Sunday, April 13, 2008

Online applications and tools

At our library we provide a number of public internet access PCs for use by our customers, and one PC with Microsoft Office applications. Lots of times, our customers want to be able to use both the internet and word processing facilities. The online document software is a way of providing this to customers on our public access internet PCs.

There have been times when I have wanted to publish a pdf document and have the document in Microsoft Word format. On these occassions the only staff member who could do this work was the one with licensed software. Using Zamzar, I could do this myself in a more timely manner.

The photo editing software, Picnik, might be useful to increase the number of PCs where staff are able to edit photos. In particular, if we involved volunteers in this work, this may prove useful.

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