedia in the catalogue?
Image via Wikipedia I learned from Eric Rumsey that the State Library of Kansas includes Wikipedia articles in their OPAC. Here are some examples: http://topekalibraries.info/search/awikimedia. About 15 minutes later I saw that Aaron Schmidt posted on the DCPL Labs site that in a recent survey 88% “of people responded that they prefer the content from…
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Yet another followup post on Harvard and EBSCO linking
Peter Murray at Distruptive Library Technology Jester (aka DLTJ) has done a bunch of reading and thinking about the recently-hot issue of Harvard Business School Publishing charging extra to allow the use of persistent URLs in course reserves and content management systems. in his post, EBSCO in Cahoots With Harvard Business Press, he goes in…