The Butler University Libraries’ weblog, DawgBlog, has been moved to a
new website. Our old blog host decided to “go commerical” and the
result was an unacceptable change in how our blog looked and functioned
and even how our blog posts looked. We have moved to CommunityServer,
which is hosted locally, so we no longer have to concern ourselves with
advertising or unwanted popups.
As the already existing posts were imported, we lost the authors
attached to the invdividual posts, so I have added their names to ends
of the posts, lest our readers think they were really all written by
one person.
It is our hope that the new site will offer our readers greater
stability and usability as we continue to improve our communication.
Thank you for your patience and for finding your way here to this new site.
Scott Pfitzinger
Reference Librarian
FYI: Earlier today we were unable to oben a .pdf file from EBSCO while using Firefox.
However, the same file opened fine from Internet Explorer.
So, if one fails try the other!
-B
Newspaper and magazine articles prior to the mid-1900s can be found in the following sources:
The New York Times Index starting in 1851.
Poole’s Index to Periodical Literature starting in 1802.
The Readers Guide to Periodical Literature starting in 1890.
All indices are found in the Atrium of the Irwin Library; just left of the Reference Desk.
If you need help using these indices, or finding older articles, please ask for help at the Reference Desk!
-Brad
Would you like to find out what books have recently been added to the library catalog at Butler? Visit the library home page and click on “New Titles in our Catalog.”
You can enter search terms like a word in the title or the author’s
first or last name, or even part of the LC call number, and you can
sort by a variety of categories. For instance, a search term of ML will
give you all the literature on music that we’ve gotten in the last X
months.
As of now, wildcards (such as * or ?) are unavailable when searching
for new materials in the library, but if you just enter part of the
author’s name or a word from the title, it will display every record
that contains that fragment. Examples: the term “market” gives us
marketing, marketplace, etc.; “smi” yields authors with the name smith
or smit, or titles with the word blacksmith or dismiss.
The printers in
the Reference Department of Irwin Library now feature printing on both
sides of the page (duplex printing). If you would like to print
using only one side of the page, see the instructions posted next to
the machines in the Reference area.
-Sam
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