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The free-er the better, but we're not averse to spending some money. The Snag-it software is $50 and we'd be happy enough with that... - WebGoddess

I use http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/ and pay the $12 per year for the full account, but they a free version too. I like this because it's web-based - I also dislike it because it's web based, so I have to have a connection to use it. - ellbeecee

waitwaitwaitwaitWAIT. Jing is going away? NoooooOOOOOooooo! I love my Jing! *sigh* I'm guessing Snag-It isn't free, right? - Catherine Pellegrino

^^^^^^ THIS. Timeline for Jing's disappearance? We rely on that in online databases class! - RepoRat

Coworker says Jing is supposed to be going away in Feb, so next month. No, Snag-it isn't free, but it's pretty cheap at $50 for the software (I think that's a one-time purchase, not a yearly license fee?). I'll look at the screencast-o-matic software - that would be nice because we have a mix of Macs and Windows machines. Thanks, LBC!! - WebGoddess

WUT? But... I need Jing. - lris

Oh, FUDGE. We rely on Jing heavily for lots of things, and have it installed on everydamncomputer in the place. Paying $50 a pop for individual licenses for each computer isn't feasible, and getting IT to agree to a site license is also not feasible. #$@%^##@%$!@#%$#^$@!#$!##%^$@#!@# - Catherine Pellegrino

No, it looks like Jing *Pro* is going away http://www.techsmith.com/jing-pr... Free Jing will still be there. - lris

OH THANK GOD. - Catherine Pellegrino

Edited now that Iris saved me from tears. I use Camtasia, also from TechSmith ($99), but Jing is so great for a database tutorial assignment in my research from a distance class. Whew! - kaijsa

WHEW OMG. - RepoRat

I was having a Meebo moment there. - Catherine Pellegrino

Oh, thank goodness, lris. Phew. - maʀtha

I use Jing for lots of stuff, including IM reference. - maʀtha

<3 Royce. - Mary Carmen

Your hairs are long! - ωαřмaiden ❤Marrit Woman❤

I know! I need to see about getting a haircut before I head to NY. Or get one while I am there. - Mary Carmen

Hi Mary! - John (bird whisperer)

*waves* - Kirsten

hey sweetie!! - VALZ/TEAM TRAVIS

OMG Love, MARRY ME! - Scott. Cat Herder.

Hello beautiful lady. - Headless Gnad Kicker

Hey y'all. I'm sorry, Scott, I'm taken. - Mary Carmen

Mary!! Love you. :) - Laura H.

Hi Laura! Love ya! - Mary Carmen

MC! - Pete #TeamMonique

Did the biggest grin just spread across my mug or what? Hi MC! - MoTO #TeamMonique

Very serious credit for this decision goes to our Collection Development librarian, our Serials Librarian (who is also our liaison to Chemistry), and our director, who put in a lot of hard work and time with our Chemistry department faculty to reach this decision. - Catherine Pellegrino

very exciting! - RudĩϐЯaЯïan from YouFeed

You just made my heart flutter. #pebbles #vote - Jenica

Well, then. :) - RepoRat

HOT TUB PARTEEEEEE - Julian

LOL Julian. - ωαřмaiden ❤Marrit Woman❤

I would worry if the cat starts using the good conditioner. - Rochelle's favorite Royce

When he starts attaching a pipe to the car's exhaust and putting it in to your bedroom window, then I'd be worried. - Mo Kargas

When two colleagues and I looked at two years' worth of downloads from Academic Search Premier at 14 colleges, among the top ten publications tapped: Library Journal and School Library Journal. I'm pretty sure they weren't looking for those sources. - barbara fister

LOL. - aarontay

If the primary users are not finding what they need using Summon's basic searching, I'm all for turning it off. When those who specifically need book reviews (and I suspect this is a minority) need them, they'll still be in there, right? They'll just have to refine their search some. - ellbeecee

Yes, users can see quite obviously on the facets that book reviews are excluded for Summon. Like so. http://nus.summon.serialssolutions.com/search... . I have also been studying library search boxes another design is to have the default search box have a check box turned on for exclude book reviews which is even more explicit. See... more... - aarontay

We want to exclude newspaper articles because a) they swamp out the academic stuff and b) the links on them are broken anyway. Book reviews is another likelihood. - Deborah Fitchett

Update: We decided to exclude both newspaper articles and book reviews by default from home page (2 check boxes). Exclude book reviews is a good idea since 99% of people are not looking for it but having mixed feelings about newspaper articles because sometimes they give useful results. - aarontay

That's what we do" i wasinitially opposed to excluding book reviews, but they really overwhelm the search results, so I've come around. - RudĩϐЯaЯïan

The problem is you still get book reviews marked as journal articles :( Newspaper articles is a hard one, Our statistics do show that the 2 most common used facets are "full text online" followed by "journal articles". One way to intreprete that is people are trying to get rid of the newspapers articles...though why they don't click on the exclude newspaers articles option is a big question... - aarontay

can't you change the system parameters to adjust the weighting of what is likely to appear higher on the first page? - Kathryn is Blake in Hindi

we have no control over the Summon search algorithm. The best we can do is set it up so the default search excludes certain content, like newspaper articles or book reviews. - DJF

sucky suckitude - Kathryn is Blake in Hindi

One of the "Advantages" of a cloud-based solution... The way Summon works I heard is that it's one central index, it just decides what to show or what not to show based on what you tell it you have, so everyone is using the same algorithm - aarontay

Anyway, I am struggling with known item searches , articles are usually fine, books (try title + author vs just title), databases not so much. The new database recommender allows you to setup tags to help -eg I set up JCR to recommend journal citation reports and you can set up best bets - essentially text+URL that popup when the search matches the tag, but it's a band-aid solution. Particularly since the tag must match *exactly*, ie a tag for ISI, will not match a search for ISI web of science. - aarontay

This was one of the main frustrations the librarians at MPOW had with discovery systems in general and Summon in particular. One thing I liked about the Primo Central demo we saw was that you can change some of the weighting for particular item types, so rather than turning off book reviews, you can simply weight them so that they don't show up as high on the results list. - Royce's favorite Anna

It's really interesting how much difficult web scale discovery systems have with finding known items and relevancy in general. I always thought known item search for a solved problem since it works great with classic catalogues but it seems once you combine that with the need to search full text it goes out of the window. In any case, I suspect known item search is a problem that could be solved but currently isn't a big priority compared to subject searches. - aarontay

Interestingly enough, the discovery tool we're using for our catalog for now (VuFind) is better at known-item searches than the OPAC (WebVoyage) because it indexes better and is more forgiving of spelling errors. - Royce's favorite Anna

We always seem to forget why Google emerged as the dominant search engine: it used the number of incoming links as a weight for relevancy. That's why I prefer Web of Science to the commerical Discovery Layers. My dream discovery layer would be Blacklight: it allows librarians to adjust relevancy ranking using cucumber: http://www.miskatonic.org/2009... and http://discovery-grindstone.bl... - copystar

Holly does your Vufind pull in article results? Or is it just normal marc records? If the latter, it's no wonder Vufind is better. It's like our Encore system is as good if not better than our webopac. - aarontay

Actually copystar, Summon *does* use the times cited from Web of Science as a criteria for ranking articles. Scopus is coming in next I believe. It still doesn't help though,when we comparing say books to journal articles. I don't know if it is possible to do both known item searches and subject searches nicely in one ranking search. Possibly, intelligently detecting that some search is... more... - aarontay

Ok - so if relevancy can't separate the book from the book review, then the bento box is another option: http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/search... - copystar

Has anyone reported on usability testing of bento box displays? I'm partial to the approach but believe the devil is in the details. Tweaking layouts, fonts, and labeling is probably essential and exacting work to get a good experience for the users (as is making decisions about how many items to display and what metadata to display for each item). - Stephen le Francoeur

No, our VuFind does not pull article results, it's just for our catalog content. - Royce's favorite Anna

NCSU created the bento box model because of their extensive UX work. The idea that our users will narrow their results using facets is not supported by strong evidence. - copystar

I'd assumed that NCSU and others had all come up with bento box displays after UX work, but what I'd like to see are discussions about how those bento box search results pages themselves are received and what early lessons can be learned about layout, etc. I'm totally on board with the theory of them but wonder about the overall complexity of the display of results. I'm trying to think of examples of non-library websites with bento box SRPs but am coming up with a blank on this Monday AM. - Stephen le Francoeur

Library Websites: Lunch Boxes trying to be Bento Boxes. - barbara fister

also curious about how folks interact with the bento box results. Summon wish list: search "keywords" (title, author, journal, abstract) by default INSTEAD OF defaulting to full-text. *that's* what overwhelms results. Also agree that book reviews should be turned off by default. - $tephanie•Cog$ciLibrarian

It's a search box, ergo it searches All The Things(TM)! - Deborah Fitchett

Actually i have being analysing the libguide search box searches system wide, across all pages people are entering issns, isbns, book titles, articles titles & narrow topics they are researching...The most common result? Zero results. I did something radical in response to this a few months ago... Librarians hate me cos of that. - aarontay

Aaron, I would love to hear what you did. Like others, my anectada is that, when presented with a page that includes a search box, students will search in it, regardless of what the page says or what instructions they've been given. - kaijsa

I just defaulted the search to use our discovery service Summon! It works because Libguides is indexed in Summon anyway. The main problem now is unless it's some unique search term like "proxy bookmarklet" (a very popular search) or librarian names, even if the term does match our libguides, it will be buried. . The upcoming enhancements will allow us to add "best bets" (basically any... more... - aarontay

I would add currently, this gives excellent results because Summon is not our default search and so majority of people don't use it. When it becomes the default tab this may no longer be a good idea? The other thing I toying with is to set up the libguide search when there are zero results to suggest a search in our discovery system.. You can now change the message it displays if there is no results.. but you cant grab the search term and use it though... - aarontay

Sadly, we have no discovery product, so I'm not sure how to mitigate this problem. Maybe by changing the message displayed in LibGuides for zero results? Off to investigate... - ~Courtney F

Aaron, you mentioned that "You can now change the message it displays if there is no results." Where in the LibGuides settings can you do that? I've been looking in Admin Stuff > System Settings > Search Options but don't see anything there that lets me create customized wording for a null search result page. - Stephen le Francoeur

It's under Admin-> Look & feel -> Language options. Change the "No results were found". Tons of other things you can change to any standard text in Libguides , this is the only one that caught my interest. - aarontay

Aaron, thanks for that. I had figured it would be in the search options. I just changed mine to offer a link to our Summon instance. http://guides.newman.baruch.cuny.edu/search... - Stephen le Francoeur

Another approach some folks are trying is so-called "bento box" search. I'm too congested to know where the hell I saw that first, but I suspect it might have been Matthew Reidsma. - RepoRat

one mention: https://bibwild.wordpress.com/2011... - RepoRat

right, i was just going to say that we (my parent institution) is looking at a bento box type search result page - Christina Pikas

btw, thx RepoRat for the re-energizing my day :) - awd

We've been hoping for a while for the day when we could get a bento-box search results page, too, but I'm afraid that it'll be a long time from now. I'd be interested in the meanwhile, though, to do some usability testing with the bento box approaches that others have already set up (NCSU, Stanford, U of Michigan, etc.) to see if users know what to make of the various clusters of search results. - Stephen le Francoeur

a former colleague said that patrons were attracted to search boxes like bugs to a bug zapper. And I'm with Stephen: I'd like to see usability studies of the bento box approach. I'm not convinced it solves students' problems. - $tephanie•Cog$ciLibrarian

I first came across this idea in 2011 and blogged about it http://musingsaboutlibrariansh... . I think bento boxes can work, but they need to carefully consider the context of the user. I am not convinced showing 8-9 bento boxes is going to help. But a few well chosen ones, say 2-3 might be okay. Our LibGuide scenario is a bit... more... - aarontay

This would work for creating a Walt Action figure, but does not include an option for creating a female action figure: http://www.vicale.com/maleond... - Galadriel C.

*bumping for Walt* - Chelle Chelle Ro Ro

Which Walt did you have in mind? Certainly not this one... - Walt Crawford

Yes, sir. It was you. - Chelle Chelle Ro Ro

Anyone else looking up to customize a minifig? - Betsy #TeamMonique

This sounds like a perfect maker space project. 3D printer, anyone? - Andy

noted - Meg V. Meg

LSW membership awesomeness confirmation up in running? Check. - Galadriel C.

Yes. Please fill out the quality control request in triplicate, print them, sign them, fax them, and then mail a check. Your application will be reviewed, and successful applications will result in a quality control visit from a certified LSW Quality Control Officer. - lris

WHERE IS THE LINK TO THE FORM? I CAN'T FIND IT. - Joe Boone

The form is actually a Word document. It's in your email. - Catherine Pellegrino

Checks can be made out to whomever you wish, preferably an LSW member for ease of tracking. Google us for accurate addrss. - awd

she's not telling because he's immortal right? isn't this his 111th bday? - Sir Shuping is just sir

Boom shanka! - Chris Z.

steeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeve! - RepoRat

A MILLION MORE GOOD YEARS! - Meg V. Meg

bonne fête, steve! - jambina

Happy Birthday! - Katy S

Happy, Happy! - maʀtha

Happy birthday! - LB: #TeamMonique

Happy birthday Steve!! - RudĩϐЯaЯïan

Hey, friend! I hope you had a super awesome day, what with having an Iris and a birthday! - Chelle Chelle Ro Ro

Birthday greetings to one of the best Ste?en's I know. - Stephen le Francoeur

Many happy returns! - Lily

Happy, happy birthday! Although they seem to have left you off this "famous people" list... http://www.historyorb.com/birthda.... I would've thought that you would beat Karl III Philip, Elector Palatine - Megan loves summer

Happy Birthday, Steele. Long may you reign. - MoTO #TeamMonique

Happy, happy birthday to Steve! - Galadriel C.

Happy Birthday! - Laura Norvig from iPhone

happy bday! - holly #ravingfangirl

Iris and Anne and I got to have a birthday drink with Steve on Mama Lawson. :) - Jason P

Happy Birthday Steve! - Hedgehog

Happy birthday, Steve :) - Pete #TeamMonique

Aww, thank you Catherine and everyone. - Steele Lawman

Happy birthday, Steve. - Betsy #TeamMonique

Happy birthday! - Rachel Walden

Hope you had a good b-day. Welcome to the first full day of the next year of your life. - Joe Boone

Painted and dainty? - Chris Z.

Butch Walker. - Marianne

was here? - Chris Z.

Ooh I want one of those! - Starmama from FFHound(roid)!

"( . )( . )" - Eivind

Eivind is killing today! - Janet:#TeamMonique from FFHound!

lol - Starmama from FFHound(roid)!

I was going to say "my eyes are up here ^" but wanted to keep it classy. I'm glad Eivind went there for me. - Jason P

I am surprised it took that long, honestly. :) - holly #ravingfangirl

Our systems department has one, but I don't know the deets. I can pass on a question or two though? - LibrarianOnTheLoose

I tether my computer to my phone - DJF

For things like proxy troubleshooting, we use Tor https://www.torproject.org/ - lris

One of our systems librarians has her computer's IP hidden, so that it always behaves as if off campus. - Kirsten

Campus IT has a few mobile hotspots that can be borrowed. - Stephen le Francoeur

I like the idea of using Tor. If I install it on my work PC, I can use it on an as needed basis, right? It doesn't change the default network settings for me. I'm interested but don't want to do something to my PC that will require tech support from campus IT because I've screwed up my regular network connections. Any thoughts about that? - Stephen le Francoeur

Stephen - yes, as long as you don't install the Firefox extension. If you use it as needed, you'll need to go into the proxy settings in IE and tell it you're proxying, but that only takes a second. I can walk you through it if you want. - ~Courtney F

For off campus access issues, I use Tor on my computer, but I've been using my iPad more since it has 3G. I just turn off the wi-fi and voila! :) - ~Courtney F

The Tor browser works just fine! Thanks so much for the recommendation. - Stephen le Francoeur

I can't help but think when you open the Tor browser it says "Time for go to internet." - Chris Z.

161 years ago on October 18th the novel, Moby Dick written by Herman Melville was published. - Mary Carmen from iPhone

Hey Mary! Did you know what Moby Dick's father was named? - Stephen Mack #TeamMomo from iPhone

Do tell. - Mary Carmen from iPhone

Papa Boner. - Stephen Mack #TeamMomo from iPhone

I'm ashamed that I knew that joke. ;-) - Mary Carmen

I love your president. Can I have him? - barbara fister

(Oh, I love you too.) - barbara fister

http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2012... - Jenica

I always get the low sodium ones. More expensive, but better for you - DJF

(chicken OR beef) NOT sodium - Catherine Pellegrino

*gigglesnort* ^^^ - maʀtha

Catherine, can I use this? - maʀtha

Oh, and should we OR in salt? - maʀtha

I totally had a professor ask me about "Bouillon operators" in class once. - Jason P

but it's WAY more obvious in print. - DJF

How's the fall foiliage looking in Canada? - Blake

it's gorgeous. And I am in denial about it. - DJF

i am so buying this. - jambina

I'm totally grateful to you, jambina, for helping recruit folks. You'd be surprised (or maybe you wouldn't) how hard it is to wrangle people up for one's "so-called book project" (is what they seemed to think I meant). - Meg V. Meg

i like you. very happy to help. - jambina

i can't wait to get my grubby hands on it. - kendrak

Hey, David Macaulay! (Also: BOUGHT) - Chris Z.

Inorite? I didn't know if they'd be able to get him, but there you go. - Meg V. Meg

He's a sweetheart of a man. I met him on my 21st birthday. He signed the book I had with a picture of a man sitting on the world's tallest potty. (It made sense at the time.) - Chris Z.

Supercute. - Meg V. Meg

I'm getting this tomorrow! IT'S LIKE ANGELS ARE DELIVERING IT TO MY DOORSTEP! OR ANGLES! - Chris Z.

I love Chronicle Books. Congratulations. - Steele Lawman

Shoot, Zamms, you'll have a copy before I will. - Meg V. Meg

Thanks Steve! - Meg V. Meg

MATTE FINISH - kendrak

DON'T RUB IT IN - Meg V. Meg

Ooh, that looks cool. - Rochelle

i was asking some questions from the book on twitter. some people thought it was flirting. - kendrak

:D - maʀtha

*does the Martha's-birthday dance* - RepoRat

Happy birthday, Martha :) - Pete #TeamMonique

@RR Video, pls! - maʀtha

Have a wonderful day, MEH! - LB: #TeamMonique

Happy birthday, Martha! (And Andrew, you are a sweetheart.) - Steele Lawman

Happy Birthday Martha! - Hedgehog

Many happy returns of the day, Martha! - Catherine Pellegrino

Happy birthday, Martha! - Jason P

Happy birthday, Martha :) - Jen

Happy birthday Martha! - Starmama from FFHound(roid)!

Happy birthday to you! - Galadriel C.

Happy birthday to my good friend! - laura x

Happy Birthday!!!! - Katy S

Merriest birthday! - ωαřмaiden ❤Marrit Woman❤

Happy Birthday TMCG! - MoTO #TeamMonique from Android

thanks everyone! I am having a pretty good day - maʀtha

yay for a pretty good day! i hope it ends well! - Sir Shuping is just sir

Happy Birthday! - Anne Bouey

Love you guys. *sniffle* - maʀtha

Cybercitation required. - Micah from FFHound(roid)!

It is the information superhighway, duh. - Joe Boone

The internet is a series of dudes... - Pete #TeamMonique

I can see it! - Heleninstitches

O_O IM WATCHING YOU - LibrarianOnTheLoose

Sorry, I can't see it. - Joe Boone

I CAN'T HEAR YOU. LALALALALALA - Chelle Chelle Ro Ro

DON'T WORRY, I'LL POST THIS ON GOOGLE+ TOO! - Chris Z.

*WAVES BROOMSTICK ARMS* - Meg V. Meg

That's a good idea - Rodfather

There's the already-existing group Friendfeeders on FB... - Andrew C (✓)

There were quite a few chatting in the FB group last night/this morning. https://www.facebook.com/groups... - Rochelle

Reddit isn't a bad idea since you can have an anonymous username. Unlike FB and G+. - Rodfather

a "sub what now?" old -------------------------> - MoTO #TeamMonique

*touches nose* Not it. - c.a.j.

I just went to do it and reddit is now down.Seriously, why can't the Internet work today. Did something bad happen? - Sarah G.

(And Barry....Reddit is the shit. I love it. Much more anonymous than here, though.) - Sarah G.

I didn't know abotu that FF group on facebook. Just sent a request to join, because I have to have somewhere to go. - ellbeecee

I just joined the ALA Thinktank group on FB. Dunno how that will work out. Y'know, there *could* be an LSW circle on G+ &/or an LSW group on FB, just for backup...(I could offer my "libfolk" G+ circle as a starting point, but it may include some non-LSW people.) - Walt Crawford

Most of the people I interact with on FF aren't librarians. - Sarah G.

How does one make a subreddit? - Friar Ticket to Ride

http://www.quora.com/How-do-... - Sarah G.

Did you create one, Sarah, or should I? - Friar Ticket to Ride