Author: Paul R. Pival
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You can search Google, but only on their terms
The Serials Solutions Blog Libific reports that they’re no longer able to federate any of the Google offerings in their Federated Search product, 360-Search. Apparently the Google TOS states, “You agree not to access (or attempt to access) any of the Services by any means other than through the interface that is provided by Google,…
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My secret career as a music critic of albums for kids
Back in July I posted a PSA entitled Road trip survival – children’s music you’ll atually enjoy too! As a result I was contacted by two different small publishers asking if I’d review their CDs as well. I said sure, send ’em up and I’ll have my kids pass judgement, and lo, they did. Here’s…
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Keynote speaker at 2010 Off-Campus Library Services Conference
Tim Peters writes to the OffCamp mailing list: I am very pleased to announce that Camila Alire has accepted our invitation to appear as the keynote speaker at the 2010 Off-Campus Library Services Conference. Camila is currently the President-elect of the American Library Association and the Dean Emerita of the University of New Mexico and…
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ProQuest and Google Strike Deal To Digitize Newspaper Pages
oooh, now this is interesting. We already have http://news.google.com Will this be http://newspapers.google.com? google, proquest, newspapers
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Canadian Library Association Grassroots Copyright Advocacy Kit
The CLA has a Grassroots Advocacy Kit for Fair and Balanced Copyright for Canadians, including background information and advice for speaking with your local MP. Of course the point may be moot what with a new election coming up, but it’s still very good information to have. Did I mention that our Prime Minister called…
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Screencast.com now has Commenting
Just like YouTube, Screencast.com now allows viewers to leave comments below screencasts hosted on that site. This includes stuff created in Jing. More details are at the Screencast.com blog. While YouTube is more popular and free, you’ll get much better video quality out of the screencasts you post on Screencast.com, and you can still embed…
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JSTOR – PDF Incompatibility with Mac Preview
JSTOR reports “We are glad to report that we have located and fixed a problem that caused an incompatibility between JSTOR PDF files and older versions of Mac Preview. This problem caused only part of the article to be viewable in Preview. The fix released today means that JSTOR PDF files should now be viewable…
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No Frills RSS-email
Well there are no frills at all, but it’ll deliver RSS content to your email: Feed My Inbox. I like SendMeRSS and Feedburner’s solutions better.
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Be my counterpart in Qatar!
Just posted on the Foothills Library Association Jobline is our ad for a Public Services Systems Librarian in Qatar. If I were a younger man…