Hi-ho, A Delgado the Librarian here, reporting to you LIVE from a Thursday evening shift at the reference desk.
I'm only here for 2 hours today, gentle readers. Things have been quiet & crickety for about the last 30 minutes which has given me an opportunity to update the blogolio.
I spent some time with a student this evening working on citing YouTube videos in MLA format. Trickery I tell you, trickery! It turns out that ACC actually has a YouTube citation example on our MLA student guide page which is pretty nice (and unexpected). Oh holy smokes, readers! There's even an example for citing a Tweet in MLA. WHOA! Student and I kept second guessing ourselves whether or not to list the YouTube username as video author/creator. In the end we opted not to since we weren't confident that the YouTube username was actually the author/creator. It turns out (I've had 2 turns in this posting, does that mean I've done a 360?) that Student was asking for citation help on the paper Zhe was writing for the application for UT's Advertising program. I felt all sorts of special, not to mention scared. Luckily, Student was going to ask for help from an American Literature professor which alleviated some of my fear. Sigh.
I had another warm & fuzzy moment earlier in my shift. A student asked for help finding the link for the InfoGame from the ACC Library Services website and finding the InfoGame handout. I showed Student and Student went away happy. Yay! Approximately 20 minutes later I saw and heard Student showing a (presumably) classmate how to find the InfoGame & InfoGame handout. More YAYs!!!!!!!!!! I helped a student and the student paid it forward. I hope that means I have good karma in store for me because yes, I really am that shallow.
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Midwinter Blues & Spring 2013
Hi-ho, A Delgado here, reporting to you LIVE from a Thursday night reference desk shift. Things are hoppin' here at the A-C-C. Hoppin'! Smokin'! Jivin'! I've a slew of questions tonight that I'm gonna try to rattle off real quick like.
1) Books on dance & fashion
2) Twilight books (we had Twilight the graphic novel, volume 2 {but not volume 1}, Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn)
3) Books by Zane
4) Books by Eric Jerome Dickey
5-12) Textbooks
13) Books on stock option strategies
14) Field guides for birds, mammals, and other "nature" stuff
15) Intermediate college algebra supplementary textbooks for individual study
16) Textbooks
17) AskAcademic: How do I find this article from a citation? It's supposed to be on this website.
I've felt pleasantly busy. Yay! No "I need primary sources on ____" or "My teacher says I need 5 journal articles on _____" but those will come later on the semester. To round out my time at the desk I'm working on a reference question I had earlier today. The student and I worked together to figure out a topic for a History of Mexico research paper. We narrowed it down to the Inquisition in Mexico. So far, I've discovered that scholars like to say "New Spain." Ooooo, fancypants. I'm struggling with finding text primary sources that are translated into English. I was hoping that I would be able to find some super awesome digital library that translates old school Spanish into English. I've found some truly awesome archival stuff, ex. University of Notre Dame's Inquisitio *drool*. But nothing in English. *whine* I'm gonna have to tell Mexican Inquisition Student to dig out a book. *whine* Ah well, Central TX IS the home of the Benson Latin American Collection, which is pretty durn smurfy.
Meanwhile, back at the library ranch, I'm whiny like a wee thing, not because I can't find primary source documents on the Inquisition in New Spain translated into English, but because I won't be able to join my friends in Seattle at the Big Bad Midwinter Librarian Conference. Sourcebooks is giving away (GIVING AWAY, y'all, LIKE FREE!!!!) t-shirts with their new mascot which is JANE FREAKING AUSTEN. JANE! AUSTEN!
The old mascot was Edgar Allen "The Raven" Poe, as seen on their website here.
1) Books on dance & fashion
2) Twilight books (we had Twilight the graphic novel, volume 2 {but not volume 1}, Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn)
3) Books by Zane
4) Books by Eric Jerome Dickey
5-12) Textbooks
13) Books on stock option strategies
14) Field guides for birds, mammals, and other "nature" stuff
15) Intermediate college algebra supplementary textbooks for individual study
16) Textbooks
17) AskAcademic: How do I find this article from a citation? It's supposed to be on this website.
I've felt pleasantly busy. Yay! No "I need primary sources on ____" or "My teacher says I need 5 journal articles on _____" but those will come later on the semester. To round out my time at the desk I'm working on a reference question I had earlier today. The student and I worked together to figure out a topic for a History of Mexico research paper. We narrowed it down to the Inquisition in Mexico. So far, I've discovered that scholars like to say "New Spain." Ooooo, fancypants. I'm struggling with finding text primary sources that are translated into English. I was hoping that I would be able to find some super awesome digital library that translates old school Spanish into English. I've found some truly awesome archival stuff, ex. University of Notre Dame's Inquisitio *drool*. But nothing in English. *whine* I'm gonna have to tell Mexican Inquisition Student to dig out a book. *whine* Ah well, Central TX IS the home of the Benson Latin American Collection, which is pretty durn smurfy.
Meanwhile, back at the library ranch, I'm whiny like a wee thing, not because I can't find primary source documents on the Inquisition in New Spain translated into English, but because I won't be able to join my friends in Seattle at the Big Bad Midwinter Librarian Conference. Sourcebooks is giving away (GIVING AWAY, y'all, LIKE FREE!!!!) t-shirts with their new mascot which is JANE FREAKING AUSTEN. JANE! AUSTEN!
The old mascot was Edgar Allen "The Raven" Poe, as seen on their website here.
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