We now have IP authenticated access to these two resources, thanks to CUNY OLS.
It can be somewhat misleading as the paid articles have a key next to them, but since we have the subscription, users can click through and access the content.
References Services Schedule For Week of June 27
This scheduled has now been confirmed and is posted on the Reference Desk LibGuide.
Bankscope access restored
Bankscope is now available. Thank you for your patience.
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
Revised Reference Services Schedule for week of: June 13
changes have been made for Professors Donnelly and Tuthill.
Revised Reference Schedule for week of: June 13
revisions were made to the assignments of Ellen, Harry, and Jin from yesterday’s distribution and this revision is now posted on the Reference Desk LibGuide.
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.
Bankscope temporarily unavailable
Bankscope is temporarily unavailable until further notice. Apologies for the inconvenience.
Wiki Updates on Friends Memberships and CAPS Students
As a followup to Arthur’s email this week about annual memberships for the Friends of the Newman Library and about library privileges for CAPS students, I’ve updated the relevant pages in the reference wiki. Please take a look at these two pages and make any further corrections that are necessary:
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.