Pew Internet & American Life Project: Demographics of Electronic Device Ownership…06.29.12

Google Chrome Story…06.29.12

Why Millennial Gen Y Will Be Running the Country by 2020…06.29.12

State of Social Media & Social Media Marketing in the Second Half of 2012…06.29.12

iPhone Turns 5 Years Old…06.29.12

Public Library Social Media, Marketing, Outreach Experience…06.28.12

Four Principles for the Open World – Collaboration, Transparency, Sharing & Empowerment…06.28.12

Introducing Google Now…06.28.12

Mobile and Social Technology in Libraries…06.28.12

Project Glass: Skydiving Demo at Google I/O 2012…06.27.12

Europeana Libraries: Bringing Content to the Researcher…06.27.12

Library Websites and SEO…06.27.12

Google Nexus Tablet Released…06.27.12

FREE from Google…06.27.12

Power Searching with Google…

a short course on becoming a great internet searcher

Google Search makes it amazingly easy to find information. Come learn about the powerful advanced tools we provide to help you find just the right information when the stakes are high.

Course Details

Power Searching with Google is a free online, community-based course showcasing search techniques and how to use them to solve real, everyday problems. It features:

• Six 50-minute classes.
• Interactive activities to practice new skills.
• Opportunities to connect with others using Google Groups, Google+, and Hangouts on Air.
• Upon passing the post-course assessment, a printable Certificate of Completion will be emailed to you.

Ready to get started?

• Registration is open from June 26, 2012 to July 16, 2012. We recommend that you register before the first class is released on July 10, 2012!
• New classes will become available Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday starting on July 10, 2012 and ending on July 19, 2012.
• Course-related activities will end on July 23, 2012.

Register

Emerging Library Commons…06.26.12

Partnerships: an Innovative Library Service Tool…06.26.12

Why the Internet is More Attractive Than the Library …06.26.12

ARTstor Digital Library…06.26.12

Libraries and Data Management…06.26.12

Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project: The Rise of E-Reading…06.26.12

How Teens in 2012 View Their Digital Life…06.26.12

Reinventing the Encyclopedia Game…06.26.12

Building an Engaged Audience…06.26.12

Nielsen Report: Watching Video Content on Online Just as Common as Watching on TV Among Online Consumers…06.26.12

The Road to Self-Publishing…06.26.12

Nikola Tesla in Sound and Light…06.25.12

Introduction to R. David Lankes’ “Expect More: Demanding Better Libraries For Today’s Complex World”…06.25.12

New Digital Data & Trends…06.25.12

The new European Library goes live!…06.25.12

A Journey to the Center of the Internet…06.25.12

“For all the talk of the placelessness of our digital age, the Internet is as fixed in real, physical places as any railroad or telephone system ever was. In basest terms, it is made of pulses of light. Those pulses might seem miraculous, but they’re not magic. They are produced by powerful lasers contained in steel boxes housed mainly in unmarked buildings. The lasers exist. The boxes exist. The buildings exist. The Internet has a physical reality, an essential infrastructure, a ‘hard bottom,’ as Henry David Thoreau said of Walden Pond. In undertaking this journey, I’ve tried to wash away the technological alluvium of contemporary life in order to see—fresh in the sunlight—the physical essence of our digital world.”

—from the Prologue

Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet