Last week we welcomed our newest addition to the ACL family: our new Mason Money Machine! As seen below, this new contraption is shorter than the previous yellow machine, and has a much brighter options screen. He seems to be functioning alright, except for a bizarre glitch that sometimes disables the “Deposit” and “Purchase a [...]
Archive for February, 2008
26 Feb
All about Zotero!
Today from 5:30 – 6:30 PM in the library’s instruction room, you will have the opportunity to learn all about the famous Zotero that everyone has been talking about lately. Zotero is like EndNote’s hipster cousin that works with Firefox to collect information from the web and stores it right inside your browser. It was [...]
25 Feb
Marissa’s last week
This week is Marissa’s last one at Arlington Campus Library, and we will be throwing her a farewell party on Thursday, Feb. 28th at 2:00 PM in Arl O, Room 245. Marissa is our Social Work/ICAR Liaison Librarian and will be leaving us on Friday for a librarian position with ICF International in Fairfax. Although [...]
18 Feb
Research 2.0! slides
In case you were interested in our new Research 2.0! Workshop but couldn’t attend, you can download the slides here —-> Research 2.0.
For complete coverage of Zotero and EndNoteWeb, consider registering at http://ittraining.gmu.edu for the Zotero workshop on Tues., Feb. 26th at 5:30pm – 6:30pm and/or the EndNoteWeb workshop on Mon., March 3rd at 5:30pm – [...]
14 Feb
Research 2.0!
The library will be hosting a Research 2.0 workshop on Monday, 2/18 (President’s Day) in the library’s instruction room (101K) from 5:30 – 6:30 PM. This workshop will introduce you to online research tools such as Google docs/books/scholar, Zotero, EndNoteWeb, and RSS feeds. If interested, please sign up at http://ittraining.gmu.edu. Send any questions you have [...]
11 Feb
Mason Money update
It seems as if no one is really sure when the new Mason Money Machines will be installed so print services has decided to reactivate the “old” ones. Hopefully the new machines will be installed and ready to take your money soon. Until then (or further notice), you can add money and/or purchase copy cards [...]
7 Feb
Mason Money rumor
Word around the library is that we will be getting new Mason Money Machines very shortly. The folks at Mercer Library at the Prince William Campus have received their new teller machine that accept credit cards in addition to cash, and allow cash transfers. However, until the new machine arrives and is installed, our old [...]
5 Feb
Don’t forget about workshops this week
This week we have two different workshops in one week!!! The first, Introduction to Library Research, will be on Wednesday, February 6th at 4:30 – 6:00 PM in the library’s instruction room (101k). The second will be an EndNote Intensive workshop, on Thursday, February 7th, from 4:30 -7:00 PM, also in the instruction room.
Intro to [...]
