Author: Paul R. Pival
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Top 10 Feed & RSS Technologies of 2011
ReadWriteWeb lists their Top 10 Feed & RSS Technologies of 2011, and there are a few on the list that were new to me, so I thought I'd share. Path caught my eye, and while I need another social networking/check-in app like I need a hole in the head, I'll probably give it a try.…
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CFP – 6th Canadian Learning Commons Conference
Deadline for Submissions extended to Friday, January 13, 2012 Call for Proposals – 6th Canadian Learning Commons Conference New Media, New Fluencies and Life Skills Development: Preparing Learners for the 21st Century We invite submissions for the 6th Canadian Learning Commons Conference, May 7 – 9, 2012 to be held at the University of Calgary…
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Sarah calls out OverDrive
If you currently subscribe or are considering subscribing to OverDrive's ebook service, you owe it to yourself to go read Sarah's (LiB) post about how OverDrive is offering different catalogues to libraries based on how those libraries define their service areas. Apparently it is in OverDrive's TOS, but it's not very clear, and OverDrive hasn't…
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Update on Ebrary downloadable content
Last month I complained that it wasn't possible to download ebrary content directly to the iPad, but that's changed sometime in the intervening weeks. As outlined in this ebrary knowledgebase post, you'll first need to create an Adobe ID (you probably have one already if you've dealt with their DRM in the past), and also…
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That’s what I said! (student awareness of ebook usage)
Last week I got an email from ebrary as a followup to their recent survey on ebook usage. The following paragraph caught my eye (emphasis mine), Some of the results were surprising. For instance, patron awareness of e-books has not increased over the last three years and reported usage of e-books has not increased significantly…
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Will a librarian be crowned as ScreenChamp?
Techsmith is running a contest to determine who will be crownded the first ScreenChamp, and there's a librarian in the running! There are 15 screencasts in total, covering Education, Industry, and Entertainment. What's neat about seeing them all in the same place like this is how easy it is to compare and contrast the different…
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Ebrary Ebook Downloads
At the end of October Wayne Bivens-Tatum posted a nice concise 18-step process for downloading a book from Ebrary and loading it on a portable reading device. I just wanted to add that I sat in on a product demo earlier this month and can confirm that at this time it is NOT possible to…
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Stanza is back!
A few weeks ago I reported with sadness that the excellent ebook reading app Stanza didn’t work with iOS5. I’m happy to report that against all logic Stanza has been updated so it once again does work with Apple’s latest OS. Go get it! (Stanza iTunes link). Paul R. Pival