Category: Web/Tech
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Intentional Design: Designing Effective Screencasts
Hey gang, if you missed my SirsiDynix session on Screencasting, or if you want another view, here’s your chance! ADETA says you all are invited too! The ADETA (Alberta Distance Education & Training Association) Online PD Committee would like to invite you and your colleagues to join us for another exciting Elluminate presentation! To sign…
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RSS Tutorials for Law Librarians
Jason Eiseman has a series of three really comprehensive screencasts explaining how Law Librarians can use RSS. Really though, anyone can learn from these; it’s just that the examples he uses are of interest to law librarians. Looks like these were done about 8 months ago, with PubSub (now defunct) appearing prominently in Part 3,…
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EDUCAUSE 2006 recording of The Embedded Librarian Program
Last November I noted an article in Educause Quarterly that described the Embedded Librarian program at the Community College of Vermont. If you didn’t get a chance to read that, maybe you have the time to listen to a recording of one of the authors at EDUCAUSE 2006. The recording is 34 minutes long, and…
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Show off Vista with a Library example
I’m not planning on installing Vista anytime soon, but if you happen to have access to a new Vista machine you should take a look at the updated version of British Library Turning The Pages. The application developer, Tim Sneath, makes it sound like a pretty nice thing to behold! (btw, the WPF mentioned by…
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How to export citations from Google Scholar
Speaking of remembering to cite your sources, there’s actually some useful content at the Google Librarian Central Blog! Ben Bunnell, Library Partnerships Manager, has a post about how to make sure you see the option to export citations from Google Scholar (not a new feature, but new to me). Also interesting to me is that…
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OOF! POW!!! Captain Copyright is dead!
Via Michael Geist’s blog, Captain Copyright is no more. Back in August 2006, just before the CC site was taken down, the Canadian Library Association had “insisted” upon this action. On the former lair of The Captain one will now find the following lament, “We truly hope that there will come a time when the…
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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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Huge list of Web Presentation Tools (ppt alternatives)
Read in passing earlier today that Google may be readying a PPT alternative, but in the meantime if you don’t care for the way PPT translates to the web, here are a gazillion alternatives for publishing presentations to the web. OK, it’s probably only a couple dozen; I was too lazy to count. "The key…
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Help Tod with his radio piece on Google Downloadable Books
I haven’t taken the time yet to read up on the reports of Google’s proposed book download project, but CBC Technology Reporter Tod Maffin is asking for your help in fact-checking a piece he’s putting together for a Thursday AM airing. For a really short piece aimed at the general public I think he’s pretty…
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7 Things You Should Know About E-Books
The latest entry in the excellent EDUCAUSE series is the 2-page 7 Things You Should Know About E-Books. On a related note, I have had the Califa E-books, E-audio and other E-content website open in a Firefox tab for about three weeks now, but have not yet spent the time to go through it. Technorati…