Monthly Archives: February 2010

Handheld Librarian – Mobile tagging / QR codes

Posted on February 17, 2010 by mitcheet

This session was conducted by Beatrice Pulliam and Chris Landry from Providence College. They discussed the use of mobile taggin and QR codes. QR codes are 2-dimensional codes which can be scanned using a camera (on a cell phone for … Continue reading →

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Handheld Librarian Live blog

Posted on February 17, 2010 by mitcheet

Handheld Librarian kicked off today with a keynote from Tom Peters, CEO of TAP information services. He focused on providing reference via mobile services & started by focusing on some statistics that talked about how rapidly cell phone technology has … Continue reading →

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ALA Techsource Emerging Trends Webinar

Posted on February 11, 2010 by mitcheet

Today Erik, Mary S., Barry, Sarah, Ellen D., Lauren P., Kaeley, Molly K., Leslie, JP, and Erik attended the ALA techsource webinar. Although the high point of the session was a ‘shout-out’ to our very own Lauren P’ there were … Continue reading →

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Creating a Literature Review

Posted on February 7, 2010 by mitcheet

Overview It could be that this tech-guide is a bit out of place. After all, writing a good literature review has less to do with technology and more to do with conducting systematic searches of published literature and participating in … Continue reading →

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Collaborative authoring using network-based applications

Posted on February 3, 2010 by mitcheet

Overview Conducing literature review research and writing articles with multiple authors poses a number of problems including version control, sharing references, and working together in real-time. Cloud based applications such as Zotero, GoogleDocs, ZohoWriter, and OpenOffice address these issues and … Continue reading →

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