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Monday 3/26 – Services Update

March 26, 2012
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Research Commons – 1st Floor: Sign-on is not working but Macs are up and running and both color and black and white printing are working. Printing now requires entering the user-created password twice.  Group Study rooms in this area are not yet open. Laptops can be checked out at the service counter. No telephone...

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Study Commons Opens at Noon Thursday!

March 22, 2012
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At noon today, Thursday, March 22nd, we’ll be opening the Study Commons with a mix of PCs and Macs, printing and WiFi. The group study rooms and quiet study will also be available. Many thanks to Chris and Kim, along with Ace, Holden and number of students for putting in a lot of extra...

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Free Tax Assistance at SF State

February 15, 2012
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The Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program (VITA)  http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~bap/vita.html is a national program providing free assistance to low income, elderly, limited English proficient and disabled individuals who require assistance in preparing their tax returns. San Francisco State University 1600 Holloway Avenue @ room SCI205 (Science Building) Drop in Hours (January 31 – April 18) Mon-Fri:...

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Patron Record problems: Grad students not enrolled

February 10, 2012
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We’ve had a lot of patron record problems at the Annex. Just a reminder that if patrons are saying library privileges have expired, it’s quite likely that they are grad students working on their thesis or project but not enrolled in classes. They need to have their advisor or Dept Chair send an email...

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Financial Ratios Assignment

November 29, 2011
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Folks, The business students are coming in once again, asking about financial ratios and SIC/NAICS codes. Gina reminds us that there should be three different ratio sources around HF 5681 in the Annex: Industry Norms and Key Business Ratios, RMA Annual Statement Studies, and Troy’s Almanac of Business & Financial ratios. Not all include...

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Wireless Problems Should be Solved Now

October 27, 2011
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DoIT has increased the maximum number of connections per wireless access point to 200 as of around 1pm this afternoon. Please let Thoreau Lovell  know if you continue to get complaints from users that they can’t connect to or are getting disconnected from the wifi network.

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iLearn Experiencing Downtime and Delays

August 24, 2011
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iLearn is currently experiencing momentary disruption. Academic Technology working on resolving the issue and hope to have iLearn back up soon.

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Welcome Days on Thursday!

August 17, 2011
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Thursday is Welcome Days and the Library Annex 1 is listed as an “Open House” on the University web page. http://www.sfsu.edu/~welcome/openhouse.html Research Computers number 1-16 will be set up all day for visitors to use without providing a login or password. Our current tri-fold pamphlet is available at the Info Desk. Please be aware...

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NetLibrary (now Ebsco), Firefox and eBooks

July 26, 2011
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Folks, Many of you may have noticed that NetLibrary was purchased by Ebsco and all of our former NetLibrary eBooks are now linking from the opac into an interface that looks almost identical to Ebsco’s article database interface. Users must now click one additional time on “eBook full text” after arriving on the Ebsco...

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New Student Access – Reminder

July 25, 2011
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New students who have paid their fees but have not yet received their OneCard may bring proof of current registration (paid Bursars receipt, fall class schedule) to HSS 102  and library staff can create a patron record. After that the new student should be able to establish their own PIN number and get remote...

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Reminders

Bones for Biology Students in Media Services

Just a quick reminder to send any Biology students looking for bones to Media Services (LIB 85) — home to all non-print materials! They...

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Add Value – Card Differences

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Note that users adding funds to their OneCard insert the card one way while those adding funds to Guest cards must insert the card...

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OASIS and graduation

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Please give graduating students the following information: ******************** Students can file their applications for graduation BEFORE they finish OASIS. OASIS must be done by...

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OneCard website & credit card value add feature

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Students can add value to there OneCard through the OnceCard website using a credit card. They can also view past transactions and disable their...

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