Category: Miscellaneous
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Find X
Couldn’t wait until Friday to post this one – nothing to do with libraries, but it’s a rare thing that makes me laugh out loud so I thought I’d share it. A colleague forwarded a half-dozen funny responses to physics and math questions written by frustrated students. This gem was right in the middle: Maybe…
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Distant Libraries of the World
Not exactly sure who the audience is, but I learned about a DVD called Distant Libraries of the World from a posting on LIS News (the fact that they learned about it from a Paul and it has a .ca domain name meant I had to make sure it wasn’t me!). The DVD describes library…
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Techsmith’s hiring a Mac Developer
Techsmith, makers of Snagit and Camtasia Studio, is hiring a Mac Developer. They’ve hinted before that they’ve been considering porting some of their products to the Mac, so this would seem to indicate they’re pretty serious about that! Technorati Tags: Techsmith, OSX
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Librarian Elevator Pitch
Late last month, David Warlick asked his readers how they would respond in one minute if they were asked why librarians are still relevant in schools. David’s not a librarian, so many of the comments came from folks who aren’t librarians either, which offers a bit of refreshing air to the conversation. There are currently…
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Library Videos
My Groundhog’s Day resolution was to clear out some of this stuff I’ve been wanting to blog for a week or two. Stephen Abram mentions that InfoToday is accepting nominations for the InfoTubey Awards: “InfoTubies recognize those libraries or individuals who have created YouTube library-related productions that promote a library, or library services, or enhance…
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DDR coming to the Wii
For what seems like years to me, cool geeky librarians have talked about Dance Dance Revolution and how much fun it is. As Aaron pointed out when he introduced me at Internet Librarian last year, I have never had the pleasure of playing DDR, and was a little disappointed when I decided to get a…
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Online Education in the US, 2006
Well not so useful to me as it’s only US statistics, there ARE lots of current statistics about online education in here, so if you need some, check it out. No mention of libraries in the 27-page PDF…Making the Grade: Online Education in the United States, 2006 Technorati Tags: distance_education, online_education
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Fun with the Vampires
So I gave blood today and noticed a new question on the List of Thirteen: “Have you, in your past or present job, taken care of or handled monkeys or their bodily fluids?” It’s just a yes/no checkbox, but I SO wanted to write in a short answer. I decided against it though; while nurses…
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Inside a CBC Radio Production
Well this afternoon I saw that Tod Maffin was looking for feedback on a piece on Google downloadable books he was putting together for a Thursday AM CBC Radio production. I figured you’d have 24 hours or so to chime in too, but I guess even in this digital age stuff has to be done…
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Wii can screencast!
I guess I was a good boy last year, as my wife was able to score me a Wii for Xmas! The Wii includes an internet browser (based on Opera), and of course as a library geek I just had to see what it was capable of. Viewing Screencasts? Check! Accessing databases via EZProxy? Check! …