More RefWorks Sessions Being Offered

Lamont librarians have scheduled these three additional sessions of basic training in RefWorks, the online citation management tool:

Monday, October 19, 11:00-11:50am. Room 310 (LAMONT 3rd FLOOR)
Thursday, October 22, 2:00-2:50pm. Room 310 (LAMONT 3rd FLOOR)
Wednesday, October 28, 2:00-2:50pm. Larsen Room (LAMONT 1st FLOOR)

Because space is limited, students need to sign up for the session of their choice by contacting Steve (kuehler@fas.harvard.edu) or Chris (lenney@fas.harvard.edu), or by going to the Research Services Desk on Level B of Lamont.

At your service,
Cheryl

Library Orientation for New NELC Grad Students

I’ll be giving an orientation to library research for new NELC graduate students on Friday, September 25^th, from 3:30 to 4:30 PM in Room G-55 on the ground floor of Widener Library. I look forward to seeing you there!

At your service,

Cheryl

HOLLIS vs. HOLLIS Classic

As you may already know, 2 different HOLLIS systems are available for you to use in searching for library materials at Harvard: HOLLIS (the new "discovery" system released earlier this year) and HOLLIS Classic (the online system we've been using for a some time). The Baker Business Library recently defined the main differences between the two systems, and they did such a nice job I'm simply going to reproduce their definitions here (with thanks to them!):

HOLLIS  

    * Intuitive search and display

    * Defaults to relevance ranking. Sorting by date is an option.

    * Suggests related terms, alternative spellings and other ways to refine or expand your search

    * Forgiving search interface, relevence ranking, inclusion of tables of contents make it best for discovering what is available.

    * Relevance ranking makes it good for finding known items with imprecise information (eg: the journal, Science).

HOLLIS Classic

    * Use to search in non-roman alphabets

    * Supports string (phrase) searching

    * More display options for print/save/send

    * Best for precision searches for known items.

    *  Allows emailing of selected records

    * Most up to date information. Use for new titles

We have been told that the new HOLLIS should be able to support searching in non-roman alphabets by the end of 2010, and that HOLLIS Classic will be maintained until it does.

For more details, please see the Baker Business Library page, Which catalog to use?

At your service,

Cheryl

AskUsLive! (the online chat service through which Harvard University affiliates can "speak" with a Harvard librarian in real time online) is live again, starting today. We're offering this free service Sundays through Thursdays, 3PM-9PM; to use it just click on the AskUsLive! icon on the Harvard College Library web site home page.

At your service,
Cheryl

Scan & Deliver: Easy, Free, Green

Scan and Deliver is an electronic document delivery service which enables you to obtain scans of book chapters or journal articles from participating Harvard libraries. The current list of Scan and Deliver-participating libraries includes: Andover Theology, Baker, Cabot, Chemistry, Countway, Ernst Mayr, Fine Arts, Frances Loeb Design, Fung, Gutman, Kennedy, Lamont (Poetry Room and Government Documents only), Law, Loeb Music, Physics Research, Tozzer, and Widener. For more information on the service, please see the Scan and Deliver FAQ.

At your service,
Cheryl

RefWorks Training for Fall 2009

Lamont librarians are offering 50-minute basic training sessions in RefWorks (a web-based bibliographic management program that allows users with a Harvard ID and PIN to create a personal database of citations, abstracts, images, and other materials in electronic form, and to integrate these sources into bibliographies, articles, etc. written with Word and other word processors) on:

Thursday, September 10, 4:00-4:50pm ROOM 310 (LAMONT 3rd FLOOR)
Thursday, September 17, 4:00-4:50pm. ROOM 310 (LAMONT 3rd FLOOR)
Tuesday, September 22, 11:00-11:50am. LARSEN ROOM (LAMONT 1st FLOOR)
Wednesday, September 23, 3:00-3:50pm. ROOM 310 (LAMONT 3rd FLOOR)
Wednesday, September 30, 2:00-2:50pm. ROOM 310 (LAMONT 3rd FLOOR)
Thursday, October 1, 4:00-4:50pm. ROOM 310 (LAMONT 3rd FLOOR)

All students, faculty, and staff are welcome, but registration is necessary because space is limited. To sign up, contact Steve (kuehler@fas.harvard.edu) or Chris (lenney@fas.harvard.edu), or come by the Research Services Desk on Level B of Lamont.

Future training sessions will be posted on the Citation Tools iSite at
http://isites.harvard.edu/citationtools -- just go to "Instruction and Assistance."

At your service,
Cheryl

Research Guide Links for Liaison Departments

As the term approaches I thought it might be useful if I put together in one place a set of links to guides available for various of my departments/programs of liaison. So here they are:

Library Research Guide for the Center for Jewish Studies' Visiting Scholars and Starr Fellows,

Library Research Guide for the Center for Middle Eastern Studies,

East Asian Studies Research Guide,

Resources for Freshman Seminars,

and

Library Research Guide for Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

These are general guides for introducing you to various resources in your research; most of the sources on them are electronic. I can also devise individual course research guides tailored to your specific course (for example, the Library Research Guide for Abé Mark Nornes' Japanese Literature 160: The Pacific War Through Film), so please do get in touch with me if you’d like such a guide for your course.

At your service,
Cheryl