Author: Paul R. Pival
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Learning without boundaries – Campus Calgary Digital Library
This press release was just sent to all staff at the U of Calgary (click for full size): I was trying to figure out if the marketing people created an entirely new planet for the model to gaze through, but then I figured out the camera is inside the globe – it’s just a different…
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Squeet – best RSS to email yet?
OK, it’s definitely too soon to proclaim Squeet the winner of the RSS to Email services, especially since I just started playing with it this AM, but on first look it’s very impressive! Here are the highlights: You can choose the frequency with which you will receive posts (as they become available, once per day,…
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Librarycasting SE
Chad at Library Voice points to Librarycasting SE (the SE is for Sciences and Engineering). This is a wonderful collection (blogged) of screencasts and podcasts put together by Pete Kirlew at Virginia Commonwealth University. A sampling of some of the recent posts include: Tutorials for Engineering Village, PubMed Video Tutorials, Finding Online Tutorials at VCU…
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Statistics Canada to make all electronic publications available for free
I couldn’t find this announcement on the StatsCan website, but this press release was sent to the Data Liberation Initiative listserv on Monday: As of April 24, 2006, all electronic publications available on the Statistics Canada website will become free of charge. The purpose of this message is to inform you about this change in…
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CLA Services for Distance Learning Interest Group
After a hiatus of several years, the Canadian Library Association Services for Distance Learning Interest Group is back. Laurie Prange at Yukon College is the new convener, and she has a section of her blog dedicated to this group. First order of business is to complete a survey on the top 10 services necessary in…
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VideoEgg – tiny screencasts
Want to see what your library screencast might look like on a video iPod? Head over to VideoEgg, which appears to be the latest in line along with YouTube and Google Video for sharing videos online. This one looks pretty nice, and I haven’t had time to do more than upload a test screencast to…
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Creating RSS feeds where none exist
Is there something magic about the number 20? Why don’t individual wiki pages offer RSS feeds? These are two of the questions I’ve been forced to ponder this week. Here’s my story. A month ago I blogged about the launch of the COPPUL Animated Tutorial Sharing (ANTS) Project. We’re using a wiki (MediaWiki) to track…
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Writely aquired by Google
Huh, I had seen speculation in the tech blogs that this was about to happen, but didn’t think I’d actually seen it reported, but I just visited Writely and saw on their front page that they have indeed been acquired by Google. They assure us that it’ll be business as usual, but eventually better. My…
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Documentation from the TAL Federated Search Symposium
A month ago I wrote a summary of my thoughts on a Federated Search Symposium I had attended, and that post generated a lot of comments. The sponsor of the Symposium, The Alberta Library, has just announced that all the documentation from the symposium is now available on their website, and there’s some really useful…
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The Compleat Screencaster
Thanks to Geoff for pointing me at this blog entry called The Compleat Screencaster, where Yoz Grahame describes the trials and tribulations of using Camtasia Studio to build a really nice screencast demonstrating Ning. Because his screencast is a sales pitch of sorts he really needed to get it just perfect. I don’t spend nearly…