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Yes, it's back -- students started appearing yesterday with their workbooks for Dr. Soare's Psychology 100 class. Photocopied tip sheets are in the gray metal bins next to the LCSH on the "low side" of the Reference Desk.
GOG/EAC160 has the mapping assignment described below due on Feb 7. There are over 200 students in the class. If the students need a blank outline map of China to use, there is one posted on the course ERES site (PW=china). I will pull some appropriate atlases and leave them at the desk. Please let me know if you have any questions.
--Mary
Mapping Project
All students will produce a map of China with the following features clearly identified: a) the names and correct locations of all the Provinces, Autonomous Regions, and Special Administrative Regions; b) the major cities (those with populations in excess of 3 million); c) the major rivers and mountain ranges; d) the surrounding seas and oceans; and e) the names of the countries that are directly bordering China. Blank maps for this project will be handed out in class, but the information must be collected on your own, using at least eight sources, including atlases, books, printed encyclopedias, and the Internet. At least three different types of materials must be used; for example, you could obtain information from four web sites, two atlases, and two printed encyclopedias . You must build a bibliography (on a separate typed page) of all of the sources you have used in constructing your map, using the APA style, as discussed in class. To get full points you must have all of the above information shown legibly on your map.
100 ways to live to 100 is one of the 1405 eBooks available to UA users through NetLibrary, provided through SUNYconnect. Records for NetLibrary books are listed in Minerva and you may search NetLibrary holdings through our database finder.
“What’s New with NetLibrary?” is a session update I attended at ALA Midwinter on January 21, 2006. NetLibrary, a division of OCLC, was acquired about 5 years ago and is based in Boulder, CO. Currently, NetLibrary has 105,000+ eBooks, 55,000 eJournals from 66 publishers, a number of databases, and 1500+ audiobooks.
Since UA access to NetLibrary materials is limited to eBooks, points of information of possible interest to you:
80% of the eBooks content is frontlist, focused on recent publications; for instance, 19,300 publications are from 2003-2005, and 26,300 publications are from 2000-2002
Primarily nonfiction
A recent trend is simultaneous release of print and e-release of titles
eBooks are in both HTML and PDF, although NetLibrary is trying to changeover to all HTML
If someone is using all the copies to which SUNYconnect has purchased access, patrons may receive a message of “busy” or “try again later.” Presenters likened this to the book being off the shelf in and use by another patron
Not all NetLibrary publisher partners allow their titles to be accessed through consortial arrangements – presenter cited Wiley and Gale in particular.
Available each month for a full month and for free is access to an eBook through NetLibrary -- go to www.netlibrary.com. Do you need some help with those New Year’s resolutions? This month’s title is Absolute Beginner's Guide to a Lite and Healthy Lifestyle by Nicole Haywood (Que Publishing, 2005).
Using Firefox as my browser, I was able to access both the blog itself and get in to the administrative module without any problem!
Just a reminder that the reference department meetings for Spring 2006 are scheduled as follows:
January 24 9:30am Jane - reference blog
February 21 2:00 pm Jane/Amy - redlight green Laura - refresher on off campus access to the databases
March 21 9:30am
April 25 2:00pm
May 23 9:30am
all meetings are held in the Cobb room. Please let me know if you have agenda items or if there are refreshers or training that you would like me to schedule.
Cathy
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We have begun offering Dialog searches at Dewey, and we are calling it Dewey Search. Dewey Search has a narrower focus than Customized Search Service at the Main Library; these search appointments will solely be for the use of DIALOG. Any patrons seeking instructional sessions or sessions which would focus on the use of the website-access databases will be referred to a bibliographer.
Pamphlets highlighting the databases that are particularly relevant to faculty, social welfare, and public affairs were disseminated this year to on the downtown campus, through faculty mailboxes and student lounges. A criminal justice pamphlet will be distributed in the Spring as well.
Graduate students or Faculty wishing to run a search at the downtown campus should contact me directly to schedule an appointment.
Likewise, questions, comments, suggestions should be referred to me as well.
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Elaine M. Lasda Bergman, M.L.S.
Reference Librarian and Reference Bibliographer
Dewey Graduate Library for Public Affairs and Policy
(518) 442-3695
ebergman@uamail.albany.edu
Hi,
Brenda and I have been struggling to get LI 137’s schedule straight for intersession. Here is what I think will happen:
12/27 through 12/30: the room will be opened each morning at 8:00am by ULIB circ folks. All of ITS is closed during this period and there will be no assistance available (anywhere on campus as far as I know.) I have asked that they be sure the uniprint in that room has paper and is operational (and of course LI137 jobs are listed on the uniprint machines in the library) when they leave on the 23rd. The room will be closed each evening at 5:00 by ULIB circ folks
1/3 through 1/22: the room will be opened each morning at 8:00am by ITS staff who will check the uniprint. They do not have students to staff the space but they will put up a sign referring students who need help to the SHED which is open pretty much 10:00-5:00 during intersession. The room will be closed each night at 5:00 by ULIB circ staff.
A big thank you to Brenda and the circ staff who have agreed to help out with LI137. Hopefully all will go as planned.
Cathy