This summer the Irwin Library Reference Collection was changed.
- Some
older materials were pulled from Reference and moved to the circulating
collection or the Annex (in the basement).
- Books were shifted around
and one book stack was eliminated completely.
- The Career Reference
collection was moved to the end of the Reference materials (after the
Z’s).
This
is to help meet our Reference Goals of keeping a lean, current, usable
Reference Collection, where all the materials are the best in their
subject area. Rather than trying to collect everything on every topic,
like larger libraries might, we are trying to provide the best of the
best. That way you don’t have to determine for yourself which of a
dozen resources is the best to use. We’ve done that for you.That will
mean, however, that books will not be in the same place you used to
find them. They have all shifted around a little.If you have any
questions, please stop by the Reference Desk or contact us at Ask A Librarian.
To all:
The reference copy of the APA Style Manual (5th ed.) has gone missing.
I have rush ordered two replacement copies for reference.
In the meantime I have a 5th ed. copy in my office and we have the 4th ed. in the stacks.
-B
To all:
I recently met with someone in the Writer’s Studio regarding an instruction project that I am working on.
While I was there I noticed that they have handouts and bookmarks that
promote and explain their services. So, if you get a patron who needs
citing help and you can’t answer their question (or are not comfortable
doing so), please give them a handout, bookmark, and refer them to the
Writer’s Studio
These will also come in handy for those patrons who try to get us to help them write their papers!
Both are located on top of the white SRG holder. (in the rack with the local libraries maps)
You can also refer them to this page:
http://www.butler.edu/writersstudio/
-B
The ERIC database overhaul is still an
incomplete project as the fall semester begins. In recent weeks,
they have begun to add newer material (2004) to the ERIC site, but
until Ebsco signs an agreement with ERIC, no articles or documents
newer than 2003 will show up in Ebsco ERIC. A quick check of the
journals currently indexed by ERIC shows that only a small percentage
of the publishers of titles previously indexed by ERIC have reached an
agreement with ERIC to allow indexing of their recent issues. For
now, advise everyone to make sure that they search Professional
Development Collection as well as ERIC to maximize the number of
current journal articles found on education topics. The good news
is that eventually, there should be much more full text available
in ERIC. When the contractor finally finishes adding the
backfile, content should be within a month of current. I have no idea
how long it will take to reach that goal.
-Renee
The Reference Department in the library is performing a Usage Study. We
are trying to track what materials are used from our Reference
Collection and how often they are used.
Please help us perform this study by not
reshelving books that use from the General Reference or Music Reference
collections. Instead, please leave them on a table for a librarian to
pick up. Those books will be scanned and documented before we reshelve
them.
Thanks for your help in allowing us to create a continually better and more relevant Reference section for you.
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