Belk Library & Information Commons News

Touchscreen Information Kiosks

The library has added new touchscreen information kiosks on each floor of the building. These monitors will give you instant, easy access to some of our most popular web tools:

• Book group study rooms
• View computer availability maps
• Find events in the library

Our technology services staff is currently working on getting small printers attached to each monitor, so that students may print out confirmation slips when booking group study rooms.

Kiosk Locations

• 1st floor: Two are located between the front doors and the reference desk
• Lower level, 2nd, and 3rd floors: One on each floor by the main elevators

We're working on additional apps to add to the kiosks. Can you think of anything else you'd like to be able to do on these kiosks? Let us know in the comments.

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Flash Fiction Contest

Submit a short work of fiction (must be 500 words or less) and you could win a $150 gift certificate
from the University Bookstore. Gift certificates to the top 3 authors. Open to all current Appalachian State
University Students.

• Story must be 500 words or less
• Story must include the Wired Scholar Coffee Shop in some manner
• Double-spaced, typed, 12-point font
• Submit entry by email attachment (.doc or .pdf file) with subject line "Flash Fiction Contest" to boydjd@appstate.edu
• Put your name and email address on attached cover sheet
• Deadline for all stories is Friday, March 16, 2012 at 5:00 p.m.

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Web of Science and Endnote Training Sessions

Belk Library is hosting training sessions for Web of Science and EndNote Web.

Date: Tuesday, February 14

Time: Web of Science 12:00pm - 1:00pm | EndNote 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Location: Belk Library, room 024

Thomson Reuters, producer of both products, is sending one of their trainer/teachers for one workshop for each product.  Seating in each session is limited to the first 40 who email requesting a seat.  Each class is 1 hour.

To register for either session, please email John Abbott (abbottjp@appstate.edu) and put "workshop" in the subject line and indicate which session(s) you wish to attend.

Web of Science

Are you interested in discovering who is citing your work or the work of others? Learn how to use Web of Science to utilize your research time more efficiently.

The Web of Science seminar covers:

• The publication selection process
• Using the search interfaces for topic, author, source title, and address searching
• Using citation connections to navigate through literature both forward and backward in time
• Integration with the ResearcherID author identification product
• E-mailing, saving, printing, or exporting your results to EndNote Web
• Saving a search history and creating search and citation alert
• Social sciences and Humanities are also part of the content of WoS.

EndNote Web

Are you interested in learning better ways to effectively manage your references with a simple accessible tool? Learn how to use EndNote Web to manage your references more effectively and save time in your writing process.

With Web of Knowledge, you have access to EndNote Web, a reference organizer and collaboration tool that enables users to collect references and collaborate easily with other. Plus, insert citations and create bibliographies in Microsoft Word, instantly!

The seminar will cover:

• Navigating the user interface
• Integration with the Web of Knowledge
• Collecting and sharing your references
• Using Cite-While-You-Write to insert citations and create bibliographies in Microsoft Word

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Library Hours Change for Spring 2012

For Spring 2012, the library and SGA worked to make the following changes to library late night hours:

1.  The Atrium area will close at 2 a.m. There will be no 24 hours access to the Atrium and Wired Scholar.

2.  For 2 weeks at Final exams, the library will be open 24/5 from Sunday night through Thursday nights.  

Find daily hours and any holiday/break exceptions on the official library hours calendar.

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