Reference Questions, 10/4/2010

I'm teaching 3 classes this week. The first one is today at noon. But for now, it's 8 a.m. on the reference desk.

1. Faculty member having trouble logging onto one f the reference computers
2. Faculty member looking for the DVD The Silent Lives of Boys
3. Questions about printing one sided
4. Student brought me a flash drive that had been left in a computer
   

Shift #2: Now it's time for the reference desk at the 3 o'clock hour. Rumor is that the emergency drill that we've been hearing about now for a few weeks is going down in the library sometime during this shift. Channel 7 News is here to cover it. Can we say slow news day. ;)

1. A reporter wanted to borrow a piece of paper
2. Looking for the bathroom.
3. APA in-text citation question
4. Looking for headphones
5. Looking for headphones
6. Looking for his lost flash drive
7. Wanted to know how to add cash to her RU Express for printing
8. Having trouble with Word 2010; had to restart the computer
9. (Chat) APA citation question
10. Wanted to know where to check out books
    

Well the drill happened about 4:10 or so and it cut about 40 minutes of of my 2 hour shift. A similarity between here and Jackson seems to be the APA citation questions. It is one of the most frequent questions I get. The same was true at Jackson. APA is a popular citation style and no one seems to understand it. :)