September 2005 - Posts

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 5:26 PM

Library Blog Relocates

The Butler University Libraries' weblog, DawgBlog, has been moved to a new website. Our old blog host decided to "go commerical" and the result was an unacceptable change in how our blog looked and functioned and even how our blog posts looked. We have moved to CommunityServer, which is hosted locally, so we no longer have to concern ourselves with advertising or unwanted popups.

As the already existing posts were imported, we lost the authors attached to the invdividual posts, so I have added their names to ends of the posts, lest our readers think they were really all written by one person.

It is our hope that the new site will offer our readers greater stability and usability as we continue to improve our communication.

Thank you for your patience and for finding your way here to this new site.

Scott Pfitzinger
Reference Librarian

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Thursday, September 15, 2005 6:31 PM

Finding Old Newspaper Articles on Mark Twain

Newspaper and magazine articles prior to the mid-1900s can be found in the following sources:

The New York Times Index starting in 1851.

Poole's Index to Periodical Literature starting in 1802.

The Readers Guide to Periodical Literature starting in 1890.

All indices are found in the Atrium of the Irwin Library; just left of the Reference Desk.

If you need help using these indices, or finding older articles, please ask for help at the Reference Desk!

-Brad
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Wednesday, September 14, 2005 9:00 AM

New Books in the Library

Would you like to find out what books have recently been added to the library catalog at Butler? Visit the library home page and click on "New Titles in our Catalog."

You can enter search terms like a word in the title or the author's first or last name, or even part of the LC call number, and you can sort by a variety of categories. For instance, a search term of ML will give you all the literature on music that we've gotten in the last X months.

As of now, wildcards (such as * or ?) are unavailable when searching for new materials in the library, but if you just enter part of the author's name or a word from the title, it will display every record that contains that fragment. Examples: the term "market" gives us marketing, marketplace, etc.; "smi" yields authors with the name smith or smit, or titles with the word blacksmith or dismiss.
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Tuesday, September 13, 2005 1:10 PM

Duplex Printing Now the Default in Irwin Library!

The printers in the Reference Department of Irwin Library now feature printing on both sides of the page (duplex printing).  If you would like to print using only one side of the page, see the instructions posted next to the machines in the Reference area.

-Sam
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Monday, September 12, 2005 11:31 AM

Industry Norms & Business Ratios

To all:

Business students who are looking for industry statistics (or similar phraseology) with which to compare to a particular business (or businesses) should see:

Industry Norms & Key Business Ratios: REF DESK HF 5681 .R25 I53 03-04

Despite what students may have heard (or misinterpreted) we do not have industry norms/ratios in electronic format.

However, you can compare company to company norms & ratios in Research Insight, and to a lesser extent in Market Insight (peer group, etc.). See Business Databases.

Brad
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Monday, September 12, 2005 11:28 AM

Introducing NAXOS!

Want to listen to music online? For free? We have added a database to our collection of academic databases that allows that very thing!

The Naxos Music Library is an online collection of music that includes the complete Naxos, Marco Polo, and Dacapo catalogues of over 85,000 tracks. Genres covered include Classical, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music.

The database also provides access to notes on the works being played as well as biographical information on composers or artists. All these are accessible from computers on and off campus by signing on with your Butler user name and password.

The subscription currently limits us to 3 simultaneous users, so if you cannot get in, please try again in a few minutes. Also, when you're done listening, please click "Log Off" before you close the window, so another user can get in more quickly.

If you have any questions about Naxos, please contact our Reference Desk or Sheri Stormes, our Music & Fine Arts Librarian.
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Friday, September 02, 2005 9:58 AM

Butler Libraries' Catalog - Keyword Search ONLY - 9/2-9/5

From 1 p.m. Fri., Sept. 2 through Mon., Sept. 5, the Butler Libraries' Catalog will provide ONLY Keyword searching. This is to allow for some fixes involving Browse searching.

You can use Keyword to search for phrases with quotation marks around the words, such as "catcher in the rye" -- if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the Reference Desk at 940-9235.

-Amber
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Thursday, September 01, 2005 1:52 PM

New Printers in Reference

If you have used the Reference Department computers recently, you will have noticed that we now have two new printers! Gone are the old printers, with their problems and difficulties and slowness; now we have two FAST printers!

As referenced in a previous blog post, these printers are not only blazingly fast, but they can print duplex. You can save yourself the weight and the library the paper cost by printing duplex whenever you can. Be sure to let the printers finish printing before grabbing the papers, because sometimes it sucks the paper back in to print on the other side.

Because they print quickly and duplex, if you're looking for your print job in the pile, please remove the pile from the printer output tray before searching for yours. Otherwise you may end up getting someone else's print job out of order and mixed up with yours.

Thanks for helping us keep a useful new tool working well.
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