Library Hi Tech: Volume 21 Issue 4

Mental models for personal digital assistants (PDAs)

Michael Seadle

PDAs (personal digital assistants) have evolved from toys for geeks into tools with real potential for professionals. This editorial examines mental models about PDAs in order to…

Redesigning library applications for PDAs: ILS vendor perspective

John McCullough

One of the barometers of the level of demand placed on libraries to evolve their services is the rate at which the library automation vendors release enhancements, new features…

PDAs and health sciences libraries

Thomas A. Peters, Josephine Dorsch, Lori Bell, Peg Burnette

The article explores the issues and opportunities for health sciences libraries surrounding the use of personal digital assistants (PDAs) by healthcare professionals. Six general…

Supporting PDAs: the experience of a health sciences library

Julie A. Garrison, Tiffany L. Anderson, Marlyse H. MacDonald, Connie M. Schardt, Patricia L. Thibodeau

This paper discusses the Duke University Medical Center Library’s experience in supporting the use of mobile technology. Over the past several years, the library contributed to…

Hand‐held computers in the classroom and the library: teaching and learning resource issues resulting from widespread deployment at the University of Minnesota Duluth

Linda Deneen, James Allert

The University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD) began requiring all incoming freshmen in computer science and engineering disciplines to purchase hand‐held computers in the Fall of 2001…

Improving your productivity with a PDA: some suggestions

Laura C. Larsson

PDAs (personal digital assistants) are companion tools that enable us to be more productive. Any device or applications that enable us to find, organize, use, and cope with too…

Unicode: support for multiple languages at the Ohio State University Libraries

Laura Tull, Dona Straley

Unicode is a standard for a universal character set for all of the scripts of the world’s languages It is one of the fundamental technological building blocks for international…

Economic impact of the Internet: study of cybercafés in Gaborone, Botswana

Tomas Mauta Sairosse, Stephen M. Mutula

This paper discusses the findings of a study that was carried out to determine the economic impact of cybercafés in Gaborone, Botswana. The research design was a survey. The…

Web accessibility validation and repair: which tool and why?

Laura O’Grady, Laurie Harrison

The Internet may seem accessible to those using standard equipment such as a monitor, keyboard, and mouse, but in reality many who are using non‐standard devices or software to…

Reinventing Unix: an introduction to the Plan 9 operating system

Brian Hancock

Plan 9 is based on three basic principles: all objects are either files or file systems, communication is over a network, and private namespaces allow their owners to access local…

Going Live: Starting and Running a Virtual Reference Service

Elizabeth J. Bollinger