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Western Illinois University Libraries is offering its new “Text Me” service, through which students can text reference call numbers to their mobile phones. Would you like to see this here?

The LibX library toolbar is a plugin for Internet Explorer or Firefox that puts library resources in your browser no matter what site you’re looking at.

LibX adds a library search bar to your browser, adds library tools to your right-click context menus, and inserts GSU Library links into book sites like Amazon.com and the New York Times Book Reviews.

Best of all, it’s free!  Get it on our LibX guide.

Questions?  Contact Jason Puckett, Instruction Librarian, at jpuckett@gsu.edu.

Jason Griffey writes: “Take a look at the Fall 2008 UTC Library video that we’ll be pushing out to students and new faculty this fall. Created by a grad student, now adjunct professor, at UTC, Justin Lewis, with direction from me (who basically just said things like ‘Make it cool. Slow that down’). The vision was all his. I think it came out remarkably cool.”…

An indispensable and engaging guide to using wikis in the classroom.