[school] New Dealer

[siderea]

As one of my fellow probably-soon-to-be-graduating classmates noted, we are confronting a big life change. And it's scary.

I don't know what frightens her, but the thought of my crack supply academic research db access being cut off gives me heart palpitations

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Re: Your information is not quite correct

[siderea]

the BPL does subscribe to EBSCOHost and its Psych/BS collection.

Er, well, thanks for letting me know. It's not like one can find that out from the page you linked to. If you guys really have "been trying to get more folks to use them", it wouldn't hurt to -- anywhere on that page -- actually have the string "EBSCO" appear. Nothing on that page indicates whose "Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection" it is, nor on the "info page" for that link. It's only on the "?" page that you find out just what it is -- which page is hosted on the EBSCOHost site. So it doesn't show up when you try to search bpl.org.

In fact, googling "ebscohost site:bpl.org" turns up a list of pages which say variously:

First hit: nothing about the psychology collection in the list of collections ("Last updated: August 13, 2007");
Second hit: that the only thing you have in EBSCO is the Books in Print Plus Reviews, and that can only be accessed in-branch ("Last Updated: 12/29/1999");
Third hit: same as second ("Copyright 1997-98, BPL");
Fourth hit: nothing about available dbs;
Fifth hit: same as two and three, only with the line "Available to our non-public library members only." I... have no idea what that means ("Briefly, July-August 2000");
Sixth hit: PsycINFO (EbscoHost) (hooray!), without mention of the rest of the psychology collection (boooo!);
Seventh hit: the extremely promising link which google hints has the string "BPL - Guide to Psychology and Behavioral Sciences// Psychology and Behavioral Sciences (EbscoHost)" but when you click on it 404s.

Awesome.

Please propagate this information to your classmates as widely as possible.

I probably will, but, you know, maybe the BPL shouldn't rely on you personally telling every library patron you happen to encounter on the internet about it as their means of dissemination of this information. They could, oh, I dunno, put it on a webpage somewhere on their site. *rolls eyes*