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365557: Re: Any UK schools sued following allergic reactio (Suzan Stranger)
360995: Re: Business Card conventions (Alan Reynolds)
363250: Re: Excel alternatives (Séamus Gilna)
365562: Re: Excel alternatives (Suzan Stranger)
362555: Re: Online/offline readers of news/newspapers (Lari Law)
364834: Internet Resources Newsletter - Latest Issue (Roddy MacLeod)
365490: Latest Additions to FreePint Events (Janice@FreePint)
366085: Information industry itself (Chris Finch)
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[365557] Re: Any UK schools sued following allergic reactio
http://www.freepint.com/go/b365557
| Author: | Suzan Stranger |
| Date: | 28/08/2008 02:19 pm |
| Category: | Information Issues |
| Reply To: | (#359203) Re: Any UK schools sued following allergic reactio |
| Author: | Emma Farmer |
| Date: | 20/08/2008 06:11 pm |
I don't have any information regarding this, but my son carried an Epipen from the age of 12 following a bad reaction to a wasp sting. While the nurse at the school held it for him, he was taught to use it himself and would have been expected to do so if required.
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[360995] Re: Business Card conventions
http://www.freepint.com/go/b360995
| Author: | Alan Reynolds |
| Date: | 22/08/2008 04:43 pm |
| Category: | Communications and Publishing |
| Reply To: | (#358440) Business Card conventions |
| Author: | Donna |
| Date: | 19/08/2008 04:38 pm |
Donna
I would not lose too much sleep on the theory of this. Rather, what is the intended purpose of the holder's card? Is it to convey to the recipient his/her position in the hierarchy (e.g. Director, hall porter), his/her profession (e.g. librarian, lawyer, accountant) or what? Be clear about that. As to other details, e-mail, direct phone, organisation phone, mobile/cellphone, organisation website are likely ones. Qalifications need be mentioned only if they are likely to mean something to the recipient.
In my experience (and I have a huge collection of cards received), layout is not important. Your organisation may well have a house style which this person should follow though, to show he/she is part of that organisation.
Alan
www.alanreynolds.com
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[363250] Re: Excel alternatives
http://www.freepint.com/go/b363250
| Author: | Séamus Gilna |
| Date: | 25/08/2008 11:03 am |
| Category: | Computers and Software |
| Reply To: | (#359862) Excel alternatives |
| Author: | Jenny Godfrey |
| Date: | 21/08/2008 10:22 am |
Open source software may be a viable alternative in this instance, and one that certainly gets my vote for ease of use is Openoffice which can be found at:
http://why.openoffice.org/
The Openoffice software suite is comparable to say Microsoft office in that it contains applications equivalent to Word Document, Powerpoint, Excel, also a has a graphics programme and a database creator.
As they say on their website:
"...and if you already have files from another office package - OpenOffice.org 2 will probably read them with no difficulty."
The Openoffice sofware suite can be downloaded for free from:
http://download.openoffice.org/
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[365562] Re: Excel alternatives
http://www.freepint.com/go/b365562
| Author: | Suzan Stranger |
| Date: | 28/08/2008 02:28 pm |
| Category: | Computers and Software |
| Reply To: | (#359862) Excel alternatives |
| Author: | Jenny Godfrey |
| Date: | 21/08/2008 10:22 am |
I don't know how much data is involved or what use you have to make of it, but I'm all for 'uncomplicated' solutions - why not try a Word table? They are quite versatile, can perform caclulations and can be used for merge functions; and I believe, you can transfer data to and from Access or Excel. Might be better that trying to go for something completely new.
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[362555] Re: Online/offline readers of news/newspapers
http://www.freepint.com/go/b362555
| Author: | Lari Law |
| Date: | 24/08/2008 04:07 pm |
| Category: | None selected ... |
| Reply To: | (#360135) Online/offline readers of news/newspapers |
| Author: | Joe |
| Date: | 21/08/2008 04:51 pm |
I guess a reasonable starting point might be to look at how long people spend each day reading different newsapapers on:
http://www.nrs.co.uk/time_spent_reading/time_spent_reading
Given some of the time frames involved, it seems extremely unlikely that anyone actually reads a paper from cover to cover, unless they've managed to cultivate an extremely fast reading speed!
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[364834] Internet Resources Newsletter - Latest Issue
http://www.freepint.com/go/b364834
| Author: | Roddy MacLeod |
| Date: | 27/08/2008 12:18 pm |
| Category: | Information Issues |
The latest edition of the FREE monthly newsletter for academics, students and researchers is now available at:
http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn165/irn165.html
No subscription or registration is needed to access this full-text newsletter at the above site.
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About 100 new and notable websites: new services, ejournals, directories,
search engines, publishers, government sites, eResources, booksellers, calls for papers, software,
news services, conferences, research groups, plus anything else of interest, etc, etc.
Nice Web Site(s):
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Selected interesting blogs, RSS feeds and related news items
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Published by Heriot-Watt University Library, and edited by Roddy MacLeod (R.A.MacLeod@hw.ac.uk), Catherine Ure and Marion Kennedy
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[365490] Latest Additions to FreePint Events
http://www.freepint.com/go/b365490
| Author: | Janice@FreePint |
| Date: | 28/08/2008 11:15 am |
| Category: | FreePint |
Hi
Here are the latest additions to FreePint Events at
http://www.freepint.com/events/
For promotion of your information-related event, simply
complete the free listing form at the above address.
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Best regards
Janice
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Title: Flag and Bell Networking Event for Information Professionals
URL: http://www.freepint.com/go/e1611
Dates: 2nd September 2008 - 2nd September 2008
Organiser: Trexy.com
Location: London
Country: United Kingdom
Added: 14th August 2008
Title: Library of Congress subject headings
URL: http://www.freepint.com/go/e1614
Dates: 15th October 2008 - 15th October 2008
Organiser: Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals
Location: London
Country: United Kingdom
Added: 15th August 2008
Title: Finding and understanding company information
URL: http://www.freepint.com/go/e1612
Dates: 2nd October 2008 - 2nd October 2008
Organiser: Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals
Location: London
Country: United Kingdom
Added: 15th August 2008
Title: Making the most of PubMed / Medline
URL: http://www.freepint.com/go/e1613
Dates: 8th October 2008 - 8th October 2008
Organiser: Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals
Location: London
Country:
Added: 15th August 2008
Title: Handling enquiries
URL: http://www.freepint.com/go/e1615
Dates: 23rd October 2008 - 23rd October 2008
Organiser: Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals
Location: London
Country: United Kingdom
Added: 15th August 2008
Title: An Introduction to Chemical Information
URL: http://www.freepint.com/go/e1618
Dates: 29th October 2008 - 29th October 2008
Organiser: Chemical Structure Association Trust/Royal Society of Chemistry
Chemical Information and Computer Applications Group
Location: London
Country: United Kingdom
Added: 18th August 2008
Title: Tenth International Conference on Grey Literature
URL: http://www.freepint.com/go/e1624
Dates: 8th December 2008 - 9th December 2008
Organiser: TextRelease
Location: Amsterdam
Country: Netherlands
Added: 25th August 2008
Title: Help! No One's Using Our Site!
URL: http://www.freepint.com/go/e1629
Dates: 2nd September 2008 - 2nd September 2008
Organiser: Talance, Inc.
Location: Online
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Added: 26th August 2008
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[366085] Information industry itself
http://www.freepint.com/go/b366085
| Author: | Chris Finch |
| Date: | 29/08/2008 10:14 am |
| Category: | Company, Industry, Country and Product Research |
All
Does anyone know if there's a report out there that talks about the growth of the information provision industry over the past ten year ?. I'm looking for something that evaluates the major players (Bloomberg, Reuters etc) as well as the smaller ones.
Any suggestions gratefully received !!!
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