1) Introduce your field and explain its interdisciplinary components:

· What is your field?

· What disciplines make up your field? How will you integrate these disciplines?

· Why is this field important?

2) Assess what has been done before and what remains to be done:

· What are the major issues in your field? What do the experts identify as important and why?

· What do the experts view as major future issues in this field?

3) Create a list of the main works in your field (a minimum of 10) including the following):

· 2-3 key handbooks, encyclopedias, and/or basic references

· 2-4 major journals (disciplinary and/or interdisciplinary) – not journal articles

· 3-5 influential books

· 1-2 relevant professional associations or organizations

4) Analyze these works and discuss:

· Your rationale for selecting each (why did you select it?)

· Its authoritativeness (how do you know the source is reliable?)

· Its usefulness to your concentration (how do you anticipate using it?)

· The target audience for these works?)

• REMINDER: Systems Office Temporary Assignments
  • Chan will become the sole contact for ILL (ILLiad) issues.
  • Chan will also be the point of contact for Voyager issues.
  • Wally is the point of contact for EZproxy/Serials Solutions issues, updates or questions.
  • Web issues you may have taken to Lara should properly go to Andrew Stevens.
  • If it's not web or ILLiad related, Wally is the stand-in for Lara until she returns.
  • With Chan taking on new tasks, we'll be down one "install and repair" technician so Phat and Andrew Sikorski will be stretched and response time on calls may suffer a bit (though probably not a great deal...they're pretty quick).
  • From Wally's e-mail of 3/26/2008. (4.29.2008/jwc)

• State Economic Data Sources
• JSTOR Alert: JSTOR changed its interface and now requires you to create an account to save citations.
• Don't forget: InfoGuides (LibGuides) demo: April 16, 1:30-3pm, Fenwick Instruction Room.
• Lexis/Nexis Training: don't forget: April 23, 10 am - Noon, Fenwick Instruction Room.
• Sample Mason ID Card: need a visual to inform the masses? A sample Mason ID card is available at: http://library.gmu.edu/img/gunstonid.gif
• 2006-2007 fenref Runway Archives: 2006-2007 wiki entries are now archived on a separate page. Link is in the sidebar (to your right). (4.8.2008/jwc)
• Flash drives at the Ref Desk: don't forget! There are two flash drives in the top desk drawer to use with patrons if you need to. They are not to be given away, just temp use. (3.13.2008)

• Looking for Mason March Madness Materials? I've posted them on library.gmu.edu News & Announcements page and here:

History of George Mason University

Who was George Mason?

Madness at Mason: Documenting a Dream Season

Mason Basketball Digital Memory Bank

Mason Fight Song (instrumental audio)

Mason Alma Mater

Livin ‘ on a Prayer!

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"I'm passionate about draping." GO MASON! Let's meet at 4pm on Friday, March 14 to decorate the Ref Room for the NCAAs. George Mason is this year's George Mason...!

• Rand Reports Abstracts: Polly linked the online set to the "paper" bib record in the catalog; we need to keep the paper set in Ref. PURL to bib record: http://magik.gmu.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=46492
• Stack Attack Today, March 11: 3pm. Meet at the Reshelving Shelves in Ref Room.
• NO IM during Spring Break; we will resume on March 17.

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• CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online changed its search screen so you have to click the search button in the upper right hand side to get to the basic and advanced search options. (3.4.08/mj)

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• The University of Rochester Library Anthropology Study: The University of Rochester library hired an anthropologist to work with their students and staff, to understand exactly what their needs are, and how they go about studying and writing research papers. (3.4.08/jwc)

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• Reminder: Fenwick's public terminal hallway will be painted during Spring Break (March 10-14). Chair rail will also be installed. Availability of public terminals will vary depending on what work is being done when and where in the hallway. (3.4.08/jwc)

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• Welcome, Theresa!

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• Compustat is back (2.29.2008) Compustat network connection on the Compustat PC is NOT working...to use Compustat, swap the white and grey network cords on the outlet box on the wall. Once you do that, DataStream and SciFinder Scholar won't work...Chan will be working on this in the morning (2.28.2008 jwc/mk/ec).

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• Taxing Season! Federal, Virginia, Maryland and District of Columbia online tax forms are available on the Libraries’ Help with Research page under the category “Just in Time”.

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• GPO virtual reference service now online: http://govtinfo.org/ (2/27/08/Joy)

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• Per/Micro Assistance:Paul in Serials, will be working Noon - 8:30pm Monday-Friday to assist with evening periodicals/microforms needs. (2/27/2008/joe becker via jwc).**

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• A business class is out and about researching the Toy Industry.Search FACTIVA. Do boolean search using quotes: "Toy AND Industry". Capping the AND is important. (2/26/08/MK)

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• iMasonLibrariesSpring Schedule is posted here:http://fenrefdesk.pbwiki.com/iMasonLibraries-Schedule (01/22/08ma)

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• GIS@Fenwick Workshop will resume on Feb. 20. The Spring semester schedule is posted at http://library.gmu.edu/research/classes.html (1/18/08/Joy)

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• Happy 2008! Happy Mega-Multi-FenRef Birthdays Month!