Category: Web/Tech
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Instruction via chat reference: does co-browse help?
The answer appears to be no, which surprised me. The authors, from Southern Illinois University, do caution that it’s a pretty small sample and not to draw many conclusions, but the evidence of their transcript logs seems to indicate that providing a co-browsing option along with chat reference doesn’t really add much instruction to the…
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ACRL – Getting Started with Screencasting
ACRL is offering a 2-hour webcast on Thursday, April 26, 2:00 EDT: Getting Started with Screencasting. From the site: Webcast Description:This two hour session will explore screencasting—delivering screen captures via RSS—and its potential applications in the academic library. Participants will be provided with examples of screencasts, information on various software applications used to create screencasts,…
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Gaim renamed Pidgin
While more people seem to use Trillian, Gaim was a nice open-source alternative IM aggregator, and had the advantage of being able to incorporate Google Talk alongside AIM, MSN and Yahoo chat. Seems that after a long battle with AOL, Gaim has had to change its name to Pidgin. You can read about it at…
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Run Meebo in Firefox Sidebar
Lots of libraries seem to be using Meebo or MeeboMe to collect IM requests from multiple clients (AOL, MSN, Yahoo!, GTalk). Up until today I used Trillian to manage all my accounts. While Meebo works just fine, I didn’t like the fact that I had to have a web page open in order to see…
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Co-Browsing Tools And Technology: A Mini-Guide
Ahhh, how time flies. It was just about two years ago that my fellow bibliobloggers and I were agog over the co-browsing potential shown by a product called Jybe. Just visited their website and it’s all gone – hope the developers have moved on to other good things – they seemed like good guys. Anyhoo,…
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New York TimesSelect available to students and faculty in Canada too
I was mildly cheesed when I read the announcements last week that the NY TimesSelect service was going be offered for free to students and faculty with a .edu email address, ’cause here in Canada we don’t have that domain. But then I thought I’d check and see so at least I’d have proof when…
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LJ on Federated Searching
Jonathan Rochkind has a really good article in Library Journal on the current state of Federated (Meta) searching, with Google Scholar as the catalyst. In it, he explains why Google Scholar seems more attractive than library solutions – they index information locally instead of searching it live each time. Good examples of a couple of…
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Thunderbird/SnagIt missing image
Thunderbird missing image Originally uploaded by ppival. I’m sending this question to TechSmith technical support as well, but in case it’s more of a Thunderbird issue than a SnagIt issue I thought I’d try the lazy web too. I’m using Thunderbird 1.5 and SnagIt 8.2. I can easily grab a screenshot in SnagIt…
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LibX – DOI for Dummies
Ok, right up front, the dummy is me. It might be you too, but I’m only talking about me here. Earlier this year, David, our Integrated Systems Manager, put together a U of Calgary beta version of LibX, a Firefox Extension for Libraries. LibX does all sorts of neat things, but I was finding it…