"The Library Minute" is a biweekly, 60 second podcast, screencast, or vodcast highlighting new information tools, search functions, websites, and up and coming technology. The hustle and bustle of everyday life makes it nearly impossible to keep up with the "new", but now you can obtain professional development in under a minute!
del.icio.us social bookmarking website: http://del.icio.us.com
Click to listen: Download del.icio.us.mp3
Featured search engine: http://www.clusty.com
Click to listen: Download clusty.mp3
Education resources in your library
Click to listen: Download education_resources.mp3
This tutorial is actually almost 5 minutes long but is one early work-in-progress for the many online tutorials we are hoping to have online by Fall 2008. Please give us feedback on how we can improve!
Using the K-State at Salina Online Catalog
Click to watch the tutorial: Download kstate_salina_library_online_catalog_tutorial.mov
This tutorial is almost 5 minutes long but it is a "silent" version for our patrons who may not have access to audio and still want to view the tutorial. It has been modified to meet these needs and we hope to have it online by Fall 2008 as well. Please give us feedback on how we can improve!
Using the K-State at Salina Online Catalog - No Audio
Click to watch the tutorial: Download kstate_at_salina_library_online_catalog_tutorial_no_audio.mov
Are you a little confused on the verbiage used when searching online databases? Check out this super-short video that breaks down the vocab used in doing searches. It's shorter than the average YouTube clip and more educational as well!
Click to watch the tutorial: Library_speak_databases.mov
Do you spend restless nights trying to figure out the exact difference between "Periodicals" and "Magazines"? Whether books were created "On Reserve" or evolved? And what do you do if you have a question about the Questions Desk!?? If you're dying to know a little bit more about the lingo used around the library, this handy little tutorial will take you on a tour of the library and explain some of the terminology commonly used by librarians and professors on campus.
Click to watch the tutorial:Library_speak_around_the_library.mov