CUPERTINO, California—May 30, 2007—Apple® today announced the launch of iTunes® U, a dedicated area within the iTunes Store (www.itunes.com) featuring free content such as course lectures, language lessons, lab demonstrations, sports highlights and campus tours provided by top US colleges and universities including Stanford University, UC Berkeley, Duke University and MIT....
read all about it here
Thursday, May 31, 2007
Did you notice?
Something new in the Sidebar - a search box for the blog. Now you can look for a post without having to remember which month/year it was posted!
Reading is social, Reading is power
The Book Expo : Reading and its well-contents
by Gregory McNamee - May 31st, 2007
Saint Ambrose did not move his lips when he read. Neither did Ambrose’s pupil and colleague Saint Augustine. The Roman chroniclers who witnessed this feat thought it only a curiosity, and the provincial missionaries’ example took generations to become the ruling style of reading in the West.....
... reading is a social act, involving a history of formal and informal accords establishing that written words have certain meanings and shapes, that they are to be used in certain ways. Reading is at the same time an intensely individual act: each reader approaches a text differently, bringing to bear experience and personality on another’s words. It is a complex mental activity, involving several areas of the brain at once. Reading is physiologically complex as well, demanding that the eyes dart around the page hundreds of times each second to take in bits and pieces of visual information....
read all of it here
Then come to the library and find something else to read!
by Gregory McNamee - May 31st, 2007
Saint Ambrose did not move his lips when he read. Neither did Ambrose’s pupil and colleague Saint Augustine. The Roman chroniclers who witnessed this feat thought it only a curiosity, and the provincial missionaries’ example took generations to become the ruling style of reading in the West.....
... reading is a social act, involving a history of formal and informal accords establishing that written words have certain meanings and shapes, that they are to be used in certain ways. Reading is at the same time an intensely individual act: each reader approaches a text differently, bringing to bear experience and personality on another’s words. It is a complex mental activity, involving several areas of the brain at once. Reading is physiologically complex as well, demanding that the eyes dart around the page hundreds of times each second to take in bits and pieces of visual information....
read all of it here
Then come to the library and find something else to read!
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
GALILEO and Vista
Have you switched to Vista on your PC? Are you waiting to see how it will work with the software you use all the time?
Here's news from GALILEO that you'll be glad to read!
We are pleased to announce that we have successfully completed Windows Vista compliance testing for the GALILEO site and features as well as the GALILEO databases. Below is a list of resources that GALILEO staff have tested to ensure compliance.
For additional information, please see the following documentation:
http://www.usg.edu/galileo/help/tech/config.phtml
GALILEO homepage including:
*Find It and Journals A-Z
*Quick Search
*About GALILEO
*GALILEO Help
*GALILEO Express Links
*GALILEO Kids Page
*OLLC and GALILEO Tutorials
GALILEO Databases including:
*ABC-CLIO databases
*Britannica databases
*CGF database
*EBSCO databases
*GaleGroup databases
*ISI databases
*LexisNexis
*McGraw-Hill database
*netLibrary
*OCLC FirstSearch databases
*Oxford University Press databases
*ProQuest CSA databases
If you have any questions or need more information, please use GALILEO's Contact Us feature or contact OIIT Customer Services at helpdesk@usg.edu.
GALILEO announcements and status updates are available at:
http://www.usg.edu/galileo/status/
Information about the GALILEO mailing list is available at:
http://www.usg.edu/galileo/about/news/list.phtml
Here's news from GALILEO that you'll be glad to read!
We are pleased to announce that we have successfully completed Windows Vista compliance testing for the GALILEO site and features as well as the GALILEO databases. Below is a list of resources that GALILEO staff have tested to ensure compliance.
For additional information, please see the following documentation:
http://www.usg.edu/galileo/help/tech/config.phtml
GALILEO homepage including:
*Find It and Journals A-Z
*Quick Search
*About GALILEO
*GALILEO Help
*GALILEO Express Links
*GALILEO Kids Page
*OLLC and GALILEO Tutorials
GALILEO Databases including:
*ABC-CLIO databases
*Britannica databases
*CGF database
*EBSCO databases
*GaleGroup databases
*ISI databases
*LexisNexis
*McGraw-Hill database
*netLibrary
*OCLC FirstSearch databases
*Oxford University Press databases
*ProQuest CSA databases
If you have any questions or need more information, please use GALILEO's Contact Us feature or contact OIIT Customer Services at helpdesk@usg.edu.
GALILEO announcements and status updates are available at:
http://www.usg.edu/galileo/status/
Information about the GALILEO mailing list is available at:
http://www.usg.edu/galileo/about/news/list.phtml
Whoop Whoop Whoop
That whooping is the sound of a helicopter parent circling their adult offspring.
Just a few years ago a successful parent was one who worked themselves out of a job. By the time the offspring was 16 and driving, the parent could begin to relax- the offspring had been raised to be independent and responsible for the choices and consequences of those choices.....not so for the Millenial Generation (those born between 1982 and 2002).
Some of these "adults" make few choices concerning school and work. Their parents are with them smoothing over any bump caused by the offsprings negligence.
NPR had a bit about this on the Morning Edition (transcript isn't in LexisNexis yet but it will be)
The Atanta Journal Constitution (you may need to log in to read the article) had a front page article concerning the situation.
Using GALILEO's Quick search limiting it to News/Facts and the phrase Boomer Parents Hover- there are very few articles in the databases but Quick Search looks through Google too - there are a ton of articles in prestigious newspapers.
Quick Search is a fascinating resource- and it's getting better.
Just a few years ago a successful parent was one who worked themselves out of a job. By the time the offspring was 16 and driving, the parent could begin to relax- the offspring had been raised to be independent and responsible for the choices and consequences of those choices.....not so for the Millenial Generation (those born between 1982 and 2002).
Some of these "adults" make few choices concerning school and work. Their parents are with them smoothing over any bump caused by the offsprings negligence.
NPR had a bit about this on the Morning Edition (transcript isn't in LexisNexis yet but it will be)
The Atanta Journal Constitution (you may need to log in to read the article) had a front page article concerning the situation.
Using GALILEO's Quick search limiting it to News/Facts and the phrase Boomer Parents Hover- there are very few articles in the databases but Quick Search looks through Google too - there are a ton of articles in prestigious newspapers.
Quick Search is a fascinating resource- and it's getting better.
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Summer Blockbusters
Do you want to read what others have said about a movie before you go spend your money?
You can use Google, type in the title movie review. Voila - thousands of movie reviews will pop right up!
You can use ProQuest and Academic Search Premier at EbscoHost in GALILEO to limit a search to film reviews. I admit- it isn't easy and I didn't get what I thought I would though I tried several routes (advanced search, limiting to document text and film reviews).
ProQuest offered me suggestions for my search. I was intrigued that they pulled up the main actor and the director as options though I had just given a title and limited it to Film Review.
Lexis Nexis Academic through the Guided Search doesn't limit you to film reviews so you get business articles about the movie (how much it made or cost, etc).
For most entertainment purposes- the Google search with movie review will tell you what you want to know - should you spend your money tonight on this movie.
Happy watching!
You can use Google, type in the title movie review. Voila - thousands of movie reviews will pop right up!
You can use ProQuest and Academic Search Premier at EbscoHost in GALILEO to limit a search to film reviews. I admit- it isn't easy and I didn't get what I thought I would though I tried several routes (advanced search, limiting to document text and film reviews).
ProQuest offered me suggestions for my search. I was intrigued that they pulled up the main actor and the director as options though I had just given a title and limited it to Film Review.
Lexis Nexis Academic through the Guided Search doesn't limit you to film reviews so you get business articles about the movie (how much it made or cost, etc).
For most entertainment purposes- the Google search with movie review will tell you what you want to know - should you spend your money tonight on this movie.
Happy watching!
Monday, May 28, 2007
Remembering
Memorial Day - a time to remember those who gave their all that we might have the opportunity to gather in peace.
LION has full text poems to help us feel the importance of this day.
IN Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
(to read it all go to In Flanders Field by John McCrae.
To access LION through GALILEO you will need the current password from your Georgia librarian.
LION has full text poems to help us feel the importance of this day.
IN Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
(to read it all go to In Flanders Field by John McCrae.
To access LION through GALILEO you will need the current password from your Georgia librarian.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
Posts
