Author: Paul R. Pival
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Relais products go Open Source
This is interesting, at least to those of us who are using Relais for our Document Delivery system: For Immediate Release April 22, 2008Relais products go Open Source Relais International is excited to announce that we will be moving all or part of the Relais software to an open source model. Why are we doing…
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Update released for Camtasia Studio – version 5.1
Still running Win2K at the office, so can’t offer any personal experiences with this version of my favorite screencasting tool, but Techsmith has released an update to their current version of Camtasia Studio: version 5.1. As always, you can use it for a 30-day free trial. Technorati Tags: Screencasting, Techsmith, Camtasia
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The evolution of my original outboard brain
Many many years ago I acquired a small digital voice recorder that soon became indispensable to me. It was a low-capacity Voice-it, and I think I had three over the years, each with more capacity than the last. For some reason VXI stopped making them, and now the VT-300 goes for a small fortune on…
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SUNY Press allows you to choose – $75 or $20
Sue Polanka at No Shelf Required notes that SUNY Press is now allowing customers to download frontlist titles as PDFs for only $20. Check her link for more details.
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My piled-up reading list
Getting pretty far behind on my reading list, but here are some recent titles that may also be of interest to you: Personality traits of individuals in different specialties of librarianship DOI: 10.1108/00220410810858056Journal of DocumentationVolume 64, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 273-286 Abstract This paper aims to investigate whether academic reference librarians, archivists, catalogers, distance education…
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One tough CAPTCHA!
Wow, here’s one of the tougher CAPTCHAs I’ve seen…: http://www.wellingtongrey.net/miscellanea/archive/2008-04-07-what-hath-captcha-wrought.html Technorati Tags: captcha
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‘Abortion’ is no longer a stopword
And now the Chronicle reports, The Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health has reversed itself and will no longer block searches for the term “abortion” in its popular public health database Popline. Searches for the word had been blocked because of concerns over federal financing. Technorati Tags: censorship, Johns_Hopkins, Popline
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‘Abortion’ is a stop word!
Holy crap! Article from The Chronicle of Higher Ed describing how the word ‘abortion’ is now a stopword in the Popline database. Meaning you can’t search for it. That’s insane! oooh, except if you go now, you CAN search on that word. Yay for the interwebs! Technorati Tags: censorship