Bowker and ISI vendor visits

The Bowker rep will be here Wed 3/9/11 at 10 am in the 4th floor conference room to discuss some of their resource discovery applications.
The Thomson Scientific rep will be here Thur 3/10/11 at 9 am in 272 to discuss changes to the Web of Knowledge platform.

Trials to Sage Reference and Cinahl Plus with full-text

Two new trial are on the Database trial page.
There was a brochure for Sage Reference at the Reference Desk, so I got a trial. Sage will sell collection packages as well as individual titles.
We're evaluating an upgrade to Cinahl which would add some periodical titles for a reasonable cost.
Please let me know what you think.

Peer Reviewed Book

There is a new library scavenger hunt for Smith English 1020 which among other things asks students to identify a peer reviewed book on their selected topic. Until clarification can be obtained from the instructor I am satisfying this request with a book on their topic published by a university press. Thanks. Sharon

Worldcat local is a quick way to search

Encore and Millenium are so slow right now you can get faster results with Worldcat Local (mtsu.worldcat.org). For some reason it is able to retrieve the records from our system quite quickly. Not good for everything but works great if you have something specific you're looking for. Mayo

Student evaluations of faculty

I had a IM/call at the reference desk from a faculty member who was trying to locate the summary results of his students' classroom evaluations of his teaching. These reports apparently used to be kept on reserve in the library. We no longer have these.

Now, these summary reports can be found on Pipeline > RadierNet > Faculty Services > Evaluation Results Website. See the screenshot below. (Note: Faculty members can only review reports for their own classes.)

Jason