Author: Paul R. Pival
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Jon Udell’s Screencasting Advice
Jon Udell, who coined the term screencasting, has some advice for those who are using Camtasia Studio to precisely edit narrated video. Technorati Tags: screencasting
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Access Copyright And Creative Commons Canada Launch Public Domain Registry
As brought to my attention by colleagues here, here and here, Access Copyright (our version of the US Copyright Clearance Center) and Creative Commons Canada have announced a partnership to establish a public domain registry. They’re going to use MediaWiki to "create an online, globally searchable catalogue of published works that are in the Canadian…
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Podcasting at the U of Calgary
Nope, not me, but D’Arcy pointed me to this press release that announces the U of Calgary is going to introduce podcasting to four courses this summer and fall, involving about 700 students. Apparently we will the first university in the country to officially integrate podcasting into the curriculum this way. Not sure if we’re…
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European Digital Library announced
Any readers in Europe should be pleased about the just announced European Digital Library: The European Commissions’ plan to promote digital access to Europe’s heritage is rapidly taking shape. At least six million books, documents and other cultural works will be made available to anyone with a Web connection through the European Digital Library over…
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Window of Opportunity for DE Librarians?
The New York Times reports that “Colleges will no longer be required to deliver at least half their courses on a campus instead of online to qualify for federal student aid.” Wonder how many new DE Librarian positions will be created to help with the expected increase in distance education programs across the nation? This…
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Unyte has some real potential!
Over the past couple of days I’ve had a chance to briefly try out a couple of co-browsing tools I mentioned last Friday. Vyew doesn’t look like it’ll be of use to me – no opportunity for co-browsing that I can see – it just allows me to share a whiteboard and files, but Unyte…
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New Journal Portal “Open J-Gate” Launches
Another story picked up from LISNews; the announcement of “the world’s biggest Open Access English Language Journals Portal – Open J-Gate. From the website, “Open J-Gate is the contribution of Informatics (India) Ltd to promote OAI. Open J-Gate provides seamless access to millions of journal articles available online. Open J-Gate is also a database of…
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What’s wrong with this picture?
I was doing some collection development this AM and noticed something a little odd on the cover of the following book: Integrating Print and Digital Resources in Library Collections. It’s actually two things wrong with the same part of the picture. First correct comment wins, um, well hey, how about a copy of the book! …
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Online Degree Study – Call for Participation
LISNews reports that Kathryn Kennedy at the University of Florida is seeking participants for a survey on "perceptions and prejudices of online degrees in the hiring process in academic libraries. The papers that we have seen in publication about this subject have been broad, covering employment in academic libraries but also in public libraries and…
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ALA Annual Meeting – Distance Learning Section meeting dates and times
Jack Fritts writes to the OffCamp listserve: We are sticking to the same format as previously (with the new time limits factored in), so at Annual:DLS Program Saturday, 4:00 – 5:30 p.m.DLS All-Committees Meeting Sunday, 8:00…