I enjoy reading magazines, but it isn’t always practical or economical to subscribe to every one I want to read. For these reasons I’ve set up alerts for my favorite magazine titles. What is the benefit of setting up alerts?
Ebsco: RSS Alerts
Ebsco makes it easy to get reminders about new issues of your favorite magazines. You’ll need a newsreader to take advantage of the RSS feeds provided for each title. In this day and age, newsreaders are easier than ever to
Ebsco: Email Alerts
Last week I showed how you can find an RSS feed for magazine titles listed in Ebsco. This post will cover how to sign up for a MyEBSCOhost account and register for email alerts.
Google Books Adds Magazines
Google has added print magazines to its Book Search. Like the newspaper archive, there does not appear to be a comprehensive listing of the included titles, but here are a few I’ve managed to find:
Photo Collages with Picnik
Picnik, the online photo editing software just went from handy and entertaining to darn right addictive! You can now create multi-photo collages from photos that you upload into your Picnik account or any photos you already have in your Flickr
Biblios: A Free Web-based Cataloging Tool
There is a very interesting new service (tool, Website?) being offered by LibLime, the folks who offer the commercial hosting of the open source ILS, Koha. The service allows anyone to create an online account and to immediately have access
Troubleshooting: Sansa Fuze
I continue to hear about “sync” problems with the Sansa devices. This is the most common scenario: A patron will be using the player for a while without problems and then, out of the blue, they get an error message
Audiobooks: Resetting Patron Downloads
If your patron receives an error message with the following text, you’ll need to reset their downloads.