Subject: LTS Digest October 7, 2010 Issue
From: Terry McGinley (tam5@Lehigh.EDU)
Date: Thu Oct 07 2010 - 08:52:16 EDT
*LTS DIGEST --- October 7, 2010 Lehigh University Library and Technology
Services*
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*CONTENTS:*
*---THE LTS HELP DESK WANTS TO HEAR FROM YOU!*
*---MANGO WEB-BASED LANGUAGE LEARNING COURSES*
*---DATA LOSS PREVENTION*
*---GOOGLE CALENDAR TIPS AND TRICKS*
*---PICTURES, PIXELS, AND PNG: NEED HELP EDITING IMAGES?*
*---ADOBE SOFTWARE AT PUBLIC SITES*
*---REMINDER: LIBRARIES STUDENT RESEARCH PRIZE*
*---FRIENDS ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAM - OCTOBER 13*
*---PACING BREAK LIBRARY HOURS*
Subscription, archive, and contact information is at the bottom of this
digest.
*THE LTS HELP DESK WANTS TO HEAR FROM YOU!*
In October, the LTS Help Desk will be distributing a short survey to
people who have used the help desk service during a 4 week period in the
fall semester. We would appreciate hearing from anyone who wishes to
offer us some feedback. If you would like to receive an online survey,
please contact the Help Desk at 8-4357 or helpdesk@lehigh.edu
<mailto:helpdesk@lehigh.edu>
*MANGO WEB-BASED LANGUAGE LEARNING COURSES*
Global Lehigh and "being multilingual" are a natural combination.
Developing language skill is a great way to prepare for intercultural
experiences both on campus and abroad. Now, LTS is making available a
way for the entire campus to have anytime, anywhere access to
self-paced, informal language learning. The libraries are licensing
Mango, a language learning system offering both introductory "crash
courses" and advanced coursework. Mango currently offers 22 languages
from around the world including Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, Pashto, Farsi,
and Korean as well as French, Spanish, Russian, German, Japanese and
Italian. There are also English courses for speakers of other languages.
To get started learning or to refresh a language you have already begun
to study, go to
http://library.lehigh.edu/databasefinder/moreinfo.php?db=253
*DATA LOSS PREVENTION*
Where do you save your digital files? Are your Word documents, Power
Point presentations, PDF files, etc. saved on the hard drive of your
computer (or a keychain drive) and not backed up anywhere else? Hard
drives crash and it's very risky to depend on one hard drive. Hours of
work can be lost.
There are several options available to you to back up your data to
prevent loss in the event of a hard drive crash or loss or malfunction
of a keychain drive. They are (including, but not limited to):
* Personal LAN space here at Lehigh (also known as "H" drive)
* External hard drive (using Windows 7 automatic back-up software or
Mac OS Time Machine or other external automatic back-up software
such as Dantz Retrospect or Intego Backup Assistant)
* Google Documents
* Other web-based options
* Burn to CD/DVD (good for archiving off inactive data)
Please contact your LTS Computing Consultant for advice, to discuss
options and for assistance with your data backups. Don't be sorry -- be
safe.
*GOOGLE CALENDAR TIPS AND TRICKS*
Many Lehigh staff and students are using Google Calendar to manage
personal and departmental events. Whether you're new to Google Calendar
or a Calendar power user, check out these tips and tricks:
http://docs.google.com/View?id=dcqnpxsq_260hfcbdxp7
*PICTURES, PIXELS, AND PNG: NEED HELP EDITING IMAGES?*
Are you ever called upon to make changes to a picture or image - like
superimposing text over a photo, cropping/resizing an image, or even
creating a basic shape (like an arrow)? Here's some good news - the
Windows 7 version of Paint is far more useful and sophisticated than its
XP counterpart. To get a sense of what you can do with Windows 7 Paint,
take a look at this quick tutorial from Microsoft:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/Using-Paint
*ADOBE SOFTWARE AT PUBLIC SITES*
Do you have graphic editing or web page design needs? Adobe software is
available at the Media Center, in the Digital Media Studio classroom
(DMS) and in the IMRC. Each of these three locations offers the Adobe
Creative Suite -- Web Premium, a suite containing Photoshop for graphic
editing and Dreamweaver and Flash for web page design. Acrobat is also
available as part of the suite for creating PDF files. Fireworks,
Soundbooth and Contribute complete the selection of software in the
Adobe Web Premium suite.
The Creative Suite Web Premium includes:
* Dreamweaver -- professional website design
* Flash Professional -- rich, interactive content development
* Photoshop Extended -- creation and modification of graphic files
* Fireworks -- web prototyping and image editing
* Acrobat Professional -- create files in .PDF format
* Soundbooth -- create and edit audio
* Contribute -- update web content quickly
*REMINDER: LIBRARIES STUDENT RESEARCH PRIZE (APPLICATIONS WILL BE
ACCEPTED SOON!)*
Do you know of an undergraduate student who is working on, or who
completed, a high quality library-research intensive project in 2010?
Are YOU that student? Your project *may be* eligible for the 2011
Libraries Student Research Prize. Toward the end of the semester, LTS
will start accepting applications for projects - see
http://www.lehigh.edu/libprize/ for more details, and watch for the
announcement that the web site is taking applications!
*FRIENDS PROGRAM, OCTOBER 13: POLITICS OF ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION*
The Political Dead Zone: Coming to Terms with the Politics of
Environmental Degradation---Disturbing Lessons from the Troubled Chesapeake
Howard Ernst '93, Associate Professor of Political Science, United
States Naval Academy
Wednesday, October 13th, 4:00 p.m.
Linderman Scheler Humanities Forum (Rm. 200)
Ernst's talk will explore the basic assumptions upon which the nation's
most ambitious environmental restoration project was based - the
Chesapeake Bay restoration project. He will expose significant flaws in
the cooperative approach to environmental protection that has swept the
nation since passage of the Clean Water Act. Sponsored by Friends of the
Libraries and the Department of Political Science.
*PACING BREAK LIBRARY HOURS*
http://www.lehigh.edu/lts/hours/libhours.html
*Pacing Break -- October 8 - 12*
Friday 10/8 - 8 am -- 5 pm
Saturday 10/9 - Noon -- 8 pm**
Sunday 10/10 - Noon -- 8 pm
Monday 10/11 - 8 am -- 10 pm
Tuesday 10/12 - 8 am -- 2 am
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