Are you a student who needs some individual training on a software program? Would you like someone to show you how to add video to a presentation? Or maybe how to add material to your e-portfolio in Chalk & Wire?
You can get training through the Information Commons! Please do not visit the Commons Desk and ask for immediate training, though. Instead, send an email to infocommons@butler.edu and one of our Information Commons Assistants will get back to you to set up an appointment. For more information, visit http://www.butler.edu/infocommons.
Online training materials can be found on the Instructional Technology website, including Online Training, ePortfolio materials, and the Digital Video Support Center.
RefWorks-COS is pleased to announce that the Alumni Program
will now be offered as a standard feature of RefWorks, providing lifelong
access to users that are alumni of subscribing institutions. As long as an
institution subscribes to RefWorks, alumni will have access, allowing them to
continue using their personal research databases for future professional and
academic endeavors.
Lifelong access to RefWorks will be an added benefit for
alumni, and help academic institutions maintain the healthy alumni
relationships that are so essential for donations, rankings and other ongoing involvement.
To learn more about the Alumni Program, please click here.
Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read is
observed during the last week of September each year. This year it is
from Sept. 26 – Oct. 3. Observed since 1982, the annual event reminds
Americans not to take this precious democratic freedom for granted.
Banned Books Week (BBW) celebrates the freedom to choose or the
freedom to express one’s opinion even if that opinion might be
considered unorthodox or unpopular. It stresses the importance of
ensuring the availability of those unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints
to all who wish to read them. After all, intellectual freedom can exist
only where these two essential conditions are met.
From 2001 to 2008, of the 3,736 challenges reported to or recorded by the Office for Intellectual Freedom:
- 1,225 challenges due to “sexually explicit” material;
- 1,008 challenges due to “offensive language”;
- 720 challenges due to material deemed “unsuited to age group”;
- 458 challenges due to “violence”
- 269 challenges due to “homosexuality”; and
Further, 103 materials were challenged because they were
“anti-family,” and an additional 233 were challenged because of their
“religious viewpoints.”
1,176 of these challenges (approximately 31%) were in classrooms;
37% were in school libraries; 24% (or 909) took place in public
libraries. There were less than 75 challenges to college classes; and
only 36 to academic libraries. There are isolated cases of challenges
to materials made available in or by prisons, special libraries,
community groups, and student groups. The majority of challenges were
initiated by parents (almost exactly 51%), while patrons and
administrators followed behind (10% and 8% respectively).
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There are now computers available to students in every quad/section of Irwin Library. We’ve had to use the built-in wireless capabilities of the iMacs to install some of them, which meant removing all Macs from the Reference Lab area. The end result is six more computers available to library patrons in different parts of the building.
Current Summary:
Basement: 2 PCs and 2Macs
in the Education Commons, 1 Mac in the Rich Media Room, 2 PCs in the
General area (where the newspapers used to be)
Main Floor: 25
PCs in the main lab (1 with Scanner), 1 group workstation in the back
of the Reference Collection, 2 group workstations in the Collaborative Learning Spaces
2nd Floor: 1 PC in SE quad, 2 wireless Macs (1 usable as a group workstation) in SW quad, 1 PC & 1 wireless Mac (group workstation) in NW quad, 1 PC in NE quad
3rd Floor: 1 PC in NW quad, 1 wireless Mac in NE quad
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