Reference at Newman Library

Sometimes students ask about subscriptions to the WSJ at a discounted rate.

The WSJ does offer student discounts as detailed on it website.  Of course, I show the students the access on Factiva and ABI Inform Global but sometimes they want their own subscriptions.

If you want to change the password to log into the blog, just follow the instructions in this video.

A few people have asked me lately how they could subscribe to the QuestionPoint mailing list. Postings to this list are pretty light; its main use is for up to the minute status updates on the stability of the service and news about restarts of the software when it is acting up (which has been too frequent lately).

Quoting from the QuestionPoint-L web page on the OCLC site, here’s how to subscribe:

All QuestionPoint users associated with an active QuestionPoint account are welcome to subscribe to this list.

This list is only for QuestionPoint members so please do not submit a subscription request unless you have a QuestionPoint ID number.

To request a subscription, send an e-mail message to David Leslie at [email protected] with the subject of “QuestionPoint list request”.

In the body of your message, include:

• Your name
• E-mail address
• Library name
• Your QuestionPoint logon ID number

Once we activate your subscription, you receive two e-mail messages:

• A confirmation of your subscription, with information about sending a message to the list, options for receiving a message, and removing yourself from the list. Save this cofirmation so you can refer to it later if needed.
• Usage guidelines for the list.

The list archives can be found on the Subscriber’s Corner page.

Saad Abulhab mentioned today that as of last Friday, the wireless network was permitting print jobs to be sent from Baruch laptops again (although there are some older laptops that haven’t had the Pharos printer connection set up yet). Just a reminder that patrons cannot send print jobs from their personal laptops, just the Baruch ones.

Saad Abulhab sent this out on LIBDL today and gave me permission to republish here.

It was brought to my attention that four student printers had a handwritten “out of order sign” placed on them last Friday. Please do not place any “out of order” signs without informing library systems staff first. If you must place a sign in some rare occasion, please let us know ASAP. Here is the procedure on handling problems on student printers:

• Changing “toners” or replacing “Maintenance kit” messages should be reported promptly to library systems staff during weekdays, and to BCTC help desk at night and weekends. Such problems can either be addressed shortly or within the next possible time.
• Paper Jams should be reported to systems staff or Alfredo during weekdays, and to BCTC helpdesk during nights and weekends.
• Paper refills are handled regularly by Alfredo and systems staff during weekdays, but should be handled by librarians, if no student helper from systems is scheduled, during weekends. The key is placed in the drawer. Please let us know if you need any training.

Since we have 10 printers now, students should be encouraged to use an alternative printer, not sent upstairs to complain to BCTC helpdesk. A brief servicing interruption on a printer or two should not affect our operation, as it did in the past.

Thanks for Prof. John Goering we have access to Property Shark which has real estate data.

It is available only at 2 of the reference computers, and needs a login, which is in the wiki.

His students have been told to come to the reference desk to use the database.