Finals and Farewells

With finals upon us, some of you may need some last minute, midnight hour books for your final papers. Be sure and click on the two links in the Trials section of the website. You'll find it under "What's New" on the lower right of the website.

One is for ProQuest ebrary Collection Trial, the other is for EBSCO eBook Academic Collection Trial.

In ProQuest, after you enter your search phrase, you'll retrieve a lot of books as well as a set of subject areas so you can narrow your topic down nicely. I recommend you watch the date of publication, and aim to look at titles on about 30 books in your subject area.

You'll find a completely different set of ebooks in the EBSCO Academic Collection. It's a smaller, more limited result set: be sure to expand the subject set to see what areas the ebooks cover. There's also a category list, which gives more options.

I'm interested to know which you prefer, as we make our selection of one or the other. Please comment!

-Micaela

P.S. Farewell to some wonderful students I've met this semester: student workers here in the library and other students in my ceramics class. Blessings!

Year in Review 2012

The Newsbank people are providing special reports as outlined here. Perhaps one of the topics will prove useful as Butler students prepare their final papers and study for final exams:

NEWSBANK SPECIAL REPORTS

December 2012 – Update

New Special Report - Year in Review 2012 - covering the important issues and events that made news this year.

NewsBank’s Special Reports are news articles, images, videos and other useful content grouped for convenience under specific topics and themes. Easily accessible within NewsBank resources, they enable users to quickly locate information on a specific subject while helping them gain better insight into current issues and events on a global scale. Each Report features current and retrospective coverage, and new articles are added daily. Special Reports constitute a unique value to your users, and are included with your NewsBank subscription. There are over 50 Reports to be sure the information you need is always available.

All Special Reports are accessed from the left side bar on your online resource menu page at infoweb.newsbank.com, on search screens and the Other NewsBank Products link in full-text newspaper products. We suggest adding a link to these Reports on your library webpage under all relevant subject areas.

Featured Special Reports covering current issues and events that may be of particular interest to you at this time.

Natural Disasters

Issues in the News

World Economics

World Environment

World Health

World Politics and Government

Education Around the World

Science and Health in the News

Terrorism and Conflict

Watch for the release of additional current events and issues featured throughout the month as news happens.

Let the Holidays Begin!

The Butler Libraries invite you to share the spirit of the season at our Holiday Open Houses!

The Butler Ladies perform, 2011

At BOE, festivities begin at 2:00 pm on Thursday, Nov. 29th with a holiday concert featuring The Butler Chamber Singers and The Butler Ladies vocal groups. Enjoy refreshments while listening to terrific music performed by Butler’s finest. There’s a special surprise in store for those of you who find yourself in the 600 Building, 2nd floor, El Dorado campus library at exactly 2 pm.

At BOA, stop in at the Andover 5000 Library Open House across from the bookstore for conversation, cookies and other treats all day long during our hours 9 am to 7 pm.

Happy Holidays from all of us at both campus libraries – we hope to see you this Thursday.

--The Butler Libraries Staff

Any of you Butler students from...?

The Jared Daniels Band shares some iconic images of Kansas in their new music video "My Hometown"

EBooks Mystery

Check out this story about eBook publishers and libraries trying to purchase eBooks from Heather Braum's email post today:

It's worth a read and is a good piece to educate those who ask why the library doesn't have "this title" in ebook format.

The State Library of Kansas' Facebook page, "The Big 6", gets a mention in the story:

>From the Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/art-brodsky/the-mystery-of-the-missin_b_2131277.html
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Heather Braum
Digital and Technical Services Librarian
Northeast Kansas Library System
hbraum@nekls.org

4317 W. 6th St.
Lawrence, KS 66049
Office: (785) 838-4090
Fax: (785) 838-3989

http://www.nekls.org/ | http://www.nexpresslibrary.org/

Holiday Shopping Tip: Buying Books Online Is a 'Last Resort'

Holiday Shopping Tip: Buying Books Online Is a 'Last Resort'

Visit The Book Grinder in El Dorado this season... great books, prices, and cats.

Technology Survey for College Students

Would you like to win an iPad? Do you want to help your library? How about adding your voice to a global survey about technology? If you have 15 minutes, you have enough time to participate in a global study about undergraduate college students, information literacy, and e-resources.

Participants will be automatically entered to win a brand new iPad, and anyone who takes part in the survey will be contributing to the research on libraries and technology today. Please find the survey link below. Questions or comments may be submitted to shiva.darbandi@credoreference.com

The survey:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/official_e-resources_il_survey