How would you like to be notified whenever there’s a new message posted to DawgBlog? It’s easy! In fact, you have a couple of options.
If you use an email aggregator like Bloglines or Google’s Personalized Home Page, you can grab the RSS feed from our home page and add it to your collection of feeds. You can even subscribe to a specific category, if you’d rather. The RSS links for those are next to each category in the lower left sidebar.
Don’t do RSS yet? Would you rather get a good old email whenever there’s a new post? You’ll have to be logged in to DawgBlog (using your standard Butler ID and password), but after that it’s easy. Just click on the “Email” link in the top left corner of the screen and choose whether you want notifications when there new posts and comments or just new posts. Then sit back and enjoy!
No longer do you have to enter your Butler University ID and password to get to DawgBlog. It’s open to the world!
It is our goal to contribute to the community of libraries that are blogging by having an open site. And also to make it easier for our students and faculty/staff to get to our library blog. No more logging in–just point and click!
Hello all. It’s been over a month since I surveyed you about an Internal Communication question. Specifically, whether we should have a regular newsletter for internal communication within the libraries or whether the blog would be a better tool for this function.
Since we were looking just at INTERNAL communication, not news to the public or the students, the majority of responses (about 80%) said that since we already had the blog in place, and since it is searchable, that the blog would be the best tool for the job. Many did say that they knew they would have to develop the habit of checking it, but that it still was the best tool.
Therefore, I will be increasing the number of categories for our posts on our internal ButlerLib blog so that topics of interest are easier to find. I will also be contacting everyone later this month to offer a training session on how to use the blog. Stay tuned for further details.
For those of you who have ever needed to create a PDF file, we have a program installed at the Reference Desk that I would recommend to you. It’s called PrimoPDF and it’s a terrific FREE program that allows you to create PDF files. While there are all kinds of security settings you can implement (like disabling printing, etc.), the basic function is simple.
Just print your document and select PrimoPDF as your “printer.” It will ask you for a file name and allow you to change security settings before you click OK and save the PDF file. Pretty basic.
Another nice thing is that, since this program acts as a “printer,” anything you can print you can make a PDF file. Doesn’t matter if it’s a Word document, a spreadsheet, a webpage, or a library catalog entry. If you can print it, you can make it a PDF. Just change your printer from your default to PrimoPDF.
If you’d like to see it in action, feel free to stop by the Reference Desk.
Scott
The CHOICES III database is still available on that computer in the corner of the Reference Dept. And now there’s a manual with a couple of guides that Brad discovered online.
Thanks, Brad!
P.S. Those guides can be found:
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