Sunday, November 6, 2011

Reference Questions, 11/6/2011

Sundays are always very long shifts (7 hours to be exact). Hopefully I can be productive today.
  1. (Email) Having trouble getting into Ulrich's from their personal computer
  2. Printer wasn't printing his paper
  3. Stapler was empty
  4. Wanted to know how to add printing money to her account
  5. Grad student looking for a quiet, secluded place to grade papers
  6. Wanted to know how to print in color
  7. Looking for headphones
  8. (Chat) Looking for scholarly articles on nurses and alcoholism programs. CINAHL to the rescue
  9. Student had spilled a latte all over a computer work area. Thankfully the computer was spared.
  10. Looking for labs that have the Peachtree software. It looks like that is in Walker and the Bonnie
  11. Had emailed a link of an article from a database and couldn't get the link to work. I explained to him that database links are not permanent. I then showed him how to search some databases and email the articles to himself.
  12. Needed to add printing money
  13. Wanted to know when the library closed
  14. Wanted to know if the library had his business calculus book
  15. Wanted me to tell him where to find a specific book in the library
  16. (Chat) Looking for articles on lesbian rappers
  17. Wanted to borrow a highlighter
  18. (Chat) Wanted to know how to cite a cartoon in APA for a Prezi presentation
  19. Looking for a classroom with a large dry erase board
  20. Looking for a pen that writes in green
  21. Wanted to know how to get to the research search engine. Sigh. This guy was definitely an upper class man. I explained to him what our databases are and how they work/how you find the different ones for your major.
  22. Vending machine decided not to give a student his drink, again. This seems to happen about once a week.
  23. Wanted to know when the library closed
It was a steady afternoon, and I was able to get a little work done. Yay me.

3 comments:

  1. How to cite a cartoon sounds interesting. I'm guessing it would be the same as a poem or short story? What did you come up with?

    -Jill
    http://learninglibrarian.weebly.com

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  2. Actually they wanted to just cite the image. They were using it in a presentation. So I had them cite like they would cite it in a paper, as a figure. APA is soooo much fun. ;)

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  3. Oh, I see.

    We looked up how to cite a comic strip cartoon and couldn't find APA guidelines, but MLA has them. In MLA, a comic is cited the similarly to a magazine article. Yeah, I'm a little weird; I like citations and find the variances between styles intriguing.

    -Jill
    http://learninglibrarian.weebly.com

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