For those of you that use Meebo chat service to contact your librarian, Meebo will be shutting down on July 11. The library will soon be implementing a new chat tool. Details on that tool will follow in a future post but you can see a preview of the product. Sorry for the temporary inconvenience, however you may contact your librarian at:
http://www.wssu.edu/cg-okelly-library/library-instruction/lib-liaison.aspx
or use the information below
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Have a reference question? Get What You Need:
Ask a Librarian Call: (336)750-2454 | Text: (336)459-0987Email: reference@wssu.edu
Or Visit: O'Kelly Library
601 S. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive
Winston-Salem, NC 27110
Monday, July 9, 2012
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Summer 2 in Session
As today is the first day of a new semester, I'd like to invite everyone to visit the library. Come by and ask a question or use any of the alternative methods below. Students - don't wait to get information on your assignment, as the summer sessions seem to really fly by. Here's a great, time-management tool to help you prepare you for any assignment:
Assignment Calculator
Important:
The library will be closed for Independence Day, July 4th.
Update:
ProQuest® will be performing infrastructure maintenance and therefore will not be available from Saturday, June 30, 2012, at 10:00pm to Sunday, July 1, 2012 at 10:00am ET.
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Have a reference question? Get What You Need:
Ask a Librarian Call: (336)750-2454 | Text: (336)459-0987Email: reference@wssu.edu
Or Visit: O'Kelly Library
601 S. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive
Winston-Salem, NC 27110
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Have a reference question? Get What You Need:
Ask a Librarian Call: (336)750-2454 | Text: (336)459-0987Email: reference@wssu.edu
Or Visit: O'Kelly Library
601 S. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive
Winston-Salem, NC 27110
Friday, June 22, 2012
Video Libguide
O'Kelly now has a Libguide dedicated to our electronic, streaming video collection. You can view the collection here:
http://wssu.libguides.com/videos
If you have any problems with content, contact us.
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Have a reference question? Get What You Need:
Ask a Librarian Call: (336)750-2454 | Text: (336)459-0987Email: reference@wssu.edu
Or Visit: O'Kelly Library
601 S. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive
Winston-Salem, NC 27110
http://wssu.libguides.com/videos
If you have any problems with content, contact us.
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Have a reference question? Get What You Need:
Ask a Librarian Call: (336)750-2454 | Text: (336)459-0987Email: reference@wssu.edu
Or Visit: O'Kelly Library
601 S. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive
Winston-Salem, NC 27110
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Welcome to the revitalized blog for C.G. O'Kelly Library. We are excited to bring you the latest news and developments in your library. We intend to keep our readers informed of library hours, events, additions, changes and anything information related. Also, there will posts to help you conduct better research, use library resources and follow your institution's definition of Information Literacy, similar to the definition AACU provides.
UPDATE:
Due to required maintenance and upgrades, access to electronic resources, on the library web site, may not be available for the time period 5-6pm on Friday, June 22nd. Thank you for your patience.
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Have a reference question? Get What You Need:
Ask a Librarian Call: (336)750-2454 | Text: (336)459-0987Email: reference@wssu.edu
Or Visit: O'Kelly Library
601 S. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive
Winston-Salem, NC 27110
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Monday, December 14, 2009
Newspapers (Winston-Salem Journal, Wall Street Journal, USA Today)
Hello all (sorry in advance for any confusion)
First off, for those of you who did not know, we have been experiencing some real frustrations with a few of our newspaper titles, WS Journal, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today. I just wanted to let everyone know what has been going on.
Winston-Salem Journal: It comes via mail and we have not received a copy in over 20 days. I have spoke personally with the Winston-Salem Journal as late as last Friday and I am waiting for a supervisor to call me with answers to this problem.
Wall Street Journal/USA Today: The carriers stopped bringing the papers to the library drop box about two months ago. We found out that they were taking papers for the entire university to one place, the campus police station. So, I went their daily for about three days to get the papers and physically bring them back. However, one day I went, and the papers were not there. None of them.
Turns out that all papers (even though the address on ours says O'Kelly Library, Library Drop box) are now being taken to Blair Hall. I am working as hard as I can to get to the bottom of this - one phone call after another. My next step is to call other universities in the area to see if they have the same issues. If not, I will need this to make a more formal, declarative complaint against our carrier.
When I can get some solutions to this problem I will let everyone know.
My apologies for any inconvenience.
Carl
First off, for those of you who did not know, we have been experiencing some real frustrations with a few of our newspaper titles, WS Journal, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today. I just wanted to let everyone know what has been going on.
Winston-Salem Journal: It comes via mail and we have not received a copy in over 20 days. I have spoke personally with the Winston-Salem Journal as late as last Friday and I am waiting for a supervisor to call me with answers to this problem.
Wall Street Journal/USA Today: The carriers stopped bringing the papers to the library drop box about two months ago. We found out that they were taking papers for the entire university to one place, the campus police station. So, I went their daily for about three days to get the papers and physically bring them back. However, one day I went, and the papers were not there. None of them.
Turns out that all papers (even though the address on ours says O'Kelly Library, Library Drop box) are now being taken to Blair Hall. I am working as hard as I can to get to the bottom of this - one phone call after another. My next step is to call other universities in the area to see if they have the same issues. If not, I will need this to make a more formal, declarative complaint against our carrier.
When I can get some solutions to this problem I will let everyone know.
My apologies for any inconvenience.
Carl
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Dr. Pittsley assignment
Hello
Several of us have had Dr. Pittsley's students at the reference desk. The basics of the assignment are as follows:
The students have to address a health topic using news articles, some of which that have to be from the city or area that the student is from. The rest can be national articles or reliable web based articles (WebMD, National Institute of Health, etc.)
He has his own citation format. They are to create a reference page and number the articles from 1 to ??. When they make references to an article in the paper, they are to cite it by listing the number of the article in the reference page (not footnotes or endnotes, just the numbers).
The following format has worked for me. Dr. Pittsley has emailed me via email and said that this is waht he is looking for. However, you may choose to more or less that I what I have done.
1. I read over the student's paper and notice everywhere that Dr. Pittsley has left a blue highlight for them to cite their source. I offer to them the many ways to make reference to a source.
Example 1: Johnson addresses childhood obesity by....
Example 2: Johnson goes on to say...
Example 3: Paraphrase or use a direct quote and list the article number at the end.
2. Then I look at there sources and make sure that they have used some local news articles and some national/international news articles. If not, I show them Lexis-Nexis and point out how to search for their topic and narrow the results geographically so that they can find articles from the region that they are from.
3. Finally, I make sure that they make a clear argument in the introduction as to how they will address their health topic or what they intend to accomplish in their paper. Then I look at the conclusion to be sure that they are consistent with the introduction.
Carl
Several of us have had Dr. Pittsley's students at the reference desk. The basics of the assignment are as follows:
The students have to address a health topic using news articles, some of which that have to be from the city or area that the student is from. The rest can be national articles or reliable web based articles (WebMD, National Institute of Health, etc.)
He has his own citation format. They are to create a reference page and number the articles from 1 to ??. When they make references to an article in the paper, they are to cite it by listing the number of the article in the reference page (not footnotes or endnotes, just the numbers).
The following format has worked for me. Dr. Pittsley has emailed me via email and said that this is waht he is looking for. However, you may choose to more or less that I what I have done.
1. I read over the student's paper and notice everywhere that Dr. Pittsley has left a blue highlight for them to cite their source. I offer to them the many ways to make reference to a source.
Example 1: Johnson addresses childhood obesity by....
Example 2: Johnson goes on to say...
Example 3: Paraphrase or use a direct quote and list the article number at the end.
2. Then I look at there sources and make sure that they have used some local news articles and some national/international news articles. If not, I show them Lexis-Nexis and point out how to search for their topic and narrow the results geographically so that they can find articles from the region that they are from.
3. Finally, I make sure that they make a clear argument in the introduction as to how they will address their health topic or what they intend to accomplish in their paper. Then I look at the conclusion to be sure that they are consistent with the introduction.
Carl
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