Reference at Newman Library

Year: 2009

More on the projector in Room 135

Last Thursday night, for a SLA-NY meeting that was held in room 135, Milwood Hughes made some adjustments to the settings for the projector in the room. There were no problems during the meeting which lasted 2.30 hours. (Milwood had been contacted about bringing a mike for the speaker and we set up at 5 p.m.)

Rita

CCH Intelliconnect–a new way to search CCH

Starting this week, the Newman Library’s access to the CCH databases CCH Business & Finance, Capital Changes, and CCH Tax Research may be made through their new CCH Intelliconnect. (CCH’s Accounting Research Manager is not yet included in Intelliconnect.)

When you select any of the CCH databases listed on the Newman Library homepage, you will be promoted to sign up for Intelliconnect. I would suggest using your Baruch email address. Your password is your own choice.

Intelliconnect allows you to search everything we subscribe to from CCH. You can narrow your search to start with by going to Practice Areas. To eliminate areas to search, deselect them. For example, if you want only to search CCH Capital Changes, it is listed under CCH at Wall Street. Deselect everything but Capital Changes to run your search.

CCH has put together some quick two minute tutorials on searching that are to be recommended.

Basically, you can run a search and then filter your results through filters that appear in the left column.

I’m going to talk with Mike about how to best describe the new IntelliConnect on the Newman Library homepage and we’ll keep you posted.

QuestionPoint Chat Still Having Problems

The issue I reported a few weeks ago with chat sessions freezing up and a “Connect lost. Please wait.” error message coming up still has not been fixed by QuestionPoint yet. While chatting yesterday, I got four of those messages in four separate chat sessions. Each time, I was reconnected to the session after waiting anywhere from 30 seconds to 2 minutes. If it happens to you, just wait for the error message to go away and the chat monitor to return you to where you left off (in other words, don’t click anything until the system sorts itself out).

I reported each of the incidents to QuestionPoint support yesterday and emailed my fellow board members of the Question 24/7 Reference Advisory Board to see if they were seeing similar problems (they were). No word yet from QuestionPoint about when this problem will be fixed.

Making Your Author Name Appear in Blog Posts

The default setting in WordPress for your account uses your user name instead of your real name in the author field for any blog posts you write. So that it is more obvious to everyone who wrote which post, please login to WordPress for this blog and update your name information in the “Profile” section. Here is how:

  1. Login to WordPress
  2. Once logged in, you’ll be at the “Dashboard” for this blog. In the upper right corner, look for where it says “Howdy” and then has your user name. Click your user name.
  3. After clicking your username, you’ll be on your “Profile” page. Scroll down to the “Name” section, enter your first name and last name in the appropriate boxes. Then scroll down to the bottom of the page and click the “Update Profle” button.
  4. Whent the page reloads, scroll down to the names section again and where it says “Display name publicly as” select the option that gives you your first and last name.
  5. Then scroll down to the bottom of the page and click the “Update Profle” button to save that setting

Please call me at x1620 if you have any problems with this.

Continuation of problem with projector in Room 135

Yesterday Chris blogged about his problem with the projector in Room 135.

Although I had no trouble getting the projector in room 135 to come on, during my presentation it quit working. I assumed that the bulb had burnt out. However, when I was closing up the computer, about an hour later, the projector came back on (I hadn’t touched anything.) I submitted a help desk request to have it looked at.

Rita

MYOB software

There are students asking for access to the MYOB accounting software. It is available on the PCs at the BCTC.

Simnet

Students can practice for the Simnet Assessment Test (Microsoft Excel Skills) using the Simnet Xpert software on the BCTC computers (PCs). According to the Help Desk, this version should be sufficient for those with some Excel knowledge/experience. For those new to Excel, the Simnet CD ROM available at the bookstore should be purchased. The cd rom has more tests/exercises.

For a listing of software at computer labs, go here:
http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/bctc/software/Softwareforstudents.htm