A Friday afternoon video, with magician Jeff McBride
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Y99bVsFXe4&feature=related
He's got some really amazing things to say about libraries and books.
Enjoy!
Micaela
Friday, August 29, 2008
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Discworld Convenes
Image: The Great A'Tuin by John Stephen Player
North American Discworld Convention
The hotel is booked, official announcements are going out and many of the crucial staff positions are now filled; at last U.S. fans will have their own Discworld Convention, with Himself in attendance.A good deal of organizing & networking will be done, both at WorldCon, at the UK Discworld Convention, and elsewhere. Pass it on.The Turtle Moves!The First North American Discworld Convention will be heldSeptember 4-7, 2009 (Labor Day weekend which includes a Monday holiday) at the Tempe Mission Palms Hotel in downtown Tempe, Arizona (near Phoenix).
Friday, August 22, 2008
Happy birthday, Martha Gregg!
Martha turns 54 tomorrow, born in 1954, which makes this a special birthday! Send her greetings, come up to the library and make her day...
We've got plans to help her celebrate this evening at a local spot in El Dorado.
Using ARTstor for teaching
From the ARTstor folks today comes this timely tip sheet. Access ARTstor at Butler Community College from the database page on the website, or through your Pipeline login if you are off campus.
Tips & tools
Using ARTstor large file-size images for teaching
ARTstor images are available for use in presentations for educational or other noncommercial uses in the software environment of your choice. High quality digital images—large sized JPEG files—can be projected either in the ARTstor online environment or in a variety of offline environments such as OIV, PowerPoint and Keynote. Users can download a full image at 1024 pixels on the long side or pan and zoom to needed details and download the saved detail at 1024 as well.
ARTstor users can also use the Offline Image Viewer (OIV) presentation tool to create digital slide show presentations. OIV enables side-by-side comparisons, zooming and panning on-the-fly, and the ability to customize text on each presentation slide. Users can download images at up to 3200 pixels for offline presentations by using OIV.
Integrating ARTstor with Courseware
Instructors can share ARTstor content with students through campus courseware systems, such as BlackBoard, WebCT, Sakai, or Moodle. You can upload images, provide URLs to link students to individual images or entire image groups, or share OIV presentation files. Our courseware guide explains how ARTstor content can be shared through courseware systems.
Learn more
Export image citations to citation management software
Citation management software is used to manage citations and create bibliographies. You can create image lists in ARTstor and export the image citations directly to RefWorks, EndNote, ProCite, or Reference Manager. You may also share lists of ARTstor images with others by printing, emailing, or downloading the citation list.
Learn more
Interactive features of ARTstor
ARTstor contains many interactive features that allow instructors and students to communicate within the ARTstor environment. Instructors may share image groups with students by creating password-protected (shared) folders. Students can unlock an instructor's shared folder to view the instructor's image groups, analyze images and metadata, study, and annotate images.
Instructors can also create student work folders associated with instructor shared folders. Student work folders give students a place to create image groups, add comments to images, and share this work with the instructor. Learn more
Subscribe to announcement RSS feed
To receive ARTstor announcements via RSS, copy and paste the following URL into your RSS reader: http://artstor.wordpress.com/feed
Visit the ARTstor Blog
Visit the ARTstor Blog for acccess to all current and archived announcements. http://www.artstor.org/blog
Contact ARTstor
Please contact User Services with any questions about the content of this announcement or about ARTstor in general.
Email: userservices@artstor.org
Phone: 888.278.0079 (USA Only)
Phone: 212.500.2400 www.artstor.org
151 East 61st Street
New York, New York 10065
Tips & tools
Using ARTstor large file-size images for teaching
ARTstor images are available for use in presentations for educational or other noncommercial uses in the software environment of your choice. High quality digital images—large sized JPEG files—can be projected either in the ARTstor online environment or in a variety of offline environments such as OIV, PowerPoint and Keynote. Users can download a full image at 1024 pixels on the long side or pan and zoom to needed details and download the saved detail at 1024 as well.
ARTstor users can also use the Offline Image Viewer (OIV) presentation tool to create digital slide show presentations. OIV enables side-by-side comparisons, zooming and panning on-the-fly, and the ability to customize text on each presentation slide. Users can download images at up to 3200 pixels for offline presentations by using OIV.
Integrating ARTstor with Courseware
Instructors can share ARTstor content with students through campus courseware systems, such as BlackBoard, WebCT, Sakai, or Moodle. You can upload images, provide URLs to link students to individual images or entire image groups, or share OIV presentation files. Our courseware guide explains how ARTstor content can be shared through courseware systems.
Learn more
Export image citations to citation management software
Citation management software is used to manage citations and create bibliographies. You can create image lists in ARTstor and export the image citations directly to RefWorks, EndNote, ProCite, or Reference Manager. You may also share lists of ARTstor images with others by printing, emailing, or downloading the citation list.
Learn more
Interactive features of ARTstor
ARTstor contains many interactive features that allow instructors and students to communicate within the ARTstor environment. Instructors may share image groups with students by creating password-protected (shared) folders. Students can unlock an instructor's shared folder to view the instructor's image groups, analyze images and metadata, study, and annotate images.
Instructors can also create student work folders associated with instructor shared folders. Student work folders give students a place to create image groups, add comments to images, and share this work with the instructor. Learn more
Subscribe to announcement RSS feed
To receive ARTstor announcements via RSS, copy and paste the following URL into your RSS reader: http://artstor.wordpress.com/feed
Visit the ARTstor Blog
Visit the ARTstor Blog for acccess to all current and archived announcements. http://www.artstor.org/blog
Contact ARTstor
Please contact User Services with any questions about the content of this announcement or about ARTstor in general.
Email: userservices@artstor.org
Phone: 888.278.0079 (USA Only)
Phone: 212.500.2400 www.artstor.org
151 East 61st Street
New York, New York 10065
Thursday, August 21, 2008
New Logo representing Information Literacy
“To be information literate, a person must be able to recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information. The information literate individuals are those who have learned how to learn” (ALA, 1998)
From The Information Literacy Section of the International Federation of Library Association and Institutions (IFLA). They have created a database to record information literacy materials from different parts of the world, on behalf of UNESCO.
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
CDC-TV
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has launched CDC-TV, a new online video resource available through the http://www.cdc.gov. CDC-TV videos will cover a variety of health, safety and preparedness topics. The premiere series on CDC-TV is “Health Matters.” The first segment of the series, “Break the Silence: Stop the Violence,” addresses the topic of teen dating violence. In this video, parents and teens discuss the problem of dating violence and how to prevent it.
The library of available videos through CDC-TV will expand to include single-topic presentations as well as series for children, parents and public health professionals. Most are short and all include captioning for the hearing-impaired. The videos are part of the CDC′s efforts to increase access to information that can help people prevent illness and injury.
http://www.cdc.gov/CDCtv/
Rebecca Brown, MLS
Kansas Outreach & Technology Liaison
National Network of Libraries of Medicine, MidContinental Region
University of Kansas Medical Center
A.R. Dykes Library of Health Sciences
2100 W. 39th Avenue
Kansas City, KS 66160
http://nnlm.gov/mcr/ (NN/LM MCR Web Site)
913-588-7307
1-800-338-7657
My thanks to Rebecca for the links.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Database Trial for Entrepreneurs
Our ProQuest salesman mentioned a database this summer that covers a wide variety of entrepreneurial endeavors. Content ranges from the scholarly - including journals, dissertations, working papers and conference proceedings - to a full toolkit of practical guides, templates, forms, sample business plans, and tips from successful entrepreneurs...on video.
Our trial is now active, and it runs from 08/12/2008 to 09/10/2008.
To log in to our trial, go to pipeline, log in, then click on library databases (which appears right under the pipeline logo at the top. You'll have to use that whole off-campus thing of re-entering the log-in info, but on the databases page, click on trials.
Click on the blue title "ProQuest Entrepreneurship" to enter. I know I'm going to do some research on the Library Latte coffeebar. Let me know what you think.
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