Category Archives: Research

Successful cataloguing on a memory stick (USB pen drive) with alphabetic folders

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alphabet folders“…the library staff help and give me guidance – don’t sit in silence and suffer! Probably when you find something you just save it, then it takes so long to find it again. I made, on my memory stick, a reader library and I put all my texts in folders in alpahbetical order so I do not have to go through the whole search process again which is more eye strain. I  just make up folders with certain headings and then you can go straight there – It is handy that each one has a date so that I can see ones from the previous year.”  Microsoft File organization tips: 9 ideas for managing files and folders. 

Amber – Nursing

Using Two Screens when Reading, Writing and Revising

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double screens“I like the double screens and I like ATS (Assistive Technology Service room) as it is quiet – the two screens help because you are able to look at two things at the same time rather than flick back and forth having to flip between things. I do not have a good short term memory so to look at things and compare is good otherwise I forget things. I cannot remember what I have just read, so I have the text up on one screen and then make notes on another.”

Sarah – Philosophy and Economics

Adobe PDF to Word for text to speech and annotation

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TextHelp scan document“Reading is big issue for me – I find it hard to concentrate on the content so I have to scan in documents so I use a program to read them back to help me focus and absorb more information. Quite often I download E-Journals and they are all set up in PDF format. But, when I come to use the software, it is quite hard so then I transfer it to a Word document.  It is much more user-friendly.

Basically, I have been used to using the software for TextHelp Read and Write [Gold] (YouTube video) and in that program you can scan the document – you can scan the PDF document and transfer it to a Word document” [This is also possible with ClaroRead (YouTube video)]

Tom – Sports Science BSc Hons