Butler Libraries have recently subscribed to a new online database. This one is a collection of over 950 full-text, peer-reviewed journals!
The ScienceDirect College Edition Health and Life Sciences Journal Collection is the world’s largest electronic collection of full text and
bibliographic information about science, technology, and medicine.
Clicking the link in our list of Indexes and Databases will take you to a list of all the journals that are available in this collection. To browse them, just click the title you’re interested in. Otherwise, you can do a QuickSearch by typing your search term(s) in the box at the top. If you want to do a more “advanced” search, click the green Search button at the top of the screen.
As usual, we will be extending our hours during Final Exam Week. Here is the schedule:
| Finals Week |
Irwin Library |
Science Library |
| May 2-4 (Tue.-Thu.) |
7 a.m. – 2 a.m. |
8 a.m. – 1 a.m. |
| May 5 (Fri.) |
7:30 a.m. – 9 p.m. |
8 a.m. – 9 p.m. |
| May 6 (Sat.) |
10 a.m. – 9 p.m. |
10 a.m. – 9 p.m. |
| May 7 (Sun.) |
10 a.m. – 2 a.m. |
10 a.m. – midnight |
| May 8 (Mon.) |
7:30 a.m. – 1 a.m. |
8 a.m. – midnight |
| May 9 (Tue.) |
7:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. |
8 a.m. – 5 p.m. |
As has also become tradition, we will be offering FREE coffee, tea, and cocoa in Irwin Library to aid in students’ studying processes. These “study aids” will be available the evenings of Tuesday through Thursday this week and also on Sunday night (the nights we’re open until 2:00am), beginning at 7:00 pm and running until about midnight.
The Reference Department will be suspending our usage study for the summer since the results will not be very meaningful. As of May 1, putting used Reference books on the cart before shelving will not be necessary. We will probably be starting it up again as of September 1.
Logging Reference TRANSACTIONS will still continue throughout the summer, even though the desk will not be staffed. If you pick up a call to the Reference Desk or if you answer a reference-type question in your office or around the library (including at the Circulation Desk), please log it at \\ben\library\Reference\Reference Tracking.xls or send me an IM or email and I’ll log it for you.
Thanks very much.
Scott
| Reference Desk Usage |
|
Counts |
Averages |
|
Phone |
Email |
IM |
Phone |
Email |
IM |
| Sep-05 |
28 |
19 |
4 |
55% |
37% |
8% |
| Oct-05 |
38 |
31 |
9 |
49% |
40% |
12% |
| Nov-05 |
29 |
9 |
16 |
54% |
17% |
30% |
| Dec-05 |
21 |
2 |
5 |
75% |
7% |
18% |
| Jan-06 |
15 |
6 |
2 |
65% |
26% |
9% |
| Feb-06 |
22 |
25 |
4 |
43% |
49% |
8% |
| Mar-06 |
27 |
26 |
17 |
39% |
37% |
24% |
| Apr-06 |
26 |
7 |
8 |
63% |
17% |
20% |
To answer a frequently asked question, every lab computer in the Irwin Library building will print to the IL_120_1 printers in the Reference Department, no matter what floor the computers are physically located.
Also, to turn off the duplex printing, here’s the shortcut version: Click print, click the Properties button next to the printer name, click the tab entitled Finishing, UNcheck the box next to “Print on Both Sides.” Click OK.
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