Back way into databases

Saturday I had an issue with a student not being able to get into the articles through EZ Proxy. He IM'd at 4:52 with the problem. I told him the zz password, he tried that with no luck. So I tried and also had no luck.

So I told him to go to www.linccweb.org, click "search a specific DB" and use his GCCC # and PIN. No GCCC number. So I added him to ALEPH by SSN and used the last 4 of his SSN as the PIN. He then got in.

I will ask Connie to double check his enrollment status this morning.

EDUSPACE UPDATE

OK...if you have a student who cannot log in to EDUSPACE, have them RIGHT CLICK on the login button at the top of the page (right under the tabs) and select OPEN IN NEW WINDOW. This gets the program out of Angel and the students that I've worked with have been able to login.

NOTE: you can click on this picture and see a larger version.

If that does not work, our tech guys told me to tell the student that because this is not a GCCC provided resource (even though they access it through Angel) they need to contact EDUSPACE tech support.

From their site: To contact technical support for Eduspace:visit our online support center or call 1-800-732-3223 x1 .

Printing a powerpoint issue

Don Rese (for one) has posted his powerpoints in ANGEL not in the regular way, which allows us to open up the powerpoint file outside of ANGEL.

He saves it as a Web document in PPT bofore posting it in ANGEL.

I thought at first that when this is done that there was no alternative and the syudent was stuck printing out the entire pages. Well, that's not right. Treat the PowerPoint web link as a file, saving it the same way as you would by right clicking the html link in ANGEL then saving it to the desktop as an html document.

The way to open it in PPT so you can print 3 pages with lines is to then open PPT by itself, then click on open then paste the WEB address into powerpoint.
It works.

Student Email!

The students MUST use all caps for the first part of their address.

Glad to be at GCCC Library!

We have had a tradition at our library of locating all books whose purchase price is over $30.00 in our reference collection which does not circulate to students.

Librarian
Eula Dees Memorial Library
Northeast Mississippi Community College
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No Kidding! Look at the catalog: http://www2.nemcc.edu/Library/WEBPAGE/Eula.htm

EDUSPACE

What's the story on Eduspace? I have a student who is struggling to log in and can't. I remember seeing a bunch of us trying to help someone else with this during the week.
I wasn't involved and don't know the outcome. Thanks.

Accunet

In the healt sciences folder (and the nursing folders) the is a program call ACCUNEt. If the student is haveing trouble logging in and is getting an error message you can just click through it and the login screan comes up. Thank to Betsy for discovering this. It has been reported to Information Technology.

Orientation Article scanning idea

This is from the CJCLS list. I thought it was an interesting idea:
During my library orientations for, let’s say an English 1A class, one of my topics is, “You are flooded with information. So, you have to learn scanning for scholarly articles because there is only so much time you have for writing a paper.”

Let’s take the Expanded Academic Index as an example. Having a list of 3,000 articles, then (1) check the length of an article: skip less than 1,000 words; 5,000+ words is an indication of being scholarly. (2) Frequency of publication: select preferably a quarterly publication = indication of being scholarly. (3) I prefer anything in the title of the journal with, “quarterly, review, journal, scholarly, studies,” etc. (4) Then check the title of the article whether it falls within your interest; if so, then open it. (5) I prefer a summary or abstract. (6) I prefer a paragraph on methodology of the study. (7) Is there supporting material, like graphs and statistics? (8) I expect a lengthy bibliography. --- The more mental checkmarks, the better the quality.

All the above shouldn’t take more than 15 - 20 seconds per article before deciding whether to skip it or to start reading the abstract. A+ students may also want to copy the first author and check in Google his/her background = is the author an authority?

I am explaining the above points (and the exceptions) while actually going through some examples. And for sure, what I am doing is certainly not unique. I suppose it is only one example of teaching “Critical thinking.”

Fred Brose

Printing eBooks

Printing pages from eBooks can be a pain.

If the book does not load in Adobe (some do, others don't) then it is very difficult to find out how to print a page.

There is a way, and you can print as many pages you like! You need to print them one page at a time, but use the old DOS method of using keyboard commands. NetLibrary doesn't let you right click anything, but if you select the page by left clicking anywhere on a bland part of the page then hit Ctrl and P at the same time you will get the print dialog box to print that page!