The Informer is a publication of Information and Instructional Technologies and the Libraries of St. Olaf College. Story headlines and abstracts are below. Click on the title for more information. This e-newsletter can also be viewed online at http://www.stolaf.edu/services/iit/newsletter/12-05/

Safe Online Holiday Shopping

Shopping online for the holidays (or anytime): Twelve Tips to Protect Yourself from Cyber Grinches, Scams and Schemes

St. Olaf and Carleton Libraries Go Live With Find It!

Find It! saves you the extra work of manually searching for an article after finding a citation for it in a database. The result is a faster, more powerful, and less frustrating research experience!

Web Launch of IDEAS, an Image Database to Enhance Asian Studies

The Image Database to Enhance Asian Studies (IDEAS) has successfully unified digitizing efforts already in progress at four ACM/GLCA campuses into a shared searchable database, making it the first multi-institutional, interdisciplinary, pan-Asian searchable database in the country.

St. Olaf Libraries Implements ILLiad Interlibrary Loan Software

ILLiad is designed to streamline and keep you informed of your interlibrary loan requests.

New Library Staff

Meet Inga Velde and Marcus Richter.