University Library Reference

Hello,

We received an Ask a Librarian IM query from a high school librarian about remote access to our databases for University in the High School students.

I thought it might be worthwhile to explain a bit about this program to everyone who works REF, in case you ever get questions about this program

at any of the REF desks.

U Albany’s University in the High School program has been around for a long time. It is a very large program—last year over 12,000 high school students from across the state participated. Through this program high school students taking advanced level courses at their high school from their own teachers

can earn undergraduate credits from U Albany. The students pay U Albany a modest tuition ($120 per course) and no other fees.

These students are registered here with the status Undergraduate – UHS.

Some problematic issues have arisen in recent years, as this program has grown rapidly. The two that I deal with regularly are those

involving access to services and databases that our regular FTE student body are entitled to. I receive questions from high school librarians

and from teachers asking how the students can access our databases remotely, and if they are eligible for ILL, UA Delivery, etc.

The answer to those two queries is, NO. It’s a sticky situation, because these students have barcodes and are considered undergrad students,

and they received official transcripts from U Albany with their grades and credits, and, they do have UG level borrowing privileges.

However, these 12,000+ students are not counted in our FTE student enrollment for the campus, and they do not pay fees of any kind, other than the $120/course. Therefore, they do not have full privileges here as regularly enrolled, tuition and fee-paying students.

Some of us library people have had meetings with the administrators of the UHS program on campus (Greg Stevens and Karen Chico-Hurst) about the necessary restrictions the libraries must place on these students access. They understand and have accepted the need for restrictions. When I get a request from a UHS teacher for remote access, I suggest that they encourage their students to go to their nearest SUNY campus to use the databases on site. I also tell them that for ILL they must use their own local resources.

Here’s a link to info on UHS –in case you’re interested:

http://www.albany.edu/uhsp/

Sorry to be so long-winded!

BV

Posted by Jane Kessler at 04:27 PM | Permalink

September 18, 2007

Times to Stop Charging for Parts of Its Web Site
By RICHARD PEREZ-PENA

The New York Times will stop charging for access to parts of its Web
site, effective at midnight Tuesday night.

The move comes two years to the day after The Times began the
subscription program, TimesSelect, which has charged $49.95 a year, or
$7.95 a month, for online access to the work of its columnists and to
the newspaper's archives. TimesSelect has been free to print subscribers
to The Times and to some students and educators.

In addition to opening the entire site to all readers, The Times will
also make available its archives from 1987 to the present without
charge, as well as those from 1851 to 1922, which are in the public
domain. There will be charges for some material from the period 1923 to
1986, and some will be free.

The Times said the project had met expectations, drawing 227,000 paying
subscribers -- out of 787,000 over all -- and generating about $10
million a year in revenue.

"But our projections for growth on that paid subscriber base were low,
compared to the growth of online advertising," said Vivian L. Schiller,
senior vice president and general manager of the site, NYTimes.com.

Copyright 2007 New York Times

Posted by Jane Kessler at 04:25 PM | Permalink

We have a trial of the Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 on libstaff through October. This trial is available to students. I am working with Laura to put a link to it somewhere on the database page so students can access it. I'll let you know when that is complete. I'd appreciate any comments on the trial. Thanks,
Jane

Posted by Jane Kessler at 11:09 AM | Permalink

I am planning on revising the prices here at Copies Plus. However, these are the prices as they exist now:

Fax
-incoming = .50 per page
-outgoing = 2.00 for the first page and .50 per page (after the first)

Copies
.08 = 1-99
.07 = 100-299
.06 = 300+

We are going to try and offer printing as well.
We do double sided copies, enlargements, reductions, bindings, transparencies and whole punching.

Please let me know if there are any other questions.

Thanks Julie

Posted by Jean McLaughlin at 12:35 PM | Permalink

I just spoke to Deborah and she has created a section on her Psychology Subject Guide page that specifically addresses what they need to do in this workbook. It can be accessed at:
http://library.albany.edu/subject/guides/psychguide.htm#psy101

Thanks Deborah!

Posted by GB at 12:19 PM | Permalink