Week's End Report - Nov. 11th

Tip of the Week!

Looking for good supplemental information for your courses? Check out Ivy Tech's new Virtual Library!

To access the Virtual Library, log in to Blackboard and click on the Library tab. On the following page, click on the link for your home campus.

From your campus's home page you can do a search, locate user guides, ask a question of your regional Librarian, access Noodle Tools to generate source citations, and much more!

The Virtual Library is invaluable for research, providing us with access to thousands of books and journal articles, vetted links to educational websites, as well as thousands of images and videos. Here are some examples of resources available on the Virtual Library:

• Voices from the Days of Slavery - audio recordings of nearly 7 hours of interviews with former slaves from the American Folklife Center
• George Washington Papers - approximately 65,000 documents from the Manuscript Collection at the Library of Congress, this is the largest collection of original Washington documents in the world
• Invitation to World Literature - 13 video recordings aimed at helping viewers appreciate literary texts
• And much more!

But the Virtual Library isn't only good for research! There are lots of resources available for entertainment as well as education, including:

• Reel Time - an album from jazz musician Wynton Marsalis
• The House on Haunted Hill - a feature film starring Vincent Price
• Popeye for President - a classic Popeye cartoon
• And much more!

Systems Information

There will be a statewide Windows Update installation over fall break. A few things to remember for this update:

• When you leave for fall break please leave your college laptop and make sure that your laptop and/or PC are powered on (i.e. log off of your computer but do not shut it down)
• If you connect your laptop to the wireless network, please make sure your laptop is off of the wireless network, but connect it to your docking station
• If you take your laptop with you over the break, the next time your laptop connects to the network the update process will automatically begin
• Should your computer update process initiate while you're present, you will notice the computer reboot multiple times and the update is expected to take up to 30 minutes; please allow your computer to go through the full update cycle

The update is currently scheduled to begin Thursday, Nov. 24th and run through Sunday, Nov. 27th.