Tuesday, February 17, 2009

BUS 126 op. cit. endnotes

Fellow librarians,
I had a BUS 126 student in Osborn's class who needed to know how to use op. cit. endnotes with the Chicago citation style. Unfortunately, according to the 15th edition, op. cit. and it's kin, loc. cit. are no longer used (16.50). Instead Chicago style directs users to use the short-title form (16.45).

Given that the class is still employing op. cit. we still need to provide students with an example of how it is used. A Google search proved the most helpful in this case. It directed me to Southampton Solent University's Library page discussing the use of op. cit. and ibid. and provided examples of how each is used. See link: Using ibid. and op. cit.--Southampton Solent University

--Melissa

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Meebo Status

Reminder: If you're going to step away from the reference desk, please set your status to "I'll be right back." This can be done in the sidebar that's usually at the right-hand side of the Meebo screen. At the top of the sidebar, look for the the little emoticons for adding users, just below that is your status line which is usually set at "I'm available." If you click on that status line, a drop down list will appear with a number of prefab status options from which you can select one.
Thanks,
eo