Within the next two weeks some COMS 101 students may ask for help with a compulsory library exercise. There are 240 enrolled. The exercise was prepared by me, and I tried to make it clear enough for them to follow unaided, but some will probably need help anyway. It is designed to familiarise them with finding library resources beyond the course reading list, using the COMS portal, the catalogue, and on the level 4 and reference collection shelves. They have to find and cite a chapter in an edited book and a journal article, following the Harvard author-date style as linked on the COMS portal under Citation Guides.
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Rels 104 tapes
Rels 104 students may ask for lecture tapes on Restricted Loan. Their lecturer has been reminded that the library no longer provides this service and that they need to be put on Blackboard. Currently there is no Blackboard course for Rels 104.
Change machine out of order again
Marilyn has been notified. Will be serviced after 2pm today.
Journal surf password
The password for journal surf, an index to the NZ School journal, is now in the password box at the Help Desk.
Username: ucel
Password: jsurf
A Hipper Crowd of Shushers
Number 5 in the 10 Most Read Articles on NYTimes.com from July
A Hipper Crowd of Shushers
By KARA JESELLA
Published: July 8, 2007
A new type of librarian is emerging: think Dewey Decimal meets Generation X.
Change machine
Change machine is “Out of order”
Left a message at copy centre for them to fix it tomorrow.
School journal abbreviation: SW
Hi,
School journals are a hot topic at the moment. An abbreviation from Journalsurf not listed in the index is SW.
This stands for Journal of Secondary Students’ Writing. You can search for this by alphabetical title, but not series. There are some at the very end of the School journal sequence (bottom right shelf as you enter the School journal Room) but we only have one copy of the most common one.
It is “This other place”, containing the story “Bird in the Hand” by Anita Bush. (I have been asked for this 3 times now).
Currently, our NZEC copy is on Jane’s desk while others are ordered.
Kim
Health and Physical Education : the curriculum in action
There is now a set of seven departmental copies placed in 3 hour loan under HEA. I have also included in the box a list of all the Health and Physical Education booklets we own and where they currently are shelved (mostly LC now). Please encourage the students to do a “Series begins with” search under “Health and Physical” to pick up all the titles in the series. SMc
Mopier toner
Marilyn has provided a spare toner cartridge for the Den mopier (size 70A) in case the automatic email doesn’t reach her in time. It will be kept under the Help Desk. At the current rate of usage a new toner cartridge may be required every 3-4 weeks, so please take the time to familiarize yourself with the very simple installation procedure.
Colour printer/photocopier has been turned off at wall until problems sorted out. Other printing problems have been reported today and IT are working on it.