Posted in For Students, New Technologies, tagged dictation, Jott on October 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Jott is here … and it’s FREE.
Have you ever found yourself at the library, really large book in hand, staring at the perfect quote for your research paper? You can now dictate that quote or bibliographic entry right into your cell phone and it will be sent to your e-mail as text.
This is only one [...]
Posted in For Students, New Technologies, tagged dictating, Jott on October 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Hey this is a test, I am blogging through my [...] phone directly to the library blog, cool. listen
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Posted in For Teachers, tagged geo-spatial technologies, Google Earth, Google Lit Trips on October 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
What do you get when you combine a classic book with the ability to zoom around the earth, follow travel itineraries in aerial mode, view photographs and place-relevant encyclopedia articles?
You get Google Lit Trips!
Google Lit Trips is an amazing demonstration of how multimedia can supplement the reading of a very traditional book such [...]
Posted in Databases, For Students, For Teachers, tagged Visual Thesaurus on October 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Scholars:
Now that school’s in full swing, don’t forget we subscribe to the Visual Thesaurus: www.visualthesaurus.com
If you haven’t seen Visual Thesaurus it’s amazing and hard to describe. You must not miss it. It is visual! Click on this example see words similar to the word commitment. (Be patient. It takes a little time to move from [...]
Posted in Databases, tagged Access Newspapers.com, New Resources, Newspaper Archive on October 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Seattle Academy Library has arranged free access to this newspaper archive containing 71.6 million pages of newspapers representing 2,696 titles spanning a historical range of 239 years. Archive coverage is through 1977*. This free version does not include Washington State newspapers and is available at school. For home use you must obtain a free individual [...]
Posted in New Library Materials, tagged September 2007 on October 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Videos, DVDs – Feature Films
Alien
Blade Runner
Breaking Free
World War II When Lions Roared (Michael Caine, John Lithgow, Bob Hoskins)
Other Videos/DVDs
Sanford Meisner Master Class (Acting Lessons)
Living Longer Science Helps Eradicate Mass Diseases
History of the 20th Century Vol. I 1900-1909
God Grew Tired of Us (Lost Boys of Sudan)
Who Killed the Electric [...]
Posted in Fiction, For Teachers on October 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
… then you have probably heard of Nancy Pearl. This is her Book Lust wiki. Nancy Pearl Book Lust Here you can read author interviews, find lists of best books, find a book club or get directed to author blogs. In the frenzy to get ahead with technology we often forget that many of us still [...]
Posted in Library Orientation, tagged basic library information, Orientation on October 1, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The library has three collections:
Vanderbilt
Middle School
Arts Center (AC – Rebekah’s Room)
The SAAS Library Blog: www.saaslibrary.wordpress.com
The SAAS Library Catalog:
http://libraryworld.net/cgi-bin/opac.pl?command=signin&libraryname=saas&guest=allow
Sorry this isn’t a very friendly url but the vendor won’t change it. I will try to post this link in various places. You can always find it on the Library Moodle page.
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