Monday, June 01, 2009

New Items at Hackley Public Library The Excel File of our new books is up-to-date with the items we received in May 2009. You can also access our new items on our New Item Page. 3:41:01 PM     TypingWeb Offers Free Typing Lessons [Keyboards] . Whether you're an able but slow touch typist, or you never graduated beyond hunting and pecking, TypingWeb is a free and easy to use online typing tutor that will help you hone your keyboard chops. There is no registration necessary, you can dive right in and try out the basic lessons. Registering for an account lets you save your progress and other statistics. Along with a clean and easy to use interface, what sets TypingWeb apart from other free typing tutors is the ability to change the language and keyboard layout. Want to learn Dvorak without tearing your current keyboard apart? Learning to type on a keyboard other than an English QWERTY layout? Swap out the keyboard in the settings section. TypingWeb is structured to take you from the home row all the way to efficiently using infrequent keys and key combination. There are also actually enjoyable typing games, unlike the lame typing games you may recall from grade school typing tutors. TypingWeb is free, but if you want to get rid of the ads, you can pay a one-time $9.99 fee to turn TypingWeb ad-free. Thanks Kratos! TypingWeb [Lifehacker] 10:22:13 AM     US Census Bureau's DataFerret. DataFerrett (Federated Electronic Research, Review, Extraction, and Tabulation Tool) is a free data mining and extraction tool developed by the U.S. Census Bureau that allows users to search, browse, combine, tabulate, recode, and analyze statistical data from a network of online data libraries. The DataFerret software can be downloaded from the website or ran in the browser via a java applet. Some material to read before getting started: DataFerret Brochure Getting Starting with DataFerrett Tour DataFerret User Guide Available data sets included: American Community Survey (ACS) American Housing Survey (AHS) Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) Consumer Expenditure Survey (CES) County Business Patterns (CBP) Current Population Survey (CPS) Decennial Census of Population and Housing Harvard-MIT Data Center Collection Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) Local Employment Dynamics (LED) National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) National Center for Health Statistics Mortality (MORT) National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (HANES) National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS) National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife (FHWAR) Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE) Social Security Administration (SSA) Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) Survey of Program Dynamics (SPD) DataFerret is a wonderful tool for exploring and analyzing data. Enjoy! (found via Open Access News) [Free Government Information (FGI) blogs] 10:21:34 AM

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