Recruiting at UCLA - part I

I'm going to UCLA, my alma mater, on Wednesday to tell the MLIS students there about our 5 available jobs.

All but one of the positions is posted on the library webpage here:
http://libweb.uoregon.edu/admnpers/acad.html

I'll be staying at the swanky Hotel Angeleno. They can get me to and from campus by shuttle, so I don't have to rent a car. All the places within walking distance to campus were FULL. And all the other places close by, were just as expensive.

I leave on Wednesday, so I hope to have time to visit the department in time to catch the Wednesday afternoon classes. I'll be around all day on Thursday as well. And will be on a panel from 12-1:30pm sponsored by the department about academic librarianship.

How should we measure the success of this trip? An interesting assessment question to research.

week 9

* Where are the magazines or periodicals?
* I need articles on monogamy and baboons.
* Where are there articles on the negative effects of using creatine?
* How do I get this article when I'm off campus?

but, first, a joke

So, a guy walks into the library and says, "where are the Q's?"


ba-dah-dump (chzzz)

Week 8

*Why are all the books on autism and how it is handled in the public schools over in Knight Library?
*Where are the archives?
*This journal article isn't available from the webpage, even though it is supposed to be there?
*Can you open up the courtyard for me?
*How do I research getting something to help me with my pine and fir tree allergy?
*Can I print something from my laptop?
*Where are these journals from PubMed?
*Why can't the photocopier make the pages go in the correct direction?
*What is my citation index count?

Winter term - week 7 2007

I'm back after being away for a few months. It was an excused absence, and I now have a little baby to look after in addition to answering reference questions.

So far, I haven't gotten very many questions. But, here are some of them:

*I can't access this article in a journal, and it looks like I should be able to get it. (Darn those EBSCO embargos. So hard to explain to patrons: "Well, I can get you some articles from that journal, just not the one you're actually looking for.")

*I was the subject of a medical article on a rare disease. I think the article was published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1966. Do you have that here?

*Where is my textbook for this class?

*Where is this journal?

*Why can't I find any of the books I'm looking for in the QE section over here (points to reference area)?

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Fall Quarter - week 3

* Where can I find peer reviewed journal articles on mallard ducks?

* Where can I find articles about the life cycle of pens and pencils?

* I need articles on how herbal dietary supplements effect women's cardiovascular health.

* Is there a book here that I can check out which covers all of high school chemistry?

* What associations are for Chinese-Americans in the Sciences and Engineering?

* How do I find journal articles on...? [The questions are all different, but they are all looking for the same thing, how to find an article on their topic,and once they have an article, how do they get their hands on it]

* Can I download lots of articles and then burn them on a DVD? And, I'm not affilitated with the UO.

Fall Quarter - weeks 1-2

We are back with loads of interesting questions. We also have a new article searching function and a brand new web page.

*I'm looking for a source that allows me to look for chemicals for sale arranged by structure.

*Where is your physics section? [Patron was actually looking for a specific book, which we figured out after some initial unhelpful searching...]

*How do I use databases off campus? Can I set up my library PIN from off campus? [We think so]

*Why can't I download a Science Direct/Elsevier article on my computer? [Turns out that Safari, on a mac doesn't really work with SD. Thanks again IT for letting me have a mac so that I knew about this bug!]

*How do I find articles on ambystoma macrodactylum (long toed amphibians)?

*How do I convert 50 hertz to 600 hertz using solar energy?

Summer questions

It is slow around here in the summer months. Still, I've been remiss and now I don't remember most of the questions I *have* been asked.

*Plant ecology in the Sisters Wilderness
*Volume of the sternoclavicular joint
*Do we have a copy of the Treaty for Nonproliferation of nuclear weapons
*The article here is supposed to be in this issue of the journal, but it isn't (seems to be an epub ahead of publication problem...)
*Where do I find? How do I find?...
*Do you have this journal in our library system?
*Why doesn't Web of Science show me articles about science education?
*A journal article explaining a gene to high school students.
*What treatments are there for labyrinthitis?
*Addresses of undergraduate deparments in biochemistry.

Summer Week 1

*Bract communities in neotropical environments. Am I spelling the genus name correctly?
*I can't get into SciFinder Scholar, what am I doing wrong? (several times)

Finals Week

It was busy for a few days and then prety slow for a the rest of the week.
We got some great questions, none of which I recorded and have now completely forgotten.

Happy Graduation!

Week 10 - The Grind towards the Finish

*I need an article on drugs (and their health effects, especially meth).
*I need help with EndNote.
*How do I cite a source for the 2nd time in an endnote?
*Where can I find articles about trickle down economics?
*Is Wikipedia a good source?
*Can I get the article proving the Poincare Conjecture from the _Asian Journal of Mathematics_?
*I want to set up alerts and save searches on Pubmed about the physiology of hypercapnia.
*Is there someplace where we can practice our group PowerPoint presentation?
*Can our class borrow a digital projector for the next 50 minutes?

More EndNote tricks for Mac
EBSCO + EN 9 for Mac
-put stuff in a folder
-save To Disk
-Save as "Citations in Direct Export format."
-uncheck remove items from folder
-save button
-go to finder, drag the DeliveryPrintSave xxx.asp file into EN 9
-select the EN library


WoS
-put articles in the marked list
-export to bibliographic software
-get a UMI_view file
-import this with the WoS filter

UO catalog
-Save to marked list
-import using Endnote Import

Week 9

*How do I cite this using Chicago Manual of Style?
*Where can I copy this?
*The printer needs more paper.
*Can I check this journal out?
*Where are your journals?
*Where should I return these books?
*Where are the magazines/journals (rinse, repeat)? Where can I find this book? (repeat)
*Can I get a copy of the article "Fuzzy Balls"?
*I need a calculus textbook that talks about using integrals in biology.
*Is this book that I asked for at the beginning of the year available yet?
*Where can I find articles on sludge or filtration treatment of water?
*I'm looking for an article in an IEEE publication, how do I get to the digital library?
*What are the health effects of Polyvinyl Choride used in buildings?
*I need articles on envelope proteins, CD4+, HIV and its link to AIDS.

Week 8

*What are the top 3 pesticides used on apples?
*Are disposable or cloth diapers better?
*Where can I find books on biomechanics?
*[electronic] Information on Grace Hopper?
*[electronic] Why do Mexicans immigrate?
*[electronic] How do I make a persuasive speech?
*[electronic] How do I make a lasso?
*Where can I find articles on Lake Vostok?
*Where can I get a journal article on teaching elementary school students about astronauts?
*How many organic and conventional fertilizers are used? What kinds?
*Do we have books on purple non sulfur bacteria and how they impact the environment?
*Did Steven Speilberg direct a 1971 Columbo show?
*Is the library open on Memorial Day?
*Do you have a printer that *doesn't* print double sided?

Week 7

* I need an address for Martin Fairchild. (Turns out it was Lockheed Martin corporate address).
* Patron needs an article from 1952 Metallurical journal that we don't have. Tried to get an article title without luck, filled out the ILL form anyway.
* Questions about citing web pages versus electronic sources.
* Lots of folks looking for computers which use MS Word.
* A color reproduction of the cover or spine of a physics textbook published in 1987.
* I can't get SciFinder Scholar to install on my new Mac running OS X.
* How do I find a journal article from _Science_ from 1966?
* How do I open an ILL article from my email? (This one came as an attachment, not a link to the Ariel web site....interesting)
* Where can I find articles on brown garden snails?
* Is this a peer-reviewed article?
* Where can I find information on the life cycle inventory of organic farming v. conventional farming?
* I need books on koala bears.
* Where can I find articles on predators and the size of birds?
* Who was the New Zealand born chemist who discovered quanta theory?
* How many books and journals do you have a the Science Library?
* How come we can put a woman in space, but we can't make it easy for patrons to set up a Science Direct login?
* Where can I find articles on cichlid fish in Lake Victoria?

Weeks 5-6

*Lots of questions about finding journal articles and showing students the magic of indexes and databases.
*How do I find articles that aren't too technical about hydrotherapy and it's use on acute (not chronic) pain?
*Where can I find Journals or books on heat transfer and heat transmission in this library?
*Can I scan a photo from this old journal article?
*Is the new book on dioramas already checked out?
*Is there a computer in here that has MS word (repeat several times)?

I'm still trying to get folks to use Scholar's Bank. Seems like I can only make the sale if Carol Hixson does the pitch.

Also it turns out that the students in running around in red shirts with Porn Nation on them were from a Pro-Christian organization. Interesting marketing.

Week 4

*Where can I find a white rhinoceras?
*Where is the CRC Atlas for spectral data?
*Books on the math of Jewish calendars?
*How do I find peer reviewed articles on steroid use in baseball?
*Long term gender differences with athletes who have had hip/knee replacements?

The quarter moves on

*Lots of directional questions
*Looking for the Journal of the Chemical Society from 1949.
*Making stuff out of sulfur (promises to be stinky!).
*Looking for the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London from 1908 - I don't think we have it.
*A book about Protezoa.
*Request for a database with data on metal complexes. (Metal attaching to organic compounds)
*Structural data for inorganic chemistry
*Still moving books and journals to CDA/MDLS and out of my office. Yeah spring!

Teaching CIS 199

Blogger is back up. Students are sleepy. What more is there?

Week 2 - Spring Term

*If you need something from SCI storage FAST, pick it up at Knight
*Birds/Audubon books on birds
*EndNote formatting questions
*Articles on fish that live in the desert (namely, cyprinodon nevadensis)
*Maps of Nevada
*A Swiss patent in English (SciFinder Scholar to the rescue)
*A table of compounds listed by their melting points

Spring is in the air

*Folks looking for public health documents from the turn of the last century.
*Someone looking for an 1808 publication. Turns out wikipedia was surprizingly helpful, but the patron had already left.
*A patron wanting to know what phase of the moon North America saw during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
*Lots of geology articles from all over the place, but lots of it behind the Science Desk.
*A patron who needed to know how to enlarge her ID photo on the photocopier to use it for a class assignment.