Comments Off on LibGuides are Coming

By Scott Pfitzinger, December 17, 2007 8:44 am

What are LibGuides?

LibGuides can be subject guides, info portals, class guides, community guides, research tips, or useful resources on any other topic.

In January of 2008, LibGuides will be replacing the Subject Resource Guides with better-organized, more dynamic and flexible collections of links, book lists, research help, multimedia, RSS feeds, search results, and other information useful to faculty and students alike.

The LibGuides system combines the best features of social networks, wikis, bookmarks and blogs to help librarians share knowledge and promote library resources to the community.

LibGuides also integrates with Facebook, where information is instantly available via the LibGuides app!

Comments Off on Tutorial Usage for Fall 2007 – FINAL

By Scott Pfitzinger, December 13, 2007 10:47 am

The semester is now over, so here are the final statistics for Fall 2007.

Library Basics Tutorial – 113 people took the quiz a total of 125 times with a 9.03 average (out of 10)

Plagiarism Tutorial – 275 people took the quiz a total of 413 times with an 8.66 average

Music Major Tutorial – 29 people took the quiz a total of 38 times with a 7.53 average

Comments Off on Library Hours During Finals Week

By Scott Pfitzinger, December 10, 2007 1:41 pm

Dec. 8 (Saturday)

• Irwin:
  10 a.m. – 9
  p.m.;
• Science:
  10 a.m. – 9
  p.m.

Dec. 9 (Sunday)

• Irwin:
  10 a.m. – 2
  a.m.
• Science:
  10 a.m. – 1
  a.m.

Dec. 10 -13 (Monday through
Thursday)

• Irwin: 7 a.m. – 2 a.m.
• Science: 8 a.m. – 1 a.m.

Dec. 14 (Friday)

• Irwin:
  7:30 a.m. – 7
  p.m.
• Science:
  8 a.m. – 8
  p.m.

Dec. 15 (Saturday)

• Irwin:
  10 a.m. – 2
  p.m.
• Science:
  10 a.m. – 2
  p.m.

Dec. 16 (Sunday)

• Irwin and Science:
  Closed

Comments Off on Library on your Google Toolbar

By Scott Pfitzinger, December 5, 2007 2:13 pm

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.)

Comments Off on Reference Printers – The Final Saga

By Scott Pfitzinger, December 4, 2007 11:07 am

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