In these strange times our fantastic public libraries are closed and so I had no access to my usual light reading. So, I ordered a Kobo Clara HD online. The Kobo itself is very easy to set up – turn it on and follow the screens. During set up, you will be asked to put in […]
Technology
Display parameters on a Microsoft Access report
Recently I wanted to create a report in Microsoft Access that would display my query search (say, at the top of the report) and who was generating the report (say, the user logon in the footer). I discovered that there were two parts to this issue: 1) insert textboxes during the report design; 2) for […]
Open source bibliographic reference management
Recently I’ve been looking around the internet for bibliographic database software (for Windows). Years ago I used a great program called Papyrus which was fantastic (and now free if you want it) and which I can still get to work in a DOS/ Command window. But this really isn’t terribly practical anymore. Yes, there are […]
Using Word for your bibliography
There’s a lot on the internet about reference management that are used to gather references and to create a bibliography in your paper or dissertation. Endnote, Zotero and others have their defenders and detractors, but many don’t know that Microsoft Word contains a bibliographic manager. There is a good explanation and simple instructions about how […]
How to format your thesis – don’t revinent the wheel
Are you setting up to write your thesis in Microsoft Word? There’s no need to struggle alone. There are plenty of resources available online – try Googling for Word templates, stylesheets etc. It is worth spending some time now on getting your file right. Your department or university might have a fixed style or perhaps […]
Planning an imaging project
Some years ago I researched and wrote a report for the National Museum of Ireland advising on best practice for digitising a photographic 35mm slide collection of significant importance. Obviously as technology and knowledge moves forward all the time, much of the information I gathered at the time is out-of-date now. However, in my report […]
Digital JCHAS Project now complete
I have just completed a major digitisation project – the complete run of the Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society from 1892 to 2007 – 115 volumes in all. The journal proper consists of over 22,000 pages with over 3,000 pages of additional material as well. A table of contents database had to be […]
High quality images are a must
Whether you are publishing your own manuscript or preparing a manuscript for publication elsewhere, you are usually asked to supply an image or two. Whatever you might feel (and believe me, sometimes there’s a sensitivity about this) images MUST be 300 dpi or higher. Not only do these images look a lot better, often the […]
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