The University of Queensland TEDI (Teaching and Educational Development Institute) hosted a one day conference on Thursday 19 June 2008 on the topic of Blended Learning.

The aim of this conference was “To explore how embedding the use of technology alongside more traditional face-to-face teaching can enhance the student experience.” The event was run simultaneously with its “siblings” from Calgary, Canada and Hertfordshire, UK.

If you would like to check the abstracts of the conference papers or if you wish to read more on this topic go to http://www.tedi.uq.edu.au/blendedlearning/.

Or for an easy holiday read check out “Is Google making us stupid?” , an article mentioned by one of yesterday’s presenters!

Enjoy!

The Library has purchased a site-license for the QUOSA software:
http://www.library.uq.edu.au/quosa/

Advantages of QUOSA:
• Downloads multiple PDFs – FAST
• Organizes PDFs into folder trees with links back to EndNote or RefWorks
• Deep searches inside PDFs as every word of the article (not just in the title and abstract) is indexed.

QUOSA can be used when searching PubMed, Ovid Medline, Scopus and the Web of Knowledge databases. QUOSA is integrated with EndNote and RefWorks.

Download the software from http://www.quosa.com/downloads.php
and choose the subscriber version. (Suggestion - do NOT enable startup accelerator )

To learn how to use QUOSA efficiently you can:

Enjoy!

The Graduate Economics and Bussiness Library together with the Business School Employment Services unit are pleased to announce the launch of a new display area in the library.

The Employment resources display incorporates an impressive number of commercial and library materials designed to help postgraduate students with their career development.

Library patrons can browse, borrow or in some instances take home these very useful resources.

Good luck job hunting!

Interested in learning about digitising your research for future access?

A seminar will be held Friday 16 November 2007, 9.00am to 12:30pm
at the Library Conference Room, Level 1 Duhig Building.

Morning tea and lunch are included.

Learn about metadata standards; preservation & sustainability; tools, services & software; copyright & licencing issues; housing & access; outsourcing & commercial options and sources of advice and expertise.

Speakers are Andrew Long, Manager, Preservation Standards, National Library of Australia
& Belinda Weaver, Manager, UQ eSpace digitial repository.

RSVP: espace@library.uq.edu.au or tel 07-336 58281