Students
The library tutorials are accessed through the front page of the library website. A direct link is http://www.butler.edu/library/?pg=650. Work your way through the tutorials at your own pace.
Once
you’ve completed the tutorial, there may be a quiz available to make
sure you’ve learned what is expected. These quizzes are available in
Blackboard. Simply log into Blackboard and look under “My
Organizations” for the one called Library Tutorials. All freshmen will be added by Friday, August 31. If you do not have it listed there, please contact spfitzin@butler.edu and request to be added to the Library Tutorials organization.
Faculty
We
encourage faculty members to assign any library tutorials and quizzes
that may be relevant to their classes. The library tutorials are
accessed through the front page of the library website. A direct link
is http://www.butler.edu/library/?pg=650.
After
completing the assigned tutorial(s), students can take the
corresponding quiz in Blackboard, under the organization called Library Tutorials. If they do not have it listed under “My Organizations,” please have them contact spfitzin@butler.edu
and request to be added to the Library Tutorials organization. By
default, only freshmen are added to this organization. If you have
students that need to take the quiz(zes) and are not freshmen, please
send a list of those students to spfitzin@butler.edu and they will be added.
Students’ quiz scores can be sent to you upon request. Please see the Library Tutorials and Quizzes page for more information.
Subject: Irwin Library Course Reserves
To avoid the fall rush faculty are
encouraged to submit their print and electronic reserves ASAP. To expedite the
process please keep these things in mind:
- Reserves submitted without the
appropriate form may take several weeks to process
- All forms need to be filled out
legibly and completely
- Items are processed in the order
that they are received
- Faculty submitting large numbers of
print items (i.e., 30 or more) may be asked to remove items as the semester
progresses
- Unless noted on the appropriate
form, all items are removed from reserves at the end of each
semester
For guidelines and forms see the
following:
Print Reserves: http://www.butler.edu/library/index.aspx?pg=886
E-Reserves: http://www.butler.edu/library/index.aspx?pg=885
Access Services Dept., Irwin
Library
Irwin Library now has 6 iMac computers available for use in the Reference Dept. computer lab. They are located by the blue chairs in the row along the windows.
The publicly accessible computers in the Irwin Library have all been upgraded to Windows XP! This includes the computers on every floor.
Now you’ll be able to easily burn CDs and zip/unzip files right from within Windows’ “My Computer” application.
Greetings, all. For those of you who deal with citations and bibliographic formats and all, there a relatively new (June 2007) tool that I’d like you to try. It’s called BibMe and is online at http://www.bibme.org/. From what I read from the reviews of other librarians, it’s not only a free program but is good at creating bibliographies quickly and easily. Emily Chang at eHub says:
“BibMe can generate citations in MLA, APA and Chicago style (which you
can change on the fly), and I found it took half the time to create a
bibliography than any other tool I have used. Like its commercial competitors, BibMe has an extensive search function
that can find and generate a detailed citation by entering a few
keywords. Registration is simple and non-intrusive, and once you have
an account you can save and edit your bibliographies.”
I would be interested in the thoughts and opinions of OUR staff about this product. Please give it a try when you have a few minutes and then share your thoughts in the form of comments to this post.
Thanks very much.
Scott
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