Category: Social Networks
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Clippick: Copy. Paste Anywhere.
Oh wow, this might actually be a real game-changer. Clippick is a cross-platform (Windows, Mac, iOS, Android) tool / app that does one thing only: you copy something on one device, and then the next time you hit Paste on any of your other devices, whatever you copied on the first device ends up there.…
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ONE lawsuit dropped by Edwin Mellen Press, but Askey is still being sued personally #FreeDaleAskey
As reported by The Chronicle of Higher Education and the CBC, Edwin Mellen Press has dropped ONE lawsuit; the one that names both Dale Askey and McMaster University, but according to an email sent to the ARL board of directors by Vivian Lewis, Acting University Librarian at McMaster, EMP has NOT dropped the original suit…
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Librarian Design Share
As pointed out by Aaron, a neat new site serving as "an open online repository of interesting library-related design." Librarian Design Share.
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Three Second Distraction = Fail!
Another nail in my coffin of realizing how easy it is to lose one's focus, Michigan State University is reporting that even a 3-second distraction is likely to do you in. Your full citation: Momentary Interruptions Can Derail the Train of Thought. Altmann, Erik M.; Trafton, J. Gregory; Hambrick, David Z. Journal of Experimental Psychology:…
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What about those graduate students?
Maybe it's because I don't actually look for it, but it seems that most of the research / survey results I see is geared towards learning about how undergrads use / perceive the library, and services surrounding information seeking. JISC and The British Library have just released a "major study into the behavioural habits of…
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First Annual Open Education Week – March 5-10, 2012
The OpenCourseWare Consortium announces the first annual Open Education Week from March 5-10, 2012. Open Education Week is a global event that seeks to raise awareness about the benefits of free and open sharing in education, especially Open Educational Resources (OER). OER are high-quality, free and open educational materials that offer opportunities for people anywhere…
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Libraries & the Post-PC era
Jason Griffey's currently Down Under, and last week he gave a plenary address at VALA2012 entitled Libraries & the Post-PC era. The whole address is available online, and it's a good use of an hour of your time. When it started, I remembered a quote I'd heard a while back that if a keynote speaker said…
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CFP: Fourth International M-Libraries Conference
Found onthe m-libraries blog, information about the call for papers for the 4th M-Libraries Conference, to be held at The Open University on 24th-26th September, 2012. The Open University is headquartered in Milton Keynes, UK. Please submit your abstracts (up to 300 words) by 15th of March 2012 to m-libraries-conference@open.ac.uk
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Canadian Learning Commons Conference – registration now open
Looking for an excuse to come check out our awesome new library building? Why not register for the 6th Canadian Learning Commons Conference, to be held here at the University of Calgary, May 7-9, 2012. The theme of the conference is New Media, New Fluencies and Life Skills Development: Preparing Learners for the 21st Century, and…
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The importance of sweater vests and screencasting
Over at Library Voice, Chad Boeninger pops out of hibernation with an excellent post titled How I make instructional library web videos and screencasts and how you can too. In this post Chad distills his six years of experience with screencasting by answering the following questions: Why Web Video? What type of content? How much time…