Do you use the Google toolbar in your web browser?
Would you like a button to add that takes you right to the library catalog?
Now you can have one! Just click this link to add our new Google toolbar button. It will give you a confirmation pop-up, explaining that there’s a privacy concern–namely, that your search results will be sent to hickory.palni.edu, but that’s just where our catalog is located, so no worries.
(If you need the Google Toolbar, here’s a link.)
Okay, here’s the latest (and hopefully final) update on the printers in the Reference Department.
Over this last weekend, there were time that there were 30 or 40 print jobs backed up on the queue for IL_120_K. Monday morning, I hear, there were almost 100. According to Jesus, the reason for these jobs being backed up is simple: SOMEONE PUSHED THE GREEN BUTTON, thus turning the printer OFFLINE. Doh!!
The solution, which was implemented late Monday afternoon of this week (yesterday), was to lock down the control panels for the two printers. That means none of the buttons do anything but beep at you if you press them. I worked 5pm to 10pm last night and while there was a lot of printing going on, there were absolutely NO problems.
Please continue to log any printer problems just in case, but apart from jams, there really shouldn’t be many problems any more.
As usual, please contact me if you have any questions.
Thanks.
Scott
We’re quickly approaching the end of the Fall semester and due dates for papers and projects. This is the time of the year when people are finishing papers and suddenly needing to know how to reference their sources for the “Works Cited” page at the end of those papers. Fortunately, the Butler Libraries have provided some guides to help you get everything in the right order and formatted correctly.
Just visit http://www.butler.edu/library/?pg=544 and pick the style you need. Whether MLA, APA, Chicago, Turabian, or other more specialized formatting styles, we’ve got them all, complete with examples for books, articles, electronic sources, and other types of media.
You can also get to the Citation Guides by going to the main Library webpage, http://www.butler.edu/library, and clicking on Citation Style Guides (listed in the Research column).
If you need more detailed examples than what are provided on our website, stop by the Reference Desk and grab the complete manual. You’re also welcome to Ask a Librarian for assistance with citations.
A common method of working on papers is to email the document to yourself and then open it from your email. While this method does work, PLEASE NOTE that you cannot just click “Save” when you’ve opened an email attachment. That will only save the document in a TEMP folder which will disappear once you log off, meaning YOU WILL LOSE YOUR WORK.
If you are opening a document you sent yourself via email, PLEASE save it to BUFiles first and only then start working on it. That will ensure you don’t lose all the work you’ve done.
Better yet, simply work from BUFiles all the time. The only time you won’t have access is if you’re off campus, in which case we suggest using a USB Flash Drive. If you do choose to use email, remember that files opened directly from an email attachment will open via a TEMP folder and clicking “Save” will NOT save it the way you want.
To all frustrated librarians and staff who have begun pulling their hair out over the Reference Computers, greetings.
As was mentioned last week, the printer testing that was going on in Reference is finished and we are back to the configuration we had at the beginning of the year. That means two smaller desktop printers and EVERYTHING in the Library, both lab-type computers and student laptops, will be printing on IL_120_K.
We do know that these printers are jamming more than we’re used to and are occasionally having other problems as well. When you are working at the Reference Desk (or even when you’re not but happen to encounter a problem), please document ALL printer problems in the spreadsheet whose shortcut is on the Desktop of the RefDesk computer. If you are getting more frustrated with these printers, please document problems all the more diligently, so we can more accurately raise a stink that will surely reach even the nostrils of the Chief Information Officer.
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