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Jenny Levine at The Shifted Librarian breaks the news that EBSCO has finally fully integrated their RSS alerts.  Confirmed on my institution’s subscription as well.  See her post for full details. Technorati Tags: RSS, EBSCO

The Chronicle points to Rutgers University’s 4-part flash animated video explaining plagiarism.  It’s cute.  I only won 4 million guacamoles though! Technorati Tags: plagiarism

Don’t cross Roy Tennant! Sommers Steps Down as SirsiDynix CEO (PDF) Technorati Tags: SirsiDynix, Libraries, Tennant

It’s downloading even as I type, but if you were at all intrigued by my DOI post, you’ll want to listen to Jon Udell’s latest interview in which he talks with Dan Chudnov, of Library Geeks fame.  And a lot of other fame too, but mostly stuff I don’t understand. Yet.  Ok, download’s done, you’ll…

SDI Originally uploaded by ppival. So I get an alert from Ingenta whenever they’ve got new content that matches the string distance and librar* – you may be interested to know that the proceedings from last year’s OffCamp conference have now all been republished in the Journal of Library Administration (as per this screen shot).…

Speeling.jpg Originally uploaded by ppival. Happened to be walking past the vending machines in the library this AM and snapped this loverly picture with my laptop’s camera.

  This is a scan of a thank-you ad that appeared in this past weekend’s local paper.  On Friday, December 8, it was announced that Don and Ruth Taylor had donated $25 million to what was until then known as the Campus Calgary Digital Library, and is now known as the Taylor Family Digital Library. …

Nothing to see here, unless of course we see an image, which I simply dragged in to my Performancing 1.3 window.  If that worked, cool!

Techsmith continues to impress, this time throwing out a survey asking how many folks would be interested in seeing a version of SnagIt, their screen capture software, for the Mac.  I love SnagIt on the PC – super fast screen capture (my chosen part of the screen) plus the ability to immediately annotate with highlights,…

Followup on my post about continuous partial attention – In Monday’s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences there was a report about how distractions impede learning (Modulation of competing memory systems by distraction).  Relevant quote: “What’s new is that even if you can learn while distracted, it changes how you learn to make it…