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Please follow these instructions when adding paper to the Uniprinters.
Fill right side Tray #4 ONLY
Do not fill to the top - leave one inch
Paper is in the bottom drawer of tall cabinet at the Reference Desk
Additional paper is in tall cabinet next to Eva's desk - when that supply is low call Tony Latham for more paper at 442-3596.
Temporary ISBN display changes for FS, WCRS, and WCAS
The ISBN display will temporarily change in the WorldCat and Group Catalog databases as seen in FirstSearch, WorldCat Resource Sharing, and WorldCat Collection Analysis Services. ISBN searches will continue to cover all variations of ISBNs, but the display of the record may show only one version of the ISBN for several months while OCLC adds the needed information into records.
Any 10-digit ISBN now has an equally unique corresponding 13-digit ISBN beginning with the numbers 978. When publishers’ 10-digit ISBN run is finished, new ISBNs will 979. ISBNs starting with 979 will have no corresponding 10-digit ISBNs.
Through February 17, 2007 any record in WorldCat and Group Catalogs with a 10-digit ISBN or a 13-digit ISBN starting with 978 will display both ISBNs. Starting February 18, both ISBNs will remain searchable, but only one ISBN will display while OCLC starts to insert the corresponding ISBN into the stored data of all records. It will take several months for every 10-digit ISBN to display with both it’s paired 13-digit ISBNs. In the first few days, the newest records may have the 13-digit ISBN starting with 978 but not the 10 digit ISBN displaying. These records will be converted first, so that they will soon show both ISBNs. Then over the next several months the rest of the records in WorldCat and Group Catalogs will start to display both ISBNs also.
Throughout this time all ISBNs will remain searchable, even if both ISBNs are not visible in the record display.
Dawn Hendricks
Manager, Cooperative Collection Services Platform
On the desktops of the three reference workstations are short cuts to PowerPoint slide shows from the Ebsco Academic "update" luncheon held at ALA Midwinter. Each shortcut label begins with EBSCO.
Information from the Ebsco "academic" lunch update held at ALA Midwinter
Academic Search Complete: Adding more full text titles; to be released in April 2007
EconLit fulltext: of particular interest is the slide comparing EconLit Full Text with Ebsco's Business Source Complete
Humanities International Complete: describes product's full text journal holdings and monographs
Points of View Reference Center: to be available March 2007
Description of Business interface enhancement slated for Summer 2007; and a number of signifcant enhancements to the Ebscohost platform are to be implemented also in Summer 2007; slides also detail planned enhancements for the Literary Reference Center -- one slide of particular interest compares the Ebsco product to the Gale product.
Carol Anderson
Looks like this assignment is back and students are already coming to the reference desk. Using the cheat sheet Deborah put together, I pulled some resources and put them behind the reference desk. These ones seemed to be helpful to students last semester. I have also made copies of the handout for students and placed them by the books so they can look at additional sources that I have not pulled. I placed a new cheat sheet in the assignments binder and highlighted the titles I pulled.
For questions where students may want to look at web resources, the sites Deborah seemed to highlight were:
Countries of the World http://library.albany.edu/reference/countries.html
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (for the caloric intake question) http://www.fao.org
Statistics website http://library.albany.edu/reference/statistics.html
Hope this helps!!
--Christina Connor
I just read in the Google Librarian's newsletter that you can import citations to EndNote from Google Scholar.
In Google Scholar, click on the Scholar Preferences link.
In the "Bibliography Manager" section at the bottom, click the button next to "Show link to import citations into" and choose Endnote as the format. You can also import to RefWorks and some other bibliographic managers.
Click the Save Preferences button
Now when you do a Google Scholar search, there will be a link at the bottom of each citation that says "Import into EndNote."
When using Lexis Nexis to search the Jerusalem Post, patron executed a search with key word "Lebanon" and gets no results for October 2006 forward. However, when going directly to the Jerusalem Post archives site, patron found 21 articles for October 21, 2006 -- as an example. I am still awaiting a call back from Lexis Nexis since they are looking into the problem. I do not know if this affects other newspaper files but beware. Similar problem reported last month concerning Jersulaem Post to Lexis Nexis and the service folks "fixed" it, however, the rep was not specific as to what had gone wrong.
If you need to telephone Lexis Nexis, try 800-897-3419 [it's a bit difficult to sift through the website and to locate contact information for a real person] And I first had to get a "billing group" identification prior to speaking with customer service representative -- I was given this number 108t6x
Carol Anderson