Now you can get research assistance from the Information Commons via your cell phone. You can always call us at 317-940-9235 and talk to us but now you also have the option of texting us.
Just text 265010 and in the body of the text type
“buinfocommons: yourmessage.” (Note: You may be charged by your wireless service provider.)
Visit http://www.butler.edu/library/ask for more ways to contact the Information Commons.
If you are interested in installing Trillian on your home computer and connecting to your Meebo account from home, here’s what you need to do.
You’ll already have your Trillian account and your Meebo Account created, so you just need to download/install Trillian and configure it to connect to your Meebo account. Get Trillian at http://www.trillian.im and install it as you normally would. Once you have it running, click on Trillian–Manage Connections and then “Add a new connection.”
- Select Jabber/XMPP
- For username use your Meebo account with the domain (ex: spfitzin@meebo.org)
- For password use your Meebo password
- Check the box next to Automatically connect to this account at startup
- Under Settings, enter meebo.org for your hostname and 5222 for the Port
- Check the box next to Override default resource name with and type Home
- Click “Back” and you’re done.
Are you a student who needs some individual training on a software program? Would you like someone to show you how to add video to a presentation? Or maybe how to add material to your e-portfolio in Chalk & Wire?
You can get training through the Information Commons! Please do not visit the Commons Desk and ask for immediate training, though. Instead, send an email to infocommons@butler.edu and one of our Information Commons Assistants will get back to you to set up an appointment. For more information, visit http://www.butler.edu/infocommons.
Online training materials can be found on the Instructional Technology website, including Online Training, ePortfolio materials, and the Digital Video Support Center.
RefWorks-COS is pleased to announce that the Alumni Program
will now be offered as a standard feature of RefWorks, providing lifelong
access to users that are alumni of subscribing institutions. As long as an
institution subscribes to RefWorks, alumni will have access, allowing them to
continue using their personal research databases for future professional and
academic endeavors.
Lifelong access to RefWorks will be an added benefit for
alumni, and help academic institutions maintain the healthy alumni
relationships that are so essential for donations, rankings and other ongoing involvement.
To learn more about the Alumni Program, please click here.
Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read is
observed during the last week of September each year. This year it is
from Sept. 26 – Oct. 3. Observed since 1982, the annual event reminds
Americans not to take this precious democratic freedom for granted.
Banned Books Week (BBW) celebrates the freedom to choose or the
freedom to express one’s opinion even if that opinion might be
considered unorthodox or unpopular. It stresses the importance of
ensuring the availability of those unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints
to all who wish to read them. After all, intellectual freedom can exist
only where these two essential conditions are met.
From 2001 to 2008, of the 3,736 challenges reported to or recorded by the Office for Intellectual Freedom:
- 1,225 challenges due to “sexually explicit” material;
- 1,008 challenges due to “offensive language”;
- 720 challenges due to material deemed “unsuited to age group”;
- 458 challenges due to “violence”
- 269 challenges due to “homosexuality”; and
Further, 103 materials were challenged because they were
“anti-family,” and an additional 233 were challenged because of their
“religious viewpoints.”
1,176 of these challenges (approximately 31%) were in classrooms;
37% were in school libraries; 24% (or 909) took place in public
libraries. There were less than 75 challenges to college classes; and
only 36 to academic libraries. There are isolated cases of challenges
to materials made available in or by prisons, special libraries,
community groups, and student groups. The majority of challenges were
initiated by parents (almost exactly 51%), while patrons and
administrators followed behind (10% and 8% respectively).
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