Nicole C. Engard's Blog, page 24
March 11, 2013
Bookmarks for March 11, 2013
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.
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Koha 3.6 Public Catalog Overview
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 idea for a video, please just let me know and I’ll add it to my list of things to record.
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March 9, 2013
Bookmarks for March 9, 2013
Today I found the following resources and bookmarked them on Delicious.
DropTask
Visual Task Management for Individuals and Teams
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March 8, 2013
Bookmarks for March 8, 2013
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
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March 6, 2013
Bookmarks for March 6, 2013
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.
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March 4, 2013
Bookmarks for March 4, 2013
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.
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Batch Item Edits in Koha 3.6
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.
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February 28, 2013
Interview about Open Source on opensource.com
I recently gave an interview on opensource.com about libraries, open source, getting involved and educating everyone I can.
Sharing is a fundamental part of the open source philosophy, and the same goes for libraries. Spreading, disseminating, and breaking down barries to gaining knowledge is a core mission of most library systems and their staff.
That that end, libraries—which are essentially hubs of knowledge and gathering places for learning and continuing daily education—may choose to implement open source tools and software.
An advocate for “open libraries”, Nicole Engard, is one of our new opensource.com community moderators, a long-time contributor, and a 2013 People’s Choice Award winner. She has a passion for libraries and wants libraries’ core operations to run on open source.
Let’s find out how some of the open source tools like Koha and Zotero are changing the future of libraries and learn more about Engard’s open source passion.
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February 27, 2013
Bookmarks for February 27, 2013
Today I found the following resources and bookmarked them on Delicious.
LeafSeek
LeafSeek is a new open source tool that helps you turn your genealogical or historical record collections into searchable online databases.
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Neighborhood Watch Goes Online
Nextdoor is a new site that sounds pretty neat:
With neighborhood social network, Nextdoor, communities can stay up-to-date with everything from crime, activities and even ask the neighborhood if they can borrow the proverbial cup of sugar.
Here’s how Nextdoor works: Login to find your neighborhood and sign up. Every user must verify their address. If your neighborhood’s not there, you can be the person to start your neighborhood’s social network through Nextdoor. You’ll outline the boundaries and find the local school districts to include — yes, it takes some work, admits Tolia. But they want to avoid people signing up just to “kick the tires,” so to speak. Invite nine of your neighbors to sign-up and have them confirm their addresses on your neighborhood within 21 days. Once that’s done, your site is officially launched. If your neighbors don’t sign up, or maybe you don’t know enough of them, Nextdoor will alert you when someone else in your neighborhood successfully creates the site and then you can register.
The librarian in me wants to sign up and fill in all the info but the anti-social side of me doesn’t know the emails for 9 (or even 1) other person in the neighborhood so I’ll have to wait. I’m also wondering how to handle neighborhoods without names. I don’t know what I’d call my neighborhood other than the street name … but even that isn’t really accurate because I’d include the surrounding streets as well. Learn more at Mashable.
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