Bergey's Manual...

... is being used for an assignment. Do not let it be checked out.


Bergey's manual of systematic bacteriology / George M. Garrity, editor-in-chief.

Location: REFERENCE COLLECTION (Noncirculating)
Call Number: 589.90012 B496 Ed.2

Testing Resources

There have been some question recently, so I just want to make sure everyone is on the same page with regards to the resources we have to help people who are taking standardized tests.

1) Testing & Education Reference Center (TERC) solves the problem of everyone needing guides and practice tests at the same time by providing e-versions. Be aware though that each individual needs to create a personal account to actually click into the guide and practice tests. There is a practical reason for this. The practice tests are timed just as the real tests are timed. An individual account lets a person stop in the middle and then pick it up later where they left off. Most of our electronic resources allow individuals to create accounts, but for TERC it is pretty much necessary if they want to use it properly.

2) In the Career Collection we are removing print guides to the old GRE test and replacing them with guides for the new GRE. If a student cannot get a hold of one, please guide them to TERC

. It has the e-book version of Peterson’s Master the GRE 2011.

Don't Allow Special Permission Checkout for CRC and Merck

This week students are doing an assignment that requires them to use the latest editions of:

The CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
The Merck Index

Under no circumstances should you grant permission for these to be check out.

FRBRization

From: Melissa Marie Brooks
Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 9:33 AM
Subject: FRBRization in WCL and what you may see

Hi All,

I had a question brought to cataloging about why some editions of items show in WorldCat Local and others do not. This problem is part of the FRBRization of records in OCLC and the fact that there are several different levels of records available for items in OCLC. The example that was brought to my attention yesterday dealt with us having the 2^nd and 3^rd editions of a book. The 2^nd edition was showing in WCL as having holdings at CCL. An icon and entry for the 3^rd edition was also showing in WCL but was showing as having WorldCat Library Holdings and no CCL holding. If you would have clicked on the 2^nd edition hyperlink for view all formats, it would have shown that we own the 3^rd edition.

OCLC is aware of this issue with WorldCat Local and makes mention of it in the below findings in 2009 (p. 4 under Editions and FRBR).

I hope this information is useful.

http://www.oclc.org/worldcatlocal/about/213941usf_some_findings_about_worldcat_local.pdf

Melissa

Films on Demand -- Options for Creating Links

1) Regular link into the database - http://www.moreheadstate.edu/library/db/fod

2) Link in to a Subject Area - go to the subject area, click on 'page link', and then copy and paste the URL

3) Link in to a Record - go the record, look for the title or segment url, and then copy and paste the URL

4) Embedding a Video - go the record, click on 'embed video', and then copy and paste the code to embed

5) Creating a Playlist - create an individual account, follow the instructions for creating a playlist

6) Set up a Search Widget - send an e-mail to library@moreheadstate.edu to request the code for the widget

Summary of Reference Books of the Week (Spring & Summer 2011)

Reference Books of the Week
January - June 2011

• Famous First Facts
• Notable Last Facts
• The Foundation Directory
• Literary Market Place
• Chase's Calendar of Events
• The World Almanac and Book of Facts
• Kentucky Business Directory
• Consumer Reports Buying Guide
• Library and Book Trade Almanac
• American Reference Books Annual
• Short Story Index
• Current Biography
• Bibliographic Index

Periodical Check Out

Please review the Special Permissions Check Out procedures on pages 25 & 26 in the Reference Desk Manual.

Remember to tell the patron that they need to check out the item at the Circulation Desk. You may want to walk with the patron to the Circ. Desk and mention it to the staff person on duty.

Color Printing

From: Ray Bailey
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 9:52 AM
Subject: Color Printing

Everyone,

Pay-for-Print color printing is now available to library customers, via a color printer located in the LTL.

Each public computer in the library will now have a printer called "Library Pharos Printer B&W" which will be the default, and will print B&W copies for 7 cents/page as always. Now, there will also be a printer choice called "CCL Color Pharos Printer," which will print color copies at 60 cents/page.

As always, library staff can print small color jobs for free with the LTL staff printers. Larger jobs should be submitted to Document Services.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Ray

Alerting Services page updated

The 'Alerting Services' page has been brought up to date. Please review it.

Thanks

Paper for Printers & Copiers

In an effort to reduce the number of calls we need to make for paper, we've asked Document Services to deliver 8 boxes when we are close to running out (4 for Research Services Desk and 4 for Circulation Desk). If you run out of paper at the Research Services Desk, feel free to get some from the Circulation Desk. Folks at the Circulation Desk will make the call to 3-5000 for additional paper.

Different monitor

As you can plainly see, we have a different monitor for the time being here at the Research Help desk. The one that was here (one of the new ones) gave up the ghost while I was in the middle of trying to answer a reference question (on the telephone). Ophelia said this is not a really good monitor either and she is going to try to replace it very soon.

Student Employees and 2nd floor Scanning Station

Please remember that any student employee who does not have a time card in the drawer will need to talk to me before that are permitted to work.

Also, the scanning station upstairs on the 2nd floor is password protected. It is the same as the log-in and password used by the students for Voyager.

Thanks.

Reference Stat Sheets

We had no blank stat sheets when I came in to work today (Saturday), and no one here has any idea where they may be stored. I was thinking it might be a good idea to save a copy on the reference desk computer, that way we can print some out as they are needed.

Thanks,
Sasha

IMM Reference Transcript Log not working

Because of CMS updating I was unable to paste the chats into the log. I pasted into a word document that is on the desktop. I figured when those people get through with wonking us around we can paste them in then. Hopefully it will work again tomorrow and Sunday. Putting the 2 in after the www doesn't work for this site.

www2

If you are trying to link to a CCL web page and it's not working, put a 2 after the www
Or use http://www2.moreheadstate.edu/library until our site is updated.

ScienceDirect now has Image Search

Read about Image Search in ScienceDirect.

SFX Should be Working Well Now

The problem with SFX in which JSTOR and IIMPFT links were not connecting for off-campus users should now be fixed.

The only problem with linking inside of SFX that Mykie and I are aware of right now is the traditional problem of Lexis-Nexis not going directly to the article.

If any of you discover bad links in SFX please report them to Mykie. It is particularly helpful if you spot a bad link when you are connecting from home. You can Cc me for everything if you like, but if an error message mentions EZProxy, then definitely let me know about it.

Thanks

DOI Numbers

I had a phone call from a student today who needed a DOI number for an article being used. I had never heard of this before, and had no idea how to access it at all, particularly from our databases. I think our nursing students have to use it pretty often. I muddled through enough to get the number from another source, however, I thought it might be useful if someone who had the knowledge could explain exactly how to locate the number and whether or not the number is specific to the article only, or to the article and the place that is holding it. Or am I the only one who doesn't know?

:)


Sasha

A difference between SFX and Classic with regard to journals

Something to be aware of. The SFX menu will display links to freely available open-source versions of journals. The classic catalog record for the same journal will usually display our print holdings and any electronic access that we pay for.

At the moment we’re trying to figure out why some of these links in SFX are faulty. But even after we get them fixed everyone should realize that for any given journal there could be this disparity.

At the Ref Desk we have always treated the catalog record as the definitive source for our journal holdings. We should continue to do so with the understanding that SFX does contain some ‘extras’ that are not presently accounted for in the catalog record. As you can see from Mykie’s message below these may be worked into the catalog at some point in the future.

Tom

From: Mykie Howard
Sent: Friday, September 10, 2010 9:24 AM
To: Tom Kmetz
Cc: Mark Aaron Jarvis; Ophelia H. Chapman
Subject: RE: Why are Open Source Journals Insisting to be Proxied in SFX?

Anything that is “free” in SFX is not cataloged in Voyager. Perhaps that’s something Bridgette and I can look into in the future, but for now, we’re concentrating on pd. things. She’s still working on the recent JSTOR collections we purchased.


Mykie

Bug - EBSCOhost folder

THIS HAS NOW BEEN FIXED 9-29-2010

When you are searching in EBSCOhost and wish to select items for printing, e-mailing, or exporting you need to click on "add to folder" for each item and then run those operations after clicking into the folder.

At the moment the folder is not saving items that are clicked on. You will notice the when you try to connect to individual database such as AGRICOLA, ERIC, etc. However, the folder works fine when you use the default article search box on the library's home page.

This has been reported at other institutions, so it is system-wide bug that EBSCO is aware of and which they have made a top priority to fix.