They Say I Say, With Readings

Some English classes are using They Say I Say, With Readings, 2nd edition from 2012. We have one copy on reserve, and it's a popular item. We have two reserve copies of the 1st edition from 2008.

Don't hate me, but I've told several circulation students and staff that if a student needs an essay from the 2nd edition that isn't in the 1st edition, and the 2nd edition isn't available, the reference librarians will help the student try to locate the essay online or in another book in the library. I successfully did this twice in the last 30 minutes.

First you have to know the complete essay title and author, so I'm posting the TOC below. I included links to the three essays I've located. If I get around to it, I'll update this as I locate other essays. Now that I went to all this trouble, no one will ever ask this question again, but that's the way it goes!

Kristen

They Say I Say, With Readings 2nd edition (2012)

PART 5 - READINGS

14. IS HIGHER EDUCATION WORTH THE PRICE?
· ANDREW HACKER AND CLAUDIA DREIFUS, Are Colleges Worth the Price of Admission?
· SANFORD J. UNGAR, The New Liberal Arts
· DAVID FOSTER WALLACE, Kenyon Commencement Speech
· LIZ ADDISON, Two Years Are Better Than Four
· KEVIN CAREY, Why Do You Think They're Called For-Profit Colleges?
· CHARLES MURRAY, Are Too Many People Going to College?
· MIKE ROSE, Blue-Collar Brilliance
· ROBIN WILSON, A Lifetime of Student Debt? Not Likely

15. IS POP CULTURE ACTUALLY GOOD FOR YOU?
· STEVEN JOHNSON, Watching TV Makes You Smarter
· DANA STEVENS, Thinking Outside the Idiot Box
· ANTONIA PEACOCKE, Family Guy and Freud
· MALCOLM GLADWELL, Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted
· DENNIS BARON, Reforming Egypt in 140 Characters?
· DAVID CRYSTAL, 2B or Not 2B?
· ROZ CHAST, The I.M.s of Romeo and Juliet
· TOM BISSELL, Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter
· JASON ZINSER, The Good, the Bad, and The Daily Show
· GERALD GRAFF, Hidden Intellectualism

16. IS FAST FOOD THE NEW TOBACCO?
· DAVID ZINCZENKO, Don't Blame the Eater
· RADLEY BALKO, What You Eat Is Your Business
· JUDITH WARNER, Junking Junk Food
· WIL HAYGOOD, Kentucky Town of Manchester Illustrates National Obesity Crisis
· MICHELLE OBAMA, Remarks to the NAACP National Convention
· MICHAEL POLLAN, Escape from the Western Diet in Pollan’s In Defense of Food
· MARY MAXFIELD, Food as Thought: Resisting the Moralization of Eating
· SUSIE ORBACH, Fat Is a Feminist Issue probably in Orbach’s Fat Is a Feminist Issue, but I don’t know what pages of the book correspond.
· CARRIE PACKWOOD FREEMAN AND DEBRA MERSKIN, Having It His Way: The Construction of Masculinity in Fast-Food TV Advertising

17. WHY DOES IT MATTER WHO WINS THE BIG GAME?
· MAYA ANGELOU, Champion of the World
· WILFRID SHEED, Why Sports Matter
· MICHAEL KIMMELMAN, Women Who Hit Very Hard and How They've Changed Tennis
· JENNIE YABROFF, In Defense of Cheering
· FELISA ROGERS, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Football
· SARA MARATTA, Move Over Boys, Make Room in the Crease
· WILLIAM MOLLER, We, the Public, Place the Best Athletes on Pedestals
· JOE POSNANSKI, Cheating and CHEATING

18. WHAT'S UP WITH THE AMERICAN DREAM?
· BOB HERBERT, Hiding from Reality
· CAL THOMAS, Is the American Dream Over?
· BRANDON KING, American Dream: Dead, Alive, or on Hold?
· ROBERT H. FRANK, Income Inequality: Too Big to Ignore http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/business/17view.html
· PAUL KRUGMAN, Confronting Inequality
· KAREN OLSSON, Up Against Wal-Mart
· SEBASTIAN MALLABY, Progressive Wal-Mart. Really.
· CONSTANCE M. RUZICH AND A. J. GRANT, Predatory Lending and the Devouring of the American Dream
· BARACK OBAMA, A More Perfect Union

Reference USA tutorials

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Lib262-XX computer location

You may not know, as I didn't, that the LIB262 computers are located in the group of carrels to the south of the DMS, and not in room 262, which is now the Media Library.

Kristen

Continuing problems with Ebsco and Article Linker

Ebsco is having a problem receiving open-url links. See the error message in the screen shot below. This article is an example.
I'm working with Serials Solutions and Ebsco to try to resolve the problem.
In the meantime, the only solution is to open Journal Locator in another window and search for the journal, or search for the article in the Ebsco database. The 'Journal' link in Article Linker also works.

One-click and HW Wilson databases

There are some problems with using Article Linker to access HW Wilson databases that have moved to EBSCO.
Instead of the article opening up, you get an error message. You can click on 'Go to Article Linker search results' and click on the 'Article' link to access an article.
I've been corresponding with Serials Solutions about this and hope to have a fix soon.

Celebrity Access Procedures

Celebrity Access is a password authenticated database with a license for one simultaneous user. A daily password is sent from Celebrity Access to log into the database. This password must be given to users each day. If more than one user tries to login with the same password, our access will be discontinued. It’s important that we restrict this from happening.
Therefore it is only available in room 259 through a desktop shortcut. The password will be available via an MTSU e-mail account that will be accessible to the Reference desk.
When a student requests access to Celebrity Access:
1) Go to http://www.mtsu.edu/email/ to look up the daily password.
2) Use Faculty/Staff Exchange to log into the following account:
• User name: erpassword
• Password: [see Reference binder]

3) Give the student the Username, Password, and daily password using one of the enclosed sheets in the Reference binder.
4) Open the door to 259, making sure that the handle is still in the locked position, so it will lock when the student leaves the room.