This document provides a summary of 40+ tech tips, tricks, and tools presented by Michael Sauers, the Technology Innovation Librarian at the Nebraska Library Commission. It lists various shortcuts and tools for accessing free ebooks, scanning documents, using whiteboards digitally, navigating YouTube videos, selecting and removing hyperlinks in documents, and conducting polls. The document encourages tracking how many of the tips may be useful in the future and notes that URLs were omitted but tools can be found through searches.

1. 40+ Tech Tips,
Tricks, & Tools
Michael Sauers
Technology Innovation Librarian
Nebraska Library Commission
NELS Annual Meeting 25 September 2014

2. Before we begin…
• I’ve not included any URLs. Some don’t need
them and all are easily found via a simple
Google search.
• Slides will be made available after the session.
• As we go along, please keep a personal
account of how many of these you think you’ll
find useful in the future.

15. Free & Discounted eBooks

16. Free eARCs

20. Readability

23. Chrome’s CTRL-SHIFT-DELETE

31. CamScanner

32. (un)whiteboard

34. Cut/Copy/Paste for Lefties

36. Find links in Firefox
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37. YouTube Keyboard Shortcuts
• Spacebar =
Play/Pause
• Left/Right =
Rewind/Fast
• Forward Up/Down =
Volume up/down
• Home/End = Go to
beginning/end

39. Selecting words & paragraphs
• Double-click =
word
• Triple-click =
paragraph

41. Removing hyperlinks in Word
• Right-click on each
individual hyperlink
and select “Remove
Hyperlink”
–or–
• CTRL-A , CTRL-ALT-F9

42. strawpoll.me/1720264

43. Thanks!
Michael Sauers
Technology Innovation Librarian
Nebraska Library Commission
michael.sauers@nebraska.gov
www.travelinlibrarian.info
Background image CC Eva Peris
https://www.flickr.com/photos/evaysucamara/5438832695/