Just a reminder for all of you who print PDF files from Blackboard, JSTOR, Academic Search Premier, or other full-text databases that the library offers.
Be sure to click the Print Button that’s in the PDF toolbar. Don’t use the Print Button or File-Print function that’s in the web browser. That way you’ll actually get your document printed instead of just the frame at the top of the screen.
If you still can’t get it to print correctly, try saving the PDF file to the Desktop or your H: drive, and then open the document from there and print it.
The libraries at Butler University have just gotten a new online resource. It’s the Encyclopedia Britannica Online. Britannica plus a whole lot more. One of the new features is the World Data Analyst, which gives you current and past statistics about countries around the world. The “Workspace” is also new, and allows you to save your research (articles you find, etc.) and come back to it later. Visit Britannica Online via the Databases page on the library website.
Completely updated for 2006, this award-winning reference site is
now faster, easier to use, and full of new content specifically
designed to meet the needs of university libraries. The foundation of
Britannica Online (BOL) is the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the largest,
most authoritative encyclopedia in the world. In addition to the
encyclopedia, BOL includes:
- World Data Analyst – Britannica’s exclusive database of current and past statistics on the countries of the world
- Gateway to the Classics – An extensive collection of significant works in literature, philosophy, history, and science
- Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary & Thesaurus – Completely integrated into the site and easily accessible
- Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Quotations – A lively collection of more than 4,000 quotations, both contemporary and classic
- Full-text
journal and magazine articles from EBSCO and Proquest journals – more
than 700 titles, hand-selected for college needs
- BBC & New York Times daily headlines – top stories from two trusted sources
The Web’s Best – a collection of Web sites carefully selected by Britannica’s editorial department
- World Atlas – Access Britannica maps through this interactive resource
- Advanced search capabilities and Britannica’s exclusive “Workspace,” a research organizer.
TOTAL
REFERENCE TRANSACTIONS for Sep 2006 |
|
| Hour Beginning |
Reference |
Research |
Directional |
Computer |
Alumni |
PALNI/ALI |
Sum |
| 8:00 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
| 9:00 |
6 |
0 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
9 |
| 10:00 |
11 |
0 |
9 |
6 |
0 |
0 |
26 |
| 11:00 |
14 |
2 |
22 |
6 |
0 |
0 |
44 |
| 12:00 |
28 |
0 |
8 |
12 |
1 |
1 |
50 |
| 13:00 |
24 |
2 |
9 |
11 |
1 |
0 |
47 |
| 14:00 |
33 |
2 |
12 |
13 |
0 |
1 |
61 |
| 15:00 |
32 |
0 |
6 |
8 |
2 |
1 |
49 |
| 16:00 |
33 |
1 |
16 |
7 |
1 |
2 |
60 |
| 17:00 |
26 |
3 |
16 |
10 |
3 |
6 |
64 |
| 18:00 |
19 |
2 |
12 |
6 |
2 |
0 |
41 |
| 19:00 |
21 |
0 |
13 |
6 |
0 |
1 |
41 |
| 20:00 |
14 |
3 |
11 |
4 |
2 |
2 |
36 |
| 21:00 |
26 |
2 |
12 |
15 |
3 |
0 |
58 |
| 22:00 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
| 23:00 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| 0:00 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Totals |
288 |
17 |
148 |
107 |
15 |
14 |
589 |
Irwin Library will be hosting a unique exhibit during the month of
October. “Earthquake 1906” consists of almost 30 photographs that
were taken the day after the famous San Francisco Earthquake 100 years ago.
These photos were found in a family attic over 90 years later. Painstakingly digitized and restored by the original photographer’s great
niece, Rebecca Schmidt Dailey, these photos are a tribute to a city that
rebuilt itself and the 10,000 people who died in the tragedy.
The grand opening of this exhibit will be Tuesday, October 3 at 9:00
am. Mrs. Dailey will be on hand from 9:00 am to 11:00 am, and will then host a
workshop from 11:00 to noon, demonstrating and discussing the various PhotoShop
techniques that were used in restoring the pictures and creating this exhibit.
This workshop is being offered in conjunction with Information Resources’
Instructional Technology Department, which will be providing some hands-on, focused
workshops on using PhotoShop. Registration is not required for the workshop on October 3, but it would be
appreciated. Please contact Beverly Compton (bcompton@butler.edu or ext.8138)
to reserve your seat!
The “Earthquake 1906” exhibit will conclude on Friday, October 27.
Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read is observed
during the last week of September each year. This year it is from Sept.
23 – 30. 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.
Between 1990 and 2000, of the 6,364 challenges reported to or recorded by the Office for Intellectual Freedom:
- 1,607 were challenges to “sexually explicit” material (up 161 since 1999)
- 1,427 to material considered to use “offensive language” (up 165 since 1999)
- 1,256 to material considered “unsuited to age group” (up 89 since 1999)
- 842 to material with an “occult theme or promoting the occult or Satanism” (up 69 since 1999)
- 737 to material considered to be “violent” (up 107 since 1999)
- 515 to material with a homosexual theme or “promoting homosexuality” (up 18 since 1999)
- 419 to material “promoting a religious viewpoint” (up 22 since 1999)
- 317 to material involving “nudity” (up 20 since 1999)
- 267 to material involving “racism” (up 22 since 1999)
- 224 to material involving “sex education” (up 7 since 1999)
- 202 to material considered to be “anti-family” (up 9 since 1999)
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