Category: Web/Tech
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WAG the Dog Web Localizer, by Ross Singer
Back last November when Google Scholar appeared, I wrote up a little piece about how it needed to work for the distance student, and others agreed. Fast forward a few months, and holy cow, take a look at what Ross Singer at the Georgia Institute of Techology has built: WAG the Dog Web Localizer. Wow! …
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Search Engine Chart
I hadn’t seen this chart before – certainly a handy one…Link: LibrarianInBlack: Search Engine Chart.
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HALbar library toolbar
Another library toolbar for your consideration, this one specific to Firefox… Link: Science Library Pad: HALbar library toolbar.
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Screen capture for Mac
I too have been asked by readers of this blog if I know of any Mac software that does something similar to ViewletBuilder or Captivate (rumor has it that ViewletBuilder will soon be releasing a Mac version), but I hadn’t really found anything. Today I found this list mentioned by Jean-Claude that automatically earned him…
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O’Reilly and Safari Books Online Launch SafariU
I had heard about SafariU earlier this week while listening to an IT Conversations Podcast and remember thinking, "what’s the big deal?" I figured you could probably just build permanent links to various chapters in the Safari Tech Books online database, so why pay to do the same thing through another interface? As always, when…
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Elluminate to Support Microsoft Office Communicator
I was a little confused by this press release at first, thinking somehow MS Office was going to become integrated with Elluminate, but closer inspection revealed it to be the other way around, and it’s not integrated with MS Office, but with MS Office Communicator. Never heard of MS Office Communicator? Me neither, and I…
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Google’s Library Up and Running
Sure enough! For fun, here’s the only result for a book search on "distance education librarian"… Seems to me I should be able to whip up a bookmarklet to search just Google Print – I’ll see if I have time to play with that later today… Slashdot | Google’s Library Up and Running Anonymous Patron…
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RSS – Not with it yet?! (Bloglines)
A nice tutorial on basic Bloglines use made by Rich Hoeg at Honeywell with Macromedia Breeze. RSS – Not with it yet?! (Bloglines) Okay, if you’re reading this blog, and have not started using a RSS feed reader to subscribe …. get with it! The ability to customize searches and knowledge delivery to your own…
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Federated searching and why users aren’t finding/using your electronic materials
A nice rant on what’s wrong with federated searching from Meredith Farkas. Link: Federated searching and why users aren’t finding/using your electronic materials. She’s thinking pretty much along the same lines as Marshall Breeding in his Feb 2005 Computers in Libraries piece, Plotting a new course for metasearch (direct link to Academic Search Premier). Pretty…
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Advice for a Librarian
Seems the readers of this blog could probably offer a lot of ideas to Meredith… Advice for a Librarian Meredith blogs: “I’m going to be doing a presentation on information literacy in a few weeks, and I’m planning on looking at how new technologies can be used in information literacy instruction. I was thinking of…