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Amit at Digital Inspiration writes about a pretty slick program called Bug Shooting that does much of what Snag-it does. That’s quick screen captures or area captures that can be marked up to illustrate or explain. It says it’s WinXP or Vista only, but it’s running on my Win2K machine as well. It’s not nearly…

I’ve been wondering when in July EBSCOhost 2.0 was going to go live – just heard a rumour that it’ll be this Wednesday, July 16th. TWT.

It appears that the current issue of the Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery & Electronic Reserve has a whack of articles around Distance Education: Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery & Electronic Reserve (ISSN: 1072-303X)Volume: 18 Issue: 2Cover Date: 2008 While the Haworth Press Website says the issue’s not yet published, you can at…

Monterey, CA • October 20 – 22, 2008Monterey Conference Center Full details at http://www.infotoday.com/il2008/

The ACRL Instruction Session is adopting the Educause “7 things you should know about…” model with a new series entitled Five Things You Should Read About… The first publication is 5 Things You Should Read about Copyright and Sharing Instructional Materials (PDF) and was brought to my attention because it mentions the ANTS (Animated Tutorial…

Rex LibrisOriginally uploaded by ppival The other day as I was bent down changing my shoes I noticed that my business cards, held in a holder next to Rex, would probably fit under his leg. And Lo they did, and now I have a new, cooler, business card holder.

Firefox and Word in OSXOriginally uploaded by ppival There appears to be some sort of glitch when trying to view MS Word documents (Word 2008 12.1.0) via Firefox (2.0.0.14) on OSX.5.2 and 5.3. If you simply click a link to a Word document and tell Firefox to have Word open it, Word will open and…

I am currently the Director of Emerging Technologies for Libraries & Cultural Resources at the University of Calgary, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Previously at the UofC: Research Librarian for Data Analytics (2016-2024), Public Services Systems Librarian (aka webmaster) (2007-2016), Distance Education Librarian (2001–2007). Prior to moving to Canada I worked for 4 years as the…

I’ve been aware of the offers for free older versions of Camtasia Studio and SnagIt, but hadn’t been aware those offers expire on January 7, 2008.  Greg Notess has the details. Technorati Tags: Techsmith, Camtasia_Studio, Screencasting