Monthly Archives: October 2010

Birds of North America

Posted on October 26, 2010 by kcoronado

Image via Wikipedia Birds of North America Online is available through GFU libraries.  It provides comprehensive life histories for each of the 716+ species of birds breeding in the USA (including Hawaii) and Canada.  Can’t find a species? Keep in … Continue reading →

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Freedom of Information

Posted on October 26, 2010 by kcoronado

Image via Wikipedia Freedom of Information Act http://www.archives.gov/foia/ The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) website, part of the National Archives and Record Administration (NARA) has been making it easy for journalists, scholars, activists, or any interested party with the statutory … Continue reading →

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Managing the News Flood

Posted on October 26, 2010 by kcoronado

Image via CrunchBase Founder of ReadWriteWeb, Richard MacManus, suggests the following for managing real-time news on the Web. Limit the number of times that you check the news sources and social networking sites Use topic trackers such as Google Alerts, … Continue reading →

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Find Videos at GFU Libraries

Posted on October 14, 2010 by kcoronado

Watch this short video to see how easy it is to use the catalog to find videos at GFU libraries. [youtube]whEMBbb3GyY[/youtube]

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Personalized Google Books Library

Posted on October 14, 2010 by kcoronado

Create a personalized library on Google books, even add books from your own shelf.  Read more at Google’s My Library FAQ. Related articles Why Aren’t We Creating A National Digital Library? (techdirt.com) The model digital library branch: Reality or just … Continue reading →

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Privacy and Copiers

Posted on October 11, 2010 by kcoronado

Image via Wikipedia Good to know – apparently every copier built since 2002 stores images of documents that pass through the machines. A report from the FTC found sensitive health information among other things on copiers that were ready to … Continue reading →

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More in Nursing Reference Center

Posted on October 11, 2010 by kcoronado

Image via Wikipedia Nursing Reference Center is regularly updated and new content is added to ensure that the database contains the best available evidence in nursing. Since July 2009, nearly 1,200 new documents have been added to Nursing Reference Center: … Continue reading →

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Google Realtime Search

Posted on October 11, 2010 by kcoronado

Google Realtime Search now has its own homepage with tools to help refine and understand search results. It will find updates and news in a region you specify, and provides a viewer for following real-time web discussion and conversations. Related … Continue reading →

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Hoover Daily Report

Posted on October 1, 2010 by kcoronado

Image via Wikipedia Hoover Daily Report http://www.hoover.org/news/daily-report The Hoover Institution at Stanford University is known for its many research projects, conferences, working papers, and distinguished fellows. Over the past several years, they have been tweaking various sections of their website, … Continue reading →

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