LIS 505 (2004 Winter) - Presentation Topics

3. • Graphics programs. (For creation of original graphics.)
   • Photo editing programs. (For editing photographs after they have been scanned in or from digital cameras.)
   • OCR (Optical Character Recognition).
4. • HTML editors.
   • Cascading Style Sheets (including editors, such as Balthisar Cascade).
   • XML. The successor to HTML?
   • Web search engines (such as Google and AllTheWeb).
5. • Graphics cards (video cards).
   • Monitors.
   • Printers. Including operating costs.
   • Keyboards.
6. • Desktop publishing. (For producing print publications such as pamphlets, newsletters, and magazines.)
   • Electronic books.
   • Screen recorders (such as SnagIt).
7. • Scanners. (Hardware for desktop scanning of images or text.)
   • Digital cameras.
   • Digital video.
8. • Bibliography managers. (For keeping indexes of bibliographic references and producing bibliographies for papers or publications.) Including downloading capabilities.
   • Document delivery systems.
   • Information retrieval software. (For textual data.)
   • Image database software.
9. • Modems. Including cable and ADSL modems for high speed connections.
   • Handheld devices (such as Palm and Windows CE devices).
   • Laptops. Including comparison to desktops.
   • Sound cards.
10. • Removeable media. (Iomega Zip disks and more recent products.)
    • Backup.
    • CD-ROM drives. Including writable types.
    • DVD (Digital Video Disk or Digital Versatile Disk).
11. • Ergonomics. Including special keyboards and pointing devices.
    • Integrated library systems.
    • Virtual reference software.
    • Indexing software.
12. • Firewalls.
    • Virus protection.
    • Web filtering software.
    • E-mail filtering software.
13. • Speech synthesis.
    • Speech recognition.
    • Handwriting recognition.
    • Java and JavaScript. How are they related?
14. • Adaptive technology for the visually impaired.
    • Groupware.
    • Knowledge management systems.
    • Expert systems.

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