Here are the stats for the Tutorial Quizzes (based in Blackboard) for the 2008-2009 Academic Year:
Library Basics – 27 students took it 33 times with an average score of 8.15
Plagiarism – 356 students took it 520 times with an average score of 8.76
Music Tutorial – 25 students took it 33 times with an average score of 7.77
Faculty requesting data for their classes:
Fall: 14 classes, Spring: 10 classes
This is a slight increase from last year in students taking the Plagiarism Quiz, with the other two tutorials going down slightly. The number of faculty courses that had data requested was up from 18 to 24, an increase of 33% from last year.
The Butler Libraries have received a Library Services and Technology (LSTA) grant of $8,015 from the Indiana State Library to support the work of the Friesner Herbarium in digitizing its collections of Indiana specimens.
The 20th century history of Indiana’s flora is captured in Friesner herbarium specimens and their collection labels. Currently, knowledge of and access to the collection is limited.
This project will create digital images of ca, 1,800 Indiana fern and orchid specimens housed in the Friesner herbarium of Butler University and post them along with associated metadata on Butler University servers with links to the Indiana Memory site of the Indiana State Library. Our goal is increase access to, awareness of
and use by all citizens of Indiana.
Students are now being hired for Fall 2009 employment in the new Information Commons which is being developed. Any students interested in emerging technologies, rich media, research skills, and excellent customer service are encouraged to visit http://www.butler.edu/infocommons
for more information and to apply. (Copy and paste the link into your browser.)
Mission
The mission of the Information Commons is to provide support for Butler University students in the discovery and creation of information, especially focusing on rich media creation, technology assistance and training, and research assistance.
Description
The Information Commons is both a physical space and virtual space. It comprises the Reference area and Education Commons in Irwin Library, the Instructional Technology Commons in Jordan Hall, and the online environment of information technology and knowledge media. The Information Commons is a place for Butler students, faculty, and staff to get access to information, knowledge, technology, and research assistance to aid them in their pursuits of discovering and creating information.
The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) has launched a new
website, called the Federal Digital System (FDsys) where they will be storing
all government documents produced. The strength of FDsys is that documents will
not be replaced by newer versions, but will instead keep everything, so there
is a digital “paper trail” as it were with copies preserved and archived continually. Visit http://fdsys.gpo.gov
to check it out.
<pI’ve already updated the links on our website and in the
Quick Reference LibGuide. If you have any LibGuides that link to the GPO Access site,
you will want to update those links.
If you want more information about FDsys, visit http://www.gpo.gov/projects/fdsys.htm
Scott
The Butler Libraries have just subscribed to a new database called Literary Criticism Online. This database indexes the Gale sets of Literary Criticism books (the large sets of brown or blue books in the Irwin Library Reference collection), including the following titles:
- Contemporary Literary Criticism (all volumes)
- Drama Criticism (all volumes)
- Children’s Literature Review (volumes 141+, from June 2009 forward)
For other areas of literature and literary criticism, we recommend the Literature Resource Center, also from Gale, which contain much of the content of all the Literary Criticism sets owned by the libraries.
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