Whenever I submit an article to WebJunction I’m asked to add a CreativeCommons license of my choosing to the end of the article. Doing this involves going to the CC site, filling out a form, getting the license, and finally copy&paste-ing the license into my Word file. Well, this morning I discovered that there’s a Creative Commons Add-in for Microsoft Office which adds a CreativeCommons link to the file menu of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint allowing you to insert a CC license from directly within office. That’s sweet! There’s not much to it but you can check out the screenshot slides (five images) in my flickr account.
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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