Inter-Library Loan

We don't have that article or book? We're glad to get it for you from some other library, but please, do check to make sure that we really don't have it!

You can check here to see if we have a journal online, and use our catalog to see if we have a certain book, journal, movie... (Hint: in the catalog use that bottom search box to type in your exact journal or book title, brings you right to where it should be if we have it...)

Not sure? Ask us for help!

Web 3.0 & Beyond!

Interesting article here in today's Times of London on future web developments.

More ads!

Alert colleague Charlie Bush mentioned this very nice free site for ads, AdAcess, from Duke University. Many ads from various magazines etc, 1920s-50s.

Finding old ads...

Looking for old advertisements? One great place is in the NY Times Historical. It's the NY Times, including display ads as well as articles, 1851-2004!

Click on Articles/Databases, then "N" in the a-z list, then click on NY Times Historical. Change the "document type" drop down to "display ads," put in the date range you want, and search for ads. Displayed here is an ad from 1950 using the word "diaper" for a search.

Wireless Printing

Yes, you can not only use your wireless laptop in the library, but you can print from it as well. See the directions at the ITSS page.

(The other location where there is wireless printing on campus is in Dailey Hall.)

SAVE YOUR FILES!!!

For your own sake, as soon as you start that Word document, PowerPoint or spreadsheet, save it, save it, save it! Did I say save it? ;-)

Seriously, as soon as you start it, do file, save as... As someone who is regularly on the reference desk I frequently encounter people who have been working an hour or more, never saved the file, and then they accidently closed it, lost it...

Save it to your jump drive, or to your filecity folder!!!

Fall Break

Enjoy your fall break! (Pictured here, SUNY Brockport students at "SpringIn 1969.") If you're around and interested though, the library is open Sat. 10-4:45, Sun. 12:30-4:45, and Mon. 8am - 8:45pm. Tuesday we are back to regular library hours.

Statistics!

Lot's of questions here lately about statistics - where can I get stats on STDs, all sorts of things. The government has lots of great stat sites - some are below. CQ Researcher and Opposing Viewpoints in our E-Reference site have stats too, and sometimes articles can help with stats.

• National Center for Health Statistics (health etc.)
• U.S. Census Bureau (population numbers...)
• Bureau of Labor Statistics (all sorts of economic and related stats...)
• Bureau of Justice (crime stats...)

Where we get all our books from...

Sometimes people will ask who orders our books, and the answer is a diverse mix of people. Each department is allocated money to buy books (and media etc.) with. Each department has a library coordinator who is one half of the link between the department and the library; the other half is the librarian who is the liaison to that department.

So, the various faculty order materials, the librarian liaisons order some titles, other people in the library process and catalog the materials, and then they appear on the shelves for you to use.

You may be interested to know that we have the largest book collection of all the SUNY four year schools!

Editorials

So often people need to find articles on one subject or another, but what if you need to find editorials? Easy! Library home page, click on Articles/Databases, then Academic Search.

In Academic Search click on the advanced search tab, then limit your document type to editorials and away you go!