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Jing helps in reference

Memo — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 02:58:19 +0000

I’ve been playing with Jing since if first came out several months ago. To say that it’s easy to use is overstating the fact: make a screencast video, narrate it (if you want), and have it saved/played on the web via a link that you send to whomever; the video/screenshot is hosted by Screencast.com. You can even save your screen shots to Flickr.

This nifty tool came in handy when I was answering one of our e-mail reference questions. A student wanted to know how to access our PsychINFO database. Rather than explaining in great detail how to go about it, I simply wrote down a few instructions, fired up Jing and quickly made a screencast of the process. After doing that (it took no more than a few minutes), I also sent the link to my narration & video showing the student how to go about doing a search using PsychINFO.

Jing is from the folks at TechSmith, the same ones who make Camtasia. Jing requires Microsoft .NET framework 3.0 to work. Jing has few whistles, but for what it does, it does beautifully and simply. You can get tips & tricks and ongoing developments at the Jing Project blog. By all means, give Jing a try. It is indeed a neat idea.

Memo — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 21:19:39 +0000

Academic reference/instruction librarian, received my BA in Fine Arts from Boise State University (1991) and my MLIS from the University of Washignton (2003). I have worked in public, special, and academic libraries and relish all aspects of research and online tools that make libraries fun. Yeah, I’m going to focus on Web 2.0 and it’s cuter cousin Library 2.0.

So, it begins…

Memo — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 06:17:58 +0000

I fell off the blog wagon a while back. I’m getting back on, putting thoughts to paper and my cares to the wind. I’m comfortable with Blogger and have used it extensively for posting work-related things but thought it good practice to start something new every once in a while, hence this WorldPress blog. My own. To share and experiment in the blogosphere of libraryland and see how much more I can learn.