LBSC 1011 BOSS IM & Chat Reference Document Delivery Study Rooms Textbooks Interlibrary Loan EndNote

Background

The OSU Library offers many services to our students. Annual discussions with student leaders (top 10 seniors, SGA, GPSGA, and student representative to ULAC) has lead Library administration to the conclusion that students, especially undergraduates, are generally unfamiliar with the full variety of Library services. This impression is in line with nation level research concerning college students and libraries. This situation is compounded when students do use certain resources (online journal subscriptions being the best example), but don’t realize that what they are using is provided by the Library.

The “You’re @ the Library” campaign will employ multiple communication channels to feature a different service each month. The core theme of the campaign is that when you use these resources you are “at the Library.” The featured resources will include both services offered in person and remote services.

Featured Resources

Make Better Grades & Earn a Credit Hour

LBSC 1011 is a one-hour-credit course to help you develop effective research techniques and become efficient using library resources. What does that mean? It means you’ll learn how to use the library better and faster, so you can produce superior class assignments in record time.

The eight-week course is offered in in-class or online at different times throughout the semester. For a list of course sections or for more information, go to www.library.okstate.edu/lbsc1011/index.htm.

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Ask the BOSS

The BOSS: Big Orange Search System is a new interface for the OSU Library Catalog (now the Classic Catalog). This intuitive new interface makes searching easy with a single search box and suggestions for refining or broadening your results. When available, BOSS even has book jackets and summaries.

Try it out at www.boss.okstate.edu. Keep an eye on this cool new tool; BOSS will be adding new tricks over the coming semesters.

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Instant Message for Instant Answers

Lost on campus? Need a topic for your first paper? Trying to settle a bet? There is a quick way to get answers to all of those tricky little questions facing college students. Use AOL Instant Messenger, ICQ, MSN or Yahoo to send an IM to the Library. Or just click on the Live Chat icon on the Library’s homepage to enter a chat with a librarian.

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Document Delivery Brings the Library to You

Whether you are home for the weekend, doing a semester abroad, or just across campus and don’t feel like coming by, the OSU Library will send any print article or book chapter we owned directly to your computer.

Fill out a request online, and within 2 days you will receive an email with a link to the article or chapter. If you requested an entire book, you will receive an email when it is available to be picked up.

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Get a Room!

Reserve your own private office for an afternoon. The Edmon Low Library has 9 rooms for meetings, study groups, projects etc. The rooms are well lit and furnished with conference-style tables and dry erase boards. Reservations are made at the Circulation Desk.

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Textbooks are on Reserve

For the fourth semester,* the OSU Library has expanded the Library Textbook Initiative. Textbooks for classes of 125 or more students, or costing $125 or more are on 2-hour reserve at the Library.

To check the status of your textbook, visit osucatalog.library.okstate.edu/and click “Course Reserves.” Or, just stop by the Circulation Desk and ask!

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If We Don’t Have It, We’ll Get It. Just Ask.

Interlibrary Services (ILS) gets books and articles the OSU Library does not own. Our goal is to put this material into your hands as quickly as possible. Submit requests electronically via the library Web site and we will borrow it from another library in our network. You receive an email when your items are ready. Articles are delivered electronically and books will be at the Circulation Desk for pick up.

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End Bibliography Worries Now

Creating and managing bibliographies is a lot easier thanks to software provided by the OSU Library. Two of the most popular software packages of this kind are available for free to all members of the OSU community through licenses negotiated and purchased by the Library.

EndNote and Reference Manager are tools for publishing and managing bibliographies. Both can be downloaded from the library’s Web site at http://www.library.okstate.edu/bibmanager/.

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