Proquest’s Ebook Central platform offers a large number of books for our community, but they’re not the easiest to use. Here’s a brief summary of how you can download e-books from this platform, and how to mitigate some of the most painful limitations of single-user (non-downloadable) titles.
Author: Guillaume Pasquier
Digital librarian in charge of ebooks, research data, social media... and board games.
Using metadata (and Adobe Bridge) to manage a photograph collection
Researchers in the humanities often take a large number of pictures during their work: places, people, but also archival documents as a quick scanning replacement. This leads to very large picture collections that can be slightly overwhelming. Here are some tips from Guillaume Pasquier to help you sort through all these files using the embedded file metadata.
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Words and pictures : graphic novels at the Institute
Before building a small game collection, the Library also experimented with graphic novels. Here’s a short history and some details on what it’s all about.
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Where should you share your research data?
Multiple repositories are available to host your research data once your project is complete. Let’s look at some of the options with Guillaume Pasquier, our research data specialist. Continue reading “Where should you share your research data?”
On printing, scanning, and saving paper
Did you know we filled the library printers with 550’000 sheets of A4 paper in 2017? That’s up from 450’000 in 2016, and, well, it’s probably way too much. What can be done about this?
