Category Archives: technology

Simpler, smarter searching

5 March 2009 – 6:18 am

Have you had a bad experience in the past with using SuperSearch or the online library catalogue?
Responding to feedback collected last year from students and staff, our fabulous Library Systems team spent this summer making changes to SuperSearch and the online catalogue.
From the start of Semester One 2009, searching for a journal article or library [...]

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Practise your search-fu with Library IT Tips

29 January 2009 – 11:10 am

Did you know that you can bookmark items in the Melbourne University Library’s online catalogue? Would you like to add a Library search to your web browser’s toolbar and get single-click access to PubMed and similar resources?
The Library Systems team can help you become a ‘power user’ of the University Library’s online catalogues and resources.
The [...]

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Can you picture that?

28 November 2008 – 4:13 pm

The Director of eResearch, Professor Leon Sterling, and the Melbourne Research Office are offering a $10,000 development grant in 2009 for University of Melbourne researchers to create an innovative demonstration of the visualisation capabilities of our OptiPortal facility.
Developed in partnership with the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), and with funding from the Victorian state [...]

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Towards an integrated ‘knowledge environment’

10 July 2008 – 6:39 am

Staff at Cornell and Bates (both in the US) are in the early stages of a collaborative project, looking into how they might provide a seamlessly integrated knowledge environment (IKE) for their students, alumni, academic and professional staff, and other constituencies of their respective institutions.
In particular, the project aims to:
“Envision, identify, and promote integrated online [...]

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The future according to…

12 June 2008 – 6:40 am

Some of our leading suppliers of technology and books visited the Melbourne University campus last month to share their thoughts about the next 10 years.
Videos are now available on the Information Futures web site — follow the links below. Each presentation is 20-30 minutes long.
Blackboard’s Regional Manager, Tony Macguire, talked about the changing expectations and [...]

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