June's webolution

I visited Newseums Today's Front Page and looked in the African Region because I wanted to read about how the elections went in Guinea and as it turns out there are only 3 papers represented for all of Africa. I was kind of disappointed to see this, but aside from that it does seem like a good way to get a glimpse of what's going on in the world because a lot of people desire to be knowledgeable about what is going on in the world, but just don't have the time and with this resource they can get a quick view of what's shakin.

New Catalog

I very much like our new catalog and think that in most respects it's better than our current catalog. I enjoy the ideas for other items that are similar to the one that I'm searching because if I am just looking for something to read or if I'm researching something then it gives other items that I could use, but didn't know to look for. One thing that I didn't like was that it appears like everything has to be spelled perfectly or it won't bring up any hits. I like that with our current catalog it shows where your title or author would fit in so that you can link to what you actually want.
All in all I think the new catalog is far superior to the current one.

Learn-a-test

I like that we have learn a test on our website. I have used it in the past to prepare for the GRE and I used it just now to test my writing skills. I think that it's easy to use and give you an idea of what areas need to be worked on.
Learn-a-test can also be accessed by going to literacy and then it's the top resource on the left hand side.
Karen and I were at a booth at Mesa State College to promote higher education among underrepresented populations and I told several students about this because they can use it to prepare for the SAT and ACT. I often tell some of the literacy students about it as well so that they can prepare for the citizenship classes.

ebooks

well I had no problems with this at all. The download went smoothly and I checked out how to mess around with the adobe digital and it all seems really easy. The only thing about it that wasn't obvious is that I couldn't tell how to select a book for a while but it was because someone already had it checked out.
It just seems that since it's on the computer that there would be endless amounts of the books but it looks like that isn't the case. All well.
I don't plan on using this in the future. Call me old fashion but there is just something about books that I think is appealing, plus after a while computers hurt my eyes and I feel like e readers would be the same way. I know, I know, never say never but I can say that I won't be using it in the foreseeable future.