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Headline of the Week: Google+ Now Available for Norse Apps Users

What is Google+, you ask?

Google+ is a social media tool introduced by Google. It is not part of the core Google Apps for Education suite (i.e. Mail, Calendar, Docs, Groups, Sites), but has now been enabled for Luther College faculty, staff, and students. It is an opt-in service which means that it is not automatically activated on your account. If you want to use the service, you have to join first.

Headline of the Week: Parent access now available on my.luther.edu

Students can now grant permission to a parent to view the their financial and/or academic information via http://my.luther.edu.

Headline of the Week: Datatel Reporting Options and Future Development

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One of the benefits of moving the Datatel database from UniData to Microsoft SQL Server is that we will have many more reporting options. While it is great to have more options, it may also add to user confusion about where to find the information you need.

Headline of the Week: A Christmas Carol Revisited

If you like books, cake, and a little bit of the unexpected then be sure to mark your calendars and join us in Preus Library on Tuesday, February 7th, as LIS celebrates the 200th birthday of English author Charles Dickens. In case you didn’t realize it, Preus Library has a significant collection of Dickens works and related scholarship as he is often cited as one of England’s greatest authors (often mentioned as second only to Shakespeare).

Headline of the Week: Data Privacy Month for Higher Education

January is Data Privacy Month for Higher Education. Earlier this week, some from LIS participated in a webinar sponsored by EDUCAUSE launching this annual event. EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology.

As noted on the EDUCAUSE website,
__”For several years EDUCAUSE and the Higher Education Information Security Council have been promoting October as National Cyber Security Awareness Month.

Headline of the Week: Luther College Announces the Parent Portal

We are very excited to have the Parent Portal available soon for parents to assist their son or daughter with their financial responsibilities as well as to view grades and class schedule. We expect the Portal to be available by December 23.

What is the parent portal? A student can grant permission to a parent to view the student’s financial and/or academic information via http://my.luther.edu.

Headline of the Week: Reason Winter 2011 Hack/Doc Fest

Luther web programmers and web content coordinators from LIS and Publications attended the first Reason Content Management System Hack/Doc Fest on December 5th & 6th at Carleton College. Reason is an open source project and programmers from Luther College, Beloit College, and Carleton College were together to work on the software enhancements that were prioritized last July during the Reason conference at Luther College.

Headline of the Week: New Look for CSA/ProQuest Databases Arrives Dec. 21

Several databases provided by ProQuest will receive an update this holiday season. Databases included in this update are:

• BioOne
• Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
• New York Times, Historical (1852-2007)
• New York Times, Current
• Wall Street Journal, Current

Library guides will be updated with new links – users may want to double check and update any bookmarks to these sources after December 21.

The updates provide a cleaner, common search interface across all ProQuest databases.

Headline of the Week: 2011-2012 Staff Computer Rollout has Begun

LIS has begun meeting with administrative departments and scheduling computer upgrades.

Headline of the Week: Digital Signage on Campus

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Digital signage on campus is intended to keep the campus community more informed of what’s going on and to help tell the Luther story in a variety of ways. It is also part of Luther’s emergency response system.