To mark Frederick Douglass's birthday, on Feb. 14th, students, faculty, librarians, and staff gathered in the Innovation Lab and helped the Library of Congress with a crowdsourcing transcription project.
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Visit the Library in April and May to see the Social Network & Technology exhibit. This exhibit focuses on the unprecedented shifts in the ways we conduct research and how libraries operate
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Check out our new Mobile Apps Guide which
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We are pleased to offer Flip video cameras for use by students, staff and faculty as part of a new pilot project. The library is making one Flip Mino HD and five Flip SD cameras available.
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Need help? Have a question? Want a Quick Response?
The DiMenna-Nyselius Library is now using QR Codes!
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What are QR Codes?
QR Codes are a quick and easy way to get direct access to useful links and information. They are two-dimensional codes that can be scanned by any Smartphone that has a camera and a free, downloaded application.
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What are QR Codes?
QR Codes are a quick and easy way to get direct access to useful links and information. They are two-dimensional codes that can be scanned by any Smartphone that has a camera and a free, downloaded application.
To learn about QR Codes, watch this video:
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We are pleased to offer an iPad for use by students, staff and faculty as part of a new pilot project.
The iPad is available for use in the library on a first-come, first-serve basis for up to 3 hours.
The iPad is loaded with a variety of apps including productivity suites (including apps to view and edit Microsoft Office documents), communication tools such as Evernote and Dropbox, news apps, public domain ebooks including the complete works of Shakespeare, education apps such as Blackboard Mobile, Mendelay, and several note taking utilities, and entertainment apps including a wide variety of sports apps.
Users will be requested to complete a brief survey upon returning the iPad. If there is an app you would like installed, you may request it on the survey or by talking with a librarian.
If you have any questions, please contact Curtis Ferree, ext. 2185, cferree@fairfield.edu.
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Alexander Street Press has created several ways to access their streaming music products (we currently have Classical Music Library) via your mobile device.
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The goal is to provide Free public access for a month to 2 Million eBooks, including books read on mobile devices. Check it out at http://worldebookfair.org/
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The blog Lifehacker has some good recommendations for getting ready--at least technologically--for your first year of college.
You may also want to check out Fairfield's Computing and Network Services' (CNS)
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Gmail Basics @ the Library:
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The Reference Department announces a new way to receive research assistance - SKYPE.
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Happy New Year! Doesn't 2010 sounds so futuristic? And yet here we are!
This year, we'll be watching new trends in computing, most importantly how social networking continues to effect our students' lives and how it is changing the way they learn. The paradigm of social networking is the EQUAL sharing of
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Read The All-Digital Library Not Quite Yet by Jennifer Howard in the Chronicle of Higher Education's Wired Campus section.
Particularly interesting was "They found evidence of a "container-neutral approach," in which it doesn't really matter how information is packaged, as long as it can easily be found by or delivered to users."
In the not-to- distant future, less emphasis will be on warehousing materials and more will be on desktop delivery and service.
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Todd Gilman, writing in The Chronicle of Higher Education, has an interesting article on the difference between computer literacy and research literacy, and what that means in terms of pedagogy. He suggests that there is often a disconnect for students between these two skill sets, and he suggests how we might address this: both in the classroom, and in library instruction sessions. One way? Integrate the library instruction session into the classroom with an assignment:
Reinforce the lesson with an assignment. Devise a for-credit assignment that echoes what you and the librarian have shown the students. It should emphasize key distinctions that they often forget, such as the need to search the online catalog for books but library databases for articles. You might also incorporate a component that challenges students to evaluate the quality of information they find, such as comparing the top results returned by a keyword search in Google with those returned in Academic Search Premier with the peer-reviewed box checked. Which results are more authoritative, and how can students tell?Check out the article
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DNL Tech students are pitching in to help the planet. At the library, computer memory, usually known by its acronym, RAM , is physically removed from selected computers and is installed in different computers saving money and helping the planet.
Also, being EARTH FRIENDLY, Tech students are using DRY ERASE boards to further reduce paper usage. Every little bit helps.
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11/28/2007
We all want to be more productive, but how can we use technology to increase our productivity without increasing our frustration? Come to a 1 hour Library Workshop for Faculty and Staff on Thursday, December 13, 2007 (Reading Day) from 10-11 am. We
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