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Screencasting tool roundups
I've never seen so many bookmark a single site in such numbers as 10 Free Screen Recording Softwares For Creating Attractive Screencasts – must be a pretty popular site – maybe I'll subscribe… And from much earlier this year, Library Journal netConnect has a two-post series from Melissa Rethlefsen on screencasting tools (free and fee),…
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Digi-Man and Interrobangs
Another winning episode of the CBC Spark podcast. Episode 79 talks with Seamus Ross, Dean of the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto about digital preservation, and I also learned about the interrobang (‽). Here’s a goofy non-library example of the importance of digital preservation:
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Geist calls out the Conference Board of Canada
In his post, The Conference Board of Canada's Deceptive, Plagiarized Digital Economy Report, Michael Geist points out how much of a recent Conference Board of Canada report appears to be plagiarized from the International Intellectual Property Alliance (the primary movie, music, and software lobby in the U.S.). Michael asks the following questions: For Anne Golden,…
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More on Libraries and eBooks
Following up on my earlier post about licensing issues around ebooks and libraries, Sue at No Shelf Required discusses the same Teleread post: Is it possible to donate an eBook to the library? In the comments, Dan D'Agostino mentions he's got a new blog on his (collection development librarian) perspective of eBook reader technology at…
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First Impressions
I finally got around to reading a couple of posts I'd squirreled away, and they turn out to be somewhat related. Brian Mathews posts about 5 next-gen library catalogs and 5 students: their initial impressions. Important to us here at the UofC as we continue to beta test Summon. While admittedly not scientific, there are…