St. Petersburg Times index archive

Google has made great progress on digitizing microfilm issues of newspapers, such as the St. Petersburg Times and St. Petersburg Evening Independent.

You can access a search portal at:

http://news.google.com/archivesearch/advanced_search?hl=en

In the source box, just enter the name of the newspaper (i.e., “St. Petersburg Times” or “Evening Independent”). You will get a search results screen.

It’s not perfect: There are still gaps and the software they have used to scan entries has not been proofed in its entirety. For example, the scan might think it sees “081tuary “instead of “obituary.” You cannot save images (unless you’re a little crafty with Firefox and are willing to save in many small pieces), and this does not mean we should cancel our microfilm for the Times, but it is a nice alternative source that (as of now, at least) is free.

USF Libraries website backup

From Todd:

If the regular USF Libraries web site goes down, use Use http://www.lib.usf.edu/index.sitedown.html.

MS Publisher printing

when you print from MS Publisher 2007 (All other Office suite applications are fine), once you get to the prompt to enter your name to print a dialog box appears:

"Waiting for printer to respond: [peacock] or [penguin'".
If you enter the name and hit ok, the message flashes away and the document prints.

Adding money to ID for printing in the computer lab

The web site where students may add money to their ID card is:

https://usfweb3.usf.edu/bullbucks/

Configuring wireless using MS Vista

If the student registers for the wireless directly on their laptop, it should find the mac address automatically.

If the student isn’t able to connect to the USF registration page, go to their network connectivity site and set up a connection to the USF network.

IF you have tried both of these steps and it still isn't working...

To find mac adapter addresses In Vista:

Go to
All Programs
Accessories
Command Prompt
In the command prompt box type: cmd
Then type: Ipconfig /all
and note the physical address.

Double-sided printing

Double-sided printing is not a supported function here in the library. The printer charges per page, not per piece of paper. The user will not "save" money this way, only paper. Also, we can not guarantee that the job will work out satisfactorily.

However, if there is a need to send a double-sided print job from one of the public computers, here are some directions to try.

Select Print
Select printer (e.g., Penguin)
Click on Properties
Duplex option appears on the menu. The default is "off."
Change the duplex option to "open to left."

Continue as you normally would; selecting pages to print, etc.

You may want to test the print job first by just doing the first 2 pages if it is a long document.

Off-campus copying and fax

Sir Speedy on 1st Avenue North just past Dr. Martin Luther King St. The exact address is 956 First Avenue North. The building is on the southern side of the street.

UPS store on 2nd street in the Publix complex

Kinko’s is at 5238 4th St N. which is 3 ¼ miles away

The Academic Success Center has a fax machine for student use

Computer display turned sideways

If you happen to run into a display that has been turned sideways, there is an easy fix. Press CTRL & ALT & F12. This will bring up the properties, where you can uncheck the "Enable Rotation" box.

Footnotes in RefWorks

I had a student using Write-n-Cite last night who wanted to create footnotes instead of parenthetical notes. I couldn’t find the information on how to do it in Refworks help so I sent a message to their technical support. It can be done and here’s the link to show you how:
http://www.refworks.com/RWSingle/help/Creating_a_Paper_and_Formatting_the_Footnote_or_Bibliography.htm

Saving a jpg on the horseshoe scanner

Once the image is scanned into Photoshop,
Go to the file menu and choose “save for web” (not “save” or “save as”)
You can then save the item as a .jpg or a .gif
When naming the job, be sure to manually add the .jpg or .gif extension

Florida Teachers Certification Exam (FTCE)

The USFSP College of Education has information about the Florida Teachers Certification on their web site at: www.stpt.usf.edu/coe/ftce.htm

Document recovery on horseshoe computers

If a student inadvertently saves a file from their email by accident (the file is saved to a hidden temp file rather than the standard D:\temp), which happens if they click "open" rather than "save", there is a tricky way to recover the file without logging in as administrator.

On the student's computer, logged in with the students Netid (don't log off or restart the computer or resave the message), and perform the following:

1) Open Word (or Excel, or Powerpoint, depending on the file they are trying to recover), and select OPEN from the FILE menu option.

2) In the file name box, type in this entire route to the temporary internet files directory (also known as the 'path'):
C:\documents and settings\netid\local settings\temporary internet files\

NOTE: if you don't see the file here, try leaving off the "temporary internet files" section and just go to:
C:\documents and settings\netid\local settings\

3) The file listing area should now display files from the Internet cache. Browse for the file and open it.

Please note that the path is not case sensitive, but you do need to be sure to put the spaces in the directory names for it to work. You must also put the entire path in, and not just part of it. The directories are hidden and may not display otherwise.

A card is available at reference on the ROLODEX filed under "document recovery".

Print jobs not showing up in the release queue

I had a student sending jobs to Penguin and they weren’t showing up in the queue. When I looked at the print menu on her computer, sure enough, they were going to Penguin (not SPSSwriter or Peacock) but they said that she had documents waiting because Penguin was “offline”.

Well, some other students had been pushing buttons on Penguin a few minutes before while they tried to figure out how to use the copy function. I think that in the process, they managed to put Penguin “offline”.

To fix, I went to Penguin and hit the print button, then went into the Printer menu (the one we use to clear the red light not the one that lists the jobs in the queue). When I accessed that menu, the “offline” was highlighted so I pushed “online” and her jobs showed up on the queue soon after.

I did see that the Print menu doesn’t always go to the offline/online option. If it doesn’t, click on “exit” and see if you see the offline/online choices.

Printer errors

I have amended our POYNET Copier troubleshooting guide with an entry about Error Codes in light of our latest issue.

Error Codes

Error codes will be accompanied by a small wrench symbol lit in red on the left-hand side of the copier controls. While this can be caused by hardware issues, often it is a software issue. To fix most software issues, perform a hard reset, as described in step two above.

Here's the snippet from "above" in the section....

Step Two - Soft and Hard Reset - Turn the power button on the right off, and then on (soft reset). If this does not change the situation, turn the power off again and also turn off the hard button on the left-hand side of the printer. Also, turn off the ISOTEL surge protector attached to the machine, this will turn off the change box as well as the printer. (This is a hard reset) Wait 20 seconds, then power it up again.

Paying Online Tuition

If a student gets the message “page not found” when trying to pay his tuition online with a debit card, there could be two possibilities:

1. The page is down – Steve Allen in Tampa is responsible for this page (974-8803). The student may call and see if there are any system problems.

2. Some debit cards have a limit on how much you can pay at one time, and tuition is possibly over that limit. The student will have to verify their debit card limitations, if any.

According to a big sign up by the Cashier's office, students using "Bank cards" must use this online system. Do not know if "bank cards" applies to credit cards as well but debit cards are definite.

New ID Policy

The University has raised the price of replacement ID’s to $15.00.

All those seeking an ID must come to the ID Office FIRST in order to determine their status. Then they go to the Cashier’s office with a stamp from Media Services as to whether their ID is a first time ID ($10) or a replacement ($15). Please let all of your staff and students know this, and inform everyone that they MUST come to the ID Office BEFORE going to the Cashier’s Office.