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- Check out the library's new leisure reading newsletter! 11 March 22:08
- funny cartoon about books 09 March 22:54
- New technologies have affected reading habits 07 March 23:35
Petroleum Institute Arzanah & Habshan Libraries Have you heard of a vook? It's a hybrid electronic book with imbedded video!
Hybrid Books From Publishers Like Simon and Schuster Add Video and Web Features to Reading - NYTimes
Source: www.nytimes.com
Publishers are looking to “vooks,” which intersperse videos in electronic text that can be read and viewed online.
Petroleum Institute Arzanah & Habshan Libraries Do you use email much anymore or do you prefer texting, twittering and facebooking?
Source: online.wsj.com
Email is being supplanted by other kinds of communications. Here's why—and what it means for the ways we communicate.
Petroleum Institute Arzanah & Habshan Libraries Could Facebook die? This is an interesting article and it raises the issue of saving important data exclusively online.
Source: www.theglobeandmail.com
Please check your email for a message from the Globe and Mail online with the subject line "Globe and Mail Member Information Request".
Petroleum Institute Arzanah & Habshan Libraries Have you tried Microsoft's new Bing search engine?
Source: www.hitwise.com
New York, N.Y., Sept. 23, 2009 — Experian® Hitwise® announced today that Google accounted for 70.24 percent of all U.S. searches conducted in the four weeks ending Aug. 29, 2009. Yahoo! Search, Bing and Ask.com received 16.96 percent, 9.48 percent and 2.37 percent, respectively. ...
Petroleum Institute Arzanah & Habshan Libraries E-books sales in the U.S. reached $16.2 million, reflecting a 213.5 percent increase for July, and a 173.9 percent increase year to-date!
Source: www.publishers.org
New York, NY, September 23, 2009— Book sales tracked by the Association of American Publishers (AAP) for the month of July increased by 2.0 percent at $1.54 billion and were up by 1.9 percent for the year.
Petroleum Institute Arzanah & Habshan Libraries How does multi-tasking affect you at school and work?
Source: spectrum.ieee.org
Information, the very thing that makes it possible to be an engineer, a doctor, a lawyer, or any other kind of modern information worker, is threatening our ability to do our work. How's that for irony?
Petroleum Institute Arzanah & Habshan Libraries What do you think about people being able to eat and drink in libraries?
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
With six food stores opening inside Egypt's Bibliotheca Alexandrina, campaigners fear consumerism is taking priority
Petroleum Institute Arzanah & Habshan Libraries Check out the library's short, informative tutorials in YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/PIlibrary. Stay tune for more...
Source: www.youtube.com
Share your videos with friends, family, and the world
Petroleum Institute Arzanah & Habshan Libraries 65 million people use Facebook on mobiles. Do you?
Source: blog.facebook.com
Even when you're away from your desktop, we want you to be able to share and connect with those that matter to you on Facebook. We had that goal in mind when we launched Facebook Mobile in 2006...
Petroleum Institute Arzanah & Habshan Libraries The Internet celebrates an important birthday!
Source: www.pcworld.com
Computer science professor says he could predict what the Internet's infrastructure will look like years from now -- but there's no way to tell what people will be doing with it.
Petroleum Institute Arzanah & Habshan Libraries Here is a fun leisure reading story about Abu Dhabi's annual camel beauty contest. It's also in the print issue of the August 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine.
Source: ngm.nationalgeographic.com
From across the vast and parched Arabian Peninsula, camels converge on Abu Dhabi for an annual beauty contest. Here the traditional beast of burden becomes a pampered show animal.
Petroleum Institute Arzanah & Habshan Libraries The library updated its first tutorial about finding the online catalog. Stay tuned for forthcoming short videos. We'd like your suggestions for other tutorials.
Petroleum Institute Arzanah & Habshan Libraries Good luck to all the students with your final exams and congratulations to those who are graduating! Check out the library's new tutorial about how to use the online catalog at http://tinyurl.com/opho9y.
Source: tinyurl.com
A short tutorial about how to access the PI Library's online catalog called the HIP (Horizon Internet Portal). Time will be spent showing how to do a basic and advanced search. A book's record will be shown showing its different areas (author, title, subject, call number, location, etc,).
