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Various sources of RSS/email alerts for journals. Useful for teaching staff/students how to keep up-to-date.

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I regularly refer to this; it's a good way to explain what library skills training is all about to academics.

www.sconul.ac.uk/...headline_skills.html - Preview

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Lots of online graphic-editing tools, including taking website screenshots. Unfortunately don't seem to work in IE6, so I need to wait for work to upgrade before I try them out!

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Quick tool for taking a screenshot of a whole webpage (not just one screen's worth. Some options e.g. size, filetype.

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Interesting ideas about preparing handouts for one-off info literacy/research sessions.

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New animations and guides to using Web 2.0 tools for research, admin or teaching - likely to come in very handy for developing in-house training. CC-licensed. Topics include RSS, Social Media and Microblogging with more to come.

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New feature allows a widget ('fan box') to be added to any webpage to promote a Facebook Page. Requires javascript or iframe. Can show badge + optionally stream and selection of fans.

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Blog post listing places to find free stock photos for use in educational materials etc.

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free photos stock work

Allows you to reformat any web page to make it more suitable for printing. Of course every site should have its own print stylesheet instead...

www.printwhatyoulike.com - Preview

green printing apps work

Good example of an online catalogue using the next version of my library's catalogue software (e-library vs iLink for those interested). One to refer to when setting ours up!

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A really interesting presentation on the risks and opportunities of Library 2.0 developments with examples of evaluative frameworks. Written for a meeting where CILIP is considering use of web 2.0 resources.

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Short intro to Spotify. May use this in user training as work PCs don't have Spotify installed.

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spotify video usered work tutorials

Lists resources for learning Perl, including free e-books, recommended published books, mailing lists etc.

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Another free web app for trying to organise a meeting. Seems pretty flexible as it allows free-text time entry.

www.meetona.com - Preview

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Computers in Libraries journal readable online. Not very well laid out and ads aplenty, but free!

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Great (and very long) blog post on web design and SEO. Points out you should treat search bots as your 'least able user', i.e. if you're doing accessibility right, search bots should like your site too.

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Place to put regularly used command-line commands (rather than keeping them in a document) and learn useful commands from others. This page sorted by popularity.

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unix commands work

Free online data visualisation with tons of options. Looks very cool but I haven't thought of anything to do with it yet!

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Online app for creating pretty flowcharts, diagrams etc. Free but can only save one chart for later editing at a time.

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Handy for live demos - enter a URL and this will splash a shortened version across the screen so people watching can enter it on their computers. May figure out a user education function for it...

splashurl.net - Preview

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