Category Archives: tech tools

Customizing the LibGuides home page, version 2

Posted on December 4, 2009 by Laura

For the last several months, I’ve been trying to tweak our LibGuides home page – I wanted a collapsible menu that would allow users to view all the guides under a specific subject category. Better yet, if I could get … Continue reading →

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Using Google Spreadsheets to track instruction sessions

Posted on December 22, 2008 by Laura

Back in June, I wrote about Dabble DB, and that at my place of work, we were hoping to use it to keep track of instruction statistics. Things move slowly in academia, so it probably won’t surprise you to hear … Continue reading →

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Awesome tech discovery: DabbleDB

Posted on June 20, 2008 by Laura

I’d like to give a shout-out to DabbleDB. DabbleDB seems to be, essentially, a hosted database service. It’s more, though; it also provides you with an interface for tweaking your tables and data. It’s really, really wonderful, and easy to … Continue reading →

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