K-State at Salina Library

Medical Websites

Missed our Library Learning Series on finding reliable health information online? Here's the highlights:

How do know I need a medical website and not a doctor?

• Are you or someone you know not breathing?
• Are you or someone you know bleeding (internally or otherwise)?
• Are you or someone you know missing a limb or body part?
• Are you or someone you know looking for more in-depth information about a pandemic, illness, disease or other health-related topic?

How do I know which I need? Local or national?

How do I know which website is best for me?

Good Websites:
Kansas Health Online http://kansashealthonline.org/
MedlinePlus http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/aboutmedlineplus.ht

Bad Websites:
Healthline http://www.healthline.com/
WebMD http://www.webmd.com/

Holy bowling balls, Batman!

Photo courtesy of www.dccomics.com

Some of you hard-core library fans may have noticed a few changes in our Library Lounge display recently. You may be wondering "COMIC BOOKS!?! In the LIBRARY!?!" That's right, folks. K-State at Salina recently starting adding graphic novels to our Lending Fiction collection. You can find the hottest new releases for such such caped crusaders as Batman, Wonder Woman, Superman, and the Fantastic Four, not to mention our favorite villains Atlas, Joker, Harley Quinn, Catwoman and Scarecrow. Look for coming additions throughout the rest of the summer. Don't see your favorite character? Let us know and we'll look into ordering it in the next round.

Think we shouldn't have "comic books" in our academic library? Stop by our display and read the posted articles on how these marvels (sorry, bad pun) are helping to increase literacy around the world. Check out one of the articles here.

Weekend Library Hours survey

The library and SGA would like your participation in the survey below about weekend hours at the library. SGA has voiced concern about the library changing its operating hours and we would appreciate 
your opinion before we make any decisions.

Casino Night video

Here it is, folks! A fast and furious clip of Casino Night on the K-State Salina campus.

Your voice counts!

Thanks to all the students, faculty and staff who have let us know what kinds of books they would like to see in our Lending FIction collection! We can't grow our collection without your input. Due to several requests, we have recently ordered graphic novels to include in our collection so keep telling us the titles you want! Know of a book or two that is coming out in the next several months you can't wait to get your hands on? Let us pre-order it for the collection!

2009 African American Read-In

Thanks to all the faculty, students and staff who made this event a success! We had 35 readers who read from a wide variety of historical, poetic and short-story works all by African-American authors, in a constant stream from 9am to 3pm. Whether you read aloud, supported readers by attending and listening or encouraged others, we appreciate your participation.

First myLibrary video

Because we at the library are always interested in learning how people perceive and use the library, we had our student workers start a project called "myLibrary" by making video essays. They could use any photos/ideas/expressions/themes they wanted, as long as it had to do with the library and their thoughts on it. This is the first video to be produced, so look forward to more coming in the spring. Enjoy and let us know what you think!

(It might take a minute or two to download but be patient!)

Keyli's myLibrary Project

It looks familiar...

Here it is, folks! The "K-State at Salina Library: Now and Then" movie spectacular spectaculum! (Which means "spectacle" or "show", from the the Latin word "spectacular" and is just darn fun to say!) It highlights all the major renovations/changes the K-State Library has been through in years past, including all the location and name changes.

Enjoy!

K-State at Salina Library: Now and Then

E-Journals: Everybody's doing it

Want to read your favorite magazine without trekking to the library?

Due to the increasing number of magazines and journals that are going to digital formats-only, K-State Salina is happy to offer to students and staff a tutorial on how to access e-journals, both those publications still offered in print and those that are now offered solely online. Enjoy!

K-State at Salina Library E-Journals Tutorial

First full-featured film

This is the long-awaited trailer for the K-State Salina Library, courtesy of GarageBand and iMovie. We've been waiting for some of the remodeling/moving to be done to include it in the movie. And because Heidi has seen what these two applications can do, look for more films (both the educational and entertaining kinds) in the future! Enjoy!

Library_Trailer

Election Party 2008

Miss out on the party? Catch the action in a 90 second video!

Electionparty.mov

Vote for your favorite presidential nominee!

Presidential Readers

In an effort to encourage students to watch the Presidential Debate, get out and vote and attend the KSU Salina Election Party (Nov. 4th in the College Center) presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain visited campus. Below are pictures of the hopefuls enjoying the Library Lounge.

Say what?

Are you a little confused on the verbiage used when searching online databases? Check out this super-short video that breaks down the vocab used in doing searches. It's shorter than the average YouTube clip and more educational as well!

Click to watch the tutorial: Library_speak_databases.mov

Do you spend restless nights trying to figure out the exact difference between "Periodicals" and "Magazines"? Whether books were created "On Reserve" or evolved? And what do you do if you have a question about the Questions Desk!?? If you're dying to know a little bit more about the lingo used around the library, this handy little tutorial will take you on a tour of the library and explain some of the terminology commonly used by librarians and professors on campus.

Click to watch the tutorial:Library_speak_around_the_library.mov

As always, if you have comments, questions or concerns about any K-State at Salina Library online tutorials, please stop by and let us know, or email hblackbu@k-state.edu. We are constantly striving to bring you the most up-to-date and useful tutorials and we would love your feedback!

Take me home today!

There are still PLENTY of brand-new books waiting to find a good home if you haven't had time to come over and check out our new Lending Fiction collection. Don't be fooled, we have new Non-Fiction and Biographies as well! We have also received two big boxes of new books in the last week so if you didn't like what you saw the first time, we may have something new that catches your eye!

Happy Reading!

Books, books EVERYWHERE!

The library is happy ECSTATIC to announce the arrival of our new Lending Fiction collection! We have partnered with a vendor to bring you over 200 new bestsellers, including fiction, non-fiction, and biographies. Each month ten new books will arrive and books not being checked out will be sent back so there will always be something new and fresh to read. Stephen King, Bill O'Reilly, Dean Koontz, Nicholas Sparks, Daniel Silva...politcal, religious, chick lit, sports, war, comedies, mysteries, inspirational...we've got you covered so hop on by on MONDAY Sept. 8th and get your hands on a great book!

Wanna get a jump start on browsing? Check out the side bar under the category "New Resources" and by clicking on the book cover, you can get not only the title, but the book description as well, courtesy of Amazon. You can browse all weekend and be ready to go Monday morning!

Latest and Greatest

Here's our newest library trailer (I know, I can't stop using Animoto!) highlighting just SOME of the new physical changes that we've made around the library to make it a more inviting place for students and staff. Look for a full-feature film sometime in the late fall that will highlight ALL our renovations, both big and small!

Awesome library trailer!

Here is an awesome teaser trailer that was created at www.animoto.com which allows you to drop pictures and sound into what can best be described as an online digital blender and then TA-DA! Out pops a rockin' 30 second trailer for your summer vacation, family reunion, graduation or anything else you have pics from! The library will soon be renovated so we just practiced with a few pics of our our soon-to-be-renovated areas but we'll have a brand-new trailer of all the library's newest features up before school starts!

Exciting news!

Hello everyone! My name is Heidi Blackburn and I have been hired as the new Reference and Instruction Librarian here at K-State Salina. I have a B.A. degree in Business Administration from Truman State University and recently graduated from Emporia State University with my Master’s of Library Science degree. Starting this fall, I will be teaching students how to use databases and advanced search techniques by visiting Expository I and II classes, as well as other classes, so don’t forget to say hi if you see me running across campus. (But don’t wave your hands and distract me, as I’ll probably trip and spill all my handouts!) I will also try to answer all the reference questions you might bring to the library so don’t hesitate because my office door is always open. I look forward to trading jokes and research advice with all of you! :D

What is "The Library Minute"?

"The Library Minute" is a biweekly, 60 second podcast, screencast, or vodcast highlighting new information tools, search functions, websites, and up and coming technology. The hustle and bustle of everyday life makes it nearly impossible to keep up with the "new", but now you can obtain professional development in under a minute!

del.icio.us social bookmarking website:  http://del.icio.us.com
Click to listen:  Download del.icio.us.mp3

Featured search engine:  http://www.clusty.com
Click to listen:  Download clusty.mp3

Education resources in your library
Click to listen: Download education_resources.mp3

This tutorial is actually almost 5 minutes long but is one early work-in-progress for the many online tutorials we are hoping to have online by Fall 2008. Please give us feedback on how we can improve!

Using the K-State at Salina Online Catalog
Click to watch the tutorial:  Download kstate_salina_library_online_catalog_tutorial.mov

This tutorial is almost 5 minutes long but it is a "silent" version for our patrons who may not have access to audio and still want to view the tutorial. It has been modified to meet these needs and we hope to have it online by Fall 2008 as well. Please give us feedback on how we can improve!

Using the K-State at Salina Online Catalog - No Audio

Click to watch the tutorial: Download kstate_at_salina_library_online_catalog_tutorial_no_audio.mov

Are you a little confused on the verbiage used when searching online databases? Check out this super-short video that breaks down the vocab used in doing searches. It's shorter than the average YouTube clip and more educational as well!

Click to watch the tutorial: Library_speak_databases.mov

Do you spend restless nights trying to figure out the exact difference between "Periodicals" and "Magazines"? Whether books were created "On Reserve" or evolved? And what do you do if you have a question about the Questions Desk!?? If you're dying to know a little bit more about the lingo used around the library, this handy little tutorial will take you on a tour of the library and explain some of the terminology commonly used by librarians and professors on campus.

Click to watch the tutorial:Library_speak_around_the_library.mov