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Vince LaMonica | 1 Sep 04:14
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Re: vending machine for library PC stuff?

On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, HAZEL Margaret E wrote:

} So has anyone out there seen a vending device that will vend things like
} floppies, USB flash drives, pens, headphones, etc.?  The essentials for
} the modern library PC-user patron? (Idea copyright by Eugene Public
} Library)

I have a friend who's in the vending machine-filling business, and I asked 
her this question. Her answer:

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Absolutely. The machines that I buy can be set up to vend  ANYTHING -
from a floppy disk to an axe handle.  Crane National  Merchandising
Systems. Telephone: 314.298.3500 - they will put her in touch with
her territory rep. It's a great idea. Incidentally, these are really
the best machines on the market - by far and you're buying directly
from the manufacturer instead of a distributor and so get great
technical support.
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Hope that helps!

/vjl/

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rebecca miller | 1 Sep 04:40
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RE: Hotmail and 'Page cannot be displayed' message

stop emailing me

>From: "rebecca miller" <rebmill@...>
>To: web4lib@...
>Subject: RE: [Web4lib] Hotmail and 'Page cannot be displayed' message
>Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 17:04:52 +0000
>
>please emailing me i do not whant to be apart of the chain of mail.
>thank you very much
>
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>>From: John Fitzgibbon <jfitzgibbon@...>
>>To: Subject: [Web4lib] Hotmail and 'Page cannot be displayed' message
>>Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 10:12:55 +0100
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>>Hi,
>>
>>We have 86 PCs in 30 sites. The PCs and configuration are identical in
>>all sites. The PCs run IE6 on Windows XP.
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>>Some of the PCs can't display Hotmail or Yahoo. When a person tries to
>>access the Inbox, they receive a 'This Page Cannot be Displayed'
>>message.
>>
>>They do not have a problem with web mail that does not use encryption.
>>
>>All sites are not affected. My impression is that sites that are using
>>ISDN or sites that are using a slower version of broadband like 1
>>megabit per second download speed are affected. I know encryption uses
>>more bandwidth as the encrypted files are larger but, it is possible to
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Bonnie Tijerina | 1 Sep 14:53
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Electronic Resources & Libraries 2007: thinkdigital_ -- Call for Proposals

Electronic Resources & Libraries 2007
thinkdigital_
February 22-24, 2007
Atlanta, GA
Call for Proposals
http://www.electroniclibrarian.com/call
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ER&L Conference Program Planning Committee encourages you to submit a
proposal for the Electronic Resources & Libraries 2007 Conference to
be held February 22-24, 2007, with pre-conference sessions on February
21. The conference location will be the Global Learning and Conference
Center, located on the campus of Georgia Institute of Technology in
Atlanta, GA.

ER&L provides a forum for information professionals to explore ideas,
trends, and technologies related to electronic resources and digital
services.

The idea of this event is to bring together stakeholders inside and
outside of the library to look at the impact the digital environment
has on library collections, access to resources, and our
organizations. We invite various perspectives and approaches to
managing, promoting and accessing electronic resources. We hope to
foster collaborative, cross-departmental, cross-community approaches
to the issues e-resources have brought to our environment

The Program Planning Committee seeks proposals for a variety of
session formats including presentations, panel sessions, and
pre-conference workshops. Proposals that have topics of interest to
many areas of the library or outside the library are of special
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Tomaiuolo, Nicholas (Library | 1 Sep 15:12

FW: Peter Jacso's review of Microsoft Live Academic

Hello again colleagues,

Yesterday I asked about copies of Peter Jacso's review of Microsoft Live
Academic;  ACB alerted me to its appearance in the latest issue of
Infotoday's Online Magazine. Thanks Alex! So I'm all set!

Nick

Nicholas G. Tomaiuolo, MLS

Librarian

Reference Department

Elihu Burritt Library

Central Connecticut State University

New Britain, CT  06050

office 860.832.2068

fax     860.832.3409

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From: Tomaiuolo, Nicholas (Library) 
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 3:31 PM
To: 'web4lib@...'
Subject: Peter Jacso's review of Microsoft Live Academic
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Michele Haytko | 1 Sep 15:18
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Re: Name of Senior-Focused Classes

By popular demand, here are some of the recommendations I received.

Senior Track
Getting Started
Learning in Retirement
Silver Surfers
Silver Snappers
Cyber Seniors
Senior Techies
You are never too old to click and scroll
Computer Boot Camp
basic bytes
computing for first-timers
net-surfing newbies
digital basics
gigabytes for greenhorns
Green Navigators
Senior-ity
Cyber Seniors

We chose to go away from "seniors" because we want to make it clear
that all are welcome, which also led us away from "silver" (that and
all the 'dont make us feel old' comments!) :-).  What we were left
with just didn't fit what we all (3 of us instructors) wanted and then
Cybeginners was uttered and the clouds opened and that was it!

Thanks again for your help!
Michele
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Danielle Plumer | 1 Sep 18:36
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Thumbnails for online books

Now that the furor over Google Book Search has died down a bit...

One thing I like about their search is the way they're displaying thumbnails with the cover and a couple of
images to make the "books" seem three-dimensional. Do any other systems have a display like this?

I've been looking for freeware (preferably open-source) to batch-create thumbnails from the first pages
of PDF documents for a couple of large collections. I don't know if Google is doing that on the fly or if
they've created the thumbnails as part of their process, but the overall effect is quite nice.

Danielle Cunniff Plumer, Coordinator
Texas Heritage Digitization Initiative
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
512.463.5852 (phone) / 512.936.2306 (fax)
dplumer@...
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Binkley, Peter | 1 Sep 20:49
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RE: Thumbnails for online books

Assuming this pdfs just have images, not text, and assuming you're
willing to do some scripting, the pdfimages component of xpdf
(http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/) could be used to extract the first image
from each pdf. Further scripting with an imaging processing package
could then reduce that image to a thumbnail. Xpdf was written for *nix
systems but there are Windows versions of the batch processing
components, including pdfimages.

Ghostscript also allows you to write scripts that "print" a pdf to a
graphics file
(http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/cvs/Use.htm#File_output), and you can
specify the desired page(s). Again, you'd have to write a script to
generate the image of the first page and then process it into a
thumbnail. This would work for text pdfs as well, though I gather
Ghostscript is sometimes finicky about formats.

Hope this helps,

Peter

Peter Binkley
Digital Initiatives Technology Librarian
Information Technology Services
4-30 Cameron Library
University of Alberta Libraries
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada T6G 2J8
Phone: (780) 492-3743
Fax: (780) 492-9243
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Keith D. Engwall | 1 Sep 20:54
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CMS or something else?

Our director has requested that we look into providing some way for
librarians to add content to our web site (http://www.lib.catawba.edu). 
On one hand this is pretty much in the realm of CMS, but I would like to
find something that works behind the scenes, rather than something with
the content management controls right on the page.  In other words, I
want the staff to be able to log into a back end interface that allows
them to add/edit files, while the front end is good ol' XHTML/CSS, same
as what I'd put up using vi on the server itself.

I've looked through the CMS matrix, but thus far have not found quite
what I'm looking for, and I'm not sure that a CMS is quite what I'm
looking for.

Any suggestions would appreciated.

Thanks,

Keith

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Catawba College
Salisbury, NC
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relations, for nature cannot be fooled." - Richard P. Feynman

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Tyson Tate | 1 Sep 21:06
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Re: CMS or something else?

Be careful with allowing librarians to edit and add content. It's not
that they're incapable, of course, it's that having a wide array of
people with varying experiences with web content and organization can
lead to a poorly organized and poorly coded site. They're certainly
capable of creating valuable and useful content, but it's much better
to have a "gatekeeper" who prepares content for the internet.

This gatekeeper should be a web person who has a firm grasp of the
organization of your site as well as the ability to use the proper
code and styles to make new content fit in with the design and
standards of your overall site. They'll be able to keep track of
content and remove old content when needed. Perhaps you don't even
need a CMS. You may simply need an organized system of allowing
librarians and other staff members to submit content for translation
to your web site. They could submit Word documents through a web form
which allows them to specify where they want their new content to go.

-Tyson

On 9/1/06, Keith D. Engwall <kengwall@...> wrote:
> Our director has requested that we look into providing some way for
> librarians to add content to our web site (http://www.lib.catawba.edu).
> On one hand this is pretty much in the realm of CMS, but I would like to
> find something that works behind the scenes, rather than something with
> the content management controls right on the page.  In other words, I
> want the staff to be able to log into a back end interface that allows
> them to add/edit files, while the front end is good ol' XHTML/CSS, same
> as what I'd put up using vi on the server itself.
>
> I've looked through the CMS matrix, but thus far have not found quite
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Steven M. Schermerhorn | 1 Sep 21:23
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WinSelect in the Windows XP environment...

I have been a long time user of WinSelect. I've been very pleased with 
the functionality.
I'm finding that, on Dell GX280 and GX520s, running XP sp2, WinSelect 
does not consistently block access to the Start button/menu. (Although 
it DOES consistently control functionality in applications.)
I've asked Faronics about this and they don't have an answer.
Do you know anything about this?

Also:
Assuming that WinSelect will no longer allow me to block access to the 
Start button/menu, what is the easiest and most effective way to control 
Windows XP functionality (including, but NOT limited to the Start menu).

TIA.

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