Tuesday, December 16, 2003
new trial
"Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection enhances the 100+ books in the Core Collection with an expanding range of key titles in the acclaimed Oxford Companions series plus the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations." This trial ends January 30, 2004.
"Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection enhances the 100+ books in the Core Collection with an expanding range of key titles in the acclaimed Oxford Companions series plus the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations." This trial ends January 30, 2004.
Monday, December 15, 2003
For all you librarians with collection responsibilities:
The Globe 100
The New York Times' Editors' Choice
The Washington Post's Book World Raves
The Economist's Books of the Year
The [Christian Science] Monitor's Annual Guide to Books (pdf)
[Slate's] "Summary Judgment's exceedingly scientific survey of nine lists reveals that the runaway best Best Book of 2003, selected significantly more often than any other, is Edward P. Jones' The Known World, a novel about black plantation owners. For non-fiction, David Maraniss' They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967 just edges Anne Applebaum's Gulag: A History".
[Slate's] "Summary Judgment's exceedingly scientific survey of nine lists reveals that the runaway best Best Book of 2003, selected significantly more often than any other, is Edward P. Jones' The Known World, a novel about black plantation owners. For non-fiction, David Maraniss' They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967 just edges Anne Applebaum's Gulag: A History".
Thursday, December 11, 2003
If you get a frantic student looking for where their exam is being held, you can get this info by going to the Student Self Service , logging in as "guest" and then selecting, Show details about a course from the menu. From this new page, select Fall 2003 at the top of the page and browse by course subject.
Or you can ask the student to log in using their own personal info and tell them to select the menu option, View your schedule and grades.
Or you can ask the student to log in using their own personal info and tell them to select the menu option, View your schedule and grades.
Thursday, December 04, 2003
If you are looking for the Microsoft Software that Faculty and Staff have access to through a campus agreement with IT Services, please be aware that you cannot simply search the opac as the records are suppressed...
You can find this information by browsing course reservces using Library as department and finding the records under MS Office
You can find this information by browsing course reservces using Library as department and finding the records under MS Office
WilsonWeb has been unresponsive. This started yesterday. Evidently Wilson is experiencing server problems.
All the individual components of the Financial Post products we had subscribed to have all been collapsed into one big site called Financial Post Infomart.
It's attached to Informart but we do not have access to the newspaper parts to the database.
It's attached to Informart but we do not have access to the newspaper parts to the database.
