Arabella Holzapfel

Posts by Arabella Holzapfel

 
 
 

Friday links – September 7, 2012

Categories: LIS Staff Interest, Middlebury Community Interest

eBooks and libraries – topic of discussion on a recent radio show. (This episode happened to be guest hosted by Midd alum and past trustee, Frank Sesno.)

This will put a smile on your face for sure!
From Astronomy Picture of the Day

Yomiuri shimbun – current and archival access online

Categories: LIS Staff Interest, Middlebury Community Interest

We now have current and archival access to Yomiuri shimbun and Daily Yomiuri (a Japanese newspaper and its English sister publication).

You can search in English or Japanese. If you have problems or comments, email us at eaccess-admin@middlebury.edu .

 

Mobile/Tablet access to The Chronicle of Higher Ed

Categories: LIS Staff Interest, Middlebury Community Interest, Post for MiddPoints

As of today, any authorized Middlebury College user who has, or creates, a free account with the Chronicle of Higher Education using your @middlebury.edu email address, has 3 NEW WAYS to access The Chronicle:

1) From your iPad — Download The Chronicle’s iPad editions at no cost to the individual.  You can download either or both sections of The Chronicle. The Chronicle’s free iPad app can be found here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id414901678.

2) From your smart phone or tablet using the device’s Web browser.  The new mobile interface makes The Chronicle easy to read when one is on the go.

3) From any computer, from any location in the world — direct access to Chronicle.com from any remote location without having to go through a proxy server.  This should be very appealing to those who read Academe Today or any of other Chronicle e-newsletters from locations off campus.

To take advantage of this mobile access, all that is required is for authorized users to have a free Chronicle account using their @middlebury.edu email address.  A Chronicle account can be created by going to Chronicle.com and clicking on the “create” link at top, right hand side of the Web page. If you are one of the 200 Middlebury users who already have a Chronicle.com account, you don’t need to do anything.  If you have forgotten your password, you can go here for online help:  http://chronicle.com/myaccount/login/forgotpassword/.

If you have problems or comments, please email us at eaccess-admin@middlebury.edu

Friday Links – August 24, 2012

Categories: LIS Staff Interest

“Students prefer print to ‘clumsy’ e-textbooks” (Middlebury, starting the pilot this Fall, is mentioned in the last sentence.)

Friday Links – August 17, 2012

Categories: LIS Staff Interest, Middlebury Community Interest

Five ways that social media can benefit IT – This article focuses on IT as a consumer of social media services, not as a driver in the organization

Considerations for libraries looking at SaaS (Software as a Service).

We’re NASA and we know it.  From Wired, “This music video is the reason nerds rule. Forever.”

Also from Wired: Google’s Dremel makes big data look small.

Friday Links – July 27, 2012

Categories: LIS Staff Interest

Quiet returns to libraries- ” … The way librarians, students, and researchers behave undermines what Ms. [Karen] Schneider calls “the stereotype of the shushing librarian and absolute pin-drop silence.” She and other librarians point out that students are often the first to bring up noise problems in the library, to ask for more quiet spaces, and to police those spaces themselves. …”

 

Cambridge Histories Online now available!

Categories: LIS Staff Interest

The Middlebury College community now has full access to all 303 online historical publications from Cambridge University Press.

From Arabic Literature in the Post-Classical Period

to Vijayanagara (part of The New Cambridge History of India),

browse or search the entire Cambridge Histories Collection.

Visit our New & Trial Resources page to find these and other newly added items. 

Online access to the Rutland Herald and Barre-Montpelier Times-Argus

Categories: LIS Staff Interest, Middlebury Community Interest

The Middlebury College community now has online access to the “e-Edition” of the Rutland Herald, and its sister publication, the Barre-Montpelier Times-Argus. More