News and Microforms Reference Desk Blog

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Heads-up on New Class Assignment: TIKES project

Dr. Kristin Buss's lab will be pulling microfilm in order to find birth announcements in local newspapers.  They would like to leave a list of what months they have started working on at the desk so that they don't repeat work or miss a month.  There will be two undergrads (students) using the microfilm from the Altoona Mirror (E26), and they just need to keep track of what they have finished.

If you learn more about this assignment that you feel would be helpful to share, please add to blog.

Thanks.

Peggy

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course assignments

Comm 401: New instructor: First Assignment

The Comm 401 students (this is the class that has looked at the NYT Titanic stories) has a new instructor this term--Katie O'Toole (I hope you recognize that name and it IS related to our O'Toole News Magazine Collection).

Because she has a different philosophy from Dr. Risley we will just learn about these newspaper needs as the assignments come through, rather than in advance. The first assignment requires either of the two newspapers below from 1835-1850.  Show all students how to use the equipment and where  the call numbers are.

Let me know (or Peggy) if you have any problems.

Be sure you brush up on your Microfinder: Newspaper and Find E-Newspapers by Title skills.  Can you get to these sources quickly and show users how to use them.

 

Debora

Country: United States State: New York City: New York City
Title: New York Herald (New York, N.Y. : 1840)
Call number: Microfilm E101
Published: May 6, 1835 - March 18, 1924
News & Microforms Library Holdings: 1835 - 1919

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Country: United States State: New York City: New York City
Title: New York Herald Tribune
Call number: Microfilm E102
Published: April 10, 1841 - April 24, 1966
News & Microforms Library Holdings: 1841 - April 15, 1961; May 1, 1961 - 1966

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Scavenger Hunt to start soon

Someone from Life Sciences Library left a copy of a scavenger hunt sheet to alert us some students will be coming through News and Microforms for one of their "questions."  The students are being asked to locate the "microfilms" room and to name 5 other "category sources" (besides microfilm) for locating current information.

Life Sciences will be providing more information for us shortly regarding what the students are expected to name.  But, in the meantime, review the assignment sheet and let us know when students start coming through for this assignment.

Thanks.

Peggy

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Helpful Hint When Reporting Public Printing Problem

We've had some recent occurrences where the Libraires public network printer prints pages of non-legible crazy characters.  DLT has indicated that when resolving this type of printer problem, it can be helpful for them to know the source of the page the patron was trying to print.  

If you are able to determine from the patron the original source page and/or the URL of the page he/she was trying to print, make a note of that to include when submitting a Helpdesk ticket.  For example, was it a web page from a library database, was it a PDF page, a Word document page, a web page from outside the Libraries, etc.  A complete URL would be most helpful.

Being able to provide DLT with the URL of the source page for this printing problem can help them identify and resolve the problem.

Thanks.

Peggy

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