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Outsourcing student email to Google or Microsoft: Some thoughts
The campus where I work is thinking of outsourcing student email. This in itself could be a good thing- the student email, as it it exists, sucks. Most students that we work with in the Center don’t use it. The … Continue reading
Posted in Free as in Freedom, Linux, School Stuff, Work
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Walking the walk: Using open source software in everyday life
Most of my presentation slides were made with open source software. Ubuntu, OpenOffice Impress, Gimp, and Inkscape allow me to put together a pretty nice looking set of slides. It has become more and more common lately for me to … Continue reading
Posted in Free as in Freedom, Library, Linux, Open access/Open source, Uncategorized
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One Laptop Per Child Presentation
I gave my presentation on the XO laptop today at the Nebraska Library Commission. Slides are up on karin.dalziel.org, and my notes will be up tomorrow. It’s really fun presenting about something I care a lot about- I hope I … Continue reading
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OLPC is good for learning
Journal, Sugar’s file management system We have been using the same tired old metaphors for computers for a long time. I look at my computer with its desktop metaphor (clean at work, cluttered at home, as in real life) and … Continue reading
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Upcoming presentations
Zotero and RefWorks: It doesn’t have to be either/or Tomorrow (January 23) I am giving a brown bag at my work about Zotero and RefWorks. I’m comparing the two citation management systems, and trying to make a case for supporting … Continue reading
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Design for Librarians – video
I meant to post this before, but, well, I didn’t. This is the video I created for my Library Use Instruction class. I wish I could link to my classmate’s tutorials, because they were very good. Design video from karindalziel … Continue reading
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