When Pidgin Crashes

From time to time, Pidgin (our IM client) takes exception to something and Windows displays that lovely message about closing a program. Often, restarting Pidgin after this message brings the same results.

There is a simple fix that will usually resolve the problem--delete the Pidgin preferences file.

• Open the My Documents folder from the desktop.
• Switch view to My Computer
• Open IMLogs on 'lib-nt1\sys2\files' (L:)
• Open .purple folder
• Delete prefs.xml file
• Start Pidgin using the desktop icon
• Reset usual Pidgin preferences and plugins (refer to instructions at Ref Desk)
• Preferences include: Logging on and LibraryH3lp plugin enabled

Or, you are welcome to ask Amy or Kristen for help.

-KW

Electronic Resources added 6/23/09

Below are newly added or edited electronic resources. The information type and subject guides listed on are included:

American Society for Microbiology (Articles - Best Sources for this Subject)

Biology
Nursing

ArchiveGrid (Primary Sources - Archival Directories)

History

CAMIO (Selected Resources - Images)

Art

Encyclopedia of Popular Music Online (Selected Resources - Encylopedias & Dictionaries)(This is also included in Oxford Music Online)

Music
Recording Industry

Greenwood Digital Collection (Selected Resources - Reference Sources)

Reference Sources

Local Market Audience Analyst (Selected Resources -> Statistics & Data)

Business Communication and Entrepreneurship
Business, Management, and Marketing
Electronic Media Communication (under Business Research -> Marketing Research)
Journalism
Statistical Sources

OAIster(Primary Source Materials -> Digital Collections)
History

Oxford Scholarship Online: Economics and Finance (Selected Resources -> E-Books & Books)

Business, Management, and Marketing
Economics and Finance

Oxford Scholarship Online: Social Work (Selected Resources -> E-Books & Books)

Psychology
Social Work

SDC Corporate Restructuring (Business Research -> Company and Industry Data)

Business, Management, and Marketing Business
Economics and Finance

SDC Global Public Finance (Business Research -> Company and Industry Data)

Business, Management, and Marketing Business
Economics and Finance

SDC New Issues (Business Research -> Company and Industry Data)

Business, Management, and Marketing Business
Economics and Finance

Thomson Banker Analytics (Business Research -> Company and Industry Data)

Business, Management, and Marketing Business
Economics and Finance

Early American Fiction 1789–1875 (Selected Resources - Poetry, Prose, & Drama)
This was a LION collection that didn't have a direct link until now.

English


Learning Express Library

I fixed the link, it should work from off-campus now

Trial to Business Source Premier

We have a trial to Business Source Premier until 8/3. Please check it out. Here is a description:

Business Source Premier is the industry’s most used business research database, providing full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles. This database provides full text back to 1886, and searchable cited references back to 1998. Business Source Premier is superior to the competition in full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.

JSTOR collections

Our new JSTOR collections, III, IV, V, & VII, are now available through JSTOR.

Gale PowerSearch Webinar

I saw the new Gale interface in action yesterday, and it's pretty slick. New features include the ability to save items in custom folders in perpetuity (with an account). Also, the tools menu (save, print, email, etc) is more prominent. One thing I learned is that you can have ReadSpeaker, the text-to-speech tool, read just a word or portion of an article by highlighting only the portion to be read.

You can see the new interface before the July 1 cutover date by visiting the TEL trial site at http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/tel_trial (available until 6/26)

Or, watch a Gale PowerSearch 2.0 Webinar the first week of July. These are just for a TN audience. Details are below.

-KW

Gale PowerSearch 2.0 Webinar
Thurs, July 2 - 10:00 am
Mon, July 6 - 2:00 pm
Tue, July 7 - 11:00 am and 7:00 pm
Wed, July 8 - 10:00 am and 3:00 pm

LOG IN INFORMATION:

To log in to the webinar, you will need a phone with outgoing call capabilities and a computer with internet access. You will then use the following information:

To join the audio portion of the Web Conference

• Dial: 1(800) 549 – 8228
• Then enter the passcode: 7079304#

To join the Online Web Conference

• Click on the meeting URL: http://web.meetme.net/r.aspx?p=2&a=70542228677053
• Enter your name and email address.
• Click on the Sign In button.
• Accept the Terms and Conditions, if applicable, and click "Join" to enter your conference.

(Please ensure that you have all popup blockers turned off and you have downloaded the plugins. If this URL does not work, please use the alternate URL http://www.meetme.net/anytime )

The Tennessean newspaper

We will lose access to The Tennessean through the America's Newspapers database on July 1. This title is moving to ProQuest with all Gannett newspapers. TEL has not been able to reach an agreement with Proquest on a license for access to The Tennessean.
I will let you know if we do get access again. ~MEP

LibGuides Preview

The Subject Guide Team, part of the Library Web Committee, is looking at possible replacements for the LibData subject guide platform. More to come on that later; this post is a teaser to say that the team will be soliciting your input, as either or both a subject guide author user.

One available system is LibGuides. If you're looking for something to pass the time at the reference desk, see what you think about this MTSU art subject guide I created in LibGuides. It quickly morphed into a vehicle for the resource page to accompany instruction we did for the Governor's School art students, hence the GSA Students tab. And it's quite a work in progress, with only a little bit of content loaded so far.

Nonetheless, I encourage everyone to take a look and imagine what could be if we hosted all our library subject guides on this platform. And as I said, more to come later!

-KW

Document delivery for distance ed students

This doesn't come up very often for people working on the desk, but just in case you get a call or chat from a DE student wanting access to an article we have in print but not online, or wanting delivery of a book, here is the policy.

To qualify for document delivery of locally owned items, a student must be taking only distance courses and live outside of Rutherford county. These students can request an article or a book through ILL. When setting up an ILL account, the student should select a Status of RODP or Distance Ed. It may help to have the student reiterate his/her DE status and need for delivery in the Notes section of the request form.

--Amy

Interplay Saves the Day

Just another plug for Interplay, which once again came through where Play Index failed. This time, I was looking for a contemporary play, one that MTSU used to own but has been lost. Interplay led me to an issue of American Theatre which contains the complete script!
-KW

Zotero

Here is an interesting article about the direction that Zotero is going in:

http://ezproxy.mtsu.edu/login?url=http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com/hww/jumpstart.jhtml?recid=0bc05f7a67b1790e615c5a1418f2144d593a966b2a19b49eae3f2ef30c4adea5646efb6f08338094&fmt=P

Encyclopedia of Popular Music

Encyclopedia of Popular Music, is now available in the Oxford Music Online interface.

E-Resources posted online

Some of the new resources have been added to the subject guides. Listed below are the resources, their information types, and the guides they are posted on.

TRACFED (Selected Resources - Statistics & Data)

Political Science


ISI Journal Citation reports (Selected Resources - Journal Citation Analysis)

Agribusiness and Agriscience
Biology
Chemistry
Computer Science
Engineering and Industrial Studies
Geography and Geology
Health and Human Performance
Library Science
Mathematical Sciences
Music
Nursing
Nutrition
Physics and Astronomy
Psychology

Music Online (Primary Source Materials - Digital Collections)
Music

The Sixties (Primary Source Materials - Digital Collections)

History

North American Indian Thought and Culture (Primary Source Materials - Digital Collections)

History

American History in Video (Selected Resources - Videos & Films)

History

Counseling and Therapy in Video (Selected Resources - Videos & Films)

Pschology
Social Work

Dance in Video (Selected Resources - Videos & Films)

Speech and Theatre

Use Jing for instant screencasts

Jing is a free download that allows you to create screencasts or screenshots on the fly. You can save your video or screenshot to your computer or you can press a button to upload the screencast to the Jing site and simply send the video URL to your viewer. This way you don't have to worry about file formats or sending bulky files.

I just used Jing to show a DE student how to find a newspaper from her date of birth. http://bit.ly/LcLur

--Amy