Topic: Information

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Checking Your Credit History Online

Thwarting Identity Theft

Constructing Your Family History

How do you start collecting family history information? Once you find long lost cousins, horse thieves, kings and noblewomen in your ancestry, how do you keep track of all the details? What sources of information are available locally and on the Internet to assist in your research? We’ll discuss the answers to these questions and more in this session.

Using the Web to Answer Anything

Bibliography of interesting personal and professional sites.

Take Back Your PC from Pop-ups, Hijackers & Virus Attacks

Learn how to safeguard your computer from Internet transmitted malicious software, which if undetected and not removed can cause a host of escalating problems, including excessive pop-up ads, hijacking of your browser’s homepage, and general slowdown and unresponsiveness. We will show you how to check for and remove these threats with commonly available free and shareware type software programs.

New Features for Outlook Web Access

This document includes a list of new features available when using Outlook Web Access (OWA)

Online Photo Printing and Book Publishing Sites

Links and information on sites that handle online photo publishing and book publishing.

The Tao of Twelve Steps to research success on the Internet

The Tao = the Way and academic inquiry leads the inquirer on a research journey. Where do you start? Where are you going? How will you know when you get there? How will you know the end? This is a "no nonsense" presentation with a mission: to take the "overwhelmed" out of limitless resources available to the online researcher. We’ll share search methods, resources and results with each other. Attendees will gain information on the process of online research in an academic setting. Databases will be covered lightly while “open resources” on the Internet will get a more in-depth approach. Focus is on research techniques; finding resources; tracking research; and how to apply academic research standards to achieve precise, "clean" results.

What Is an Institutional Repository and Why Do We Need One?

Institutions of higher education have long been the centers of research and scholarship in our society, but how does an institution preserve and enable access to the wide range of scholarly and professional works created by faculty? The University of Kansas' Digital Initiatives program first offered an institutional repository called KU ScholarWorks in early 2005. This institutional repository makes important research available to a wider audience and helps assure its long-term preservation. This program will talk about the institutionally repository movement in higher education and KU's decision to provide KU Scholarworks. Topics will touch on technology issues (the decision to support open source versus a commercial product, OAI Harvesting, persistent URL's, preservation issues), factors that contribute to a successful repository service (working with faculty to promote use of the repository, creator responsibilities, faculty involvement), and potential differences in the scope and scale of repositories for Universities, colleges, and 2-year schools.

JCCC's Copyright Policy and Guidelines

College employees are required to comply with all laws and college policies and procedures governing the use of intellectual property. Procedures regarding the use of intellectual property may be found online.

How Not to Act Like a Dweeb in Second Life