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http://chiunilib.wordpress.com/2010/03/05/reservations-on-the-new-libr
We’ve been having a bit of a problem lately with reservations on the new library catalogue – users are forgetting to choose the collection site where they want to pick up the reservation. Follow the below procedure when requesting items that are on loan:
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http://chiunilib.wordpress.com/2010/02/26/new-catalogue-tips/
Hopefully most of you are now using our new library catalogue at http://prism.talis.com/chi-ac/ The basic search functions are similar to the old version (a single search box where you can type any information you have about the item you’re looking for), but this new version will be developed to include new functionality which was not [...]
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http://chiunilib.wordpress.com/2010/01/28/new-year-new-library-catalog
We are about to make our new library catalogue available – you can try it out at:
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http://chiunilib.wordpress.com/2010/01/22/personas-another-reason-to-u
Happy New Year everyone!
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http://chiunilib.wordpress.com/2009/12/17/happy-holidays-2/
As another year draws to a close, I would like to thank you all for visiting this blog, and hope you all will stop by again next year whenever you have a few moments to read about what’s new in the library and electronic resources – next year we hope to have a new library [...]
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http://chiunilib.wordpress.com/2009/12/04/wolframalpha-a-different-kin
Wolfram|Alpha (at http://www.wolframalpha.com/ ) is a ‘computational knowledge engine’, a different kind of search engine as compared to the many other search engines such as Google etc. It attempts to answer specific questions, rather than just give a list of websites that are about certain keywords that you’ve typed in the search box. This does [...]
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http://chiunilib.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/download-free-ebooks-from-ma
ManyBooks.net (at http://manybooks.net/ ) is a site where you can download eBooks, all for free! You can browse by author, title, or subject categories including art, biography, business, psychology, religion, and history, and you can also search the collection of more than 25 thousand eBooks. You don’t have to register to be able to download [...]
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http://chiunilib.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/google-labs-image-swirl/
I’ve blogged about Google Labs before (see the tags on the left), and they’ve now got another interesting experiment called ‘Image swirl’ at: http://image-swirl.googlelabs.com/ . After you type in the search box (note that at present you’re limited to about 200,000 terms to try), you get a number of image stacks, each stack representing a [...]
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http://chiunilib.wordpress.com/2009/11/13/second-life%c2%ae-library-is
Just to let you know that the library I built in Second Life® is no longer there! I’ve had to delete it since the land was required by the owner, who had very kindly allowed me to build on their private land. It was quite a surreal experience walking around the library building and deleting [...]
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http://chiunilib.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/find-it-difficult-keeping-up
I’ve blogged about RSS before (see http://chiunilib.wordpress.com/2007/10/11/are-you-using-rss-yet/, but it’s such a useful tool that I’ve seen a link to another slide show that explains it very well – see: http://www.slideboom.com/presentations/74499/A-Potted-Guide-to-R .
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