Tag Archives: Technology

Books

Office 365 : migrating and managing your business in the cloud / Matthew Katzer, Don Crawford

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Call number: HF5548.4.M525 K38 2013

Cloud technology is a tremendous opportunity for an organization to reduce IT costs, and to improve productivity with increased access, simpler administration and improved services.  Those businesses that embrace the advantages of the cloud will receive huge rewards in productivity and lower total cost of ownership over those businesses that choose to ignore it.

The challenge for those charged with implementing Microsoft Office 365 is to leverage these advantages with the minimal disruption of their organization.  This book provides practical help in moving your business to the Cloud and covers the planning, migration and the follow on management of the Office 365 Cloud services.

Written for the IT professional and business owner, this book provides the business and technical insight necessary to migrate your business to the cloud using Microsoft Office 365.  This is a practical look at cloud migration and the use of different technologies to support that migration.  Numerous examples of cloud migration with technical migration details are included.
What you’ll learn-Overview of Microsoft Office 365’s operation and usage for any size enterprise
-Methods of planning and migration
-Office 365 management best practices
-Using Office 365 SharePoint to improve business processes
-Troubleshooting Office 365 installations
-Using Compliance, eDiscovery and Data Loss Prevention tools
-Office 365-site management best practices for IT administrators and business owners
Who this book is for Small-enterprise IT professionals and business owners who have the admin responsibilities for their business-IT needs. These people need refined reference information on basic set-up and configuration for their Office 365 installations, as well as best-practice-driven instruction on managing and troubleshooting their systems. (From Google Books)

Updates

New Service in the Library – Wireless Printing from Your Personal Laptop

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Wireless Printing from Your Personal Laptop

It is now possible to print from your personal Windows laptop to Library printer FW-CC1771-lib2 by installing the Pharos software.

Requirements

  • You must have administrative rights on your computer to install the Pharos system!
  • You must be running Windows 7, Vista or XP! (Sorry, no Macs or Windows 8 operating systems at this time.)
  • You must be connected to IvyStudent or IvyStaff (not IvyGuest) wireless networks in order to send print jobs to our printer!

Disclaimer: All software is installed at your own risk. Due to the wide variety of settings and configurations possible on personal laptops, we cannot guarantee that wireless printing will work on all laptops. If you follow all the correct procedures to print, but printing does not work, the Bursar’s office will NOT reimburse you for your printing costs.

For more information click here.

Books

Go! with Microsoft office 2013 / Shelley Gaskin

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Call number: HF5548.4.M525 G36725 2014

The primary goal of the GO! Series, aside from teaching computer applications, is ease of implementation, with an approach that is based on clearly defined projects for students and a one-of-a-kind supplements package. Teaching and Learning Experience This program will provide a better teaching and learning experience—for you and your students. Here’s how: Personalize Learning: MyITLab delivers proven results in helping students succeed, provides engaging experiences that personalize learning, and comes from a trusted partner with educational expertise and a deep commitment to helping students and instructors achieve their goals. Engage Students with a Project-Based Approach: GO!’s project-based approach teaches students to solve real problems as they practice and learn the features. Motivate Students with Clear Instruction: Based on professor and student feedback, this text has been designed to offer clear instruction for full student comprehension. Teach the Course You Want in Less Time: The GO! series’ one-of-a kind instructional system provides you with everything you need to prepare for class, teach the material, and assess your students.(From Google Books)

Books

Dogfight : how Apple and Google went to war and started a revolution / Fred Vogelstein

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Call number:  HD9696.2.A2 V64 2013

The rise of smartphones and tablets has altered the business of making computers. At the center of this change are Apple and Google, two companies whose philosophies, leaders, and commercial acumen have steamrolled the competition. In the age of Android and the iPad, these corporations are locked in a feud that will play out not just in the marketplace but in the courts and on screens around the world.
     Fred Vogelstein has reported on this rivalry for more than a decade and has rare access to its major players. In Dogfight, he takes us into the offices and board rooms where company dogma translates into ruthless business; behind outsize personalities like Steve Jobs, Apple’s now-lionized CEO, and Eric Schmidt, Google’s executive chairman; and inside the deals, lawsuits, and allegations that mold the way we communicate. Apple and Google are poaching each other’s employees. They bid up the price of each other’s acquisitions for spite, and they forge alliances with major players like Facebook and Microsoft in pursuit of market dominance.
     Dogfight reads like a novel: vivid nonfiction with never-before-heard details. This is more than a story about what devices will replace our phones and laptops. It’s about who will control the content on those devices and where that content will come from—about the future of media in Silicon Valley, New York, and Hollywood.  (From Google Books)

Books

2014 Artist’s & Graphic Designer’s Market / Mary Burzlaff Bostic (Editor)

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Call number: N8600 .A76 2014

2014 Artist’s & Graphic Designer’s Market is the must-have reference guide for any artist who wants to establish or expand a career in fine art, illustration or graphic design. Thousands of successful artists have relied on us to help develop their careers and navigate the changing business landscape. The 2014 Artist’s & Graphic Designer’s Market introduces a whole host of new features and guarantees the most up-to-date, individually verified market contacts possible. (From Barnes & Noble)

Databases, Updates

Database Updates

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Books 24X7 has added over 100 new titles in its IT and Business areas. If you haven’t used Books 24X7 before, register (for free) and see what it has to offer.

LexisNexis Academic is simplifying it’s interface, starting December 23rd. “Just type search terms into LexisNexis Academic’s simplified, single-search box for a complete set of results sorted by relevance and date… More enhancements include streamlined navigation for more intuitive, user-friendly research and improved advanced search options for more sophisticated queries.” Click here for a preview.

Mango Languages recently added videos to it’s language-learning platform. Next month it will add course placement tests, and a new interface.

Books

Performance automotive engine math / John Baechtel

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Call number: TL210 .B284 2011

Multi-time author and well-regarded performance engine builder/designer John Baechtel has assembled the relevant mathematics and packaged it all together in a book designed for automotive enthusiasts. This book walks readers through the complete engine, showcasing the methodology required to define each specific parameter, and how to translate the engineering math to hard measurements reflected in various engine parts. Designing the engine to work as a system of related components is no small task, but the ease with which Baechtel escorts the reader through the process makes this book perfect for both the budding engine enthusiast and the professional builder (From Google Books).

Databases, Featured Materials, Videos

New Library Technology Video Tutorials from Books 24X7

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Books 24X7 has added a new feature–videos!  Most of these videos, over 1,000 of them, are only a few minutes long.  Desktop video topics include Business Applications, Graphics and Design, Internet, Microsoft Office 2003, Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft Office 2013, Microsoft Office 365, Mobile Devices and Computer Skills, and Operating Systems.  IT and Technical video topics include Cloud Computing and Virtualization, Data and Databases, Operating Systems and Servers, Software Design and Development, and Web Development and Graphic Design.  If you want to learn how to use Microsoft Office or Adobe products, among others, this is the place to go.

Library News

New “Ask-A-Librarian” service

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Students, staff and faculty can get help from the Library without going to the Library. All they have to do is click on the Ask-a-Librarian section of the Library home page. Once there, they have three options. They can search the FAQs to find answers to the most frequently asked questions, such as questions about textbooks, hours of operation, scholarly journals, etc. Or, they can email their question to the Library. When they use the email option, they should always include their region/campus to make sure the right person responds to them. Finally, they can chat with a librarian. The live chat option is available for a few hours per day. So even if you can’t make it to the Library, you can still get the help you need.