Product Demonstration

Facilitators: Diane Gossman and Dennis Blake
Date: Thurs., Oct 29, 2:30pm-3:00pm
Location: Dahl Centennial Union – Borlaug

Desktop Messaging is a service which allows faculty and staff the opportunity to retrieve Voice Mail messages via e-mail from your office or while away from your office. This demonstration will show you the features of Desktop Messaging.

Facilitators: Diane Gossman and Dennis Blake
Date: Thurs., Oct 29, 2:30pm-3:00pm
Location: Dahl Centennial Union – Borlaug

Desktop Messaging is a service which allows faculty and staff the opportunity to retrieve Voice Mail messages via e-mail from your office or while away from your office. This demonstration will show you the features of Desktop Messaging.

Facilitator: Diane Gossman
Location: Borlaug – Dahl Centennial Union

Atomic Learning delivers a library of short, easy-to-view-and-understand tutorial movies that can be used as an integral part of a professional development program, a valuable curriculum supplement and an anytime/anywhere software training resource. The collection answers common questions people have when learning and using software. It includes more than 35,000 individual tutorial movies, which cover more than 100 software applications.

An introduction to finding library resources using the new LIS research website, with a look at Encore.

A demonstration of selections from the Fine Arts Collection.

Session requested by: Jane Kemp and Germano Streese
Facilitated by: Jane Kemp and David Kamm

If you would like to request a library instruction session please contact the library liaison for your department. Library liaison information can be found by choosing your Area of Study from the drop-down box at http://lis.luther.edu/research.

Facilitator: John Goodin
Location: Borlaug – Dahl Centennial Union

During the Summer of 2008 LIS replaced the old library website with our new Library Research site which has both a new look and new capabilities.

This session will introduce and explain the connections between the library catalog (Magnus), our new discovery tool (Encore) and our new federated database search engine (Research Pro) while looking at some of the new research possibilities that they offer.

We will also take a quick look at some of the discipline-specific webpages that the librarians are developing and othe

INTRODUCTION

LIS is implementing Google Apps for Education at Luther under the name Norse Apps. This online productivity suite includes Luther-branded versions of Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Talk, Google Documents, Google Sites, and iGoogle (Google Start Page).

Implementation is beginning Spring 2008 and will complete by Summer 2009.
LIS will provide a "show-and-tell" of Norse Apps. All faculty, staff, and students are welcome to attend. For more information on Norse Apps, see http://helpdesk.luther.edu/go/norseapps.

INTRODUCTION

Windows Vista is the latest version of Microsoft’s operating system, after Windows XP.Windows Vista upgrades will be gradually phased in during normal computer replacement cycles. Windows Vista will replace Windows XP on your next computer. See http://helpdesk.luther.edu/go/vista for more information.

DEMONSTRATION

This demonstration includes the following:

• The new Windows Aero interface
• Navigating Windows Vista
• Searching

INTRODUCTION

LIS is implementing Google Apps for Education at Luther under the name Norse Apps. This online productivity suite includes Luther-branded versions of Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Talk, Google Documents, Google Sites, and iGoogle (Google Start Page).

Implementation is beginning Spring 2008 and will complete by Summer 2009.
LIS will provide a "show-and-tell" of Norse Apps. All faculty, staff, and students are welcome to attend. For more information on Norse Apps, see http://helpdesk.luther.edu/go/norseapps.

INTRODUCTION

Office 2007 is the latest version of Microsoft's Office suite of products for the PC, which consists of a number of productivity applications. The most popular applications in the Office suites are Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access. Microsoft Office 2007 upgrades will be gradually phased in during normal computer replacement cycles. Office 2007 will replace Office 2000 on your next computer. See http://helpdesk.luther.edu/go/office for more information.