University Library Reference

Now that we have a digital archive of the NY Times, I will be sending the NY Times Book Review volumes that are in the reference collection to storage. Our reference intern (Philip) and I have tested the database to make sure the contents of these volumes are retrievable in the database, and they are. Here are some tips for searching for items in the NY Times Book Review.

To find an individual book review:
1. Use Advanced Search
2. Enter "book review" in the first search field and select "section" as the field to search.
3. Enter the book title in quotes in the second search field and leave the field to search as the default of citation and document text.

This worked well for all the searches I did. Remember that many book reviews in the NYTBR have titles that are NOT the title of the book. Just click on the first result and that should be the book review you're looking for.

To page through an entire issue of the NYTBR:
1. Use Advanced Search
2. Enter "book review" in the first search field and select "section" as the field to search.
3. Enter the date of the issue of the NYTBR you're looking for in the "on this date" field.
4. Click on the first item in the results list. Then use the "previous" and "next" arrows to page through the issue.

Jane

Posted by Jane Kessler at 05:41 PM | Permalink

Everyone,
We now have access to the fifteenth edition of the Chicago Manual of Style online. The link is http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/contents.html.

After today’s Web transfer, you can access it from the reference collection pages/style guides http://library.albany.edu/reference/style.html

It will also be linked from User Ed’s Instruction and Tutorials pages.

Minerva will be updated to include the online access.

Jane

Posted by Jane Kessler at 04:03 PM | Permalink

Please see instructions for logging into Desk Tracker at the Reference Desk.

Posted by Jane Kessler at 06:20 PM | Permalink

As you may know we loan camcorders to students. They must purchase tapes to record to. The bookstore does not sell them, but at the University Library, Circulation sells them as well as below:

Mini dv tapes (for our camcorders that patrons borrow) $5.50
CD-R $1.50
DVD-R $2.00

Posted by Jane Kessler at 06:04 PM | Permalink