DCCC Library Books and Bytes

We’ve had social bookmarking tools like delicious for a while now, but a new site called Diigo is adding some more features to the concept.  Diigo allows you to highlight, bookmark and comment on live web pages.  Have a paper where you are doing some research on a website?  Login to Diigo and you can highlight and take notes right on the page.  Then every time you come back, you can see your notes and save yourself some time.  There are also educator accounts for professors and students so that your teachers can highlight and write notes on a web page and have a class look at that information.  They call it “social bookmarking 2.0.”

(Paul Proces)

Students have been enjoying the new feature on Ebsco databases that converts the citation into proper ALA or MLA format (see blog posting from 9/23/08) but one technical glitch is the maddening hanging indent. Often , when the citation is cut and paste from database to word document, the second line will not tab in correctly….

Here is the SOLUTION! Situate your mouse in front of the citation. Click on paragraph tab, then choose indentation option, use pull down menu that reads special until you see option “hanging” indent.  It works!

(mg)