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I very much appreciated the opportunity to attend a two day training session on Adobe InDesign in St. Paul on November 3-4. The training was conducted by Easel Training, an authorized Adobe training site. This particular session only had 5 attendees so we were fortunate recipients of much individualized attention.
Adobe InDesign is a component of the Adobe Creative Suite CS2, CS3 and CS4. As a part of this suite, InDesign is a "powerful design and production application that offers precision, control, and seamless integration with other Adobe professional graphics software" including Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, Acrobat and Bridge.
This course was a Level 1 course designed to introduce the user to the basics of this powerful program. InDesign is used to create brochures, magazines, signs, postcards, pamphlets, programs...the list of graphic/text production combinations is endless! We learned how to navigate through a document using the tools and navigator panels; how to start a new document,create, edit and apply multiple master pages, adjust pasteboard size and bleed areas, work with graphics and text areas within frames and bounding boxes on document pages, import text styles, thread text, create and use a baseline grid, and change various characteristics of text.
We also worked with the swatches color panel to create tints, spot colors, gradients and strokes. And, finally, we were introduced to the InDesign styles used with objects, characters, paragraphs and tables. We nested character styles inside paragraph styles and created style groups.
The course was a hands-on instruction with each lesson designed to illustrate one or more of the specific tools as mentioned above.
Overall, the course was well taught and very beneficial to a novice user! We were presented with a training workbook and DVD with specific exercises. Please feel free to borrow either or both of these if you are interested. Also, if anyone would like some one-on-one training or assistance with this program, I would be happy to help!
Tech Services has processed 1,471 volumes of gift textbooks for the Teaching Materials Collection. Many of the books are copyright 2008 or 2009. -- Deb
Our LibQUAL Survey has been completed.
Here are some stats from the LibQUAL Survey:
Participants by Category:
Undergrad: 1,121
Grad: 159
Faculty: 163
Staff: 142
Total: 1,585
Particpation by Date:
Oct. 1: 595
Oct. 2: 238
Oct. 3: 59
Oct. 4: 14
Oct. 5: 19
Oct. 6: 41
Oct. 7: 11
Oct. 8: 17
Oct. 9: 5
Oct. 10: 4
Oct. 11: 1
Oct. 12: 0
Oct. 13: 5
Oct. 14: 10
Oct. 15: 80
Oct. 16: 117
Oct. 17: 19
Oct. 18: 4
Oct. 19: 13
Oct. 20: 13
Oct. 21: 8
Oct. 22: 4
Oct. 23: 5
Oct. 24: 2
Oct. 25: 2
Oct. 26: 1
Oct. 27: 134
Oct. 28: 30
Oct. 29: 2
Oct. 30: 101
Oct. 31: 23
There are 483 comments collected in the survey.
ARC 2.0 was installed in mid-October. The current address is: http://libprd.oit.umn.edu:8081
The login ID and password remain the same.
Let me know if you need help.
Shixing Wen
Head of Technical Services
Coordinated by Deb, the Technical Services staff have finished cataloging and processing all the old backlog of High interest-Low vocabulary books.
Shixing Wen
Head of Technical Services
A new feature has been added to the monthly New Book List (http://www.d.umn.edu/lib/whatsnew/new/index.htm). Instead of copying the title and then pasting it to the OPAC in order to find out the availability of a new book, now people can click the title in the New Book List to retrieve the record in the OPAC. This new feature is made available due to the recent upgrade of ARC, which allows access to the Aleph Bib Sys Number.