This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.
To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:
These were originally collected as research/benchmarking for Penn State's Blacklight catalog. They range from core features like the call number browse, which will enable us to see materials across 30+ libraries displayed on a single "shelf," to desired "someday" enhancements like the incorporation of knowledge cards and digital collections display.
Catalogers generally apply the most specific subject heading possible. This heading is made up of increasingly more specific parts, when the most general might be helpful in finding results. If someone has found a book on African-American quiltmakers, for example, and the subject is African American quiltmakers—Michigan—Biography
, how can we make it easy for them to search only for African American quiltmakers
?