Top Ten Tuesday

A new feature for the Blog – Want to know how your favorites stack up? Check out the LOL blog on Tuesdays and see how things are ranked. Top Tens from all over the place! If you have a list you would like to see, post a comment and let us know.

We will start with something from the library.

The Top Ten most selected online resources so far this semester:

1 Library Catalog 4009
2 Academic Search Complete 2030
3 Metalib – Quick Search 1055
4 Metalib – Subject Search 876
5 Ebsco Host 811
6 Business Source Complete 792
7 SFX – Title Search
 757
8 Jstor 745
9 Eric 512
10 Psychology Journals 493


Wow…you guys have used over 20,743 online resources already this semester and 12,080 have come from this top ten list!

Brown Bag: Shaping Texas History – The Alamo

Dates: Thursday – September 25, 2008
 Time: 12:00 PM
 Location: Library – Multipurpose Room
Category: University Events
Contact: Cathy Wilterding, DIck Smith Library, 254-968-9456

Description: Dr. Mike Milford presents \”Revising the Can[n]on: Inclusion and Exclusion in Alamo Mythology.\”

The presentation will explore the mythology surrounding the Alamo:
— how social myths are created,
— the relationship between myth and social structure, and
— how myths are purposefully shaped.

A Door Prize drawing will follow the presentation.
Sponsored by The Dick Smith Library

Meet Our Staff: Chris Grantham

Chris Grantham
End User Support Specialist
254-968-9030
[email protected]
Dick Smith Library – Upper Level – room 250

Chris joined the staff in July 2008 as a computer technician tasked with maintaining the hardware and software on over 200 public and staff PCs and laptops in the Dick Smith Library.

He retired from the Air Force in 2004 with 20 years of service in administrative and computer support with assignments in Europe (Germany & Italy) as well as numerous locations in Arizona and Texas. In his last assignment in San Antonio supporting the Air Force Recruiting Service, he provided technical support to recruiters across 110,000 square miles of South Texas and was responsible for transitioning them from dial-up networks to high-speed broadband networks.

An avid outdoors man, he enjoys hunting, fishing, skiing (both water and snow). Having taken up cycling with in Italy, he was the participated in the “Hotter than Hell” event twice and has taken part in a number of the Multiple Sclerosis Society’s MS150 events (Houston to Austin, Houston to Galveston, and San Antonio to Corpus Christi). He is also a certified scuba diver. When not outside, he enjoys reading science fiction and military novels.

[For the next few weeks, new Library staff members will be introduced here on Wednesdays.]

Lessons@Lunch – Learn about blogging!

University Librarian Donna Savage invites you to Lessons@ Lunch – Blogging!

Learn about blogging by attending “Create a Blog: Become a Web-Published Author!”presented by Dr. Jennifer T. Edwards, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies. This Lessons@Lunch session will be held on Thursday, September 18th at 12:10 p.m. in the Library Instruction Classroom (Room 139) of the Dick Smith Library.

Through this session, participants will learn:

a) how to create a blog,

b) how to effectively promote a blog, and

c) benefits and disadvantages of blogging.

Blogs have many different functions, which range from extending classroom discussions and serving as online diaries to providing personal accounts of current events. This online technology is creating “citizen journalists” out of everyday people.

Learn how to create a virtual gathering place for friends, so you can share ideas, pictures, and conversations!

Meet Our Staff: Tonya Dobson

Tonya Dobson
Assistant to University Librarian
254-968-9246
[email protected]
Dick Smith Library – Upper Level – room 201

I began my career within the Texas A&M System in July 2002 in College Station. I worked for the Vice President for Research until January 2005. My husband, kids and I moved back to Stephenville and I began working in the Information Resource department and then I transferred to Payroll in July 2006. I left Tarleton for a brief time to work from home and I was given an opportunity to return in the Dick Smith Library on July 1, 2008 as the Administrative Assistant.

As Administrative Assistant, I serve as Student Worker Coordinator for the library. If you are a student and are interested in working for the library, come see me on the upper level administrative office, Monday through Friday, 8 AM to 5 PM, and fill out an application.

My husband Terry and I have been married for 14 years and we have a 13 year old son, Tristan, and a 7 year old daughter, Tatum. I keep busy taking them from football practice to soccer practice and many other activities. I volunteer as a board member of the Stephenville Soccer Association as well as at our church.

[Note:  On February 1, 2011, Tonya was promoted to the position of Administrative Services Coordinator for the library.]

Library\’s new website

Have you seen the library\’s new website?

I like the new header image and the slide show at the bottom. The search box that lets you select either the library\’s catalog, the website, or internet is really great. (I am trying to find a way to add a general database search also)

What do you think? Can you find what you need? Do you like the new design? This is your chance to tell us what you need the website to do/be!

PLEASE leave your comments and give us feedback!

The URL is http://www.tarleton.edu/~library/

New Olympic sports?

The 2008 Olympics begin today, Friday, August 8, in Beijing, China. Here\’s an article suggesting some new sports from the worlds of literature, television, and the movies:

Calvinball, Quidditch, and Other Fictional Sports We Wish the Olympics Would Adopt

Also beginning today, the library will be open 8 AM to 5 PM Mondays through Fridays and closed weekends through Friday, August 22. The library will be open Saturday, August 23 from 9 AM to noon, and on Sunday, August 24 from noon to 4 PM. Classes and fall semester library hours resume on Monday, August 25.

Whew! It\’s HOT! Do you know how your Grandma is?

Given the weather we have been having, it behooves us to review symptoms of heat stress. Perhaps you have been visiting with your relatives. If you think an aunt or uncle or grandparent is not behaving normally, perhaps the heat is taking a toll. Take a look at the symptoms, and be prepared to help anyone in distress. And take care of yourself, as well!

Symptoms of heat stress

Choosing Sources

  • Know you need to locate articles for a project or paper?
  • Not sure which types of periodicals would be the best to use?
  • Not quite sure how to tell the difference between the different types of periodicals?
  • Not sure why you should care about the difference between different types of periodicals?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, know that you’re not alone.

Because the types of sources used in projects and papers often (if not always) influence how well your finished product will be received (what grade it will receive or what your supervisor will think about your abilities), it’s important to learn how to tell the difference between the types and how to use them appropriately.

A brief overview of periodical types — their characteristics and uses — is provided by the YouTube video Scholarly vs. Popular Periodicals, which was created by Peabody Library at Vanderbilt University.

Need more assistance figuring out what type of article to use, where to find the articles, and how to cite them? Tarleton Libraries are here to help!

Textbook prices falling?

New laws, access to e-books, and rental options may drop the cost of your next textbook purchase.

U.S. News and World Report – \”Textbook prices, which have nearly tripled in the past 20 years, may finally start to decline thanks to some new laws, technology, and upstart companies. Undergraduates who take advantage of the new alternatives could easily slash their textbook costs in half this coming academic year. \” Read more…

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