e-Book Guides to Technology

If you are using tech tools like BlackBerry or an iPad, or working with the Microsoft 2010 upgrade, you may be wishing for some handy guides.  Cornell has many e-books that you can find with a Guided Keyword Search in the online catalog.  Just search a phrase like “ipod touch” or “office 2010” and you’ll find lots of guides.  Most all of them will be e-books that you can link to directly from the catalog.  Here are some examples:

 

Click Here for link to Blackberry for Work

 

Click Here for link to Microsoft Word 2010 Step by Step

 

Click Here for link to iPad: The Missing Manual

 

Click Here for link to Easy Microsoft Windows 7

 

Your librarian liaison will be happy to assist with these in any way.  Just let us know!

 

Pat Court

Associate Law Librarian

pat.court@cornell.edu  

 

 

PassKey for easy access off campus to licensed e-resources

The library has a new way for you to connect to licensed electronic resources when you are off campus.  It’s called CUL PassKey, and here’s how it works –          

You’re working at home and come across a link to a recent article in, for example, the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies.  You could open the library catalog, search for Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, and then follow the link to the journal.  But there is a simpler way:  the CUL PassKey bookmarklet.  With PassKey installed on the bookmarks toolbar in your browser, all you have to do when looking at a licensed resource from off campus is click on the PassKey icon on your bookmark.  You will be prompted for your netid and password, and then will be reconnected to the full text of the desired content.

You will find PassKey and instructions for installing and using it here.  Hat tip to Peter Hirtle at CUL for this info.

 

Pat Court

Associate Law Librarian

pgc1@cornell.edu

 

 

Cornell Library Goes Mobile

In a move designed to make online information more accessible to library patrons, Cornell University Library (CUL) recently launched CULite, a new mobile interface for the library’s website. The Law Library is grateful to the mobile team that designed this feature for the benefit of all libraries on the Cornell campus, including ours.

Two alternatives are available to users: a device independent mobile site (http://library.cornell.edu/m) or an iPhone/iPod Touch app (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cu-library/id354721654?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D6) available free from iTunes. Both options allow users to search the Classic Catalog, check individual Library hours, locate contact information for each Library, submit a question to an individual reference desk, and more. Check out the promotional video on YouTube. Your research just became a little easier.

Amy Emerson
Research Attorney and Lecturer in Law
aae25@cornell.edu