The iPad and Higher Education

Even before its release the iPad is already changing the ebook market in general, but what will it mean for electronic textbooks?  The ProfHacker blog presents one opinion:

EBSCO Offers More than 60 Free Online Training Sessions Each Month, including EBSCOhost, EBSCOnet, NoveList, and CINAHL.

Don’t forget that tonight is the kickoff for The Big Read: Alabama Reads.  The book selected for The Big Read is The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. 

Calhoun Community College and Decatur Public Library have joined to deliver a special presentation to jump start The Big Read.  Calhoun’s own Dr. Randy Cross will present the life and works of Mark Twain at the Aerospace Training Center (the northernmost building on the Calhoun campus) at 6:30 p.m.

For more information call 256-353-2993 ext. 100

Apple provides information and resources for anyone aspiring to develop apps for the iPhone.

http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/Xcode/Conceptual/iphone_development/000-Introduction/introduction.html

 

A post from the Scholarly Communications @Duke blog warns of potential dangers in agreeing to unread End User License Agreements: Let the User Beware

ProQuest® will be performing infrastructure maintenance on January 30, 2010. A twelve (12) hour maintenance window will be required for this maintenance. The window will take place from Saturday, January 30, 2010, at 22:00 EST to Sunday, January 31, 2010 at 02:00 EST.

The three ProQuest databases to which we have access are:

ProQuest Newstand (CCC)
ProQuest Discoverer (AVL)
ProQuest Ethnic Newswatch (AVL)

Academic Earth offers free video lectures and even full courses.  You can view video content on the site or subscribe to them as audio or video podcasts.

Wifi is available at the libraries on both Calhoun campuses. 

Setup instructions are here and printed instructions are available at the circulation desk.

Note: Computers running the same operating system are not always alike.  The setup process for some computers may vary slightly from the steps listed in the instructions.  Also, Windows 7 users should use the setup instructions for Vista.

Recently, we’ve been asked several questions about accessing and viewing the collection of electronic books available to Calhoun students through NetLibrary.  The following is a brief introduction to using our eBook collection.

To view eBooks (full text electronic books) you must first Create a Free Account from the NetLibrary Web site using a campus (Decatur or Huntsville) networked computer.

All patrons—students, faculty, staff and community—are encouraged to Create a Free Account from a computer in a lab, the Library or the Huntsville Campus Library. For Off Campus access to full-text eBooks, login to NetLibrary at www.netlibrary.com. The NetLibrary eBook collection numbers over 50,000 titles and all books are full text. Full text is searchable.

You may search within NetLibrary or the library’s online catalog.  Catalog searches will return both print and electronic resources.  If you select an electronic resource from the catalog it will provide a direct link to that eBook at NetLibrary.

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