Category: Miscellaneous
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Public Ivy, baby!
Well there’s no library information included in the rankings, but I was proud to see my undergrad alma mater, SUNY Geneseo, ranked #1 in Kiplinger’s 100 Best College Values of 2008. They were looking at both cost and academic success. Go Knights! 🙂 Technorati Tags: Kiplinger, Geneseo
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EZProxy Find and Replace: when the vendor says they can’t…
Earlier this week we switched to the new interface for OvidSP (an attempt, I believe, at integrating the Silver Platter (SP) platform into Ovid). It’s nice, but the default configuration includes a Basic Search table, an Ovid Syntax tab, and a SilverPlatter Syntax tab. Ovid Syntax and SilverPlatter Syntax don’t mean anything to our users,…
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Hab.la – when procrastination is a good thing
Just before I went on vacation in the middle of December, Dan Sich at the U of Waterloo really hit his stride in experimenting with Hab.la as an alternative to MeeboMe widgets. When I returned from vacation I let his posts sit until I made the time to digest them, and today noticed this update:…
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Librarian wins awesome contest!
The Associated PressNEW YORK – A Manhattan librarian emerged as a champion… …He won a $5,000 prize package including a huge TV, a cozy recliner and a trophy… (I’ve recently started drinking a lot more water – I don’t think I would’ve won. Thanks for the pointer, Heather!) Powered by ScribeFire.
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Frugality in Practice: Using the Public Library
I’ve never really made New Year’s resolutions, but one thing my wife and I have decided to do this year is really tackle our debt and increase our retirement contributions. It’ll be a tough year (or several) for a gadget junkie like me, but I’m committed (and now also in public!). I’ve been following a…
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Latest versions of Word include built-in citation management
Haven’t yet laid eyes on the latest version of MS Word myself, but in reading a review of the upcoming MS Word 2008 for the Mac I noticed it will include built-in citation management tools. Went and checked and see that it’s already available in the Windows version. Interesting. Technorati Tags: OSX, Word, Citations
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Using Google SMS to find the way
You may recall that a week or two ago I had some trouble finding my way from the Monterey airport to the San Francisco airport. The woman at the car rental counter didn’t have any maps outside of Monterey, and couldn’t give me directions up to SFO. I don’t have a fancy phone, but the…