Collins- Lit 2413 -Confederacy of Dunces paper

Collin's class is working on a research paper comparing / contrasting A Confederacy of Dunces with another fiction work of their choice (see Ref notebook). To find info, search the title (in quotes) in the databases Academic Search Premier and MLA Bibliography.

Kim Kelley - Exceptional Children

This class needs a classroom test for K-12 students. They should use teacher's editions in the curriculum area. Ask them the subject area and do a keyword search in the catalog with a limit to currciulum.

This will get them in the general area. Explain to them the call numbers and how they can deteremine grade level and teacher's editions. Also explain which ones can be checked out and which cannot, as I believe many of the students may not be familiar with the curriculum collection.

Dr. Collins History Paper

I had a student ask about doing a Weatherford, Oklahoma research paper. I directed him to the reserve shelf where there is a book about Weatherford. Then they are supposed to pick a year and get three sources about what happened that year. I had a difficult time looking up 1996. Everytime I went to look at a newspaper article in various places I kept getting articles that just pertained to Oklahoma History even though I typed in Weatherford, oklahoma history. I'm not sure what I am doing wrong. I just wanted to give everyone a heads up about the assignment.

Public PC updates: A-U complete

All of the PCs on the first floor (except the ADA PC), the Instruction Room PCs, and the Writing Lab have been updated. Some of the changes include:

• MS Office 2003
• Firefox
• Drivers for the new Kyocera printer
• updated browser plugins (QuickTime, RealPlayer, Flash, etc.)

Roger will be working this week on updating the laptops.

Network printer & quotation marks -- problem fixed

This problem has been fixed. -- Jon

There has been a problem that has come up with students printing essays, english papers, etc. that contain "quotation marks." Thenetwork printer is printing a tilde (~) instead of quotation marks. I have given Jon the information to look into and he will advise further.

In the meantime, I have found that most of these papers can be correctly printed using the HP laserjets located at the Circ Desk, Info Services office, and Reference office. Please advise the students to save to a disk or email, and take it to one of these locations to print.

Argumentative Speeches / Cindy Carley's classes

Just a heads-up!

Three sections of Carley's Speech class will be doing research for a persuasive speech. Students will need print and electronic information. Please refer to the following handout for resources to assist with this assignment http://www.swosu.edu/library/infoservices/instruction/handouts/pro_con.pdf

Some of the issues are in the following areas: sports, education, child safety, poverty, health, social security, stem cell research, cloning, senior citizens, organ donation, self defense, cell phone usage, etc.

A Writer's Reference-Diana Hacker Now at Ref Desk

A Writer's Reference by Diana Hacker (R 428.2 H118) is now available at the reference desk. This is the book used in conjunction with English Composition I & II. On occassion, student's will ask for the "Hacker style" and this publication is what they are referring to.

There is also an online version at http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/