LIBR 1100 Advanced Searching Assignment

Hi Class,

Here is the link to the assignment. Once you click on the link, it will open a window where you can see the assignment. In the blue bar at the top of the page, you will see the word "file" in the very left part of the screen click on it. This will show a drop down menu, hover over "download as" then select "word" and click on on it. You will get a pop up window, now click open. This will open a word document. Now you should have the assignment in a word document that you can work on and save as you would normally do in class.

When you save this word document, check that the file ends in only .doc
This system sometimes saves the file as AdvancedSearchingAssignment.doc[1].doc
The file name should look like AdvancedSearchingAssignment.doc


Advanced Searching Assignment

GWLA Webinar - Texas Tech University Library Digital Lab: Process and equipment for book projects

Here are three videos of the lab at Texas Tech University covering each book scanner:Kirtas, CopiBook, and the Atiz BookDrive.

This is the Kirtas book scanner.


This is the CopiBook scanner.


This is the Atiz BookDrive scanner.




All three videos were copyrighted by Cynthia Henry cynthia.henry@ttu.edu using creativecommons and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

Searching for Dr. Scott's HDFS class

If you have any trouble with the steps in the video please do not hesitate to contact Cynthia @ 742-2238 ext 293 or leave a comment.

Fellow Lubbockities

Well, I bet we are all resting easier now that we know that our city is protected from those dreaded released balloons. With all that is going on in the city, this is the item that the city council chooses to spend time discussing?

"My Sister's Keeper" by Jodi Picoult

I just finished another book! I can't believe how much I have been reading.

I had been hearing about this book for a while and when at the movies recently, I saw the preview. It was so sad I decided that I had to read the book. Surprisingly the book was not as sad as I thought it would be. I really liked how the format of the book was set to help you identify with the characters... I am not sure how it could translate to the movie. This is a great book.

My next book this summer - "Tribes" by Seth Godin

Tribes is a book that after hearing about it for the 4th or 5th time at TLA ( Texas Library Assoication, which is a conference I attend regularly) I decided I must read it.

This book is about leadership but from an unique perspective, the underdog. I have always related to the underdog, probably because I identify myself as a underdog and wear that proudly. Tribes is a call to leadership, and then tells the reader that anyone can lead now as we all have new (Web 2.0) tools that we can use to lead our tribes. You just have to be willing to lead.

Some great quotes from the book "Tribes" are:

"If your goal is to make change, it's foolish to try to change the worldview of the majority if the majority is focused on maintaining the status quo. The opportunity is to carve out a new tribe, to find the rabble-rousers and change lovers who are seeking new leadership and run with then instead." page 110

"By the time you realize that your corner of the world is ready for an innovation, it's almost certainly too late. It's definitely not to early." page 120

Weather Alert! 2 hot 2 sit

OK, so I go out to my car yesterday and sit in the seat and BAM! My legs are burning! It is so hot that I cannot even sit to drive much less touch the steering wheel. Well somehow, I manage to get the car turn on, which is a feat in itself. Picture it - I drive a stick! While not trying to put my bottom in the seat, I contort myself into a position where I can get my left foot on the clutch, my right foot on the brake, my right hand at the ignition, it occurs to me now that my shoulder blades are touch the back of my seat and while it is hot it is not the intensity of the spot where my bottom should be. When I realize that somehow my left hand has mysteriously, on its own, thrown itself in the air as if I was riding a bull! I guess this is where my years of playing Twister pay off.

Suddenly, I am thrown back to the summer of 1980. If you were in Texas that summer, you remember it. I was in Fort Worth that summer. All I know really is that you didn't live through that summer you melted through it. And I remember my Mom would keep a towel in the car so I could sit on it.

I look at the dash, in the stifling car, and the temperature reads 111. Yikes! I hope that this week is a fluke and the rest of summer is not bearing down on us with century marks throughout August. Then I get in the trunk and get out the trusty towel, like Mom did, put it in my seat and drive home.