Year: 2010

A College Now student and I just checked to see if she’s got a $30 printing account (she does). We found out just by going to the printer together and logging in with her Baruch username and password.

New research available from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York includes the following report:

“The Recession’s Impact on the State Budgets of New York and New Jersey,” Richard Deitz, Andrew F. Haughwout, and Charles Steindel (June/July 2010)
JEL codes: H70, H71, H72

In the wake of the most recent U.S. recession, both New York State and New Jersey have faced multibillion-dollar budget gaps. An analysis of the makeup of their budgets reveals that the states’ heavy reliance on personal income taxes–particularly from high-wage earners in the finance sector–has exacerbated revenue shortfalls. To close their budget gaps, New York and New Jersey have had to make difficult choices about tax increases and service cuts. In the future, the states might take steps to avert such budget quandaries by establishing “rainy day” funds or restructuring taxes to make them less sensitive to the business cycle.
http://www.newyorkfed.org/research/current_issues/ci16-6.html

The Information Literacy Commons, which some of you may remember was presented at last year’s CUNY IT Conference by Jean-Jacques Strayer, Brian Lym and Lauren Yanotta of Hunter College, is now available for all to see and use.   What a great use of LibGuides! Here’s the link:

http://libguides.library.hunter.cuny.edu/ilc

If you would like to subscribe to a special RSS feed that combines both new blog posts here and the comments made on any post, you can now do so with this feed URL:

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=e2b40f3317ef97f22ba739a679c2acba&_render=rss

Just plug this URL into your feed reader of choice (mine is Google Reader) and you’ll be able to see new posts and comments as they come in.

As you can see from the URL, I used the Yahoo! Pipes service to create this combined feed.

Goodwill has recently launched a calculator which enables one to calculate the impact of one’s donation of clothing,  household goods, electronic equipment, etc. on providing services available to help people with training for employment, etc. Goodwill’s partner in the Donate Movement is Levi Strauss & Co.

I’ve noticed that there is a new version of the Internet Explorer tab for Firefox. This is helpful with guest logins, so you can print them out clearly. You will have to download the add-on and then add the guest login link to it for it to work. If anyone has trouble with it, I can show you how it works.

The American Assoc. of Law Libraries conference is going on right now in Denver.  If you are interested,  you can access the handouts here.  Also, the opening keynote address and two programs were streamed and can be viewed.  One is on copyright law and the other is on designing guides using Libguides, wiki authoring tools and Drupal.  Everything is on the same page.