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The Creative Librarian is a hub for matters important to librarians/information scientists of today. There is a definite lean towards electronic issues, however it isn't restricted to only those. Hopefully this site will also be useful for informing non-librarians on these issues as so many of them affect us all.

Archive for the “Web Tools” Category

Captions for Video with Flash CS3

Flash is popular for adding interactive media to websites such as movies and tutorials. Now there’s an easy, built-in way to add captioning for the hearing impaired or sub-titles for other languages. Digital Web Magazine – Captions for Video with Flash CS3 gives and introduction on using this option.

Screencast-O-Matic

Screencast-O-Matic Screencast-O-Matic is the free and easy way to create a video recording of your screen (aka screencast) and upload it for free hosting all from your browser with no install! </blockquote

RSS in Plain English

Video: RSS in Plain English | Common Craft – Social Design for the Web Click To Play We made this video for our friends (and yours) that haven’t yet felt the power of our friend the RSS reader. We want to convert people… if you know someone who would love RSS and hasn’t yet tried [...]

Complete Color Matching Guide

Complete Color Matching Guide | E Logo Design We’ve all finally gotten the go ahead for a web site redesign or even a print project. Then been faced with the organizations official color(s) and been stymied. A quick browse of the color guide could give you ideas for something to offset, tone down, or brighten [...]

Everything You Need to Know About Web 2.0

Everything You Need to Know About Web 2.0 Web 2.0 is a category of new Internet tools and technologies created around the idea that the people who consume media, access the Internet, and use the Web shouldn’t passively absorb what’s available; rather, they should be active contributors, helping customize media and technology for their own [...]

More on Twitter

the goblin in the library » Twitter Me This adaptive path » blog » blog archive » Twitter: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly Basically what I had thought, not for me. But who knows when the right situation might pop-up?

hennepin county library’s bookspace

hennepin county library’s bookspace The ever resourceful Librarian in Black breaks a huge story about hennepin county library’s bookspace which is an online community based around books. I’m going to copy her list of things readers can do at bookspace: * create their own account for Book Space * sign up for e-mail alerts on [...]

saving time with social web tools

saving time with social web tools I hope this mini case study of a time strapped library helps expose the “I don’t have time for social software” excuse to be just that: an excuse for not wanting to expand and learn. Indeed. Bookmarking for the next argument over new technology versus the way we’ve always [...]