Author: Paul R. Pival
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Screencast Editing on the Mac – ScreenFlow
Just a couple of weeks ago I lamented that what was really missing from all the screencasting options for the Mac was the ability to easily edit post-capture. Well folks, we may have turned a corner. Vara Software has just released ScreenFlow, which sounds as though it does everything I want it to. The only…
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Harvard faculty votes to post research online
“Harvard University’s arts and science faculty voted unanimously yesterday to post their scholarly articles and research online, where they would be available for free to the public, despite concerns that the move would affect the quality of research.” – full story from the Boston Globe. Some interesting quotes in the article, like this one from…
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CANHEIT 2008 Call for Participation
The Canadian Higher Education and Information Technology Conference (CANHEIT) is a unique event, focusing on those IT issues that are of Canadian significance and of primary interest to universities and community colleges. This annual conference brings together senior administrators, managers, and staff who are responsible for the management and evolution of their campus information systems,…
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Distant/Remote Librarian Employment?
Dear Hive Mind, I just got an interesting question which I was unable to answer, and wondered if any of you had any suggestions. The paraphrased question is, "I have an MLIS, but reside several hours away from the closest university. I remember hearing about these remote librarian employment opportunities while in Library School. I…
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As of yet, no copyright bill has been introduced…
As mentioned last week, Industry Minister Jim Prentice spoke at the U of C on Friday, February 8, 2008. He didn’t end up speaking about copyright, though the audience sure did. His topic was on policy making around greenhouse gas reductions, but 5 of the 8 questions asked were about copyright law. He seemed to…
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EZProxy and OvidSP Round 2 – Removing the Tip Box
Last month I wrote about how to use EZProxy’s find and replace feature to change the unhelpful text on a database tab to something more helpful:EZProxy Find and Replace: when the vendor says they can’t… Well the Medical Librarians at U of C had another request; to see if we could get rid of that…
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Canadian Copyright updates
The Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) has just released a really good 11-page document called The Copyright Act and Academic Staff (February 2008) (pdf). It discusses what they feel needs to be addressed of concern to Higher Education in any upcoming copyright legislation. And on that note, rumour has it that tomorrow will be…
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Random Tuesday Tech Tip #5 – Aardvark Firefox Extension
The other day I came across a Firefox extension called Aardvark that makes it really easy to clean up websites to print, or even to read online w/o lots of advertisements and fluff around the text. Here’s a quick demo of it in action:
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Docutek vs IM
Dan Sich from the U of Waterloo has posted the slides from a presentation he just gave at the Ontario Library Association Super Conference. The title of his talk was IM a Librarian: the Meebo, Skype-Unyte solution, and one really interesting slide kind of caught my eye: Just FYI, check out the rest of his…
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Criteria for tenure and promotion: a review of practices among members of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries
Just posted to our institutional repository is a brief report (13 pages plus an appendix) entitled Criteria for tenure and promotion: a review of practices among members of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries. The abstract reads as follows: This study reviews current practice relating to tenure and promotion to the highest rank by examining…