Tag Archives: YouTube

How to make a book by folding and cutting

Posted on 1 January 2010 by Rick Mason

Eric Leese Morgan demonstrates how to quickly make a 12-page book by making a few cuts in the pages and fitting them together:  About ten years ago I created about 20 handmade books of about 25 pages each.  I … Continue reading →

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YouTube EDU

Posted on 27 March 2009 by Rick Mason

YouTube EDU is a collection of videos from dozens, if not hundreds, of educational sources, including Stanford, MIT, Purdue University, UNC Chapel Hill, and Harvard Business School. This looks to be the start of a very useful collection of lectures … Continue reading →

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MarcEdit 5.1 Update

Posted on 2 March 2009 by Rick Mason

Terry Reese has released an updated version of MarcEdit 5.1, and there are a few interesting additions: Improved support for Enterprise users (large organizations). Multiple Z39.50 querying capabilities. Tutorials hosted on YouTube. Improved UTF-8 loading (as in Faster). ‡biblios.net proof … Continue reading →

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Barriers to Innovation and Inclusion

Posted on 10 February 2009 by Rick Mason

I am a bit of a space freak (several people will read this and say “A bit???”), so this touches on two of my interests. NASA’s Inclusion and Innovations Council recently had a all-day report period on barriers to inclusion … Continue reading →

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Embeddable Google Books

Posted on 22 September 2008 by Rick Mason

Google Books can now be embedded into a web page in a similar way that a YouTube video is able to be embedded. Besides the “nifty cool” aspect of this, I can see one element of this that should make … Continue reading →

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TS : Technical Services

Posted on 2 June 2008 by Rick Mason

The work cycle of Library Technical Services as told by the Arlington Heights Memorial Library (in the style of ER). TS (YouTube video) Bonus creative points for the idea of using a packing tape dispenser in the style of CPR … Continue reading →

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The Librarian Song

Posted on 12 February 2008 by Rick Mason

The Librarian Song (YouTube video) is, well, a song… about librarians… specifically about how librarians train users (Show it to them, do it with them, and then the user can do it themself). And above all… it is really funny … Continue reading →

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Scribd

Posted on 6 March 2007 by Rick Mason

Scribd is a new website that is attempting to be like YouTube, but for documents. As in: Word, Pdf, Txt, Html, and so on. Do you have documents that people would find useful or interesting? This could be a means … Continue reading →

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