Archive of Early American Images

Highlighting a free link to the image collection at the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University.   This is a database of graphic representations of the colonial Americas, from Hudson Bay to Tierra del Fuego, drawn entirely from primary sources printed or created between 1492 and ca. 1825. Instructions:
The homepage at http://www.jcbl.org will instruct you to download a viewer from Lunar Imaging to your desktop.
Open the Lunar Imaging software and select John Carter Brown Library.
Username: jcbresearcher; password: researcher. Choose online resources in the left frame and choose the archive to begin your search.

Digital Services Lab Tech Tips #2: Ending A Task & Burning A Disc

The Digital Services Lab is proud to present our second in a series of tips, hints, and brief tutorials for using the Macintosh and Digitization Resources in Phillips Memorial Library. To view the other Tech Tips in this series click here. 

Mac’s version of CTRL-ALT-DEL (Ending a Task)
When using one of our iMac computers, the easiest way quit out of a frozen program is by simultaneously pressing the COMMAND (apple key)-OPTION-ESC keys.  A window will appear select the frozen application and then select Force Quit.

Force Quit can also be found under the Apple menu (top left-hand side of screen).

Easy CD OR DVD Burning on a Mac
Did you know you can burn a CD quickly by dragging your files onto the CD icon and then hitting burn?  Here’s how: