The Medieval Help Desk

I know you won't be able to get the sound at the reference desk, but it's subtitled. Very amusing! Fun stuff for a quick break.

Computer Labs - Fall '09

MIS indicated that there are currently (2) labs on campus -- S129 and W212. Vista software is loaded in the W212 lab.

Opening ZIP files from Lion's Den

We came across an interesting issue today with students trying to open files that their instructors uploaded to Lion's Den. You'll recognize this problem because when the student clicks the link for the file, a WinZip dialog box opens listing the parts of the zipped file. Below are the steps that need to be taken to properly open this document:

SAVE the file to the computer - save to My Documents or the Desktop
Open the PROGRAM the file was created in - Powerpoint, Word, or Excel
Click the FILE button, and select OPEN

From the bottom of the Open File dialog box, click the drop down menu and select ALL FILES

Navigate to the location the file was saved and you should see the zip file. Open the zip file and the document will open as a Word doc, Powerpoint, or Excel spreadsheet.




If you have problems, Alex should be able to help!

Evidence based research on swine flu

Just received this message from Ebsco:

Dear EBSCO Customer,
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This free flu information resource is located at www.ebscohost.com/flu and will provide continually updated, evidence-based clinical information from DynaMed™ and Nursing Reference Center™, EBSCO’s clinical and nursing point-of-care databases, along with patient education information in 17 languages from Patient Education Reference Center™. Please visit this site often and feel free to share, post, and email this link to your colleagues, patrons, family and friends.

Test post

I added a new feature that should allow us to save posts to Delicious, Google bookmarks, and other services. There should be a "Share" button at the bottom of this post.