New Features in Tutor.com

With a new school year starting just days away, now is a good time to take a look at the new features that Tutor.com has recently added. The look of their page has changed, and with that many new features that customers have been asking for.
Now when a student needs math help they have access to graph paper to aid in their explanation to a tutor.
The Skills Center Resource Library offers videos, many sample work sheets, study guides and tutorials.
Proof Point is a new section that allows a student to have a document they have written reviewed by a live tutor for help with editing and grammar.
The Career Center is aimed at adults and young adults for help with career paths or changing careers.
When you are in your session there are now avatars in the upper left hand corner that represent the tutor and the student, and just like in Ask-a-Librarian, the avatar will have a moving keyboard displayed on them when one or the other party is responding, so you always know that your tutor is working on your problem.
Students can now e-mail a transcript of their session with their tutor to themselves to refer to and review at a later date.
And lastly there is now resume help and cover letter help in the Career Center section of the product.
Take a moment to review this database so when students begin to ask for help you will be prepared with answers and options!

New iPod and iPhone Compatible Audiobooks

Greetings all:

We have just loaded new records into Horizon for iPod and iPhone compatible audiobooks available from NetLibrary. One way to find the titles is to do a "quick search" of the catalog using the words ipod audiobook or iphone audiobook.
There are currently over 800 titles that are compatible in this way.

NetLibrary Media Center

NetLibrary's Media Center is a free, downloadable application that makes listening to eAudiobooks easy and simple.

Connect, Click, Listen - The Media Center will transfer your eAudiobooks to your PC or to your portable player with just one-click.

Connect your portable player to your PC
Click, Choose a title and click Transfer to Portable, the Media Center does the rest
Listen, Media Center will let you know when the transfer is complete.

You can also use the Media Center as a standalone way to access the library's entire eAudiobook collection.

To use the Media Center, you must first install the software on your personal computer by logging into http://www.netlibrary.com/. Click Help, review the Media Center installation requirements, and follow the installation procedure.

If you choose to go ahead and install The Media Center to your computer, it will perform any Microsoft updates that are necessary to get your computer up-to-date. You may want to perform these updates manually before launching the installer because the Microsoft updates can take a significant amount of time, if your computer is not updated regularly. If no updates are needed, the Media Center installation takes about five minutes.

Below are some links that provide helpfil information to get you started:

About the Media Center - Learn more about this stand-alone, desktop application for searching, managing, transferring and listening to NetLibrary eAudiobooks. http://library.netlibrary.com/media_center.aspx

Media Center System Requirements - Learn what the software and hardware requirements are for downloading the Media Center. http://library.netlibrary.com/mc_requirements.aspex

Online Media Center Demo- Take a tour of the Media Center. http://www5.oclc.org/downloads/tutorials/netlibrary/mediacenter/demo.swf

eAudiobook Users' Guide- Understand how to get started, how to download the Media Center, and how to download and renew eAudiobooks.

http://www.oclc.org/us/en/services/brochures/213633usb_netlibrary_eaudiobooks_user_guide.pdf