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October 5, 2009 – 2:29 pm

Ok. Today the BBC reported that Microsoft has confirmed that over 10,000 of its Hotmail e-mail accounts have been compromised, victims of a phishing attack (click here for the story).  While all of us who have not lived in a bubble for the past 10 years have heard of the term “phishing,” how many have read more »

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Learn Central Elluminate Vrooms

September 30, 2009 – 9:43 am

Not many people know that you can use Elluminate Vrooms by signing up for a free account at learncentral.org. The only catch is that you can only have a maximum of three people in each Vroom.  Still, GSLISers might want to take advantage of these Vrooms if you prefer this method of collaboration.  All the read more »

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September 21, 2009 – 11:45 am

IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) The IEEE is an international professional organization that has more than 365,000 members in 160 countries. It is estimated that the IEEE provides around one-third of the world’s literature in electrical engineering and computer science, publishing 140 serials in addition to monographs.  Additionally, it contributes to technological learning read more »

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What we are reading

September 18, 2009 – 11:36 am

Sam W. I am currently reading the Temeraire series by Naomi Novik. Hoping to swing by Champaign Public tonight to pick up Victory of eagles. The books in the series are: His Majesty’s dragon Throne of jade Black powder war Empire of ivory Victory of eagles The author’s web site has excerpts from all the read more »

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Website of the Week: International Libraries

September 16, 2009 – 10:15 am

Interested in International Librarianship? This week’s Website of the Week is actually many web sites. Take a tour through some library and library organization websites throughout the world! GSLIS Mortenson Center International Organizations International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) UNESCO libraries portal Libraries of Africa National Library of South Africa Instituto da Biblioteca Nacional e read more »

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September 14, 2009 – 12:42 pm

After a brief hiatus to implement (successfully) the Elluminate Live course platform for LEEP, the blog is back and ready to go! This week’s Word of the Week comes to you courtesy of a ticket that we received here in the ITD office a couple of weeks ago concerning a bad cron job. Cron job, read more »

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#helpdeskbat

August 17, 2009 – 4:57 pm

[this post has been flagged for inconsistent pronoun gender, deal with it] Today was a momentous day in Help Desk/ITD history.  Indeed, today saw the creation of the #helpdeskbat hash tag. As I was diligently responding to tickets at the Help Desk, I heard Jill shriek in the entry way.  “BAT!”  There arose such a read more »

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Website of the Week: on Women in Open Source

August 12, 2009 – 10:31 am

This week’s Website of the Week is a transcript of Kirrily Robert’s keynote at OSCON. Some slides, along with a link to the entire slide set and a video, are included. “Standing Out in the Crowd” is a talk on women working in open source. Robert discusses the overall demographics of open source, and two read more »

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August 10, 2009 – 4:24 pm

blogroll: a list of links to other blogs and websites found on a blog (generally found on the sidebar) that the blog author references, recommends, or is affiliated with The “Our Favorite Links” on the right-hand side of this blog would be our blogroll. Go check ’em out!

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July 31, 2009 – 10:04 am

Happy System Administrator Appreciation Day! Thank you for all your hard work!

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