University Laboratory High School

“Whodunnit?”

Ever feel booby trapped by a search engine? Imagine using an online catalog to search for a book, only your search sends you smack to page 129 of a book. You can’t see the author’s name, find the table of contents for the book, or even figure out when and where it was published. Web searches do the same thing, often landing you right in the middle of a web site. How do you find the information you need to cite the source?

http://uni.illinois.edu/library/computerlit/sourcing.php
Frances Jacobson Harris
Librarian

With more schools using e-book readers, we received questions about citing e-books in NoodleTools, “How do I cite an e-book on a device like a Kindle, Nook, or iPad?” To answer this question, we created Knowledge Base articles for APA and MLA formats:

(APA 6th ed.) How do I cite an e-book on a device like a Kindle, Nook, or iPad?

(MLA 7th ed.) How do I cite an e-book on a device like a Kindle, Nook, or iPad?

For Chicago format,  according to Chicago Manual of Style Online 14.166 an e-book citation should end with the name of the e-reader (e.g., Kindle edition) while the footnote or endnote could follow that with the chapter title or number (e.g., chap.2), a subheading or even a unique phrase that could be found by searching (Chicago Manual Q&A section).

Just for fun, we thought it might be interesting to see the geographical distribution of the current NoodleTools subscribers in the United States. Each pin in this map represents one NoodleTools account (where an “account” could be a single school/university, a district, or even an entire regional consortium in some cases). Individual subscribers are not displayed on this map — these are only schools, districts, etc.

The librarians at Jericho Middle School sent in this picture of their Halloween costumes, and we just had to share! Happy Halloween, stay safe, and keep Noodling!