I’m not here on Wednesday 12/16, but other than that I can assist with the demo anyday (except Monday 12/14 from 9 to 11 am).
I’m also e-mailing this response to the BeachGlobe blog!
Khue
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As Greg suggested, I reserved Spidell 2 on Thursday 12/3 for Guide to Reference viewing. I’m experimenting to see if this e-mail would add on to the previous BeachGlobe post I created by e-mail half an hour ago.
Just for kicks, you could move this discussion over to BeachGlobe.
This is a test. I tried it 15 minutes ago, cc’ing my blog by email address, but the email didn’t show up as a blog post. Khue suggested that perhaps the problem is that I used the cc line…
Following up on our timed-out discussion of the blog today, I thought I would share this information. In order to start populating the blog with information that would be useful so that we might be inclined to visit, we can simultaneously post to the blog when emailing Lib-faculty by simply emailing the blog as well, as I have done with this email.
In order to do this, you need to set up your personal email address to post to the blog. This way when you post it will identify you as the author.
To set up your posting email, log in to the blog, http://beachglobe.wordpress.com/ and under My Account go to My Blogs. There you will see a list of your blogs, probably only our blog unless you have set up other blogs for yourself. On the right, under post by email, click "enable." When you do this a randomly generated email address will appear. Add this address to your email contacts, and when you send something to lib-faculty, copy this address and your email will appear as a blog entry.
Quickly, your email subject will become the title and your text will appear in the post including any links. Attachments will also appear in the post. There are other things you can include in your email to do things like add categories or tags. More in depth instructions on this can be found here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-by-email/
Enjoy!
Cathy Outten
Biology and Mathematics Librarian
California State University Long Beach
(562) 985-7761
One of the concerns that I see is a potential “rave” at midnight–a ritual/celebration that happens at many state universities. I post here a video clip just to demonstrate this phenomenon:
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I think most of us have noted that SFX is available in Google Scholar on campus. I wanted to let you know that it is easy to turn on SFX at any computer. Go to Scholar Preferences, and under Library Links search CSULB. Select “CSU, Long Beach – Get it! @CSULB” and then the links will show up in your searches.
Before you get overly excited that we shouldn’t be using Google Scholar, you might be interested in this article:
Howland, J., Wright, T., Boughan, R., & Roberts, B. (2009). How Scholarly Is Google Scholar? A Comparison to Library Databases. College & Research Libraries, 70(3)
From the abstract: “We found that Google Scholar is, on average, 17.6 percent more scholarly than
materials found only in library databases and that there is no statistically significant difference between the scholarliness of materials found in Google Scholar across disciplines.”
Read the article to see what they mean by “Scholarly” I thought their methods were excellent (although the databases they used for science would not be the ones I would choose). I have attached the PDF. How Scholarly is Google Scholar
Cathy
Cathy Outten
Biology and Mathematics Librarian
California State University Long Beach
