A Lift no. 11 – the lift closest to the Help Desk is not working. The fault was reported to Security at 11.15am today.

Alison Mc

The Times recommended list

NY Times list
List from the Guardian

Help Desk phone should be forwarded to ext. 7199. The procedure will be:
Evening: *49 7199
Morning: #49 (no need to enter 8723)

No longer kept in the library for more than one day. Goes to Security daily.
Wallets must have a form filled out by the student finding it and staff member accepting it.

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