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
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
To all:
Business students who are looking for industry statistics (or similar
phraseology) with which to compare to a particular business (or
businesses) should see:
Industry Norms & Key Business Ratios: REF DESK HF 5681 .R25 I53 03-04
Despite what students may have heard (or misinterpreted) we do not have industry norms/ratios in electronic format.
However, you can compare company to company norms & ratios in
Research Insight, and to a lesser extent in Market Insight (peer group,
etc.). See Business Databases.
Brad
From 1
p.m. Fri., Sept. 2 through Mon., Sept. 5, the Butler
Libraries’ Catalog will provide ONLY Keyword searching. This is to
allow for some fixes involving Browse searching.
You can use Keyword to search for phrases with quotation marks around
the words, such as “catcher in the rye” — if you have any questions,
please do not hesitate to contact the Reference Desk at 940-9235.
-Amber
If you have used the Reference Department computers recently, you will
have noticed that we now have two new printers! Gone are the old
printers, with their problems and difficulties and slowness; now we
have two FAST printers!
As referenced in a previous blog post, these printers are not only
blazingly fast, but they can print duplex. You can save yourself the
weight and the library the paper cost by printing duplex whenever you
can. Be sure to let the printers finish printing before grabbing the
papers, because sometimes it sucks the paper back in to print on the
other side.
Because they print quickly and duplex, if you’re looking for your print
job in the pile, please remove the pile from the printer output tray
before searching for yours. Otherwise you may end up getting someone
else’s print job out of order and mixed up with yours.
Thanks for helping us keep a useful new tool working well.
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