Reference at Newman Library

Year: 2011

Envelope for Karen Brown at ref desk

As I will be out tomorrow, heading to the SLA conference that has some meetings on Saturday, I’ve left an inter-department mail envelope for Karen Brown in the spot at the reference desk where we leave envelopes to be picked up by others.  I have emailed Karen about the envelope.  Have a good weekend and week.  Rita

Roman Numerals in Page Navigator Feature of Ebrary

I recently noticed that an ebook that is required reading for a class this summer, the Gower Handbook of Internal Communication, shows something very odd in the page navigator part of the ebrary interface (see my annotated screenshot): instead of Arabic numerals you see Roman ones. This is not normally the case, as can be seen in this screenshot I took of a page in another book we have in ebrary, The Accidental Billionaires.

This problem has been reported to Mike Waldman. Support at ebrary has been notified. If you notice this problem occurring in any other title in ebrary, make a mention of here in the comments for this post.

Pew Internet Research Data

The Pew Research Center has started providing raw survey data that they collect from their Internet and American Life Project on their new Data Sets page. You can search by date or topic for surveys they’ve done back to 2003. Recent surveys include: The Social Side of the Internet, Purchasing Content Online, Health Tracking, and Cell Phone Use.

This is primarily raw data – people who want to do number crunching can download the data in SPSS or CSV format. This is survey data – variables are provided for weighting the data for use in analysis and for estimating total populations. Summary tables and the survey questionnaire are available in Word format.