Author: Paul R. Pival
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Schedule of DLS Meeting rooms for ALA Midwinter 2007 in Seattle
Johanna writes to the OFFCAMP mailing list: For those of you who like to start planning early, here is the schedule of meeting rooms for the DLS meetings at ALA Midwinter 2007 in Seattle: All Committees Meeting 1/21/07 Sunday 8-12 at the Westin Seattle Room in Grand Ballroom II Executive Meeting 1/21/07 Sunday 4-6 at…
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Screencasting Q&A
OK, there will only be one more post referencing my SirsiDynix Institute presentation on Screencasting; I’ll let you know when the actual session recording is available to both watch and hear. Right now the mp3 is available; of course you’ll be missing the demos I showed. The real purpose of this post is to wrap-up…
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Adobe PRIMO Sites of the Month (October and November 2006)
Found on Laurie the Librarian’s blog, announcements for the October and November ALA/ACRL PRIMO (Peer-Reviewed Instructional Material Online) sites of the month. October’s is made with Adobe Breeze, and November’s with Adobe Captivate. Quick takeaways for me: I didn’t realize Breeze supported ppt slide transitions as well as it does. That’s the way to deliver…
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But what if I just bought the old version?
I’m slowly putting together the answers to all the questions that were asked during my SirsiDynix Institute session on Screencasting last week. One person asked if I was sure that version 4 of Camtasia was out, as she had just bought version 3.x the previous week. I am sure, and told her that if she’d…
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ACRL/ARL Webcast on Author’s Rights
Registration is now open for a special joint Webcast “Author Rights.” Webcast Date: December 14, 2006 Webcast Time: noon to 1 p.m. Pacific, 1-2 p.m. Mountain, 2-3 p.m. Central, 3-4 p.m. Eastern Length: 1 hour ACRL and ARL, through the Institute on Scholarly Communication, along with SPARC are sponsoring a special joint Webcast on author…
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2006 Edublogger Awards – Nominations Open
Nominations are now being accepted for the 2006 Edublogger Awards “the independently run, community-based awards programme which recognizes and promotes excellence in the educational use of social software.” There are 10 categories, one for Best library/librarian blog. There is information on the site about how to nominate (“If you post publicly, and , you are…
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SirsiDynix Screencasting Links
These are the links that I referenced during my Introduction to Screencasting seminar for the SirsiDynix Institute. The archived seminar will soon be available online, and when it is I’ll replace this sentence with a link to it. The examples that I hope to show include: Book Title Search from Central Michigan University’s Off Campus…