With its purchase of Lexcycle, announced today, Amazon now controls three of the most popular e-reading apps:  Stanza, Mobipocket, and Kindle.  Stanza is a popular app for the Iphone and Ipod touch that is produced by Lexcycle.  Mobipocket is a multi-platform reader which works on the Palm, Symbian, Windows Mobile, and Blackberry platforms,  and also […]

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Dibner Library will begin its extended exam schedule on Wednesday, April 29.  The library will be open 24 hours on weekdays, and closing at midnight on Friday and Saturday.  View the library hours calendar on our web site or see exam schedule details below:

FINAL EXAM HOURS

Wed, April 29 - Thurs, April30
9 am - 24 hours

Fri, […]

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For those of us interested in digital archives of world cultural treasures, there is new reason to rejoice: a new entry has appeared in the growing list of online sites available to view such material.  The World Digital Library, a website in seven languages featuring works from a dozen countries, was launched at UNESCO’s headquarters […]

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Conducting research, teaching, finding funding, writing a thesis… balancing all the demands of graduate school can be a challenge.  Lucky for today’s grad students there is GradShare -an online graduate student community where you ask questions and get answers about anything affecting graduate students.
You begin by selecting an academic discipline, then explore different aspects of […]

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What do you get when you combine a smart phone, a tiny projector, and a camera?  Seamless access to information that makes the iphone seem quaint.

There is no simple way to describe what the “Sixth Sense” is.  The Sixth Sense website states it’s “a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with […]

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By now you’ve probably noticed those little orange icons that appear on websites.  And hopefully you’re using RSS to keep up to date with all your favorite websites and blogs (including this one!).  But are you taking full advantage of the power of RSS feeds? Not only is RSS a great tool to stay informed […]

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