Author: Paul R. Pival
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Wanna be a beta tester for Adobe Captivate 3?
No promises, but if you can fill out their 25-question survey by Thursday May 3rd (hopefully the end of the day) you’ve got a chance at being a beta tester for Adobe’s Screencasting product. Technorati Tags: Adobe, Captivate, Screencasting
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The Ultimate Distance Librarian Position
Next space tourist dreams of library. Thanks for the tip, Adriana. Technorati Tags: Spaaaaaaaace
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HardPlay – Game-based Learning for Information Seekers
Hot on the heels of the McMaster announcement about the appointment of their Immersive Learning (Gaming) Librarian comes word from two of my U of C colleagues about a related research project. Jerremie Clyde and Chris Thomas are putting together a website called HardPlay to document a study that "seeks to examine the potential of…
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RSS Alerts in EBSCO Databases
Earlier this week I got a mailing from EBSCO in which they claimed they were re-launching RSS alerts for searches. I tried to follow their instructions but had no success, and assumed this must be a feature we had to manually enable in our admin module, but Ken Varnum at RSS4Lib pointed out that the…
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Yugma for screen-sharing
Another link from Sarah at LiB (this one via the lo-fi librarian): Yugma. I haven’t tried it, but it looks to be a solid option if you’re considering tools to share the desktop (co-browsing). The basic service is free and cross platform. It doesn’t offer voice over IP, so you’re stuck texting with whoever’s on…
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LiB on how to talk to IT about Instant Messaging (IM) and security issues
Sarah at Librarian in Black has a good post that will help you arm yourself against IT folk who claim allowing IM in a library is too dangerous. Sarah’s had a lot of experience in this area, and provides links to the two articles security people always seem to quote, along with links to three…
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How well do you communicate as a distance librarian?
Probably pretty well, since you’re constantly dealing with people via email and on the phone, but it doesn’t hurt to take a step back to see. I’m regularly surprised at the poor voicemails some students leave, blowing through their long name and contact info (if they even leave any). I get emails from cc-workers that…
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Olive Software ActiveMagazine
I received email from two of my U of C colleagues about the inaugural issue of Blogger and Podcaster magazine. Personally, I wasn’t terribly impressed with the content – doesn’t seem like a needed publication, but if there’s a market I guess why not? What I was impressed with is the Olive Software used to…
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Instruction via chat reference: does co-browse help?
The answer appears to be no, which surprised me. The authors, from Southern Illinois University, do caution that it’s a pretty small sample and not to draw many conclusions, but the evidence of their transcript logs seems to indicate that providing a co-browsing option along with chat reference doesn’t really add much instruction to the…