create your own booklets--FREE!

BookletCreator - is a free online tool that allows to create a booklet from a PDF document. It reorders pages so that after printing and folding the pages you get a small book. Here is how it goes:

"The original document should be in PDF format with "Portrait" paper orientation. If you have a document in the format other than PDF, you should at first convert it to PDF. You can use some free PDF creation tool. For example PrimoPDF. You upload your document to the BookletCreator website and download the result.

RSS Feeds for Individual User's Lists in WorldCat.org--from RSS4lib blog

OCLC announced today that "Public WorldCat lists are available as RSS feeds that can be monitored using any RSS-capable service or software." When you view a user's list within WorldCat.org, you will be able to subscribe to an RSS feed for that list -- so whenever that user adds an item to it, you'll find out.

Libraries that use WorldCat.org lists to generate reading lists on various topics can now embed those lists easily and automatically on library web pages -- and let their patrons know, at the same time, that there are new items of interest.

So, for example, I've created a brief list of books about RSS. You can subscribe to its feed at http://worldcat.org/profiles/varnumk/lists/53691/rss. Whenever I add a new item to the list, you'll know. If you go to my list in WorldCat (it's called "RSS4Lib RSS List"), the RSS link OCLC provides redirects you to AddThis.com, a site that provides one-click subscription or one-click bookmarking links to a wide range of RSS aggregators and social bookmarking services.

Posted by Ken Varnum on February 26, 2008 1:26 PM
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eBook blog

blog to be a "moderated discussion of the issues surrounding eBooks, for librarians and publishers.”

blog is by Sue Polanka, Head of Reference, Wright State University

http://noshelfrequired.blogspot.com/

screencasting

one type of software that i'm looking forward to playing around with more:

http://mashable.com/2008/02/21/screencasting-video-tutorials/

effective teleconferencing

we're all using WebEx and teleconferencing much more...here's a great article about how to do that effectively:

http://www.cio.com/article/print/184550

catching up with social media

If you’re still unsure about blogging and new social media, you’ll want to read BusinessWeek’s Social Media Will Change Your Business. The article updates their May 2005 report similarly titled Blogs Will Change Your Business. They decided to revise the popular story because despite the rapid advancements in today’s technology, readers are still downloading the original article.

“Look past the yakkers, hobbyists, and political mobs. Your customers and rivals are figuring blogs out. Our advice: Catch up…or catch you later.”

(from iLibrarian)

open source ILS

Inside Higher Education: Open Minds, Open Books, Open Source

from EDUCAUSE CONNECT aggregator

Libraries are starting to embrace technologies developed in-house or by other universities. Will they eventually replace third-party vendors?