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New Online Fashion Resource – WGSN

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010 Posted in Be WebWiser, Fashion week | 1 Comment »

An exciting new online tool is now available from Sydney Institute libraries: Worth Global Style Network (WGSN) is an online tool that delivers accurate trend forecasting and analysis up to two years in advance, in addition to consumer attitude and behaviour ...

TROVE- National Library Australia Search Engine

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010 Posted in Be WebWiser | No Comments »

Trove Australia : One search... a wealth of information If you are researching in the fields of the social sciences, literature, local or family history, or need inspiration for assignments then have a look at Trove. Trove is a free search engine ...

Search tool – Searchzooka.com

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010 Posted in Be WebWiser, Hints & tips, Links and Tools | No Comments »

Have a look at this website. www.searchzooka.com. Searchzooka is a search engine designed to help you trawl the internet using the major search Engines. The search engines used are www.google.com www.yahoo.com www.bing.com www.ask.com http://digg.com http://technorati.com http://delicious.com You are able to filter by language, relevance, time period, country of origin, ...

Database highlight – PlantFile

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 Posted in Be WebWiser | No Comments »

So you have decided that the garden requires another plant. You would like a plant that is of Australian origin, a coastal plant that has yellow flowers that bloom in Autumn and has a maximum height of 4 metres. What ...

Legal Information Access Centre

Sunday, February 28th, 2010 Posted in Be WebWiser | No Comments »

Legal Information Access Centre The Legal Information Access Centre (LIAC) is a specialist information service of the State Library of NSW. It provides access to information about the law for all members of the community in NSW as well as ...

Database highlight – Culinary Arts Collection

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 Posted in Be WebWiser | No Comments »

  Database Profile - Culinary Arts Collection. You can find this database at General OneFile (Infotrac). Infotrac is accessible from the library PC'c as well from home. To locate the database go to the Sydney Institute Library databases page , click on database ...

SkillsOne – Building for Boaties

Monday, February 15th, 2010 Posted in Be WebWiser | No Comments »

   All too often we consider academic qualifications as the best option and that is a valid point. However, we must take into consideration that as well as studying  at university, TAFE is also an option available to a prospective student. TAFE courses provide ...

Webwiser – RSS Feeds

Monday, February 1st, 2010 Posted in Be WebWiser | No Comments »

Did you know that by using RSS feeds you can bring all the latest updates from your favourite websites to your desktop? So What does RSS Stand for?.......RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication You can use a reader (which means going to ...

Webwiser : National Film & Sound Archive

Monday, December 21st, 2009 Posted in Be WebWiser | No Comments »

Watch Moving Image Material Online from australianscreen online The National Film and Sound Archive’s australianscreen online is an interactive web-based resource that provides access to a wide variety of moving image material. It encompasses nearly 1400 Australian feature films, documentaries, advertisements ...

Ultimo Library Catalogue iGoogle Gadget

Friday, November 6th, 2009 Posted in Be WebWiser, Hints & tips, Links and Tools, What's New @ Ultimo Library | No Comments »

Do you have an iGoogle account? Would you like to search the library catalogue via your iGoogle account? If yes! Click on the below links to add Ultimo TAFE Library’s Catalogue iGoogle Gadget to you own personal iGoogle page.  Yes add the Library ...