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Business Video Collection

spfitzin — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:15:00 GMT

We are pleased to announce that Business Source Complete now includes a business video collection with 55 videos from the Harvard Business School Faculty Seminar Series, at no additional charge.

The series features engaging video lectures from renowned professors and experts at the Harvard Business School. All lectures are captured from executive education programs, and offer groundbreaking ideas, insightful research, and practical advice on management issues.

The videos contain a table of content allowing the selection of a specific topic. Most lectures provide a transcript in PDF format.

Texting the Information Commons

spfitzin — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:45:00 GMT

Now you can get research assistance from the Information Commons via your cell phone. You can always call us at 317-940-9235 and talk to us but now you also have the option of texting us.

Just text 265010 and in the body of the text type "buinfocommons: yourmessage." (Note: You may be charged by your wireless service provider.)

Visit http://www.butler.edu/library/ask for more ways to contact the Information Commons.

Student Training

spfitzin — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:00:00 GMT

Are you a student who needs some individual training on a software program? Would you like someone to show you how to add video to a presentation? Or maybe how to add material to your e-portfolio in Chalk & Wire?

You can get training through the Information Commons! Please do not visit the Commons Desk and ask for immediate training, though. Instead, send an email to infocommons@butler.edu and one of our Information Commons Assistants will get back to you to set up an appointment. For more information, visit http://www.butler.edu/infocommons.

Online training materials can be found on the Instructional Technology website, including Online Training, ePortfolio materials, and the Digital Video Support Center.

October 2009 is National Information Literacy Awareness Month

sneal — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:26:00 GMT

Check out President Obama's declaration of October 2009 as National Information Literacy Awareness month: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Presidential-Proclamation-National-Information-Literacy-Awareness-Month/. The statement points to many concepts that are taught here at Butler during library instruction sessions.

RefWorks Now Available to Alumni

spfitzin — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:08:00 GMT

RefWorks-COS is pleased to announce that the Alumni Program will now be offered as a standard feature of RefWorks, providing lifelong access to users that are alumni of subscribing institutions. As long as an institution subscribes to RefWorks, alumni will have access, allowing them to continue using their personal research databases for future professional and academic endeavors.

Lifelong access to RefWorks will be an added benefit for alumni, and help academic institutions maintain the healthy alumni relationships that are so essential for donations, rankings and other ongoing involvement.

To learn more about the Alumni Program, please click here.

Banned Books Week begins Sept. 26

spfitzin — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:34:00 GMT

Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read is observed during the last week of September each year. This year it is from Sept. 26 - Oct. 3. Observed since 1982, the annual event reminds Americans not to take this precious democratic freedom for granted.

Banned Books Week (BBW) celebrates the freedom to choose or the freedom to express one's opinion even if that opinion might be considered unorthodox or unpopular. It stresses the importance of ensuring the availability of those unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints to all who wish to read them. After all, intellectual freedom can exist only where these two essential conditions are met.

From 2001 to 2008, of the 3,736 challenges reported to or recorded by the Office for Intellectual Freedom:

1,225 challenges due to “sexually explicit” material;
1,008 challenges due to “offensive language”;
720 challenges due to material deemed “unsuited to age group”;
458 challenges due to “violence”
269 challenges due to “homosexuality”; and

Further, 103 materials were challenged because they were “anti-family,” and an additional 233 were challenged because of their “religious viewpoints.”

1,176 of these challenges (approximately 31%) were in classrooms; 37% were in school libraries; 24% (or 909) took place in public libraries. There were less than 75 challenges to college classes; and only 36 to academic libraries. There are isolated cases of challenges to materials made available in or by prisons, special libraries, community groups, and student groups. The majority of challenges were initiated by parents (almost exactly 51%), while patrons and administrators followed behind (10% and 8% respectively).

Links

Banned Books Week 2009
About Banned & Challenged Books (and the difference between them)
Banned Books Week Video: I'd Like to Find *BLEEP*
Why Banned Books Week?
The Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2008

The 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of the 1990s

Reserve a study room at Irwin Library!

bmatthie — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:40:00 GMT

Did you know that Irwin Library has two reserveable study rooms?

To find out more please check this link.

Chalk & Wire

spfitzin — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 20:30:00 GMT

If you are a student interested in training for Chalk & Wire, please visit the list of I.T. Training Sessions. The Information Commons will be supporting use of Chalk & Wire, but not actually performing initial training. That will be done in the I.T. Training Sessions and in individual classes as professors begin to use it.

We Have the Answers

spfitzin — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:05:00 GMT

Are you looking for answers? We have them!

Try BUAnswers. It's like an FAQ on steroids. If you don't see your question listed, you can ask us and we'll post an answer and email it to you.

New Library Website!

bmatthie — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:13:00 GMT

Library Website Updated

The Butler Libraries have updated their website this summer. Any faculty using links to library webpages or screenshots in a syllabus should please verify them before finalizing the syllabus. LibGuides, RSS feeds, and links to databases have not changed.

New Computers in Irwin

spfitzin — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:24:00 GMT

There are now computers available to students in every quad/section of Irwin Library. We've had to use the built-in wireless capabilities of the iMacs to install some of them, which meant removing all Macs from the Reference Lab area. The end result is six more computers available to library patrons in different parts of the building.

Current Summary:

Basement: 2 PCs and 2Macs in the Education Commons, 1 Mac in the Rich Media Room, 2 PCs in the General area (where the newspapers used to be)
Main Floor: 25 PCs in the main lab (1 with Scanner), 1 group workstation in the back of the Reference Collection, 2 group workstations in the Collaborative Learning Spaces
2nd Floor: 1 PC in SE quad, 2 wireless Macs (1 usable as a group workstation) in SW quad, 1 PC & 1 wireless Mac (group workstation) in NW quad, 1 PC in NE quad
3rd Floor: 1 PC in NW quad, 1 wireless Mac in NE quad

Interlibrary Loan System Undergoing Maintenance

spfitzin — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:02:00 GMT

Due to routine upgrades, our interlibrary loan system will be unavailable on Monday, July 27 and Tuesday, July 28. Normal service should resume on Wednesday, July 29. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Library Awarded Digitization Grant Funds

spfitzin — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:04:00 GMT

The Butler Libraries have received a Library Services and Technology (LSTA) grant of $8,015 from the Indiana State Library to support the work of the Friesner Herbarium in digitizing its collections of Indiana specimens.

The 20th century history of Indiana's flora is captured in Friesner herbarium specimens and their collection labels. Currently, knowledge of and access to the collection is limited.

This project will create digital images of ca, 1,800 Indiana fern and orchid specimens housed in the Friesner herbarium of Butler University and post them along with associated metadata on Butler University servers with links to the Indiana Memory site of the Indiana State Library. Our goal is increase access to, awareness of and use by all citizens of Indiana.

Semester Break Hours

bmatthie — Mon, 04 May 2009 15:47:00 GMT

SEMESTER BREAK	IRWIN	SCIENCE
May 6 - 8 (Wed. - Fr.)	8 a.m. – 5 p.m.	8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
May 9 - 10 (Sat. - Sun.)	CLOSED	CLOSED

For 2009 Summer Library Hours please see this link:

http://www.butler.edu/library/?pg=524

Thesis Binding

bmatthie — Fri, 01 May 2009 12:16:00 GMT

Graduates:

Do you need to get your thesis bound?

If so please check out the policy page for specifics!