TIFF standard

Brightness 100/128
Contras 128/132
TIFF 4bit
Compr. Factor 95

Photoshop woes

V.12.0.4 x32

Patron error messages

• Could not open file because the TIFF file uses an unsupported colour space;
• Cannot create indexed image without colour map.

Advise that it is a bug in older version Photoshop CS2 v.9.0.1 and fix is found in v.9.0.2 see Adobe website for further information. Or try opening file in MS Paint/Irfan view application.

Cool resources from year 2011

1. The latest list of additional newspapers now available on Trove.

Http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/titles

2. Melbourne Cup questions remember Gerry's guide
Http://guides.slv.vic.gov.au/melbournecup

3. SLNSW has developed a great multilingual page of common library phrases. Includes phrases such as ' Don't leave your belongings unattended' and 'change machine'.
Http://www2.sl.nsw.gov.au/multicultural/glossary/?lang=13&phrasestring=ADDRESS

4. Step by step guide has been added to Olga's Picture Research guide.  Access it from the top box under the 'Copies &permissions' tab.
Http://guides.slv.vic.gov.au/content.php?pid=184713&sid=1604878

5. German libraries.
Http://ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de/kvk_en.html

6. SLV wifi
Https://slvwifi.slv.vic.gov.au

Where is the Collection Point desk?

Here you can:

• Make cash payments;
• Top up your photocopy card;
• Place order for AAA or stack items with no barcode.

Where is La Trobe Reading Room?

Follow these photographs and you should be able to find your way to La Trobe Reading Room.

November 2010. One more month until December.

A team of people and I have signed up as mentors for our own respective team. We are now part of Technology Toolbox program. Where three gadgets are made available to staff and staff are encourage to play with them. Management hopes that all FOH staff would get familiar with these gadgets and in near future be able to assist patrons. Not so much as to educate patron, but how to use such gadget to navigate around out library and access SLV collection materials.

My first priority to get use the pro and cons, its internal system, and websites which supplies goods to view on Kindle. So far...

Kindle apps:
Every Word (free)
Shuffled Row (free)
Mine sweep (free)
Panda poet (USD 2.99)
Triple Town for Kindle (USD 2.99)

Kindle support file with these extensions:
.azw
.txt
.pdf
.mobi
.prc


Free ebooks can be found on these websites and some of them allow you to download in Kindle format (*.azw):

(my fave) http://manybooks.net/
(membership required) http://www.free-ebooks.net/
(best free tech books) http://www.archive.org/details.php?identifier=texts
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

October hints on how to get to particular collections in SLV's catalogue

3 newly added and 1 refurbished Collections.


[1] Research guides found under research tools on library web. 
Http://guides.slv.vic.gov.au


[2] Keyword: War posters


[3] Limit: Online resources and Keyword: "Sketchbook for Lindsay Cobb"


[4] Keyword: "Rennie Ellis collection"