Library Hi Tech Issue on PDAS

Happy Holidays!

The Volume 21, Issue 4 of Library Hi Tech has a number of articles on libraries and PDAs. If you want a free trial so you can look at some of these articles, you can get a free trial by going here: http://taddeo.emeraldinsight.com/vl=17542390/cl=29/nw=1/rpsv/cgi-bin/emft.pl
Emerald has a lot of other interesting journals on a number of topics also. The article on PDAs in health science libraries was by some handheld librarians including Tom Peters, Peg Burnette, Jo Dorsch, and myself.

Table of contents follows:-

Title: Mental models for personal digital assistants (PDAs)
Author: Michael Seadle
Pages: 390-392
Keywords: Information Facilities; Libraries
Article Type: Theoretical with Application in Practice
Content Indicators: Research - ** Practice - * Originality - **
Readability - *

Title: Redesigning library applications for PDAs: ILS vendor
perspective
Author: John McCullough
Pages: 393-399
Keywords: Catalogues; Library Facilities; Palmtops
Article Type: Theoretical with Application in Practice
Content Indicators: Research - ** Practice - ** Originality - **
Readability - **

Title: PDAs and health sciences libraries
Author: Thomas A Peters; Josephine Dorsch; Lori Bell; Peg Burnette
Pages: 400-411
Keywords: Libraries; Health Education; Information Facilities
Article Type: Comparative/evaluators
Content Indicators: Research - ** Practice - ** Originality - **
Readability - **

Title: Supporting PDAs: the experience of a health sciences library
Author: Julie A Garrison; Tiffany L Anderson; Marlyse H MacDonald;
Connie M Schardt; Patricia L Thibodeau
Pages: 412-418
Keywords: Libraries; Health Education; Information Facilities
Article Type: Case Study; Comparative/evaluators
Content Indicators: Research - ** Practice - *** Originality - ***
Readability - **

Title: Hand-held computers in the classroom and the library: teaching
and learning resource issues resulting from widespread deployment at the
University of Minnesota Duluth
Author: Linda Deneen; James Allert
Pages: 419-425
Keywords: Computers; Palmtops; Teaching Aids; Information Facilities
Article Type: Theoretical with Application in Practice
Content Indicators: Research - ** Practice - ** Originality - **
Readability - **

Title: Improving your productivity with a PDA: some suggestions
Author: Laura C Larsson
Pages: 426-439
Keywords: Palmtops; Productivity Capacity; Information Facilities
Article Type: Comparative/evaluators
Content Indicators: Research - ** Practice - * Originality - **
Readability - *

Title: Unicode: support for multiple languages at the Ohio State
University Libraries
Author: Laura Tull; Dona Straley
Pages: 440-450
Keywords: Languages; Catalogues; Libraries
Article Type: Technical
Content Indicators: Research - ** Practice - * Originality - *
Readability - *

Title: Economic impact of the Internet: study of cybercafés in
Gaborone+ Botswana
Author: Tomas Mauta Sairosse; Stephen M Mutula
Pages: 451-462
Keywords: Internet; Economic Conditions; Botswana
Article Type: Case Study
Content Indicators: Research - * Practice - ** Originality - **
Readability - **

Title: Web accessibility validation and repair: which tool and why?
Author: Laura O'Grady; Laurie Harrison
Pages: 463-470
Keywords: Worldwide Web; Computer Software; Canada
Article Type: Survey; Comparative/evaluators
Content Indicators: Research - ** Practice - *** Originality - ***
Readability - ***

Title: Reinventing Unix: an introduction to the Plan 9 operating system
Author: Brian Hancock
Pages: 471-476
Keywords: Operating Systems; Unix
Article Type: Technical
Content Indicators: Research - * Practice - ** Originality - *
Readability - *

Tablet PCs and Wireless at Cuyahoga County; December eBookworm program

Congratulations to the Cuyahoga County Public Library in Ohio! Check out their web page for their announcement about wireless tablets customers can come in and use at a workstation or even take around the library with wireless Internet access. They even have Quick Time and Windows Media demonstrations to watch. Wow, this is wonderful!

December's eBookworm show will be on Thursday, December 18 from 3:00-4:00 P.M. Central time. Tom Peters of TAP Information Services will host the show and interview e-book experts Bill Harroff from McKendree College and Charlotte Johnson from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. Both have given numerous presentations on e-books. To participate, go to http://www.talkingcommunities.com/entrance.pl?31122688174, type in your name, no password is necessary and click enter. A small applet will download on your computer and connect you to the online meeting room. If you have any questions, please contact Tom Peters at tapinformation@yahoo.com.

This story talks about the Hong Kong University Library's new service called Library@hand which provides students with periodical articles, catalog access and other library services through a wireless network to their PDAs.

Post Cereal Offering Small PDAs

I noticed last night in the grocery store that Post is offering a Personal Digital Assistant for 2 UPCs and $1 for postage and handling.

The offer includes the following products:
Fruity Pebbles, Golden Crisp, Cocoa Pebbles, Oreo O’s, Honeycomb, Strawberry Blasted Honeycomb,Waffle Crisp, Alpha-Bits, or Marshmallow Alpha-Bits.

I'm not sure what type of PDA this will be, but I'm curious. I would like to collect these small devices for the gadget seminar I teach. I'm trying to see how many of these PDAs I can order. If you eat these cereals and would not mind letting go of your UPCs, could you contact me at cybrarian01@yahoo.com? Thank you.