Subject: IRDIGEST November 19, 2001 Issue
From: Helen Zuercher (hlz2@Lehigh.EDU)
Date: Mon Nov 19 2001 - 15:28:08 EST
IRDIGEST November 19, 2001 Lehigh University Information Resources CONTENTS: --GOVERNMENT INFO REMOVED SINCE SEPT. 11 --FULL TEXT NEWSPAPER AVAILABILITY --WOMEN WRITERS ONLINE --PDF FORMAT CONVERSION TIPS --BANNER ACCOUNTS - WHY AM I SO CONFUSED? --OUTLOOK EXPRESS --VOICE MAIL HELPFUL HINTS --CAMPUS AND PUBLIC EVENTS: GET THE WORD OUT! --THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY LIBRARY HOURS Subscription, archive and contact information is at the bottom of this digest. GOVERNMENT INFO REMOVED SINCE SEPT. 11 The public interest organization OMB Watch (http://www.ombwatch.org/info/2001/access.html) has developed an inventory of changes in public access to government information since the September 11 terrorist attacks. This list is updated on an ongoing basis. As of 10/30/01, information has been removed or altered from the Web sites including the US Geological Survey, NASA, Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the states of Pennsylvania and New Jersey. FULL TEXT NEWSPAPER AVAILABILITY Full text newspapers are available through Lehigh's electronic library resources. While many newspapers are now making some or all of their articles and features available through their web pages, in general they permit access for a brief time window, perhaps the last five days to two weeks. After that period it is possible to obtain electronic access to their articles only for a fee, generally charged to a credit card. Through two online news services purchased annually by Lehigh's library, users can access many newspaper archives, some going back a decade or more. Services like Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe and Dow Jones Interactive are available and provide the full-text of hundreds of major U.S., international, local and regional papers. Go to http://www.lehigh.edu/~inref/guides/lexisdowjonespapers.html for step by step instructions on finding newspapers and articles in these two services. WOMEN WRITERS ONLINE Available from the library database page at http://www.lehigh.edu/~inref/databases/index.html, Women Writers Online, (http://www.wwp.brown.edu/texts/wwoentry.html) the textbase of the Women Writers Project at Brown University, is a full text database of works by women from the 14th through 19th century. From the earliest listed work, Margaret Roper's A Devout Treatise Upon the Pater Noster (1526), up through A Legacy for Young Ladies by Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1826), this constantly growing full text database is a treasure trove of lesser-known texts by women. It includes Renaissance Women Online, a special subset of 100 texts from the Women Writers Online. The Women Writers Project is a long-term research project devoted to early modern women's writing and electronic text encoding. Its goal is to bring texts by pre-Victorian women writers out of the archive and make them accessible to a wide audience of teachers, students, scholars, and the general reader. The project supports research on women's writing, text encoding, and the role of electronic texts in teaching and scholarship. The fully searchable collection is culled from original texts at 26 major research collections, including the Huntington Library, Bodleian Library, a variety of British libraries, and university libraries at Cambridge, Harvard, and Brown. The rich collection is accessible using a simple search box. There are many access points into the texts, including author, date, publication location, publisher, text size, text length, source library, and Wing or STC numbers. Recent additions to the database include materials by Mary Love, Joan Whitrow, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Elizabeth Chandler, Ann Plato, and others. PDF FORMAT CONVERSION TIPS Does your unit or department put PDF forms on the Web for users to complete and submit? Make their job (and YOUR job) easier by creating PDF forms with online fill-in-the-blank boxes. Forms can then be completed online and either printed or submitted by email. It is possible to create new forms or modify existing ones. Visit http://www.Lehigh.EDU/~inhelp/faq/qa/pdfform.html for more information. BANNER ACCOUNTS - WHY AM I SO CONFUSED? Databases, instances, forms, user classes, reporting roles, Citrix, Web for products what are they? Many employees are feeling frustrated, flustered or overwhelmed by the Banner lingo that's being bantered about. In an effort to clarify all this, visit http://www.Lehigh.EDU/security/BannerAccounts.htm for a brief overview of Banner and its terminology. OUTLOOK EXPRESS Curious about Outlook Express? Although Information Resources doesn't officially support it, the Help Desk has developed documentation for our users who have 'expressed' a preference. Visit http://www.lehigh.edu/helpdesk/oesetup/oesetup.html for more information. VOICE MAIL HELPFUL HINTS Some voice mail users may be unaware that there is a simple way to send a message to another voice mail subscriber without ever calling the individual's phone number! Just follow these simple steps. Dial into your own voice mailbox and enter your password. At the "Main Menu" Press 2. At the tone, record the message. When finished press #. Enter the recipient's mailbox number into the keypad. After hearing the recorded name press # to send the message. The recipient's message waiting indicator light will now flash. To send a copy of a message from your mailbox to another subscriber, follow these simple instructions. After listening to a message press 6 (or 6-6 to remove other introductions). Record your introduction. When finished press #. Enter the recipient's mailbox number into the keypad. After hearing the recorded name press # to send the message. To hear online help while using your mailbox, press 0. To cancel a command or to back up one menu while using your mailbox, press #. For additional information about voice mail features please visit our web site at http://www.lehigh.edu/phones/facquick.html CAMPUS AND PUBLIC EVENTS: GET THE WORD OUT! Is your department or division sponsoring a workshop, lecture series, or other event? Alert the IR Help Desk so that our staff can direct lost attendees and participants who have forgotten or misplaced their information. If you call the Help Desk with the location, date, and time of your event, the staff can better direct attendees to the right place at the right time. Because the Help Desk is open in the evenings and on weekends, when many events occur, questions often come to the Help Desk about locally held events. To report an event, just call the Help Desk at 8-4357. THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY LIBRARY HOURS November 21 through 25 Fairchild Martindale and Linderman Libraries November 21 Wednesday 8 AM to 10 PM November 22 Thursday CLOSED November 23 Friday 8 AM to 5 PM November 24 Saturday Noon to 5 PM November 25 Sunday Noon to 2 AM* *Linderman Library closes at midnight. ******************************************************************** Send your comments or suggestions for future topics by replying directly to the list. TO SUBSCRIBE TO IRDIGEST: Send email to: Listproc@lehigh.edu Type in the body of the message: Subscribe irdigest <your name>. Call the IR Help Desk (84357) if you have any difficulty in subscribing. IRDIGEST archives are located at: http://www.lehigh.edu/lists/archives/irdigest
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