Comments Off on Favorite Books Contest Winners for National Library Week

By sneal, April 22, 2008 3:00 am

The following students participated in and won the drawing for the Favorite Books contest conducted during Butler Libraries’ National Library Week events:

Julie Pakenham
Christina Koteff

Congratulations, Julie and Christina, enjoy spending your $25.00 Butler Bookstore gift certificate!

Comments Off on Reference area Printer Message: ‘Install MK’

By sneal, March 3, 2008 1:45 pm

As an FYI, the ‘Install MK’ error message that is showing up on the IL_120_K A printer currently, means:

“Replace Maintenance Kit.  Replacement of the maintenance kit is necessary at every 300,000 pages of printing and requires professional servicing.  Contact your service technician.” -From the Kyocera Operation Guide.

I will let Scott know about this; it does not affect the printing.

Comments Off on Avoiding Time-out on BU mail at Reference Desk

By sneal, March 3, 2008 1:01 pm

Reference Desk staff:

To avoid being timed-out while using BU mail at the Reference Desk, select the “this is a private computer” option at the web mail log-in screen.  This helps to not time you out while helping patrons.

Comments Off on Student winners of Project SAILS assessment

By sneal, January 31, 2008 2:37 pm

A congratulations goes out to students:

Emily Stewart
Jarron Lincoln

who won the Project SAILS Assessment drawing being held in conjunction with students who are participating in the Project SAILS (Student Assessment of Information Literacy Skills) test.  To better understand students’ research skills, the Library is conducting this 30 minute, multiple-choice test in selected first-year and senior level classes.  The aggregate data obtained from this assessment will help the Library determine future directions with classroom library instruction and reference services. 

A thank you goes out to all the students who have taken the test and to the faculty who have allowed us to conduct the test in their classes or via outside class participation. 

Congratulations winners!  We will have two more drawings announced when the test closes, February 8.

-Sally Neal
Assistant Dean for Public Services

Comments Off on Accessing/Printing NetLibrary titles

By sneal, November 1, 2007 4:02 pm

I was helping a faculty member access and print a NetLibrary title the other day and wanted to share these tips:

• There is a one user limit in viewing titles in NetLibrary.  While you no longer have to create an account to access the title, only one person at a time can view the title.
• You can only print one page at a time for any title, this is the case for both PDF and non-PDF titles.  Also, NetLibrary discourages excessive printing, more in the range of a few pages to a chapter – not the whole book.
• Older titles in NetLibrary are often not in PDF format, and when they are accessed from the catalog (as opposed to the NetLibrary site directly), the titles open up without the accompanying web browser options for printing.  Dan has a ticket in with PALNI to see if this can be resolved.  It is not an issue for NetLibrary titles in PDF format.  For the time being, the way around this is to cut and paste the URL from the catalog into an open web browser or access the title directly from the NetLibrary site.
• Finally, when printing off an older NetLibrary title (not in PDF format), to remove the table of contents frame, place your cursor on the green vertical line between the table of contents and the book page. Drag (with your cursor) the content page over the table of contents.  This way, when you print each screen, you will not print the table of contents frame.

Many of you may be familiar with these aspects of the product, but I thought that I would share.

-Sally