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End of the year… almost

Monday, November 14th, 2011 Posted in Hints & tips, Out there info | No Comments »

We are almost at the end of another year and the lead up to end of year assessments and assignments has begun. Some of us prefer to study quietly while others while others prefer to be in slightly less quieter ...

Clusty is no more- Please welcome Yippy

Monday, August 23rd, 2010 Posted in Hints & tips | No Comments »

Clusty becomes Yippy As was Clusty, Yippy is a clustering engine - type in your term - get a set of  clustered results back.  Yippy can add something new to your search experience, especially in the way it presents results.  Yippy retrieves results from ...

Social networking tips

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010 Posted in Be WebWiser, Hints & tips | No Comments »

Social networking sites are designed to allow the user to develop a connection between friends, acquaintances and business. Most of you are aware of social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Myspace. But how many of you know about......Friendster, Xanga and ...

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, ...

Library etiquette – What does it mean?

Monday, December 7th, 2009 Posted in Hints & tips | No Comments »

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3ZHPJT2Kp4[/youtube] Sesame Street, 2008, Sesame Street: Cookie Monster In The Library, posted August 6 2008, viewed 11 November 2009, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3ZHPJT2Kp4 WHAT WE DONT DO Provide cookies, stationery, change for a twenty or milk Provide refunds for the vending machine located in the library foyer : see Tim- canteen ...

Computers, Internet and wireless at Ultimo College Library

Thursday, November 12th, 2009 Posted in Hints & tips | No Comments »

Do you like more stuff?? Do you need help printing , accessing wireless and such stuff? If so come and see us in the library. We have computers available for you to use on both the ground floor and level one of the library. Here ...

Ultimo TAFE Library is on Youtube

Monday, November 9th, 2009 Posted in Hints & tips | No Comments »

Do you like stuff?? Not sure where to find it in the library?  Well have a look at this youtube video created by Sarah Wilson. A cool modern take on the layout of the library as well as useful information about locating items ...

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 ...

Referencing skills

Monday, November 2nd, 2009 Posted in Hints & tips, Links and Tools | No Comments »

Why reference? One of the main reasons you should reference your material is to avoid plagiarism. Having the skill to correctly reference material when required will be of benefit to you when writing up academic documents Referencing allows the reader to see that ...

Discounted Printing/Photocopying

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 Posted in Hints & tips | No Comments »

As a member of the Student Association one of the many benefits you are entitled to is 1/2 price printing and photocopying in the library. You will need to have your TAFE Card *encoded when you join the Student Association to receive ...