A few notes from the library's reference department:
1) As several folks noticed yesterday, Coe's EBSCO databases were down most of the afternoon due to some maintenance by EBSCO. Apparently they were doing work on the administrative module for EBSCO and inadvertently knocked out all EBSCO services. Everything is back up and running, so here's hoping that everyone's research schedules were not too greatly effected. This does serve as a great lesson, though, as to why it's in your best interest to explore a variety of the college's databases offered by several different providers. For EBSCO database that Coe has, we probably have 2 that are not, so take the time to explore some of those databases that you use less often.
2) Speaking of new database offerings, the library will be part of a few new database trials in the coming weeks. We'll be emailing the faculty members that we think would get the most use out of the specific trials, but we will also try to post information on various trials as the information becomes available to us on the library blog as well. Please feel free to offer any feedback that you have on these databases in the comments here, as it will help the staff get a feel for the college's impressions of the offerings.
3) Finally, with over 600,000,000 folks on Facebook, you are almost bound to see offers on it from time to time to good to be true. Usually, if seems to good to be true (like a free IPad or a $100 gift card to Red Lobster, for example,) it is. But, if you're interested in checking into whether something might be a scam, Facecrooks is a great scam watch website. It not only will give you the scoop on mysterious free offers, but it also investigates things like messages sent to you trying to get you to watch some crazy video you were supposedly in. Remember, you should always be careful about what you click on or to whom you give personal information online.
-Katelyn, Head of Reference
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