Subject: LTS Digest September 6, 2007 Issue
From: Terry McGinley (tam5@Lehigh.EDU)
Date: Thu Sep 06 2007 - 09:27:43 EDT
*LTS DIGEST --September 6, 2007 **Lehigh** University** Library and Technology Services* * * *CONTENTS:* * * *--ARE YOU READY FOR OFFICE 2007?* *--WHAT'S NEW IN THUNDERBIRD 2.0?* *--VISTA UPDATE* *--REFWORKS@LEHIGH IS HERE* *--LU-ALERT: EMERGENCY ALERT SIGNUP REMINDER* *--NOW ONLINE: 2007 "GET CONNECTED@LEHIGH"* *--ACHIEVING EXCELLENCE AT LEHIGH: STUDENT RESEARCH* --*NEW CLIR FELLOW JOINS LTS* *--LIBRARY HOURS INCLUDING LINDERMAN CAFE HOURS* Subscription, archive, and contact information is at the bottom of this digest. * * *ARE YOU READY FOR OFFICE 2007?* LTS recently announced its plans to migrate to Office 2007. Are you ready? Even if you decide not to make the leap to Office 2007 just yet, you must at least install the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack. Without this tool, you will not be able to open and read files you receive that were created in the higher version. Click this link to download the tool: http://www.lehigh.edu/helpdesk/docs/office/FileFormatConverters.exe . Save it to your Desktop, then run the installer. It's that simple! If you've already upgraded, or plan to upgrade soon, consider attending any of the Office 2007 Suite seminars to smooth your transition to the new version. View the seminar schedule and register here: http://cf.lehigh.edu/seminar/ Once you've upgraded your on-campus computer, you may want to upgrade your personally-owned computer. Faculty and staff can purchase a copy of Office 2007 from the Bookstore for $10 for "work at home" use. Click here for more details: http://www.lehigh.edu/computing/software/MSCampus-fs.html *WHAT'S NEW IN THUNDERBIRD 2.0?* The latest version of Mozilla Thunderbird includes several new features: --Forward and Back buttons allow navigation through message history --The folder pane shows Recent, Favorite and Unread folders --New mail alerts include subject, sender and message preview text --File button pull-down menu includes Recent folders to allow faster filing --Improved message tagging lets you create your own tags, and assign multiple tags to messages, to more easily organize your mail For more on these and other features, see "Customizing and Using Thunderbird 2.0" at: http://www.lehigh.edu/computing/docs/thunderbird20/thunderbirdmail.htm Download, installation and setup instructions are available at: http://www.lehigh.edu/computing/docs/tb2setup/index.htm *VISTA** UPDATE* Lehigh Library and Technology Services (LTS) is currently testing Windows Vista with a variety of systems and software applications. Currently, there are many incompatibilities that still need to be addressed before LTS can fully support Vista computers connected to Lehigh's network. The primary application that does not yet support Windows Vista is the "install software" application that allows WIRED students and Lehigh faculty/staff to download and install many Lehigh licensed applications. For users running Windows Vista it is recommended that the public computing sites http://www.lehigh.edu/computing/tims/facilities/hours.html be used for accessing these applications until an install software solution becomes available. Despite the many compatibility issues, Windows Vista is available on computers purchased from Lehigh recommended vendors such as Dell, Gateway and Lenovo. The Windows Vista Ultimate media is also available free to students who pay the technology fee and to faculty and staff at the Bookstore for a $15 fee. It is recommended at this time that users only upgrade or install Windows Vista when there is reason to do so. LTS will continue to work with vendors to solve the issues and will distribute information to the Lehigh community as it becomes available. If you have any questions regarding the use of Windows Vista at Lehigh please refer to the Lehigh Vista web page located at http://www.lehigh.edu/helpdesk/docs/vista/index.html or call your departmental computing consultant or the helpdesk at 8-HELP. *REFWORKS@LEHIGH IS HERE* LTS now offers a solution for managing all your citations for articles, books, reports, scores, web sites, etc. The solution is RefWorks: Your Online Research Management, Writing, and Collaboration Tool, a web-based service fully integrated with Lehigh's library systems and MS-WORD. RefWorks is accessible anytime, anywhere and can be used in collaborative ways for class work or by research teams. Your Lehigh user name/password will allow access to the LTS subscription from off-campus, just as it does for our online library. In addition, you will need to set up a RefWorks account, where your personal library will reside. To get started using RefWorks, please visit the Database Finder page for RefWorks at http://databases.lib.lehigh.edu/finder/dbfull.asp?DBID=211 . There you will see the on and off campus connection URL's and a link to the RefWorks Tutorials and Help. Tina Richardson, Counseling Psychology Professor, wrote: "RefWorks has improved my efficiency immensely with regard to conducting literature searches and creating reference lists. It is tremendously helpful when advising students regarding their research and sharing citations." Since the start of RefWorks@Lehigh in May, over one hundred accounts have been set up. Graduate students are about half of the current RefWorks users at Lehigh. Over 50 faculty, graduate students, and staff have attended in person or online the twelve hosted RefWorks webinars offered by LTS to date. RefWorks@Lehigh is part of the campus-wide writing and information literacy initiative and includes features such as "Write-N-Cite," a citation formatter compatible with MS-WORD, and "Ref Grab-It," a way to store your bookmarks. RefWorks "knows" our library collections. When you save a reference in your RefWorks library, a Lehigh Link (SFX) is automatically assigned to it. Citations selected from the library's research databases and Google Scholar may be directly exported to RefWorks. Citations stored earlier in EndNote can be easily exported to RefWorks. Free RefWorks Fundamental Webinars are announced often in campus news. For more about RefWorks@Lehigh, write to refworks@lehigh.edu <mailto:refworks@lehigh.edu> *LU-ALERT: EMERGENCY ALERT SIGNUP REMINDER* Lehigh's new emergency alert notification system, LU-ALERT, ensures that students, faculty, and staff will receive timely and accurate text messages and email in the event of an emergency. To sign up, go to www.lehigh.edu/lu-alert <http://www.lehigh.edu/lu-alert> . You will be taken to the campus portal to log in, then to the LU-ALERT signup page. *NOW ONLINE: 2007 "GET CONNECTED@LEHIGH"*** Every Fall, LTS publishes Get Connected@Lehigh, a color brochure that highlights LTS services available to faculty, staff, and students. Printed copies are available in both libraries -- and now, an online version of the brochure is now available: http://www.lehigh.edu/helpdesk/getconnected.swf . To obtain copies for distribution or display, contact the Help Desk at 8-HELP. *ACHIEVING EXCELLENCE AT LEHIGH: A LOOK AT STUDENT RESEARCH* For Freshman Orientation, the Lehigh Libraries created a 15 minute video highlighting exciting projects conducted by Lehigh students. This video highlights not only the students' projects, but how they were supported by Lehigh's excellent library tools and staff. The video is available for viewing and/or downloading in iTunesU http://www.lehigh.edu/itunesu .. Once iTunes opens, look under 'About Lehigh' to click on 'Resources' and the film is named 'Library Orientation'. Feel free to share this video with students when assigning research projects. *NEW CLIR FELLOW JOINS LTS*** For the second time, Lehigh is participating in the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Fellowship Program, designed to give the "best recent Ph.D. recipients in the humanities a unique opportunity to develop as information professionals and scholars." Our CLIR Fellow is Lauren Coats, who recently completed her PhD in American Literature at Duke University. While working on her degree, Lauren gained her first library experience working for the Jay B. Hubbell Center in Duke's Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library. Born and raised in Kentucky, Lauren has lived most of her life in the South. She's happy to return to Pennsylvania, where she spent her college years. At Lehigh, she will combine her academic background with the opportunities afforded by Lehigh's digital and information resource initiatives. Among other projects, she will be working on digitizing selections from Lehigh's collection of travel and exploration narratives, a project that is closely related to her doctoral research. Now in its fourth year, the fellowship provides new scholars in the humanities "a unique opportunity to develop expertise in the new forms of scholarly research and the information resources that support them, both traditional and digital, that are challenging research institutions." Lehigh's previous CLIR fellow was Megan Norcia, now an assistant professor at SUNY Brockport. *LINDERMAN LIBRARY AND CAFE HOURS* *FAIRCHILD-MARTINDALE LIBRARY HOURS* Hours are the same in both Libraries. 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