What I Learned Today…

As a trainer I like sites like this new one from Google that show you how stuff works. How Search Works goes in to a lot of detail about how search engines work. I thought it might be a useful resource for those of you who teach web searching workshops in your libraries – or just a cool site to check out if you’re the curious type! On the site  [ Read More ]

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Lifehacker pointed me to this cool looking tool that I thought might interest some of you. It’s called DropTask and it lets you visualize your tasks in a sort of Ven Diagram way. I created a couple tasks in a project called ‘Blogs’: This from Lifehacker: DropTask is incredibly intuitive, and while it can seem a little weird at first—not to mention space-inefficient—it can be pretty handy if you’re managing  [ Read More ]

Today I found the following resources and bookmarked them on Delicious. Linux Gems Cheat Sheet The contents of this file are released under the GNU General Public License. Feel free to reuse the contents of this work, as long as the resultant works give proper attribution and are made publicly available under the GNU General Public License. Digest powered by RSS Digest

For the final video for your patrons, a quick overview of the Koha OPAC. It assumes that you offer certain features that you may or may not offer, so please review the video before sharing with your patrons. If I show things that you don’t offer then it might make sense to use any of the other individual section videos to help your patrons. As always, if you have an  [ Read More ]

Today I found the following resources and bookmarked them on Delicious. DropTask Visual Task Management for Individuals and Teams Digest powered by RSS Digest

Today I found the following resources and bookmarked them on Delicious. CSS Beautifier Beautifies your CSS automatically so that it is consistent and easy to read Digest powered by RSS Digest

Today I found the following resources and bookmarked them on Delicious. BookOS Ebook library WikidPad wikidPad is a Wiki-like notebook for storing your thoughts, ideas, todo lists, contacts, or anything else you can think of to write down. Digest powered by RSS Digest

Today I found the following resources and bookmarked them on Delicious. JabRef reference manager JabRef is an open source bibliography reference manager. The native file format used by JabRef is BibTeX, the standard LaTeX bibliography format. JabRef runs on the Java VM (version 1.6 or newer), and should work equally well on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Digest powered by RSS Digest

Koha’s Batch Item Modification Tool is a handy way to edit multiple items at once. This tutorial will show you how to change values and remove values using this tool. As always, if you have an idea for a video, please just let me know and I’ll add it to my list of things to record.