Reference Desk Voicemail

Please don't forget to delete voicemail messages from the reference desk after you resolve the question. If there's a message you can't take care of, please write a note for the person relieving you.

When someone else checks voicemail later and hears the old message, it's impossible to know if the question was answered or not.

thanks!

Lexis Nexis links in Serials Solutions

Lexis Nexis links in Serials Solutions products still go to the old interface. This is something Serials Solutions controls and they haven't determined whether they're going to change the links because Lexis Nexis' migration period runs through 6/30/10.

Electronic Resources invoices from Collection Management

Occasionally Collection Management student workers have left ER invoices at the Reference desk when the outside door to 144 is closed.
I've asked that they not do this anymore because I don't want to make anyone else responsible for getting it to me or opening the door when patrons may need help at the Reference desk.
If a student worker forgets, please feel free to ask them to try again or have a CM staff member leave it in my box. Thanks.

Popular Magazines in Gale DBs

To All Libraries:

Over the weekend, TSLA learned that at ALA Mid-Winter EBSCO announced it had won exclusive rights to many popular magazines. The extent of this loss in content in our Gale collections is not entirely known at this moment, but we have spoken with Gale this morning and they confirmed the loss of the Time publications, such as Time, People, Essence, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, Sports Illustrated for Kids, Time for Kids, Entertainment Weekly, as well as Forbes magazine. Gale will be forwarding us a complete list of magazines (total of 14 titles) and we will pass this along to you all as soon as we receive it.

Gale said that full-text of these magazines would remain in the Gale collections until December 2010. TSLA will be vigilant in monitoring these magazines in Gale to be sure of their availability through that time.

Starting today, we will be working towards finding a way to provide these magazines through TEL and will be exploring ALL of our options.

We have reason to believe that Gale will lose additional magazines and we are working on verifying what content will be moving to EBSCO exclusively. We will keep all Tennessee libraries informed about this as we investigate this matter further.

We are VERY concerned about this loss in content and want you to know that we will be working hard to resolve this issue expeditiously. We want the content available through TEL to be the best and most relevant it can be and we will do all that we can to ensure that it is.

Thank you,



Sue Maszaros
Special Projects Coordinator
TN State Library and Archives
403 7th Avenue North
Nashville, TN 37243
Phone: 615.532.4627
sue.maszaros@tn.gov

Tennessee Code Annotated

You can search the TCA in both LexisNexis and Westlaw Campus Research. Michie's Legal Resources is a freely available site you may want to use. Michie's also has a browsable file for the TCA index, something the other two resources don't have.