Reference Portal

450 students from the Group Scholars Program will be visiting the library on June 13-15 for an orientation session. They may stop by the reference desk as part of a scavenger hunt. Please welcome them and answer any questions they might have about the library.

New Student Orientation (aka NSO) has officially begun! A few things to keep in mind:

• Students and families will be wandering the building during this time. Please welcome them to the library!
• Students should check in at the south entrance of the Learning Commons where NSO staff can answer any questions about orientation.
• NSO runs June 6-July 20 and August 9-15; There is no in-person programming the week of June 19-23 and July 3-5
• If parents are interested in looking at old yearbooks, they can find them in the Reference Reading Room directly to the right once you enter. Alyssa is also putting together a display in the Exhibit Space.

If a patron asks for an alternative version of a resource (for example, they may need files that can be read by a screen reader or an audio version of an ebook), Rivkah Cooke in Electronic Resources can help with these requests. Take down the patron’s contact information and details about what they need and email libera@indiana.edu.

There is a paper shredder available for public use located on the 1st Floor of the West Tower, in the hallway outside of the restrooms.

Attempts to use the “Request via ILL” links in WorldCat and WorldCat.org sometimes result in the following message after authentication: “The resource you are looking for has been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.”

While this issue is investigated by Library Technologies, a workaround is available here: https://libraries.indiana.edu/issues-ill-links-worldcat

Updates will be provided when available. Please contact libera@indiana.edu if you have any questions.

UPDATE: Worldcat.org’s “Request via ILL” link no longer displays the “The resource you are looking for has been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable” error message. Some records do still cause the authentication looping error that LT is continuing to work on.

We are still waiting for updates to be reflected in the Worldcat (Discovery) interface.

Our friends in Electronic Resources do a great job of updating the Outages & Downtime page. If you’re curious whether a database or resource is down, this is a good place to look first!

Call numbers Z6620- ZA that were temporarily located in the Reference Reading Room have been moved back up to the 10th Floor. IUCAT has been updated with the correct location.

From Ruth Light in ERA:

OneSearch@IU utilizes profiles in order to display the correct branding, databases, and linking for IU Bloomington. Today, we are deactivating an old OneSearch profile that is no longer in use by the Libraries. While all known Libraries linking for OneSearch is using a newer profile, there is some usage activity still recorded on the old profile due to linking from outside sources.

If you receive any reports of problems with OneSearch@IU, please do the following:

• If the patron is trying to navigate OneSearch directly, ensure that they are using the URL https://libraries.indiana.edu/databases/onesearch for access.
• If someone reports a problem with a link to specific area in OneSearch, please obtain the following information and pass it along to libera@indiana.edu so we can investigate & supply an updated URL:

1. URL that they are trying to access
2. Source of the URL (e.g. syllabi in Canvas, etc.)
3. What material (article, etc.) they are trying to access

Please contact libera@indiana.edu for any questions or to report any problems.