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Have you ever found yourself without a piece of paper or a pen after finding a call number in the library catalog?

Now, if you are searching in Magnus, you can send a text message to your phone which will include the title, author and call number for your book.

Just click the “Send via Text Message” button found in the middle of most Magnus item displays (here’s an example), then enter your phone number and select your cell provider — it’s that simple!

The texting service is available for the following cell providers:

• Alltel
• AT&T/Cin

Magnus now has the ability to display example citations for many of the books, journals, videos, and music in the Luther Library Collection.

When looking at a full item record in Magnus (here’s an example), on many records you will now see a link immediately below title and imprint information, labeled “Cite this Item (from WorldCat).” Example citations will be given in the following formats:

• APA
• Chicago (Author-Date)
• Harvard
• MLA
• Turabian

“Cite this Item” is provided by OCLC, and is also available from WorldCat.org

The library has collected a number of tools which introduce the research process and provide help in using common library tools.

From NITLE:

Professional Development Events

A full list of NITLE events lives at http://www.nitle.org/www/events. Register participants online from the event web page, or send an e-mail to participate@nitle.org with the event title and registrant’s name, job title, and e-mail address.

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A posting to the College Libraries Listserv this week introduced www.academia.edu, a site for members of colleges and universities to post information about themselves, their studies and research interests.

Now you can search Encore from Facebook!

The Preus Library QuickSearch Facebook application has been updated to be compatible with the new style of Facebook profile. PreusLQS can be added at this address: http://apps.facebook.com/preuslqs

To add to your wall, click the “Add to Profile” button on the page linked above.

Also available is a link to resource guides by subject featured on the Library Research page.

For a full list of NITLE events, see http://lis.luther.edu/nitle

Two new Workshops To Go

• Crossing Borders: Multimedia Storytelling for Study Abroad. A special instance of ‘Multimedia Narrative: Communicating with Stories.’ Program Dates: November 16 – 18, 2008. Location: Hobart and William Smith Colleges. 8 program units.

• Teaching Science in the Digital Age. Program Date: January 16, 2009. Location: Stonehill College.

For those who are wondering what books and DVDs we have added to the Preus Library collection over the summer the New Books list has been updated to include the 375 items purchased from May through August. The list is sorted by title and isn’t searchable but a search of Encore or Magnus will tell you if a particular item is in the collection.

Several people have asked about how to find articles from journals using the new Library Research website. Let me count the ways:

1) Using Encore, our new research and discovery tool. The Research page uses Encore as its default search. Along with searching Magnus (the library’s online catalog) if you enter a search term in the Encore search box (and you are on campus) that term is also sent to the Academic Search Complete, JSTOR and Project Muse databases.