A Bi-Weekly Update
4/1/11
New York Times Limit to 20 Articles Taken Very, Very Seriously
The New York Times has imposed a strict 20-article limit on all its non-home-delivery readers. In scrupulous compliance with publisher wishes, Trexler Library has hired a student employee whose sole duty is to monitor reading of the print copy of the New York Times available at the library’s reference desk. Once the 20-article limit has been reached in a given month (the designated student will keep a careful monthly tally), the student will grab the paper from the (unsuspecting? blissfully unaware? sneaky?) non-home-delivery reader’s clutches and prevent all further contact with the paper for the remainder of the month–come hell or high water. At the beginning of the new month, all non-home-delivery readers start with a blank slate, and can again beginning reading the beloved NYT to their 20-article-limit heart’s content. The library urges careful selection of reading material by all its non-home-delivery patrons so as not to waste one’s valuable 20-article allotment.*
Happy April Fools!
Online Access to the New York Times
In all seriousness… the New York Times at this moment does not offer institutional subscriptions to the web edition of the NYT. We are told this is a work in progress.
Notwithstanding, you can still retrieve all NYT print edition content with our current subscription coverage. The library has a print subscription to the newspaper. In addition, multiple online retrieval points to the print edition are available through the library catalog entry for the New York Times:http://192.104.181.216/record=b1483155
Infomaniac Tip
Site-Specific Google Searching
“Google allows you to specify that your search results must come from a given website. For example, the query [ iraq site:nytimes.com ] will return pages about Iraq but only from nytimes.com. The simpler queries [ iraq nytimes.com ] or [ iraq New York Times ] will usually be just as good, though they might return results from other sites that mention the New York Times. You can also specify a whole class of sites, for example [ iraq site:.gov ] will return results only from a .gov domain and [ iraq site:.iq ] will return results only from Iraqi sites.” See this and more search tips from Google. Find even more Google search tips from lifehacker.
Calendar of Events
4/6 – AP History Research Day with East Penn High School (9:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.)
4/14-4/15 – Elementary School Library Scavenger Hunt (part of “college experience” day) (Information Commons, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.)
4/29 – Middle School Library Scavenger Hunt (part of “college experience” day) (Information Commons, 9:45 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.)
4/29 – Muhlenberg College Digital Commons Inaugural Reception (level A, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.)
5/6 – Trexler Library Annual Book Sale (library front steps, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.)
*Credit goes to Marlboro College for the idea.
