10. A heliodon and a courtyard can be found in the behemoth Seaton Hall. Weigel Library with its “This isn’t retro, it’s just the furniture we never got rid of” look is on the 3rd Floor of Seaton Hall.
9. Check out the arrows and directions painted on the floors in Hale Library’s Stacks. One arrow on Stack Level G leads you to Stack Level H . . . that doesn’t exist.
8. Room 123 in Hale Library is open for studying if something isn’t scheduled in there. Check the calendar to the right of the door to see if you have time to study before someone boots you out.
7. Historic Farrell Library: an entire library is hidden in Hale Library.
6. The bathrooms. Sorry, the bathrooms in Hale Library are on the east end of the building.
5. An exit. The signs that say EXIT in red (in Hale Library) are emergency exits. If there is a fire, run like hell towards one. Otherwise, exit through the gates on the 2nd Floor (you had to walk through them to get in here).
4. Are you so eager for your Algebra lecture in Cardwell Hall that you arrive early and have time to kill before class? There’s a planetarium around the roof and a model EN Tandem Van de Graaff from High Voltage Engineering Corporation (EN-27) (I do not have a clue what this is) in the James R. Macdonald Laboratory. You’ll find the Math/Physics Library down a long narrow hallway on the 1st Floor. Since it doesn’t have a cool name, you are welcome to donate a whole bunch of money to name it in honor of your dog, BooBoo.
3. “No Smoking” signs in Hale Library Stacks. Note that there is no smoking in university buildings or within 30 feet of signed entrances.
2. Fiedler, Durland, Rathbone. Sure, they’re all in the flashcube building, but which is which? My guess is that Fiedler Engineering Library is in Fiedler, but you’re on your own after that.
1. 9 public stairwells in Hale Library. Not all stairs lead to all floors.
Are you studying science, technology, or agriculture? The William R. Love Science Library, located on the 1st Floor of Hale Library is the place for you. The Science Reference Desk is open 9-5 Monday through Friday for you to ask questions. If in-depth research assistance is needed, subject librarians are available for consultation. Learn who your subject librarian is at: http://www.lib.ksu.edu/services/subjectspecialists.html. Subject librarians also choose books for the science collections so you can let them know of books that you would like purchased. Sorry, no textbooks. Our extensive Science Reference collection includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, indexes, statistical tables, directories of addresses, standards, and other reference books. Love Science Library is also home to the current science periodicals and copy machines for copying articles. An additional resource is the agricultural documents, a collectio n of agricultural publications from Kansas and other states.
Seven Useful Tidbits about K-State Libraries by J. Coleman1. You can search our Catalog or Databases from Katmandu, Damascus, or Hays, as long as you can connect to the Internet. Just go to our homepage (http://www.lib.ksu.edu) and click on Catalog or Databases at the top of the page (dark purple bar). You will be asked to sign in with your eID and password.
2. We have movies that you can borrow a week at a time for free. We don’t have Conan the Barbarian, but we do have The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Star Wars, Amelie, Hotel Rwanda, and over a thousand others. For an alphabetical list, do a keyword search in our Catalog for “feature films” and use the drop-down menu to limit the search to Video Recording.
3. Our databases have millions of journal and magazine articles that you can read online. Expanded Academic ASAP and JSTOR, are two particularly rich sources of high quality full-text articles.
4. We organize our books and journals by subject. If you find a useful book on our shelves, take a look at its neighbors: they might be just as good or even better.
5. It’s easy to get help. You can visit any of our service desks, call the General Reference Desk at: (785) 532-7421, e-mail us at
, or chat with us online by going to http://www.lib.ksu.edu/reference/vref/index.html and clicking on CAT Answers.
6. The people working at our service desks are there for only one purpose: to help you (yes, you!). Ask away.
7. We offer classes on how to use K-State Libraries and how to do library research. For more information, visit help/classdescription.html.
Welcome to Kansas State University! You may soon find Hale Library, the main library on campus, is a great place to check e-mail (we have over 200 computers), read a book, or take a nap. Hale and our branch libraries are full of librarians and staff who are here to help you. Here is just a short list of how:
Answer your questions—in person, by phone, e-mail or chat, we’ll help you find an article or point you towards the nearest bathroom
Refer you to the books, journals, articles, databases, librarians or other experts that can answer your research questions
Assist you in figuring out how to narrow a topic, focus your research, and basically search like a pro so you get maximum results
Show you how to research as an apprentice in your field
Teach you information literacy skills that will help you continue to learn, long after you’ve left college
Be friendly, familiar faces in the Libraries and around campus
If you have any questions, please let us know. Stop by the General Reference Desk (2nd Floor, Hale Library) or call (785) 532-7421. Many of our librarians work with specific departments. We call them subject librarians and you can find out who yours is at: http://www.lib.ksu.edu/services/subjectspecialists.html.
Things to Get Out of the Way the First Week of School by S.K. KearnsKnow your eID and password and be sure they work. If not, run like a cheetah to Room 313 in Hale Library and get it straightened out. Without a functioning eID you cannot print, check KATS, access K-State Online or, from off-campus, research in the Libraries’ databases or e-journals.
Learn your professors’ names and the names of your classes. Why? So when you stop at the Reserves Desk, on the 2nd Floor of Hale Library, we can give you the books or articles your professor told you to read. And, it’s pretty decent to greet your professor by name.
Buy a flash or thumb drive. Many of the university computers no longer have disk or zip drives, but there’s no need to bankrupt yourself. You can buy 128 MB of memory for under $20.
Got a laptop with wireless? Go to iTAC in 313 Hale and ask them to set up your laptop so you can access K-State’s wireless network.
Get lost in Hale on purpose. If you are a freshman, claim you are a senior and that this is the first time you’ve been in Hale Library. If you are a senior, pretend you are a freshman.
Set up a RefWorks account. Learn how to send all of the citations for books, articles and webpages you find to your RefWorks account so that you can click two or three buttons and produce a bibliography.
Check out the Assignment Calculator. Procrastinators will have to find another excuse to wait until the last minute.
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