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Daylight Savings Time and Your Computers

Submitted by palniadmin on Tue, 03/21/2006 - 4:42pm.

As we all know, all of Indiana is set to begin honoring Daylight Savings Time this year, on April 2. This may affect your PCs and computers. In most cases, your computer centers have probably already addressed the issue on your campuses.

However, just in case, here are some helpful tips from Butler University, courtesy of Lewis Miller, on how to be ready for the daylight savings time changeover. It includes a links to some web pages at Butler that describe in detail what both Windows and Mac users may need to do to get ready.

Daylight Saving Time and Your Computer

Background

Passed by the Indiana State Legislature last April, the State of Indiana has decided to start observing Daylight Saving Time along with 47 other states in the US starting this spring. Indianapolis and Marion County [and most of Indiana] will stay in the Eastern Standard Time Zone and will change to Daylight Saving Time in the Spring.

Daylight Saving Time begins at 2 a.m. the first Sunday in April, when clocks are advanced one hour, and ends at 2 a.m. the last Sunday in October, when clocks are turned back one hour.

PDAs

If you have a personal PDA (Treo, Palm, Blackberry, etc) that you sync with your calendar, special steps will be needed on March 22 BEFORE you sync the PDA with your Butler calendar. Please watch for further instructions.

Home Computers - FYI

Instructions on how to change your time zone for your home computer:

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"Libraries as Places to Linger and Mingle"

Submitted by palniadmin on Sun, 01/15/2006 - 9:06am.

From the Opinion Page of the Christian Science Monitor:

"The current vision of the digital library rests on a deeply flawed assumption: that the function of libraries is to connect solitary readers with isolated texts. If that were so, then we could easily replace our libraries with book scanners, search engines, and laptops. And if the shape of human knowledge really rests in the Dewey Decimal System, then, well, we are surely in trouble."

January 13, 2006
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Yahoo Digital Library Plans

Submitted by vince on Mon, 10/03/2005 - 5:59pm.

According to this USA Today article, Yahoo and the Open Content Alliance are about to create their own Digital Library, including digitized books and multimedia.

"Internet powerhouse Yahoo Inc. is setting out to build a vast online library of copyrighted books that pleases publishers — something that rival Google Inc. hasn't been able to achieve.

The Open Content Alliance, a project that Yahoo is backing with several other partners, plans to provide digital versions of books, academic papers, video and audio. Much of the material will consist of copyrighted material voluntarily submitted by publishers and authors . . ."

In addition to Yahoo, other partipants in the Open Content Alliance include Adobe Systems Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., the Internet Archive, O'Reilly Media Inc., the UK National Archives, the University of California, and the University of Toronto. The Alliance hopes to avoid the copyright issues that Google has encountered with its Google Print digital library initiative, and intends to make its content searchable and downloadable for free by anyone on the Internet.

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