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Thing 17: Database productivity tools

Posted in Minnesota Library 2.0 on March 4, 2008 | No Comments »

And the winner, by a landslide, is ProQuest.
This rocks. I mean, this ROCKS! I love Love LOVE that we can create search alerts with databases. Smart SMART move on the companies’ parts, and I think my tech-savvy patrons will be thrilled to learn about this.
But they aren’t there yet..there are some technical [...]

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Thing 16: Student 2.0

Posted in Minnesota Library 2.0, tagged , on February 28, 2008 | No Comments »

I am quite impressed with the Research Project Calculator developed by Minitex and MNLink (based on the University of Minnesota’s Assignment Calculator). The next logical step (in my mind, anyway) is to make it a Facebook application.
I’m most delighted by the fact that the outlines incorporate information literacy, which is definitely [...]

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