The Times recommended list

NY Times list
List from the Guardian

The first of the final data from the 2006 Census has been released today and is available now from the Statistics New Zealand website. 2006 Census data – Statistics New Zealand

Web page on end of year access to library and IT stuff.

The Card Coordinator is located in Rm 109 in the Science Block.

TODAY’S TRIVIA

Q. What is a splog?

A. A contraction of “spam” and “blog”, a splog refers to nonsense blogs that link to each other to make money through advertisements

(from the Scientific American Website )

Changes to topic searching.
Previously a term like global warming was searched as a phrase. Now it operates with an and so that you may retrieve the words separately and in any order within a record e.g. you will retrieve global climate change and ocean warming.

To search for a phrase place it in quotation marks. You can still use truncation in a phrase e.g. “neural network*”.

Note that previously saved searches retain their original intent. The number of these searches is displayed with pale green highlighting.

Author Finder
This is useful for differentiating between authors with the same surname and first initial. Following a 4-step process you can narrow your search by subject category and institution.

Links to this feature are below the Quick search box and on the General search screen under the Author search box.

RSS Feeds
You can now receive alerts using an RSS reader, as well as by email. You still need to be registered on Web of Knowledge to do this.

More information
Here’s a helpful training site

EndNote and Current Contents bookings are now available for classes in Nov./Dec.

Donna Barber has put in place the long awaited process that prevents New Book Display items from being issued during the one week ‘display only’ period. Should a borrower attempt to have an item from the New Book Display issued the on-screen message is very similar to that seen when a Recently received journal barcode is scanned. If in doubt please check the item’s status on the catalogue… Requests for the item can still be placed as before

…they are going away for extended periods of time and leaving their bags and books by a computer in the Den, when there are queues of people wanting to use a computer.

I suggest we conviscate their wallets…AJ