Freshman Orientation Assignment

Freshman who missed their library orientation class have a make-up assignment posted on my faculty Instruction Page:

http://faculty.swosu.edu/frederic.murray/Instruction.htm

Wireless printing libguide for Vista, XP, and Mac now available

The libguide for wireless printing is now complete for Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Macintosh.

[9/24/2009 update]
I've added printer setup instructions for Ubuntu Linux. Every major operating system is now covered (at least until Windows 7 comes out in October).

Jon W.

Cecil Medicine - Online Access

We are registered for online access to Cecil Medicine. The username is my email address: jane.long@swosu.edu. The password is: refdesk. The hard copy of the book is in Reference: 616 C388 2007. Take a look at this excellent medical resource.

Mac Wireless Printing

I've created a LibGuide with instructions on setting up Macs for printing to the library's public printer.

I'll have a LibGuide published soon for wireless printing on Windows Vista, and revised instructions for Windows XP.

(9/21/2009) Instructions for Vista and Windows XP are now online.

Jon W.

Wed. evening, 9/9: Student off-campus logins down

As of 5:30 Wed. evening, students are not able to login to off-campus databases through the library’s EZproxy server because the SWOSU student webmail server is down. EZproxy uses the student webmail server to check that the person logging in remotely is a SWOSU student. If the student webmail server goes down, EZproxy can’t authenticate the student into the library’s databases.

As a temporary workaround, I’ve put a list of temporary IDs at the Reference Desk. The temporary IDs will let students login from off-campus. The student will need to type the temporary ID into the faculty/staff login box on the EZproxy login page.

Faculty, staff, and pharmacy preceptors off-campus logins are working normally and are not affected by this problem.

Jon W.

P.S. Desire2Learn is also down this evening. D2L doesn’t have any impact on the library’s servers, but we may get questions from students about the outage. ITS is working on getting D2L and student webmail back in service.

Meebo Disconnecting

Meebo disconnected a lot on me tonight (Sept. 8th) while I was in the middle of helping a couple of folks.

Meebo Notifier troubleshooting

You can confirm that Meebo is working when you’re at the Reference Desk by browsing to the Ask a Librarian web page, clicking the Meebo link, and sending an IM to yourself.

The Meebo Notifier will pop-up an alert in the Windows tray if Meebo is working correctly.

If you don't see the Notifier alert:

• Check that Meebo Notifier is signed in. If the Notifier shortcut in the Windows tray is grayed out, right-click the shortcut and select "Sign on."
• If the Notifier shortcut isn't running, double-click the Meebo Notifier shortcut on the Windows desktop.
  

Jon W.

Tribal College Assignment (Phillip's Email)

Part 900 - Contracts Under the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act

Writing Center Hours

The Fall hours for the Writing Center are located in the flip file. Tutors will begin seeing students on August 31.

Text a Librarian Settings

As an administrative function, I have made sure that all of the time settings have been changed for each of you. When I updated the settings through my user id, I thought it updated the settings for the program, so I could not identify the problem. Thanks to Erin, we are now all working with Central Time.