I spotted this on Twitter and thought it was worth sharing. Google were worried that 10% of people (using small browser windows) were missing content on the right-hand edge of one of their web pages, so they did some analysis of several weeks of visitors’ browser sizes, and created this: http://browsersize.googlelabs.com/ It’s a huge generalisation, [...]
Archive for December, 2009
Write a blog post – new link on Portal staff pages
Always wanted to write a blog post but forgot how to get to it? There is now a new link from the Portal staff pages which takes you straight to the log in page. Go to https://portal.lincoln.ac.uk/C19/C15/LLRStaffPages/default.aspx
Avoiding plagiarism in Derby
Earlier this month, Marie and I attended CILIP’s UC & R (East Midlands division) event entitled ‘Smoke and Mirrors’ (what can we do to help students avoid plagiarism) held in the luminously coloured library at the University of Derby. I found it useful because one of the presentations (Colin Neville, University of Bradford) recommended that HEIs [...]
Mash’um in the middle.
As threatened, I was at BCU in Birmingham a week ago (30th Nov) for #middlemash. The morning after the official mashed library Pre-conference Networking Activity (PNA), a good few of us met on the train up to Perry Barr railway station near the campus. I’m not going to do a chronological write-up of the day [...]
