ALL - Summer/Fall Schedule of Classes

As you all saw in your email last week the schedule of classes won't come out until May 15. Unfortunately registration start May 14! There are photocopies of the schedule up at admissions and of course, students can use the online schedule. In addition, I got us a copy of the photocopy of the schedule. It is available at the Reference Desk.

Please note: This is our only copy until the print schedules are delivered. Guard it well!

REF -- Library Online Class Orientations

Reference Staff:
The schedule has been set and published for the upcoming Online Class Orientations. They are set up in two groups.

• The first group is each of the last 10 days of class for those students taking early start summer courses.
• The second group is the first week of summer session for those students starting their online classes then.

The Sample Class is available to us all to demo the Moodle system if the students' classes are not yet available. I have placed a list of the 'students' enrolled in the sample class at the Reference Desk.

As in past semesters, if a student can not make it to a scheduled orientation and we have time, we will do orientations on a drop in basis.

Please let me know if you have any questions about the orientations or Moodle in general. Also please let me know if you have suggestions to improve the sample class to better facilitate the orientations.

ALL -- New Books

Hi everyone
I've changed over the books again, check out the New Book Shelf

Cris

ALL - New Books

New books and sound recordings have been added to the New Book Shelf.

Cris

ALL - Academic Research Studies?

Here's an interesting website about doing research in an academic library. Let me know what you think about the feasibility of letting these kinds of 'patrons' use the library...

http://www.millikin.edu/staley/peeps/

Dana :)

REF - New Reference Resources added

Don sent this great intro to two new sources that have just been added to our collection. Be sure to take a look. I'm adding the call numbers...

We have received two new reference tools that fill gass in our collection.One is the Oxford Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature in 4 volumes. It is the first comprehensive reference work in English providing detailed information on all aspects of children’s literature from the medieval period to modern times. It is current, with articles on digital libraries, crossover books, internet books, censorship and many other buzz topics. It has delightful illustrations. A typical entry, for example, Daniel Defoe includes biographical details, adaptations and a bibliography of further reading. It provides see also, for example, in this case, Adventure Books, Colonial Fiction and Robinsonnades whatever they are. Articles are signed. REF PN1008.5.O94 2006

The other title is The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, in 10 vols, which received a rave review in Choice. This is the 2nd ed. It is a Macmillan Thomson Gale publication. Besides offering good summaries of the lives and works of philosophers living and dead, it provides great summaries of complex topics, such as Utopias, Marxist Philosophy or the schools of Buddhism. There are see also references and bibliographies following the entry. REF B51 .E53 2006

ALL -- Interesting Contest

Here is a link to a blog post for a contest called "Pimp My Bookcart." There are some great entries here... Should we 'modify' some of our bookcarts?

http://www.overduemedia.com/blog.aspx?post=745

REF - New Hours

As you all know, we are now open M-Th 8-8 and Fridays 8-3. To accomodate the extra hours in statistic keeping, we are now using the Reference statistics sheet on the reference desk instead of the calendar. Each form holds 3 days of stats. Continue to use the calendar to track class and online orientations and textbook readability studies.

In the evenings, please total the stats at the end of the day. It helps if the totals are in red ink but not required!!!!

REF - Useful Websites by Subject

It's a new semester and a new chance to find dead links in the Useful Websites by Subject webpage! I have printed out a copy of the page and placed it in the yellow reference folder. Please work on this as you have time.

If you run across sites that should be included, add them and send an email to the rest of us so we can get to know the new source.

If the link is to another library page of links like the Government page that I found this morning, please print out that page and check those links as well.

Let me know if you have any questions
Dana

REF - New Books are Out

Cris has changed over the New Books shelf. We haven't been getting a preview of the new books for a while now so I want to encourage the reference staff to keep up with the new titles we are adding. You can do this by visiting the New Book shelf or by visiting the new books online. Here is a link to the New Book search.
New Books

Have fun! There are some great titles that we have added.

ALL - Copy & Pasting from Yahoo Mail

Over the last week Diana and I have worked with several students having trouble doing a copy/paste from their Yahoo mail account into Word. I found a solution.

At the bottom of the Yahoo email window there is a link Save Message Text.
Click on the link and select Open from the dialog box.
This opens the text in a Notepad file.
Now the student can copy/paste the text into Word and fix the formatting.

Please let me know if you have any questions.
Dana

REF-ALL Access Science is Back

Please note that access has been restored to Access Science. Please let me know if you have any problems.

Dana

ALL: New Books & More Link

There is a new link on the homepage. You can now search for the contents of the New Books shelf, for our video collections, our sound recordings and our downloadable ebooks. Please let me know if we need fewer choices or more...

Thanks
Dana

REF - ALL Gavilan Library Website Updates

I've added a few things to the Library website.

Our handouts are now available on the Library home page. They are only in pdf format for now but I will be adding an html copy soon. You can find these under the heading Find Articles and the link is Library Handouts

The Search Engines and Subject Directory page has been updated to include Google Scholar, Windows Academic Live and Scirus academic search engines. Please go and take a look. They are a new sort of beasty...

Access Science will return Wednesday November 1st. Yeah!

That's all for now... Dana

ALL - Recovered Library Cards

How does everyone feel about taking library cards that we have found here in the library and instead of holding on to them, deleting them from the patrons account and replacing it with their social like we used to do? This way we can use the library card for a new patron. When they come back to the library and say they lost their card we will just give them a new one. There will be no need to charge them because we re-used the card. - Brandon