The School's New Website!

Hi everyone,

We at the library have been really excited about the new website our college's Web Development Team has been creating. Today, David Overby, our college's Chief Information Officer, recently requested feedback about the new website. To help out, please read the following:

"To all MSCTC Students, Faculty and Staff:

Several months ago the College Web Committee and the Web Services Department made a commitment to build a new web site for MSCTC. The new site is not completely finished; however, we want to give you an opportunity to provide us with your feedback. More specifically, we need you to review the design, layout, and ease of navigation. We are still creating new content and updating older content for some areas of the new site, so please keep in mind that some areas are still "under review and development."

There are two ways in which you can provide us feedback. In the middle of every page on the new site, there is a link to a short survey where you can answer some questions related to the areas described above (Called We Want Your Feedback!). You can also send your comments to webcomments@minnesota.edu.

Our current plan is to "go live" with the new site on November 27. We'll continue to make changes/updates with your suggestions and feedback, and the site will be updated weekly.

To view the new site, there is a link at our current home page at www.minnesota.edu or you can click on this link: http://beta.minnesota.edu/changelog.php .

I want to give a special thanks to the Web Development Team (Joanna Sheridan, Justin Rovang, and Chris Kulish) for their hard work and dedication on this project.

Thank you,
Dave"

Holiday Recipes

With the approach of Halloween, we enter a period of frenzied cooking. You may make some old family favorites, or you may decide to be creative and make a new favorite. Here are some links to some recipe websites to help you out during the hectic entertaining season.

Betty Crocker
RecipeLink.com
Food Network
Kraft Kitchens

American Indian Heritage Month

The purpose of National American Indian Heritage Month in November is to honor and recognize the continuing contributions Native Americans make to this country. National American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month is celebrated to recognize the intertribal cultures and to educate the public about the heritage, history, art and traditions of the American Indian that is an important part of our history. Here are some links to get started:
NCAI
First Nations Site Index
Native Americans
Storytellers-Native American Authors/Wiki
Index of Native American Movie Resources

Art of Ex Libris

Here is a couple of sites devoted to Bookplates (A label identifying the owner of a book in which it is pasted) Confessions of a Bookplate junkie & Art of Ex Libris

World Freedom Atlas

Neat site: World Freedom Atlas

Is new technology a mystery to you?

Check it out, very funny..

Make Textbooks Affordable.com

Make Textbooks Affordable.com
Website for a national student campaign to reduce college textbook costs. Features a discussion of why textbooks are expensive (such as new editions and supplementary material), suggestions for finding cheaper books and saving money (such as buying or renting online), reports on topics such as publishers' pricing tactics, and links to news about legislative activity. A joint campaign of various student organizations throughout the U.S.
URL: http://www.maketextbooksaffordable.org/
From: Librarians' Internet Index

Exploring knots

In a library, we encounter plenty of knots. With all of those computer, phone, and power cords, it can become a downright snarl behind and under our desks. So, it was interesting to see that a study had been conducted to see how they form. To read more, visit The Science of Knots Unraveled by Jeanna Bryner.

Not a linguist?

If you need some quick help translating, check out Babelfish. You can type into the box, cut-and-paste, or just tell it to translate a whole page at once.