This past summer we've been very fortunate to be able to acquire some new technology for our students and faculty to use. We've gotten a new multimedia computer with some fun add-ons and an electronic book device that offers portability of textual information.
CD-R/CD-RW drive: this little gadget allows one to copy or save large files of digital information that one would not be able to save on the usual floppy disk. Instead of the floppy disk, you can now save information on a CD very much like the CDs you use to play music on a stereo, or to provide information and installable programs on your computer. This could prove useful if you are creating large graphic files with our scanner and the updated Adobe Photoshop 5.0. The normal floppy disk will only accommodate 1.44 MB of information as compared with a CD-R or CD-RW that offers up to 750 MB of storage space.
Adobe Photoshop 5.0: this is an upgrade to the ever-popular graphics editor that we have installed on our new multimedia computer.
RocketBooks: We've been told that this would be inevitable and I guess time has born this out: print format is going the way of the 8-track tape. My guess is that print will never fully disappear, but what we see now is the beginning of easily portable digital books. That's what RocketBooks is and we have two new appliances ready for your use. We've been able to download a number of public domain titles from the Internet and might in the future download new texts for purchase.
We encourage you to come to the library if you're interested in checking into any of these new technologies. As always, we'll be happy to show you how best to use them
