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Save Time: Get Research Assistance from Home!

By La Loria | Published: January 23, 2009
  Georgia State students–do you have a research paper to write, but you’re not sure where to begin?  Attend one of these basic library resource sessions to save yourself time and frustration. There are two remaining online drop-in sessions scheduled for Spring semester 2009.
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A Historical Look at the Inauguration

By La Loria | Published: January 21, 2009
Watch online or download podcasts of President Eisenhower’s 1957 swearing-in, President Kennedy’s swearing-in, President Reagan’s 1981 swearing-in, and President Clinton’s 1993 swearing-in. Also watch or download a podcast of “So Help Me God,” a historical look at the inauguration.
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EndNote workshop 1/20

By Jason Puckett | Published: January 13, 2009
Learn how to use EndNote at a free library workshop on Tuesday, January 20, 12:30-1:30 in Classroom 1, Library North.  EndNote is a program that helps you save, organize and format citations.  It can save you hours creating your bibliography!  GSU users can download EndNote for free. For more information about using EndNote, check out our [...]
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Mobile phone to be primary internet link in 2020

By La Loria | Published: December 29, 2008
A survey of internet leaders, activists, and analysts shows they expect major tech advances as the phone becomes a primary device for online access, voice-recognition improves, artificial and virtual reality become more embedded in everyday life, and the architecture of the internet itself improves. That is one of the key findings in a new report, [...]
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The Academic Library in a 2.0 World

By admin | Published: September 16, 2008
This ECAR research bulletin provides a context for the current state of academic libraries and the issues they face in a Web 2.0 world. The literature suggests that library services in higher education will continue to be crucial to the core processes of learning, teaching, and research as long key library structures, processes, services, and [...]
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Second Life

By admin | Published: September 10, 2008
Due to an incompatibility with the graphics card in some Dell computers, Second Life only works on the GX 520 models.  These are the 70 computers located on Library North 1.  There is an effort underway to find a solution, but in the meantime please refer patrons to those computers.
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Wikipedia seeks education, not profit

By admin | Published: August 25, 2008
From the San Francisco Chronicle, Monday, August 25. Wikimedia pegs future on education, not profit “Analysts have pegged Wikipedia’s value between several hundred million dollars and $7 billion, the latter by Silicon Alley Insider, a technology blog known for its list of the World’s Most Valuable Digital Startups. But its keepers have thus far refused to sell [...]
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Podcast on iTunesU

By admin | Published: August 22, 2008
The University Library is now officially available on iTunes U, here.
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Disruptive Technologies or New Pedagogical Possibilities

By admin | Published: July 17, 2008
Grainne Conole of OpenLearn presented a talk titled Technologies or New Pedagogical Possibilities at the Eduserv Foundation Symposium 2008. She focused on the “informational aspects” of Web 2.0 technologies in the classroom, particularly how they might (or might not) change pedagogical models. The video can be viewed here at iThinkEd.
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Scanning to a Jump Drive

By admin | Published: July 2, 2008
With the Scanner Terminals in the Learning Commons if you plug the jump drive in before the computer boots up, you’ll have no problem with the computer “reading” the drive.  The “removable” drive was right there ready to save images, scans, etc. However, if the H-Drive doesn’t show up, there is a alternative method to get [...]
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