New Faculty Orientation

Rockford Campus is hosting the New Faculty Orientation tomorrow night (Dec. 27) from 5:30 - 7:00. Since this is the first NFO that I will be experiencing (I started here on Oct. 9 and missed the first one), I would appreciate hearing what you try to cover during your "15 Minutes of Fame." Actually, I'm not sure how long I have, but probably not very long, since there's a lot of information in their packets that the Dean needs to cover and we only have an hour and a half.

I am developing my outline but I think it would also be helpful to know what you veteran RC librarians cover during these sessions, in a nutshell.

Thanks! from Linda D.

Call numbers

I cannot locate a Library of Congress number for an item, but it has the Dewey number 784.5. The item is a DVD titled Elvis: Rare Moments with the King, ISBN 076621091X.

Any suggestions where I can find the LOC number? Is there a website which shows the Dewey and LC equivalents? (I've already looked for the item in First Search and the Library of Congress catalog.)

APA

As we were discussing the difficult citations, Kate had mentioned that students expect us to know and help. I wasn't suggesting that we not help, just that we don't need to create a handout with every possibility. And even when we do help, we should guide them through figuring it out for themselves and help them to understand that some of this is subjective. Even point out to them that there is not just one right answer in some cases. Yes, it is complex and we may end up just basically doing some of the citations for them. (Give a man a fish; you feed him for a day--Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.)

Yeah, I finally got on, I had password issues, thanks to Heather and Chandra for helping me!
Beth

I'm here... & Question

Hi everyone! I've been lurking, but finally got things straigtened out :-)

Anyone else getting students wanting to make their papers "pretty"? adding pictures to title page and/or within their papers, etc. and thinking their Ref page should pretty as well. Or have been told by one of their instructors that they like pictures used in papers? Just curious. Thanks!

I do believe that I have finally accepted the invitation to the Blogger correctly.
Yikes! That was harder than it should have been.

Finally on!

Made it! Thanks, Heather!!!

Howdy, y'all!

I have edited my profile although it seemed to leave out some of my comments. Hmmmm.... Don't know about y'all, but I am loving these templates that Emily has created for us to use. Of course I'm not finished with any of my assigned topics yet -- probably because I'm too busy playing around on the library blogger. But, hey! This is educational, too, right?

Here I am ...

Oops. Here I am .... /Serafin

ALEPH Questions

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Frequently Used Websites

In order to get a list together quickly without a lot of e-mails back and forth, please use the blog to link up your frequently used websites. If you need to send the passwords to me separately, please do so (in an e-mail). You may want to include a brief description of the website when you provide the link here. I will compile the sites so that we have a list for our binders.

Librarians - What do you want on this page?

I've got a slideshow that actually works on the blog now. What would you guys like to see on the blog? This blog will ideally be a place for our news, but I''m sure we can use it to market things we are doing at each of our libraries.
We can talk about this in our meeting next week.
Thanks!

Say Hello to the Rasmussen College Library Blogger

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Here is a Flickr slideshow of all the Rasmussen Libraries that I have gotten so far. You want your library on the page, please send me your pics.
Thanks!