Author: Paul R. Pival
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Libraries and Web Archiving
Barbara Fister has an interesting article in Library Journal in which she paints a happier-than-usual picture of what university administrators think of libraries and librarians. That's great, but what jumped out at me was down towards the bottom of the article where Daniel Greenstein, vice provost for academic planning and programs at the University of…
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A quick review of The Screencasting Handbook
As I'm wrapping up my preparation for my screencasting workshop next weekend at CIL2010, I finally got around to reading my copy of the forthcoming book, The Screencasting Handbook, by Ian Ozsvald, and thought I'd provide a quick review. Ian's releasing this book in stages; it's not done yet, though you can buy it at…
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Camtasia Studio 7 coming March 30
According to Techsmith's Visual Lounge blog, Camtasia Studio version 7 will be released next week, on March 30th. The blog has a series of previews of what's changed – check it out. Looks like some nice eye candy with cursor effects and callout changes. Oh, and if you just purchased version 6 (anytime after March…
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MURALS – closed-source screencasting?
The other week a colleague pointed me towards a website called MURALS, which appears to be a collection of library-related screencasts you can buy for your library. I have a few problems with the site. There's no information about who's putting these together. Not a huge deal, but it would be nice to know. It's…
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Embedding chat widgets within EBSCO databases
A couple of years ago the U of Calgary was among the first to embed an IM chat widget within its OPAC. What I've really wanted to do since then was also embed it within the bibliographic databases, where students spend even more time. I tried a couple of times with ezproxy's search and replace…
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EBSCO’s Response to Gale’s Open Letter and Customer Questions
I received the following information from EBSCO this morning – a link to 3 PDF documents addressing some of the brouhaha over their ALA Midwinter announcement of exclusive magazine content. The URL indicates that may be a temporary location, so here are direct links to local copies: EBSCO's Response to Gale's Open Letter ICOLC Questions…
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Access 2010 Call for Papers
This year Access (The premier library technology conference in Canada) is being held in Winnipeg October 13-16. The Call for Papers has just been announced. Submissions are due Feb 15. I’m really looking forward to attending this year (last year PEI was just too far away to be economical). See you there?