October
2004 Tidbits
Great online resource!
Many of you are familiar with the Health and Wellness Resource Center and provide access to it from your web sites and NEWCat workstations. There is a HUGE amount of information here, some technical and some written for the typical person. Hidden within this database is a great tool I want you to know about - The Patient's Guide to Medical Tests. This is a wonderful resource written to help people better understand medical tests and procedures they or their loved ones might be undergoing. It includes pictures with some articles and is written in an easy to understand style.
Here's how to access it:
- Go to the Health and Wellness Resource Center.
- Click on the blue Advanced Search Button to the right of the Search For box.
- Type in medical tests in the first search box.
- Change Keyword to SOURCE TITLE in the next box.
- Click on the green Search Button.
You will be given a list of the contents and chapters of this reference book, just click on the chapter title that covers the area you are wondering about. Try it out, so you can help your patrons with these kinds of questions!
(Thanks to Evan Bend for this tidbit. Be sure to contact him if you have any questions about the Gale Databases.)
Rename folders and files - FAST
Yeah, you know if you want to rename a folder or a file you can either right-click on it and select RENAME or click twice slowly to get an insertion point to start typing the new name. But there's an even FASTER way:
- Select the file or folder.
- Press F2.
- Start typing!
This is soooo cool! (I know, I'm a geek...)
Caps lock alert
I never learned how to type the "right" way, but just started picking away at keys until I worked up to a pretty good speed over time. One of the things that happens due to my self-taught typing style is that I often hit the CAPS LOCK key by mistake. Soon I have typed an entire sentence (or more) in all caps, which, as you know, in an online environment means I'm SCREAMING at anyone reading my document. Not good. Has this ever happened to you?
If you slip on the Caps Lock key, too, try this as a way to alert yourself when it happens (in WinXP):
- Click on START on the taskbar.
- Click on CONTROL PANEL.
- Click on ACCESSIBILITY OPTIONS.
- Click on ACCESSIBILITY OPTIONS again.
- Click on the KEYBOARD tab if it isn't selected already, and check the box next to "Use ToggleKeys."
Now whenever you hit the Caps Lock key, accidentally or on purpose, you'll hear a beep!
Adieu
Farewell until next time from the library system where all the computers are fast, all the books are worth reading, and all the librarians are above average!
This issue of Tidbits was written by Beth Carpenter, Web Services Manager for the Outagamie Waupaca Library System. Please send any comments or questions about this issue to Beth.
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