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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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http://chiunilib.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/bing-microsofts-new-search-e
Bing (at http://www.bing.com ) is Microsoft’s new search engine, and it’s been out for a while so some of you may have already tried it out. The home page has the usual search box in the centre of the screen, but there is a new homepage image every day, complete with little snippets of information [...]
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http://chiunilib.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/real-time-search-engines/
I briefly mentioned ‘real-time’ search engines on my previous post, so thought I would briefly mention one example of the growing number of real-time search engines now becoming available. Most of us use Google or one of the main search engines to search the Internet, but what if we want to search for what’s happening [...]
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http://chiunilib.wordpress.com/2009/10/16/google-tip-use-show-options/
Here’s a quick tip for when using Google to search the Internet: after typing in your search and hitting return to get to the results page, click the ‘Show options…‘ link just below the search box. This displays a menu bar that slides in from the left of the screen, and has a number of [...]
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http://chiunilib.wordpress.com/2009/10/07/two-new-databases-for-psycho
I’ve added two new databases to the Electronic Resources page on Portia: PsycARTICLES and PsycINFO, both from the American Psychological Association (APA) and both covering all aspects of psychology. Both use the same EBSCO interface, as do many of our other databases, so searching should be familiar to many of you.
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