An excellent way to pass a very fun five minutes: History of Evil
T.

Hi all!
Just so you’re aware, the printer that faces north at print station near the reference desk is having issues! It charged $9.00 from a customer’s print card for jobs that did not print (though they disappeared from the print queue), then printed three articles without incident, and then printed a fourth article with blank pages where some of the printed pages should have been. After the first incident, I printed a page from one of the 2nd floor computers without problem, but evidently the printer is choosing its battles.
Just a note of caution for upcoming desk shifts!
Karine

Some amusing YouTube videos made by students or universities about RefWorks. RefWorks Citation Cop is just one that’s available for your viewing enjoyment!

Like Google, the Wiki world continues to grow. Visit WikiHow for fun tips on how to pick locks, be romantic, make a chocolate portrait, play Guitar Hero, etc. All the things every well-informed individual should know how to do.
T.

After our session on LexisNexis I discovered there is a LexisNexis wiki.

Hi everyone
A few students in HKIN 103, Active Health, have come in looking for help with their assignment. This course is one of the mandatory life science HKIN courses. Charlotte Beck from Woodward did a session with the students on finding information. She showed them PubMed and other life science databases. If they come to Koerner looking for help, do feel free to recommend the librarians at Woodward Library if you are not comfortable with PubMed or the research topics.

Looking for a fun way to pass the time that is also a legitimate library related exercise? Why not help describe photographs in the Library of Congress’ collection on Flickr, by adding tags or leaving comments. Visit Flickr: The Commons

Hello
CISTI Orders will not be available for the near future. CISTI has moved to a secure server and this is causing problems with our proxy. Tom is working on the problem.
Please ask users to submit their requests using the interlibrary loan forms.
Thanks,
David

Hi all,
ENGL 320 students have been to the desk asking for audio readings of original Middle English texts. We have access to the Naxos Spoken Word Library which has Middle English readings of sections of the Canterbury Tales and maybe one or two other texts they are looking for. VPL also has a number of these recordings though mostly on cassette or LP.
Tara
Added note from Ellen: I just showed the Naxos spoken word library to two of the students, and they were really happy with this. It seems that all they are being asked to do for this part is listen to some spoken Middle English to see what it sounds like, so it doesn’t matter if it is the same as the written text they are looking for.

Early this week a distraught student came to the Ref desk with files created at home on Word 2007. She needed to print them but the new .docx file format was not recognized by our version of Word. She left before we found a solution but the site at http://www.zamzar.com offers free file conversions, sending the converted file as an attachment to the user’s email address.
Jeremy