Piping Up

Title: Handbook of Landscape Archaeology
Author: Bruno David
Publisher: Left Coast – 2010
Where you saw this item mentioned: Archaeology forums
Acquire for which library?: Bennett (Burnaby Mountain)

A.
Thanks very much for taking the time to recommend this book. I have ordered it for the library’s collection and asked that it be held for you when it arrives.

Best,
Carla Graebner
Liaison Librarian: Archaeology, Economics
and Government Information
W.A.C. Bennett Library, Simon Fraser University

Q.
Is there any good reason why “print on both sides” is not set by default?
There are many good reasons why it should be.
Please tell me the reasons why it is not.
Please respond to my question.

A.
We at the library keep our computer images and our printers compatible with campus computing services.
I have forwarded your question on to campus computing services but have not yet heard a response.
So if you need an answer now, the answer is in order to keep our computers compatible with campus computing services we follow their policy.
Currently the policy is single-sided printing for black-and-white printers double-sided printing for color.
You will notice we have exactly the same image as the computing services labs, and use exactly the same printers.
Until such time as the policy changes that is the way it will stay.
If you want to follow this further, please feel free to contact campus computing services.

Neal Baldwin, Manager Library Computer Operations
E-mail: baldwin@sfu.ca
WAC Bennett Library, Simon Fraser University

Q. Author: James H. Brown & Geoffrey B. West (editors)
Title: Scaling in Biology
Publisher & where & when published: Oxford University Press, New York
Where you saw this item mentioned: Journal articles (citing articles in this book)
Acquire for which library?: Bennett (Burnaby Mountain)
Your affiliation: SFU Graduate Student

A. Thanks for the suggestion. I’ve ordered a copy of this book for our collection today. You’ll be notified when it arrives.

Regards,
Gwen Bird, Collections Management

Author: Edited by Brian D. Schultz, Northeastern Illinois University
Title: Listening to and Learning from Students Possibilities for Teaching, Learning, and Curriculum
Publisher & where & when published: Information Age Publishing, 2011
Where you saw this item mentioned: http://infoagepub.com/products/Listening-to-and-Learning-from-Students
Acquire for which library?: Bennett (Burnaby Mountain)
Your affiliation: SFU Graduate Student

A. Thank you for sending this suggestion to the SFU Library. I have ordered a copy of this book for our collection today and you’ll be notified when it arrives.

Regards,
Gwen Bird
Associate University Librarian, Collections

Q. I am trying to access journals online, through the SFU library catalogue, however when I open an article it takes me to the page with the link and where the link is supposed to be it says ‘parallel server not found’ in red. (this is supposed to be the link that guides you to the actual journal)

A. Can you please tell me the name of the journal and provide the URL from the catalogue so I can investigate this error?

Thanks very much.
Sandra Wong
Electronic Resources Librarian.

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Further comments…

Hi Sandra,

I went to the live chat and reported the error and they said it was a problem with the server. As far as I can tell it has been fixed.

Thank you for the reply,

Q. I love this library, and I was just wondering why it’s not open later? On weekends, for instance, it seems like there are a fair amount of students there around 5pm, who would gladly study well into the evening.

A. Hi,

regards,
Karen Marotz
Head, Belzberg Library

Q. Hi — the photocopier in the basement, for the LAM collection, is badly placed right beside a wall, which makes it very difficult to copy pages in large bound serials and books. Could you please move it out a foot or two?

Many thanks,

A. Thanks you for pointing this out. I will have the copier moved forward to accommodate larger materials.

Thanks, Garth
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Garth Lauer
Manager, Library Building & Equipment

Q.
Is there a more detailed finding aid available for the Gerry Gilbert fonds?

A.
I have received your request concerning Gerry Gilbert finding aids.There are in-house listings of the first four accruals of the Gilbert fonds.These require additional work before they can be posted to the web.Also additional Gilbert materials have recently been donated to the collection. Is there something specific on which I may assist?
And of course you are most welcome to visit Special Collections if that is a possibility.
Best wishes in your research.
Regards,
Eric L.Swanick
Head,Special Collections/Gifts Librarian

Hi I got a Adobe Indesign project on my mac laptop and wanna get color print out in library, but it seems that the mac in lib are not available for Adobe Indesign, is it true? what should I do?

A. Hi,

Hope this helps,
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Daryl Clarke
Technician, Library Systems

Please provide fax/email contact so I can send along a suggested book acquisition.

A. Hi

Regards,
Leslie
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Leslie Rimmer
Collections Librarian
Liaison Librarian for Biological Sciences