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Changing the visual design mid-way in a video project is quite unusual, but pivoting to a softer animation style with stick figures proved successful for both the client and us.
As we approach the first anniversary of the launch of the new Effective Digital Content course it was timely to review our approach to marking the content design exercises completed by learners to look for ways to simplify and potentially automate aspects of the process. May 4, 2026
I’m happy to let you know that the Library currently has trial access to Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO), Part III from Gale and the British Library. This is a recently released collection and the first new ECCO collection in over 15 years. You can access ECCO, Part III via the E-resources trials page. Trial […]
A fairly quiet week overall, GPU users may be interested in testing the new 595 nvidia series. Here are the details of the few notable changes… May 4, 2026
In After Virtue, MacIntyre distinguishes between the internal and external goods of a practice. Internal goods are intrinsic to a specific practice: they can only be achieved by participating in it according to its standards (for example, the development of strategic imagination in chess). External goods, by contrast, are contingently attached to practices and include […]
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