Ideas and Insights Series:Technical Services Efficiencies, Now and into the Future! (Atlanta, GA)http://www.lyrasis.org/Classes-and-Events/Venues/L/LYRASIS-Atlanta.aspxDate:Thursday, February 3, 2011Location:LYRASIS-Atlanta1438 West Peachtree St., ste. 200Atlanta, GA 30309Registration fee is now $50!REGISTER for this EventAgendaThe pace of change facing library technical services staff is ever accelerating, as our organizations explore new technologies and new media.

I'm not going to claim to be an expert (nor do I play one on TV), and when one of these sorts of things slipped through all of my layers of protection/malware/antivirus, I had to manually remove it. Anyhow, one of my friends has been struggling to get rid of this and posted a plea for help, so here are my recommendations. If you're on a computer that is not yours, then you should probably talk to the owners, your IT, etc, mmkay? ;-)The key symptoms: messages that your computer is infected (and you need to buy a product to get rid of it).

OCLC invites you to join us for a free, live webinar entitled:Cataloging Defensively: ‘When to Input a New Record’ in the Age of DDR.Description: OCLC’s “When to Input a New Record”http://www.oclc.org/us/en/bibformats/en/input/default.shtm#CHDBCBBA, a chapter contained in Bibliographic Formats and Standards, provides a common basis for decision-making in the creation of WorldCat records by member libraries.

Sounds interesting...--------------Indiana University is pleased to announce the public (very Beta) release of Scherzo, a music discovery system designed as a testbed of the FRBR conceptual model. The system may be accessed at http://vfrbr.info/search . A product of the IMLS-funded Variations/FRBR project, Scherzo is an early proof of concept for what a library catalog built according to FRBR principles might look like.

Q: How do I delete a note in facebook?A: Although not intuitive, this is easy to do.Type Notes into the Search field at the top OR start with your home page (In the news feed list on the left side, click on More, if you do not immediately see 'Notes').

Lots of resources related to the recent lawsuit against OCLC including recent articles, blog postings, procedural court docs.

Internet archive has both moving images and stills including publicdomain; others are licensed under creative commons (CC).http://www.internetarchive.organd here are the various searches by CC license type:http://is.gd/dMHClAlso searching flickr by CC licensehttp://www.flickr.com/search/advanced/?flickr does have some very short film clips.I'm sure there are other tools, even the creativecommons website hassearching functionality.Youtube allows searching by licens

Q: How do I delete a friends list? I created one for a special event and I don't need it anymore.A: Facebook always seems to be moving things around and deleting or editing a friends list is no different.

Q: Can you take a 72 ppi photo and make it look good at 300 ppi? Or, is it only used for taking a 300 ppi image and making huge posters?A: My first thought (depending on what the image is of and whether I could get a higher res one easily -- because that would seem to be the better choice) would be to edit in an image editor (e.g., photoshop) , then save at a higher dpi, and then re-edit to fix any problems, smooth out jaggyness, fix white balance, color correct, etc.