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Electronic Services Research & Learning Services

Discovery service (Search-A-Roo) launches Sept 28th

On Saturday, Sept 28th we will make the new EBSCO discovery service (Search-A-Roo) available from the library homepage. You will see the search box prominently displayed. It does not replace any of our existing resources, but does provide a way for our patrons to search most of our resources at once.

In conjunction with this, we will also make the switch to the new A-to-Z List for eJournals that we receive as part of the EBSCO discovery service package. This replaces our old A-to-Z.

Finally, as part of this implementation we will temporarily suppress our catalog records for the majority of our ejournals. We will be replacing these records with new records in the near future. In the interim, if you want to know if we have access to an ejournal you simply need to search the A-to-Z list instead of the catalog.

The implementation of this new discovery service is a work in progress, not only for us but for all the OhioLINK libraries that have embarked on this adventure! We appreciate your patience and your feedback as we continue to develop this service.

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Electronic Services Research & Learning Services

Reminder: open sessions this week for Discovery service

Our new Discovery Service, tentatively called Search-A-Roo, will be live from our library website on Sept 28th. Our library catalog is included in Search-A-Roo, as well as the OhioLINK catalog and the vast majority of our databases and electronic resources.

Open session for Search-A-Roo are scheduled for today, Sept 24, and Thursday, Sept 26.

See a brief demo of the discovery service and how it works, talk about some of its potentials and limitations, and share your own experiences.

Open Sessions:

  • Sept 24 (Tuesday)  10.00-11.00 Bierce 154
  • Sept 26 (Thursday) 3.00-4.00 Bierce 279
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Access Services Electronic Services Research & Learning Services

Problem with booking study rooms in UAL Catalog

Study room booking is not quite working right in the UAL Catalog.

A title search for study room causes the Request button to display (all three browsers). in the search results list. If you click on the link to the item record, the Book It button displays and the study room can be booked.
A keyword search for study room  causes the Request button to briefly display, then the Book It button appears and the study room can be booked (all three browsers).

Direct users to a keyword search or have users click on the record link to book a study room until this problem is resolved.

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Electronic Services Research & Learning Services Science & Technology Library

Curious about Discovery? Attend an open session!

Are you curious about how the new Discovery Service works? Do you have questions? Have you already been exploring Search-A-Roo and have feedback that you’d like to share?

Attend one of the upcoming open sessions. See a brief demo of the discovery service and how it works, talk about some of its potentials and limitations, and share your own experiences.

Open Sessions:

  • Sept 24 (Tuesday)  10.00-11.00 Bierce 154
  • Sept 26 (Thursday) 3.00-4.00 Bierce 279
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Professional Development Research & Learning Services

New Faculty Open House

 

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Research & Learning Services

Celebrate 50 Years of Government Documents at Bierce Library!

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Open Invitation to Faculty and Students!

Friday, September 13
10:30 – 11:30
First Floor Bierce Library

We invite you and your students to an hour-long celebration to mark the 50th anniversary of Bierce Library’s participation in the Federal Depository Library Program, which provides invaluable access to a wide range of Presidential documents, data and statistics from government offices, testimony from Congressional hearings, and more.

This event, which will also commemorate Constitution Day, is a great opportunity for everyone to learn more about these authoritative resources, as Shari Laster, government documents librarian, will speak about the significance of the library’s role in making these materials accessible to the public.

Consider turning this into an extra-credit opportunity for your students and let them know that refreshments will be served

Find more information at our website

And check out the Shari’s LibGuides for government documents and the Constitution:

http://libguides.uakron.edu/govdocs
http://libguides.uakron.edu/constitution

We hope to see you there!

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Electronic Services Research & Learning Services

Preview: Discovery Service and eJournal A-to-Z list

You can now preview our new Discovery Service, tentatively called Search-A-Roo. Our library catalog is included in Search-A-Roo, as well as the OhioLINK catalog and the vast majority of our databases and electronic resources. We intend for Search-A-Roo to be live from the library’s main homepage toward the end of this September. Currently we are in test mode only.

Be aware that we are still customizing this service, and you should expect to see random changes in displays, results, and search functionality as we work through this roll-out process. Also, the catalog data in Search-A-Roo is about 6 weeks older than what is actually in our catalog. When we are fully implemented the coverage difference will be minimized.

As part of our transition to the new Discovery Service we are also migrating our eJournal A-to-Z list. The A-to-Z list is important not only because it allows us to find our electronic journals easily, but also because it helps the LinkSource link resolver locate full text.

One place the new A-to-Z list will eventually appear is in LibGuides. You can preview the A-to-Z list in LibGuides by using this link. Be patient, it may take a moment to completely load:

new ejournal A-to-Z list preview via LibGuides

You may notice that it allows you to limit a search to ebooks. You may find books contained in aggregator databases such as Education Research Complete, the OhioLINK EBC, and similar databases. Note that it does not currently include an individual ebooks that we may have in our collection.

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Electronic Services Research & Learning Services Science & Technology Library UAL User Interfaces Committee

LinkSource link resolver

You may have been searching our databases this week and noticed a new link called LinkSource. We are currently replacing our old OLinks link resolver with a product from EBSCO called LinkSource. A link resolver helps connect citations from one database with the article’s full text located in another database. To do this it takes information about the citation and tries to match it with the information about our electronic journals (and sometimes other electronic resources) that we maintain in our eJournal A-Z list. Migrating all of our eJournal information from our current A-Z list to a new product, also from EBSCO, is part of this project as well. Ultimately all of this work is important in setting the stage for the new Discovery Service, which we expect to launch publicly in late September.

As we move through this project you may see different links, such as LinkSource, presented as part of your database search results. There may also be some glitches in linking from a citation in one database to the full text in another while we work on improving the system, and we appreciate your patience with this process. If you have any serious problems to report please do so through the Footprints system so that we can track them properly.

 

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Research & Learning Services

FDLP e-book pilot: please test!

 

FDLP e-book pilot: please test!

Bierce Library is participating in a pilot to provide access to e-books that are published by the U.S. Government Printing Office. Currently, six titles are loaded to UA’s CONTENTdm site, and are available to download from the campus network. Access this collection from the Bierce Library Online Repository.

As a pilot participant, we have been asked to provide feedback to GPO. You can help by reviewing and testing the following:

– Access to the content on the campus network. Proxy/off-site access is not supported at this time.
– Description and metadata for the items.
– Download and view on an e-reader device or platform.

Feedback on any or all aspects of the project are welcome. Please send your comments and questions to Shari Laster no later than the close of business on Wednesday, July 31, so they can be included in the project report to GPO.

 TITLES AVAILABLE

Wings in Orbit: Scientific and Engineering Legacies of the Space Shuttle, 1971-2010
Authoritative documentation of the accomplishments of the NASA Space Shuttle Program. Forward by astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen. The volume compiles an impressive number of the personal accounts from NASA’s best subject matter experts and  focuses on the thirty year history of the shuttle program’s science and engineering accomplishments.

How to Get a Job in the Federal Government
Published by the Department of Labor; reviews over 400 occupational specialties (excluding postal service and military workers) currently employed in the Federal Government.

Getting Back to Work: Returning to the Labor Force After an Absence
Covers re-entry strategies for jobseekers who are seeking skills, have criminal records, have too little or too much work experience, have been fired or laid off, or have disabilities. An extensive page of re-entry resources, including electronic resources, is included.

The End of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell: the Impact and Personal Essays by Service Members and Veterans
Collection of four scholarly studies and 25 essays about the impact of living under this policy from a diverse group of gay and straight, current and former military members from the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps.

Al-Qaida, The Tribes and the Government: Lessons and Prospects for Iraq’s Unstable Triangle
Examines Al-Qaida’s experience dealing with the tribes in Iraq in terms of a triangular relationship involving the Sunni tribes, Al-Qaida, and the Iraqi government (or the United States as the governing authority in the initial stages), with latter two entities often competing for the allegiance of the tribes.

Employment Interviewing: Seizing the Opportunity and the Job
Preparing for interviews requires basic interviewing skills. Provides advice about what to do before, during, and after a job interview.

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Research & Learning Services

3D Printing in One Minute

11 minutes condensed into a little more than a minute: