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Today the Alumni office is sending the following message to Alumni in Decorah that use Luther email forwarding. Next week the Alumni office will send it to all Alumni that currently use Luther email forwarding.

Greetings from Luther College!

Luther College has partnered with Google to create a new suite of services called Norse Apps. In addition to e-mail service, Norse Apps includes Norse Docs, Norse Chat, Norse Calendar, Norse Sites, and the Norse Start Page.

I recently attended a conference called InfoComm 08 during the week of June 18th. The conference is geared towards A/V and Classroom Technologies. Over 350 courses are offered during the show that range from audio, video, projection systems, room design, AV-IT, to digital signage. I attended the Extron Institute School of A/V Technologies for Higher Education at which I was exposed to all new Extron products and a short course on AV and IT merging technologies.

10 new Sharp PG-F310X 3000 lumen projectors have been installed in current Luther College Multi-Media Classrooms.

This is part of our yearly maintenance efforts to keep the Classroom Technology current and effective.

Rooms with New projectors in 2008;

Main 111
Main 212
Valders 106
RTR
Olin 106
Olin 108
Olin 201
Olin 208
Olin 209
Olin 213

The projectors that were replaced will be moved to less critical rooms, auctioned or retired to spectrum according to their age and picture quality.

The projector specifications can be found at;

Academic Technology is placing 7 new camcorders in service at our Library Circulation Desk for checkout, 6 of them are the Canon FS10 and 1 is a Canon VIXIA HF 10. All of them use removable 16GB SDHC (Secure Digital High Capacity) flash memory cards. They are all digital with the VIXIA also being High Definition. We have also purchased memory card readers for the removable SDHC cards for ease of removing your pictures and movies without the need of the camcorder itself. Some of these camcorders are at the Circ Desk now for check out.

Greetings from Asuncion, Paraguay!

The Latin American Theological Information Network (Red Latinoamericana de Informacion Teologica) is having its 7th Bi-annual meeting in this historical city of South America, July 14-18. Librarians and library workers from several theological institutions with different theological backgrounds are here to share and learn together. We have people from Argentina, Paraguay, Mexico, Cuba, Ecuador, and Brazil.

Innovative Interfaces announces:

EBSCO Publishing has announced the new EBSCOhost 2.0 interface will be unveiled this Wednesday, July 16. This new interface incorporates significant changes to the way EBSCOhost displays information.

As a consequence, the connectors that allow our Research Pro and Metafind customers to include EBSCO resources in their federated searches must be reconfigured. EBSCO resources may not be accessible through Research Pro or Metafind for a period of time as we upgrade the connectors to work with the new interface.

Campus Manager was upgraded today. All now appears to be functioning as it should after the upgrade.

Upcoming Dates

• July 14 (Monday) KATIE Workshop – 9:00 am
• July 21 (Monday) Windows Vista Demonstration – 11:00 am
• July 23 (Wednesday) LIS Summer Staff Day – 9:00 am
• July 28 (Monday) Norse Apps Demonstration – 11:00 am
• July 30 (Wednesday) Norse Mail, Chat, and Start Page Workshop – 9:00 am
• July 30 (Wednesday) Norse Calendar and Docs Workshop – 10:45 am
• More information on upcoming training opportunities: http://lis.luther.edu/learn

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