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Life with Pi: Microcomputing in Academia

December 9, 2013 by Allie 1 Comment

Last Friday, I co-led a presentation on single-board computers at the 2013 CUNY IT Conference. Since it was a very well-attended session (where we had great discussions with the attendees), I thought I’d provide a brief recap and link to the presentation material. Life with Pi: Microcomputing in Academia Introduction to single-board computers Allie Verbovetskaya, … [Read more…]

Posted in: Research Tagged: Arduino, BeagleBone, conference, microcomputers, microcomputing, presentation, Raspberry Pi, single-board computers

Using Adobe Digital Editions on an Ubuntu desktop

November 17, 2013 by Allie Leave a Comment

I recently purchased a new laptop and installed the Ubuntu OS on it. However, in my excitement to install a UNIX-like working environment, I forgot that some software works only with the two major operating systems (i.e., Windows and Mac). Namely, I needed to install Adobe Digital Editions on my new machine and panicked briefly … [Read more…]

Posted in: General Tagged: ADE, Adobe, Adobe Digital Editions, Digital Editions, e-readers, Nook, Ubuntu, Wine, Winetricks

Linking to Aleph OPAC and search results

October 28, 2013 by Allie Leave a Comment

Update: This post was updated in August 2014 to reflect the new URL for the CUNY Catalog. Linking to the Aleph OPAC is easy. Linking to a specific search is… well, it’s not as easy and it requires some practice. I’ll explain how to do them both. Linking to the Aleph OPAC I don’t know … [Read more…]

Posted in: ILS Tagged: Aleph, CCL, link, OPAC, search
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Photo of Alevtina VerbovetskayaAlevtina Verbovetskaya is the Web & Mobile Systems Librarian in the Office of Library Services at the City University of New York.

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