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It seems like the whole world is suddenly living on Zoom. Here are a few tips on making the most of your Zoom experience.

Background Noise

Are you in a meeting or class and someone has their mic on in a room with lots of background noise but they don’t realize it? The meeting host can hit ⌘Cmd+Ctrl+M (PC: Alt+M) to mute everyone on the call at once. This saves trying to figure out where the distraction is coming from in a large group.

Keep my Video Off and Microphone Muted

Want to always join a meeting with your video off and microphone muted? You can go to settings and under “audio” check the box for mute microphone when joining a meeting. A similar option for video is available under the “video” option from the settings menu. This way you can join the meeting now, and turn on your mic or camera when you are ready.

Screen Annotations

Did you know that participants can annotate a screen share? Users can type text, draw shapes, circle or underline items on the screen, or stamp shapes beside items as a few examples. To annotate a screen that’s being shared, look for a green bar at the top indicating the screen is being shared and click on the menu just to the right of this and look for the annotate option. This will open a toolbar with the various annotation options. As the person sharing the screen you can annotate as well, just move your mouse to the top of the screen and the screen share menu will descend, including the annotate option. If you hover over “more” with your mouse a menu will appear that includes the option of disabling annotation by users.

Appearance Touch Up

Worried about your appearance but can’t get away with just not sharing video? In Settings > Video, check “Touch up my appearance,” and Zoom will soften the focus on your camera, theoretically minimizing any issues with your skin.

Start Zoom Automatically

Do you open Zoom first thing every time you turn on your computer these days? In Settings > General click the box for “start Zoom when I start Windows.” This will save you seconds of precious time each morning J

Multitasking

Busy multitasking by reading e-mail during a meeting when the host suddenly calls on you and you have to scramble to get back to Zoom to unmute your mic before it’s obvious you were doing something else? Go to settings and find the keyboard shortcuts menu. You can both change the keyboard shortcuts for specific actions as well as turn on “enable global shortcut” so that the keyboard shortcut will work even when you are not in Zoom. This way you can unmute yourself from your e-mail app and start talking as you get yourself back to Zoom.

Archer Library resources and services are still available to you online. Access thousands of electronic journals, e-books, primary resources and even films all from the comfort of your own home through the library website.

Staff are available to assist you with your reference questions 7 days a week from 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. via chat, email, or zoom. Need help finding resources, questions about copyright or citing sources? We’re here to support you.

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Hear the sound of music reverberating throughout Archer Library!  Join us for the University of Regina New Music Ensemble’s presentation of The Library of Babel on Friday, March 20 at 2:00 p.m. in the Archer stairwell.

The Library of Babel is a work by Canadian composer Jordan Nobles, based on the book by Jorge Luis Borges.

The University of Regina New Music Ensemble is under the direction of Helen Pridmore. The Library of Babel consists of 9 players who will be performing in the Archer stairwell, situated at different levels. The audience is encouraged to view the performance on the various floors of Archer Library outside of the stairwells.

Composer’s notes on the work: The Library of Babel is inspired by the short story by Argentine author (and librarian) Jorge Luis Borges. In the story the characters live in a universe in the form of an infinite library. Each room of this library contains shelves of books with a seemingly random series of letters. It is theorized that the endless collection of books would contain every possible combination of letters, therefore every work ever written, and everything that ever could be written, including, somewhere, the index to the library itself. While my work is somewhat more finite it does have a series of melodic cells to be performed at the musician’s discretion which are taken from an actual melody that never reveals itself.

Do you know what a gömböc is? Do you want to see one in person?

The gömböc is an object that always comes to rest in the same position, having only one stable point of equilibrium. Its existence was theorized in 1995 by Russian mathematician Vladimir Arnold. The most well-known solution was proven in 2006 by Hungarian scientists Gábor Domokos and Péter Várkonyi.

In November 2019, Dr. Domokos approached the University of Regina Library about donating a gömböc with a unique serial number to the University of Regina. Since 2007, uniquely-numbered gömböc models have been gifted to esteemed individuals and institutions around the world. In receiving the gömböc numbered 1911, the University of Regina will become the second institution in Canada to house a unique gömböc (joining the University of Toronto)!

The gömböc is a tangible proof of mathematical theory, made material through the ingenuity of modern science. The gömböc has attracted attention in the fields of engineering, geology, biology, and even in the fine arts.

Join us to see this object in person during Pi Day celebrations on Friday, March 13, 2020 at 1:00 in the RIC Atrium. Refreshments provided!

Don’t forget to stay after the unveiling of the gömböc to witness the pie-eating contest, and enjoy some free pie courtesy of the Mathematics, Actuarial Science, and Statistics Student Society (MASS).

*Facts about gömböc taken from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6mb%C3%B6c