Student Workshop: Introducing Our Services

The library will be holding several workshops throughout the semester for any student to attend. The first workshop will introduce library services. The workshops will be held:
Jamestown Wednesday 9/1/2010 @ 9am LRC 202
Thursday 9/2/2010 @ 2pm LRC 202

Greensboro Wednesday 9/1/2010 @ 2pm

Students in the Digital Age-Some Thoughts

I came across some interesting articles regarding the current generation of students, who as children of the digital age are expected to embrace technology in all it's glory. You might be surprised...

The Digital Generation? Not so fast.

http://www.nytimes.com/external/readwriteweb/2010/07/29/29readwriteweb-so-called-digital-natives-not-media-savvy-n-74704.html?src=me&ref=technology

Abandoning print for online sources? Again, not so fast.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/27/readers-are-abandoning-print-yet-dont-trust-the-web/?ref=technology

Students and digital plagiarism.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/02/education/02cheat.html?ref=technology

And finally, information without context is well....just information. Nice to know, but what does it mean?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/07/28/wikileaks/

Make of it what you will.

Later,
KB

Journal Liberation-A Primer

It is possible to extract some articles from those expensive academic journals, if you know how to do it.


Journal Liberation-A Primer

TitanNet "HOT" at the Wendover Campus!

TitanNet, GTCC's public access wireless network, is now "hot" at the GTCC Wendover Campus. TitanNet can be accessed in the Wendover Campus library....all that is required is logging in as guest user by entering an email address. It's easy and it's free! So bring that new wireless laptop you've been dying to use and join the cool kids on TitanNet!

A Couple of Useful Technologies, and "One for Fun"

Having trouble keeping up with all that electronic correspondence? Check this out.

Silenta

And an extremely useful service for the visually impaired.

Library for the Visually Impaired

This is actually pretty useful as well, but make sure you watch the introduction for retro look and feel.

The Suggest-O-Mometer


and I now want to be called "The Bookulater."