RUSA 2012 Book & Media Winners

The Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) celebrated the best in adult reading and reference at the Midwinter Book and Media Awards on January 22, 2012 in Dallas.


The Reading List for top genre fiction
The Notable Books list for oustanding fiction, non-fiction and poetry
The inaugural Listen List: Outstanding Audiobook Narration
The Sophie Brody Medal for achievement in Jewish literature
The Dartmouth Medal for most outstanding reference work of the year
Outstanding Reference Sources, honoring the top reference publications

free e-books, reference

Here are two more links that Karen wanted posted;

http://www.nap.edu/

this link is from the National Academies Press that has over 4000 downloadable books
for free;

http://pointsofreference.booklistonline.com/2011/06/02/more-than-4000-free-books/

Reference Info

There has been a patron in Delaware County that has been accessing Ref.USA beyond normal research use. Because of this Helen has sent e-mails regarding the changes to access the database from home. Will fax the new format to UDM & UDP.

Hello, again,
ReferenceUSA has been deleted from the proxy server. From now on, remote access for ReferenceUSA will be handled by the vendor itself; customers will authenticate themselves on a ReferenceUSA page simply by typing in their library barcode number. ReferenceUSA has 25918 on file for us, and it works fine from where I sit.

I could not do a print screen from our off-network computer to show you the authentication page, so I'm going to fax a print-out to you.

Feel free to question or comment. Thanks!
-Helen
Helen Subbio
Information Services Coordinator
Delaware County Library System
340 North Middletown Road
Fair Acres Bldg 19
Media, PA 19063
610-891-8622
hsubbio@delco.lib.pa.us
hsubbio@delcoreference.org

From: hsubbio [mailto:hsubbio@delco.lib.pa.us] Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 10:10 AMTo: hsubbio@delco.lib.pa.usSubject: Slight break in ReferenceUSA accessImportance: High
Hello, everyone,
If all goes well, we will have a new way for customers to access ReferenceUSA remotely, within the hour. There may be a slight break in access while we work on this.
Thanks; apologies for the inconvenience.
-Helen
Helen Subbio
Information Services Coordinator
Delaware County Library System
340 North Middletown Road
Fair Acres Bldg 19
Media, PA 19063
610-891-8622
hsubbio@delco.lib.pa.us
hsubbio@delcoreference.org

Adult Sellers

I have set up a general udreference@delco.lib.pa.us post for the adultref (also password) @ Sellers for anyone that does not want an individual posting option. Might make sharing easier for all of us especially if you are sitting at the ref. desk. All blogs for UDLibraries are saved in the favorites on this computer.