It brings up citations (and sometimes abstracts) only -- no full
text, and no pdf page or story images. Still, it's obviously useful.

There is no record in MNCAT or the "Indexes and Databases A to Z"
menu for it. (And if we may not be getting permanent access, that's
as well for now.) The only way to get to it seems to be to go to
any of the other Proquest newspaper databases, such as the CHICAGO
TRIBUNE or NEW YORK TIMES historical files, click on the "select
mulitple databases" link, go down to the "Historical Databases"
list at the bottom of the screen, check the MINNEAPOLIS TRIBUNE
"on" (and then check "off" whatever other paper you entered to get
to the list, unless you do want to search it in conjunction with
the TRIBUNE).

"pig's eye" brings up 31 documents
"little big horn" brings up 53
chippewa brings up 2303
duluth brings up 58,084 etc.

Denny Lien

system status page

Coffee Shop hours

FRIDAY
8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

(listing corrected on 1/29/2009)
Other UDS locations on the West Bank (e.g., Essentials) will open at 7:00 a.m.

Wilson Basement Entrance will open at 8:00 A.M. Monday-Friday beginning Tuesday Jan. 20.

The first floor entrance will continue to open at 7:00 AM M-F.

including:

Westbank

* West Bank Office Building - Campus Mail Box outside on sidewalk.
* Heller Hall - drop slot by room 55

Reduced Hours for Wilson Library Annex
From December 19, 2008 through January 18, 2009, Wilson Library Annex will have reduced hours. The Annex will be open from 10:00 am- to 4:30 pm, Monday through Friday, and will be closed on the weekends. Outside open hours on Monday through Saturday, we will offer on demand paging for regular loan items housed in the Annex. Patrons can visit the first floor Circulation desk to have a staff member paged. If you have any questions, please contact Jackie

Individuals
Dec. 23 through Monday Dec 29, and back at work on Tuesday Dec 30 - GA
Dec.16th through Jan. 9th and back to work on Monday (January 12). - Su

UPDATE (12/22/08)! The main SMART Commons page, while it does not display links to the locations, has a link called Contacts, which links to the locations.

The Wilson SMART homepage is still accessible at the URL below

(which I could find only because it was given in some FAQ entries).
*******

Denny

Links there include:

Technology Resources

Handouts

* Accessing Your Server Space PC (PDF-320KB) Mac (PDF-444KB)
* iMovie Quickstart (PDF-1096KB)
* Microsoft Excel Guide (PDF-449KB)
* A variety of Handouts from U of Michigan (offsite)

Poster Making and Printing

* Poster Design Tutorial (From College of Biological Sciences)
* PowerPoint to PDF conversion guide for Mac OS X (offsite - REQUIRES Acrobat Pro)
* PowerPoint to PDF conversion guide for PCs (REQUIRES CutePDF)

Networking

* UMN Network Status - Check here for information about E-Mail and Network outages.
* ADCS Networking Guides - Configuration guides for wireless ethernet, wired ethernet or dial-up connections.

Hardware Support

* Epson Scan Quickstart (PDF-weblink)
* Epson Scan Reference Guide (PDF-weblink)

*********

For the scanners (my particular bête noir), the links go respectively to:

http://files.support.epson.com/pdf/pr317p/pr317pbb.pdf

and

http://files.support.epson.com/htmldocs/pr317p/pr317prf/index.htm

The former is only four pages, but takes a long time to format before printing.

Since it's been a few months, some things then up to date no longer are -- after getting complaints about a couple of them, I tried to log in to fix them and discovered that there was no problem: I could get in and edit just as before. I'm not sure if the FAQ db never actually was frozen or if it became unfrozen and no one told us, but in any case if you run across entries that need updating (or things for which whole new entries are needed) let me know and I'll handle them.
Denny

On a related note, the Wilson Library building will be open reduced hours for the intersession beginning at 9:00pm on December 18 and running through January 19, 2009. With a few exceptions, the building will open at 8:00am and close at 6:00pm Mondays - Fridays. Saturday and Sunday hours as well as the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday will also be reduced to 12:00pm - 6:00pm. For a full listing of the the building and service hours for all the Libraries go to: http://lib.umn.edu/site/hours.phtml

Jerrie

CTRL+SHIFT+2
CTRL+SHIFT+3
CTRL+SHIFT+4

These will result in Thunderbird (the email client) being pulled up, creating a new mail, and then filling in all of the needed fields. All you have to do is click the send button. Thunderbird does not need to be open before you do this. It also does not matter if Thunderbird IS already open. We still will need to wait for CRSS to call us so we can be sure that there is someone on that floor waiting to help the patron.

Hopefully this will help us to start using this great service.

I know questions in at the desk about test preparation of various sorts. Laurel

http://smart.umn.edu/CompTestPrep-overview.html

Preparing for a standardized test or admissions test? Find the materials you need in our Standardized Test Preparation Resource Center located in the SMART Learning Commons in room 204 of Walter Library.

*ACT*
*SAT*
*CLEP* – College Level Exam Program
*GRE* – Graduate Record Exam
*GMAT* – Graduate Management Admission Test
*LSAT* – Law School Admission Test
*MCAT* – Medical College Admission Test
*PRAXIS* – teacher education admissions exam
*PPST* – Pre-Professional Skills Test
*MELAB* – Michigan English Language Assessment Battery
*TOEFL*- Test of English as a Foreign Language
*MAT* – Miller Analogies

Right-click on the Windows system tray's wireless icon, then choose "View Available Wireless Networks." The new network is called "UofM," which is a change from the old network's name, "UofM Wireless."

There will also be two other options called "UofM Secure" and UofM Guest." Support for these options will be phased in later.

If you need assistance, please bring your laptop to 453 Wilson. Non-library-staff users who need assistance with the wireless transition should be referred to the ADCS help lines in Blegen Hall, 1-HELP, or http://www.umn.edu/wireless/.

(1) Has anyone heard anything about if the now-defunct old U card machines are ever going to be, like, removed from the walls?

(2) Even if they are permanent parts of the landscape and will never be removed, who can we ask about getting a better sign on the first floor one? The sign now informs people in BIG LETTERS that the machine is no longer working, but only tells people about the machine in the basement that they should be using instead further down in smaller and much lighter typeface. I know I get people every couple of days who read the first part and not the second and come to the reference desk asking pathetically how they can put value on their cards if "the" machine no longer operates.

Denny

If you have users that are still experiencing issues logging into RefWorks, please first consider restarting your computer to refresh network settings and clear active internet files. If rebooting does not resolve the login problem, please report any outstanding issues to support@refworks.com.

While we do not anticipate any further interruptions in service at this time, we do appreciate your support and understanding during this period.

Christine Capen
Director Technical Services

http://www.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/au.cgi

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