Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Reference Questions, 2/21/2012

Two shifts on the desk today.
  1. Looking for the AP (Associated Press) style guide
  2. Looking for the APA style guide
  3. Needed help with the copier; that's a Front Desk problem
  4. Needed help citing a chapter in an edited book in APA; also showed him how to mine an article
  5. Needed help scanning. Also showed her how to use Paint to crop pictures.
  6. Looking for scholarly articles on empowerment and minority groups for a social work class; showed her the social work databases and walked her through how to use them
  7. A guy came (flashing his badge) in who was interviewing students for the FBI and he wanted to comendeer one of our classrooms for these interviews. This type of request was above my pay grade so I retrieved my supervisor to assist him.
  8. Had a question about how to cite a book in APA
  9. Needed help finding a book
  10. Looking for A princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
  11. Paper wasn't printing; didn't have enough money on her printing account
First shift was very busy, but I love it when students appreciate the help you give them. :)

  1. Needed to use the lock down browser.
Very slow second shift, not that I'm complaining. :)

2 comments:

  1. Glad you are feeling better.

    What do you mean by mining an article?

    What is a lock down browser?

    -Jill
    http://learninglibrarian.weebly.com

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  2. By mining an article I mean using the bibliography list of a particular article to find more relevant articles or books on your topic. A lock down browser is a program that the students here have to use to download any software they might need on the library computers. It prevents them from downloading viruses.

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