Class Cancellations Phone Number and Emergency Phone Number

Besides the emergency line (604-527-5452) to find out if the campuses are open in bad weather, there is another phone line that gives class cancellations. That phone number is 604-777-6242.
Debra

Printing Power Point slides for students

To print handouts rather than slides so the print job comes out faster and with less paper waste:
Go to File > Print and at the bottom where is says Print What, select handouts. Select how many mini-slides per page.

Printing/Downloading Attachments: hotmail and MyD

If students cannot print/download a hotmail attachment, forward the original message and attachment to MyDouglas, and do it from there.
If students seem to be blocked from opening their attachments in MyDouglas,this is due to the new pop-up blocker installed with the XP operating system on the student machines. To get around it and open the files:
Once the student tries to download their attachment, they'll have two windows pop up. They should say OK to the first one which asks if they noticed the information bar.
The second window with the big Detach File heading has a unobtrusive yellow bar at the top. Right click on it and select Download File... and follow the rest of the steps to open the attachment.
Amanda

SPSS program for Psychology students

Psychology 2300 students are using SPSS, which is a statistical program. Our library computers do not have access to it but the program is available in the computer labs at NW and DL.
Sam Cheng

Tiny printing at word processing printer at NW

Very often lately, a student will print their document on the NW Word Processing computers and the results will be very small, even though all the settings look correct. To fix this problem the student should select the following:
> File> Print> Properties> Type is:> Choose Plain
Hopefully this setting will be changed at the end of the semester when those computers are reimaged.
Thanks, Amanda

JSTOR citing

For questions on citing from JSTOR, there is a sheet at the Reference desks at both campuses with JSTOR examples for APA, MLA, Chicago and Turabian. The online guides will be updated soon.
Dianne

Language Expertise in BC Public Libraries

Click on http://www.bcla.bc.ca/multilingual and on the right hand side of the page click on the link to Language Expertise in BC Public Libraries.

Infoskills Assignments

To locate a library infoskills assignment, see the "Shortcut to Class Schedules" on the bottom right hand corner of the desktop on the circ. books out computers (at New West).
Jannine

Computer Lab availability

There is a link http://www.douglas.bc.ca/ceit/students/labs/nw_hrs.htm
on the College homepage for the availability of computer labs under the Quicklist dropdown menu labelled "Computer labs". I've also put a link to it on the Library's FAQs page (see left sidebar on library homepage).
Dianne Hewitt

Wireless Access to the Novell Network for Students

Students need to own (or borrow from AV) a laptop with a wireless card installed.

They need to have set up their Novell account on a DESKTOP computer first. This is because they can't get to the Novell account setup page on their laptop without first authenticating, and they can't authenticate until they have a computer account.

Then all they do is launch their preferred browser and an authentication page will come up where they do the usual and enter S + their student number followed by their Novell password.

Amanda

Criminology Legal Citation classess

The Power Point slides for legal citation classes are now in the PowerPoint folder on the H: drive.
Click on the + before Labs, Forms and Handouts
Click on the + before Instructional Services - Labs
Open the PowerPoint Presentations folder.
Patti Romanko

Frank Leonard History BAR assignment

The following are examples of how Frank would prefer his students to cite JSTOR for the BAR assignment.

Notes/Bibliography style
Anku, Willie. "Principles of Rhythm Integration in African Drumming." Black Music Research Journal 17, no. 2 (1997): 211-238. http://jstor.org/.

Text citation/reference list style
Anku, Willie. 1997 Principles of Rhythm Integration in African Drumming. Black Music Research Journal 17 (2): 211-238. http://www.jstor.org/.

There is another method using the stable URL (below) but the students from Hist 2250 BAR assignment can use the website instead.

Anku, Willie. "Principles of Rhythm Integration in African Drumming." Black Music Research Journal 17, no. 2 (1997): 211-238. http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=02763605%28199723%2917%3A2%C3211%3APORIIA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Z.

Gretchen

JSTOR and book reviews

JSTOR's search options are not that sophisticated, but they work adequately for this assignment. Students can use the advanced search screen and limit to "review" and add the author's name and key words from title in the "All of these words" search box. If they add author and key title words and then narrow to one field either title or author they will not get results.
Gretchen Goertz

WHMIS and nursing students

WHMIS is no longer on the NW Library ELF computers. Nursing students should go to open lab 5107 for the WHMIS program.
At DLam, it appears one MUST use the public log in and then set up a user name etc. if they are not in the system.

UCFV Psych students

The list of UCFV BA Psych program students will be in the green binder at the Circ Desk. They are allowed to have a sticker if they produce a Douglas College Student Card. If they do not have a student card send them to CLS.
Carole

Catalogue error form online

Technical Services has a new Catalogue Feedback Form on the Contact us page. If you notice a typo, or some other problem which you would like investigated, please fill out the form (or cut and paste the title) with a brief explanation and Technical Services will look into it. If you would like a reply you can fill that part of the form in as well or click no. Both staff and students are welcome to use the online form which replaces the paper Catalogue error forms.
http://library.douglas.bc.ca/contact.html

Gretchen Goertz
Technical Services and Systems Librarian

Text Book Lists

The Bookstore's web-site includes the textbook booklist. The current booklist is available from the main page under "textbooks" http://www.douglas.bc.ca/bookstore/index.html
Booklists for past semesters can be found under "Information for Employees" on the same page.
Donna Stimson

Borrowing policy for Reserves

Please note that the borrowing policy for Reserves is that they are for the use of Douglas College students only. Circulation staff may allow a non-Douglas College student to review a Reserve item at the counter at their discretion and after obtaining a piece of ID from the patron.
Carole

CEIT Tutorials and Workshops

The Centre for Educational and Information Technology at Douglas College has a web page with online tutorials and scheduled workshops http://www.douglas.bc.ca/ceit/techtrain/tutorials.htm
Amanda

H: drive from home

Instructions for employees who want to connect to the H: drive from off-campus are available on the upper portion of Amanda's desk or print out the .pdf file from the CEIT website http://www.douglas.bc.ca/ceit/.There are two variations: one for those who are using Windows XP and another for Windows 2000. It won't work if you're running any other kind of operating system.
* Mary discovered, rather unfortunately, that you will not be prompted to change your Novell password if it's nearing expiration when working from home. You will simply be locked out. A good tip if you suddenly find yourself unable to login.
Amanda

Argumentative essay guidelines

For useful guidelines and sample topics for writing an argumentative essay, do a Google search on "argumentative essay". See the Glendale (Arizona) Community College English Department site at http://www.gc.maricopa.edu/english/topicarg.html .
Mary Matthews

University of Calgary nursing students and ILL

The University of Calgary BCR nursing students have access to ILL services through U of C:
http://www.ucalgary.ca/library/libcon/reqforms.html . We will not be processing ILL requests on their behalf.
Patti

MS Office XP for employees

MS Office XP and MS Windows XP Operating System is available for purchase by College employees. The same policies apply to these CDs as those on reserve, ie: they are only for home use and only for employees. For the time being they are available at CLS but plans include transferring the selling responsibilities to the bookstore. The Office XP package is $5 and the Operating System is $7. Older editions are still available on Reserve in the Library. No information about MAC versions as yet.
Amanda

Students Borrowing from SFU

Douglas College students require nothing more than a valid student photo ID card in order to borrow directly from SFU. Many have been told that they require a COPPUL card. Douglas College is not a member of COPPUL, nor is it eligible to become a member. We have a separate agreement with SFU on a one year trial to extend reciprocal borrowing privileges to our students. Carole is sending a message to her contact at SFU asking him to make sure his staff are up to date on this issue.

Fraser River Initiative
Reciprocal Borrowing with Simon Fraser University, University College of the Fraser Valley, Kwantlen University College and Douglas College

Background
At a meeting of the directors of Kwantlen College, Douglas College, University College of the Fraser Valley and Simon Fraser University last Spring a decision was taken to allow reciprocal borrowing for Faculty, Students and Staff at these institutions. These privileges were to be implemented in the Fall of 2004.

Who is eligible?
Current Faculty, Students and Staff at these institutions.
Reciprocal borrowing privileges are NOT extended to Alumni or Extra-mural Borrowers.

Verification of eligibility
You must present a current Douglas College Identification Card when you apply to receive a library card with one of our reciprocal borrowing partners.

Restrictions on Use
Reciprocal borrowing privileges are extended to all circulating items in the collections with the exception of the following:
- Audiovisual materials (videos, DVDs, slides, audio-tapes, etc.)
- Reserve materials
- Laptops
- Audio visual equipment

People holding reciprocal borrowing privileges will be able to make use of most library services. However they will not have access to:
- Interlibrary Loans
- Off campus access to electronic resources

Duration
This is a one year pilot project beginning September 1, 2004 and ending August 31, 2005.
Prior to the termination of the pilot project it will be reviewed and a decision will be made whether or not to continue with reciprocal borrowing.

Please contact me if you have any questions.
Thanks Carole

ERIC fulltext

To retrieve fulltext journal articles in ERIC, turn on the Fulltext limiter, and the only fulltext that will be retrieved will be journal articles (fulltext documents are not included at this time, but Ebsco is working on a fix).

To get fulltext documents, do not limit to fulltext. Change JOURNAL OR DOCUMENT to read DOCUMENTS. Most of what you retrieve should be fulltext, as basically all ED (ERIC documents) are now in fulltext as a result of a policy change at ERIC.

Calendar Dates

To find out the significant dates in the Douglas College Calendar, go to http://www.douglas.bc.ca/calhtm/intro/import.htm

Scanners for students

Both campuses have a scanner available for student use in the Student Media Centres that are part of CLS, located beside room 3100 at NW and in room B1251 at Coq.

A self-serve system using wall calendars is in place. At NW, students go to room 3100 to book use of the scanner but they can drop in if there is no prior booking. If a student wants to use the NW scanner after 4:30 or on Saturday, s/he can go to Security and Security will allow use of the room after presentation of a current student card. The scanner is for course related use.

Business in Vancouver newspaper (click here)

To search Business in Vancouver online, connect above, choose Entire Archive, do a search, click on a title, and when prompted for a subscriber ID #, the number is 3902.