I don't think I can wait until the end of the day.

I need to rant NOW!

Since I arrived, a university webpage redesign has been in the works; it arrived this morning.

It does look much slicker and the photos are nicer and I've no doubt there's more work to be done on it. But guess what? The library - which used to be a top link is now buried three clicks away via one unobvious route and four clicks away via an even less obvious route.

Worse yet, both routes assume that only students could possibly be interested in the library and that staff don't use/need us. Even under a fairly comprehensive list of services for staff we're not even listed.

But for all the fine words about the investment in the library, the new extension, blah blah blah: to make it really hard to access the library pages seems somewhat underwhelming in how much "they" really believe that. (I do appreciate that this probably isn't a malicious decision from either the web design team or the VC but the lack of any consultation or chance for comment is somewhat perverse). I know that libraries generally and our particular library aren't the center of everyone's universe, but surely they've got more invested in the resources here that staff and students do need to use than, say, promoting the attractiveness of the local beach or the prestige of a pterodactyl exhibition?

It wouldn't feel so bad except for a) the recent news that we're losing the name of the library and just becoming "the University Library" - which does give a slight feeling of loss of identity and that's just me who's only been here half a dog watch; and b) this is exactly what TheOldPlace did just before I left. It's a conspiracy!

Money raising for charity today.

So cakes/cookies to buy.
Quizzes to take part in.
Raffles to irritate...

Time to go home but I'm a bit stuffed really to move.

That much at least hasn't changed from TheOldPlace.

One of those things in my diary today that I really wasn't sure about and then found I was really glad I went.

I'd signed up for it ages back when everything seemed like a good idea and it was far enough in the future not to worry about. Something about networking and learning and lunch with the theme this time of 'simulation'.

Off I went and the first relief was discovering that for a stand-around-making-polite-conversation-while-you-eat sort of situation I actually knew quite a few people there. Some of the people from my teaching induction, several of the computing academics, some of the folk from study skills.

But aside from the networking (useful enough in itself) it was fascinating seeing the centrepiece of the lunch.

This is something TheOldPlace really doesn't have. (And isn't likely, in fairness, to need.) We were ushered into something like a hospital ward with three beds. Tucked up were three dummies that were remarkably lifelike and as the technician told us about the place, you realized the dummies breathed, blinked and so on. The monitors beside each bed were reading their details and it was mostly, I guess, like stepping onto a movie set. On the other side of one way glass windows the researchers or academics could control the dummies and displays for students to respond to. And on the other side of the room was a big lecture hall where video of the sessions, plus all the screen information, plus the dummies' responses could be displayed for student learning. There was also a mini operating theater with a dummy that cost 5x as much apparently and had retinal response and could breath in/out the appropriate amount of gas.

Obviously, it's not directly useful in my role. Though I did wonder if there would be scope for replacing a bed with two or three web enabled computers to study how students search for information. Might be worth pursuing if I want to do research.

And word had spread about the presentation I'd been part of yesterday so my fame(?) preceded me and I can see I won't be able to escape doing something more on that. Ah well, glad I'm wanted somewhere!

Last of the training induction sessions today. We graduated. (Though they didn't have our certificates quite ready).

Two main sessions between the intro and wrap up of our masters. The first was on using (or perhaps not using) PowerPoint. Very well presented by one of the study skills guys. More of him please. The second was the session my boss had been asked to do and had roped me into helping with. On information literacy.

I'd suggested we based on HK's work I'd encountered over the summer and my boss seemed more than open to that and we layered on the things we wanted to say about the local resources. I was a little uncertain about how it would go down and also a little uncertain about stepping out of being a student for a moment to address the class. But in the end both went very well.

Worse than that, well enough that it appears our presentation has caused enough of a stir in certain parts that we're being expected to take it to other places. I think we have three or four invitations already. I really must learn not to do things well.

Bit of an anti-climax at the end of the session - especially with no certificate giving or anything - but drinks were suggested. Not a bad idea. Though a bit odd that it just ended up being myself and the German researcher I'd met the week before (see 18th October). Still, the good doctor had a love of English idioms so it wasn't hard to make conversation before being really irritated at the public transport home just a bit later than I usually travel.

A guy from IS came this afternoon to install the scanner that's been sitting under my desk for a bit. Nice chap, didn't take him long.

Unfortunately, I made a cardinal error and let him leave before actually running the software. As soon as did, five minutes later, I found it worked fine - except for actually trying to do a scan.

Ah well.

I did email him immediately in the hopes that he might pop back and deal with it but I just got an automated response putting me at the bottom of the job list. So I guess it will be a few weeks yet.

Got a bit distracted today by Borges.

Looking something up for a paper being prepared for a conference in January, a quick search on the catalogue revealed we had 8 of his books. No we didn't. I'd misread it. We have 80 books either by him or about him. Some in English, some in Spanish. For some reason deciding to be a bit completist about things I ended up with a huge pile in the office working out if there were useful bits for the paper. (Possibly). But with the amount there was and with the brilliance of his writing, I reckon there's a lifetime work there to really study him properly. I'll have to make do with a morning sadly.

The other interesting part of the morning was in using Writely (now Google Docs and Spreadsheets) to collaborate on writing the paper. My co-author was online at the same time. It's still in Beta so occasionally I'd get chucked out, but we never lost any text to my knowledge and it seems to work quite niftily. We could revise the document itself whilst at the same time carrying on what was virtually an online chat session down at the bottom of the document as we discussed what we wanted to do or how we wanted to do it. Best yet: it doesn't require the installation of any software so I can do it even on a machine here!

Donations. Who'd have 'em?

Had set up a visit to a widow's house today. About 15 minutes on the train from here.

A computing academic had heard of this astronomer who'd died leaving lots of books. The plan was I'd go and see if there was anything we could take for the cosmologists. Seemed like a reasonable plan.

I was met at the other end by the contact link who drove me to the house in question where it soon became apparent that as ex-president of a local astronomical group he'd already had all the astronomy books. All that were left were a few history and photography volumes. I wasn't really the right person to be there at all. Still, there were some interesting volumes I could make a pile of and take away for the proper librarian to consider (and bin?) and I could politely enthuse and observe the back yard observatory and the like. There were even a few exploration books that weren't really relevant for us but might be valuable to my former former job. (One was autographed but I resisted the temptation to hold on to it - despite permission from the widow to take anything I wanted personally. I could also have updated my dog-eared Lord of the Rings. And does anyone want a biography of Tolkien by Carpenter?) The photography books I left but took the details of as they looked like the kind of thing that TheOldPlace might find a home for. I've emailed the list on to L.

A decent enough pile and polite conversation done, the contact drove me back to the university where the haul quickly overwhelmed the amount of space I have here. But that just motivated me to deal with it more quickly. Bit disappointed that S, who looks after history, and who's been doing a headless chicken act of late was so dismissive given that I'd saved her a trip. But hopefully there were some useful things. I don't think I'll be adding much to the 520s though.

Back as a pirate today but only briefly for the prize-giving for the student who planted his flag nearest the buried treasure. He seemed genuinely pleased with the book token and to have a publicity shot taken with a couple of pirates either side of him. I suppose the cynics would say it's because he's still a first year and new...


Anyway, the afternoon was the first 'small' team meeting with my boss unlike the 'large' one that takes place on alternative Fridays. With several away it was very small. But we could get things done. And I dared to do my first "it was like this at TheOldPlace" and formally query why we couldn't do the same here. (We have a byzantine method for getting database passwords to students. They have to come and ask in person. For each database that's non-standard. OK, there's not tons of them but there are enough!) There wasn't any disagreement that TheOldPlace didn't have a good system but I was surprised by the attitude of at least a couple which amounted to "well, it's not that demanding handing them out, they're not heavily used databases". I couldn't help wonder if that's because students just don't bother.

But it's being taken forward and something may yet come of it.

I was asked the other day, by a former colleague, what I did all day given that book ordering isn't as much my responsibility any more, I don't have formal enquiry desk duties, and I'm not yet teaching as much as some of my colleagues seem to be doing (yet - it may come later).

Well, I'm certainly not sitting here twiddling my thumbs.

But what do I do?

With regard to the above I do have to process the book orders from academics and many of my computing faculty like to submit electronic requests which unfortunately have to be put onto physical cards as there's no system yet for e-requests (they had a go at it I'm told but it didn't work - I think because they still wanted a physical record and couldn't get the e-cards to print properly. Something's not right somewhere?!). And while I don't have formal enquiry desk duties, I do sit immediately behind the ground floor enquiry point in a goldfish bowl that means if whoever's out there has stepped away for a minute or a while, then it's really down to me. And the teaching I'm doing does require some preparation given that I'm still unfamiliar with my new surroundings and have yet to get to grips with the depths of some databases and the like.

At present of course, I can easily fill days by learning things and exploring (physically or electronically). For example, I spent an hour last week taking a bus out to another campus across the city and seeing what/where that was. I also dropped in at our reprographics unit to ask for a student welcome pack and they introduced me to the uni web design people as well.

I spent half an hour on Monday visiting the local public library. Should get a formal tour at some point but thought I'd drop in. I know someone who works there but they'd taken off for the afternoon. Most inconsiderate.

I spend an afternoon a week in the teaching induction programme I'm going through (which also requires 'homework' - not that it's terribly onerous).

There's the usual paperwork and emails you'd expect. Some of which takes me much longer than it might do to deal with because either I need to learn something to make sense of the local detail or I'm just not familiar with the systems here. Meetings of course don't go away.

In short, I'm really not sitting here idling away the days. I almost wish I were. It hasn't taken long before even my (much reduced) email is stacking up faster than I'm dealing with it.

Back at the teaching induction today. Elearning was the theme.

Fine except for the presenter who tried to show us several computer-based training packages. One wouldn't run at all (despite, apparently, two days of her and IS guy trying to get round the restrictions); another one ran but everytime she clicked on a link it took 6 presses of the OK button to move on (despite the check box saying 'tick here if you don't want to see this again' being ticked).

And just to add to the fun the network wouldn't let me logon at all. I tried three machines, I tried the usual reboot etc. Eventually I went to find the help desk where they disappeared for several minutes before returning to tell me that the reason it wouldn't work was because I hadn't logged on for 6 weeks. What do you mean haven't logged on for 6 weeks? What do they think I've been doing the last 6 weeks? I've logged on every day. They couldn't answer that.

In actual fact they didn't return to the desk after their sortie 'out back' to tell me that immediately. Oh no. The guy came back and said "Wednesday". Just "Wednesday". I obviously looked a bit blank. Yes, I knew it was Wednesday was he telling me I wouldn't be able to log in again until next wednesday? Eventually he revealed that he'd reset my password to wednesday and I should be able to login now.

Indeed, I could when I returned to class. But I see that 'customer service' from the IT types doesn't seem to differ!

Meanwhile, a helpful German researcher I happened to be sitting next to (having abandoned H who'd come to just this session) in my quest for a computer that would let me login, managed to catch up me up (just about) on where we were in the class. Still, that feeling of being a bit left behind and nothing quite working because I'd missed the bit where something else had been set up was a salutary lesson in how students must often feel.

OK, I've had yet another go at it and it seems to have accepted it this time. Maybe it was overloaded before.

Another day off today. But not work related so I won't write about it here.

Where I will write about it (or have tried but can't tell if it's succeeded or not) is here:

http://www.historymatters.org.uk/output/page96.asp

which seems far to fascinating a thing to pass without a mention even if it's not strictly work related.

Visited the local public library today. Partly because if I've ever been (not sure I have) it was a long long time ago. Partly because it sounds as if an official tour which might be on the cards as part of the induction here is still some way off. And partly because I've been trying to catch up with a former colleague from TheOldPlace who moved to the library some years back.

Interesting half hour wandering around the place seeing what it was like. How can you not love a library?! But failed to catch up with former colleague as she'd gone home at lunchtime.

Attended my first team meeting this morning. Senior Staff. About a dozen of us in a room across the way while our extension is being finished.

Very similar to TheOldPlace really - except starting 15 minutes later and having to put the desks and seats into some sort of order. Perhaps slightly fewer agenda items but chunkier ones as it were so the meeting still went on for a little short of two hours.

Most interesting item was the Head trying to change the membership of the meeting. He'd circulated a document earlier which had outlined plans that I must admit that I'd been a little taken aback by. It turned out I wasn't the only one. There seemed to be much unhappiness about the idea of only half the faculty librarians attending the meeting, doing two years and then swapping over. That was so that the floor managers could attend. No one is unhappy at the latter though, so although it's a little more complicated than that, it was finally agreed to simply swell the ranks of the meeting - going from 15 possible attendees to 18. Which might be too big - but then, not everyone gets there everytime.

The team meetings at TheOldPlace could get rather large when everyone was there, but somehow we managed it. And it seems a better way to go, even if not ideal, than having people feeling left out.

What I was particularly interested to see was my mentor (one of the faculty librarians like me) expressing her opinion and getting somewhat het up about it in a very similar manner to the way I used to at TheOldPlace when I felt strongly about something. It's hard to keep the passion and feeling out. So I was glad to see it wasn't just me!

Another of the teaching induction sessions attended.

This one was on assessment which isn't directly relevant and yet sections of the afternoon were very useful in the role I'm doing now.

Two frustrations about it though. One was my inability to clone myself so that I could attend a faculty meeting I should also have been at. Second, I thought I'd been really dutiful doing all the homework from last time round, only to find I'd somehow missed two small parts of it. Fortunately it wasn't critical nor the kind of thing you had to hand in (or explain how the dog had eaten it), but it still left me thinking "must do better."

First of the 'coffee mornings' sometimes held in the library staff room at the beginning of a Wednesday. I think more usually they stand in the place of TheOldPlace's wednesday morning training sessions introducing new resources or techniques or whatever.

This one, however, was a report/slide show from one of the associate librarians who'd taken a four month sabbatical to live abroad before retirement. (Having heard a lot of his friends saying they'd do that when they retired only to die before they ever got there!)

It wasn't just a pretty slide show, however, we got quite a good analysis of the questions that had been raised before he and his partner went, how their time had affected them, and how it had changed their lives subsequently. (They've brought property there and will move out permanently - but learning the language and doing their best to integrate.) A great half hour.

Though as the rain fell on the dank morning following, I think it left us all feeling a bit dissatisfied with our lot in life.

I've signed up for some teaching induction which is proving both useful and interesting. Strictly it's for new members of staff who are new to teaching altogether but I'm not that experienced or knowledgeable that I'd want to pass up the opportunity to learn more about I ought to be doing or could be doing better. And I certainly am learning from the sessions. Plus get to meet members of staff I might never otherwise see.

But the very final session is one I won't be sitting through because my boss is running that final hour and wants me to contribute. We planned it this morning and once again summer conference material proved to be just the thing to drag out and structure what we're planning on saying. A mindmap from a South African contributor had particular struck me, and this was an ideal moment for it. Or at least the much expanded version that my boss and worked out.

All that was well and good but perhaps the most intriguing thing about the hour we spent planning over a whiteboard and computer was the tips I was able to pass on. The trick of going over marks on a whiteboard that have been written in indelible pen with the correct pen so that both rub out was perhaps a bit esoteric; but surely everyone who uses a computer - 'specially pretty much all day - knows about Alt Tabbing between applications?!

Day off today, so a perfect opportunity to write about the staff quiz which rather got lost in the excitement of too much else to write about last week.

Much like TheOldPlace really, this was really a bit of fun and not to be taken too seriously. The difference was mainly in size, arguably in atmosphere. Maybe three times the number of teams were taking part here and in a nicer venue. With a live band too to warm us up and entertain us at the interval. (I couldn't hear the drummer at all from where we were close to the back so I went to stand by the toilet door which was just a little behind him and to one side and I could have a great view from just the right angle and hear everything very clearly. Not that that helped with the lyrics!)

TheOldPlace usually struggled to get one team together, here there were three library teams and I'd started at the university far too late to be part of a team, but fortunately the issue desk had had someone drop out and rumor had already got about (how does that kind of thing happen?!) that I might be willing to fill in. I was - just for the fun of it. But particularly after I found out later that many of the colleagues at my level wouldn't have joined a loans team team. It's not like we're in the military and need to maintain a separation between the ranks!

One thing TheOldPlace did do better: the scoreboard on a Excel spreadsheet projected big on the wall. A white board way off down the front in tiny print just wasn't the same (or as quick!).

Anyway, marvellous time was had by all it seemed; the food at the interval was good (and hot) and the merriment on our table at least made the prospect of a tedious journey home more than worth it. The six of us didn't even do too badly managing to come in the top half of 26 teams and only just being pipped at the post by the team containing my senior colleague the science librarian. Best yet, one of my team members lived close enough to me to give me a lift home (after I and a Lambretta riding team-mate had helped the drummer put his gear in his van).

"Big up the library"

That was the formal brief from the academic who booked me to do an induction for his civil engineers (are there some that are less polite somewhere?).

That was fine and I was expecting large numbers - he'd said there were 300 but that the lecture theatre seated 200 and it would be first come first served.

What he didn't tell me was that although it was an induction, it wouldn't just be 1st years. Fortunately, quite by chance and another academic dropping by to book some training for his 3rd years, I found that I was actually going to be facing the whole department. First, second, third years and post-graduates on masters courses.

Good grief, what do I tell such a mixed group - some of whom are going be complete newbies and some completely familiar with the library. And for 50 minutes?

I'd decided that despite the large numbers I'd better be as engaging as I could and try to interact with the students. So I came up with a couple of plans. One to use mindmapping techniques to get them doing something at the start and then at the end show how it was useful in different ways to the different levels. Secondly, I wondered if this was the moment to try out something I'd been introduced to at one of the conferences I attended over the summer.

At that particular session everyone in the audience had been given a red, green and blue card and at various points had been faced with a PowerPoint slide giving us options we could vote for. Basically a cheap way of doing without an expensive electronic voting system.

Creating a couple of hundred such cards in three colors seemed, if not a waste of card, at least something I wanted to be sure of doing. But a quick discussion with boss who quite liked the idea and was happy for me to slice up and mark the cards convinced me to go for it.

Of course, I'd expected it to take some time to take 150 letter sized cards, cut them in half and mark the center with an A, B or C. Doing that three times over (for each color) I was glad I could get some assistance from the issue desk. (The letters - one for each color - are for to make it clear which color goes with which answer on the PowerPoint, but also to help anyone who is colorblind). But what I'd not really taken into consideration was just how much card that was to transport to the lecture - along with all the other handouts I thought of taking! (Not helped by the absolutely torrential monsoon that hit just as I had to set off for a 10 minute walk in the open.)

I got to the venue only to meet the academic outside who then informed me that I only had 30 minutes instead of 50. I removed a dripping coat from myself and plastic bag from the box of paperwork and card but that was all the time I had to revise what I was going to do. I decided to drop the mindmapping stuff and showing a video clip from Buffy the Vampire Slayer (good job as I'd actually changed bags thanks to the rain and managed to leave the video behind). I kept the interaction with the cards.

In the event the whole thing seemed to go surprisingly well. The students engaged with the voting (and I had a very clear mental picture of which years of students were sitting where), the content seemed to just about hit the mark for most of those there and even the academics who were lining the walls - along with the head of department were complimentary about the content (and the cards!).

(Out of politeness, interest and to round up the cards, I stayed for the next session and heard from newly graduated students encouraging applications to join the relevant professional society. Part of their talk included the poor public perception of civil engineers. I told them afterwards I'd swap their professional image for that of librarian any day!)

Final comment on the cards. Our reprographics room only had a pale yellow rather than the strong one I really wanted. It was really interesting to note that I got all/most of the red and blue ones back but the yellow set had been more than decimated. Less than half were returned. I figure they were just too easy to lose amongst pieces of paper. Still, boss now wants to use them and the law librarian is considering it too.

Yesterday and today I've been a pirate.

No, no, not downloading illegal mp3s or anything. Much more fun. Freshers' fayre is the usual jamboree of clubs and societies and university services and outsiders all "selling" their wares. The Library at OldPlace never got involved with this (I visited once out of interest) and there are arguments for it being something of a waste of time.

But this university had tried it last year with some limited success and with AB visiting over the summer and selling staff on marketing the library more effectively, there was a certain gusto with which some of my more artistic colleagues had decided on a pirate theme and designed treasure chests, bought costumey bits and pieces, created decorations for a stall and rounded up (press-ganged?) volunteers to man the stall. As well as creating a treasure trail round the library.

$80 a day to have the stall space and no one missed either the irony or the humor in our being put next to naval recruiters! Plus two $40 book tokens from a local bookshop to offer as prizes. Plus some money for candy to dole out... It wasn't 'free' advertising - but then as AB had pointed out, given the cost of the resources the library has bought into (buildings, books, electronic, staff) maximising their use should be given a higher priority than it is in some places.

On the stall draped with a large skull and crossbones was the treasure chest decorated with various pearls and necklaces and attractively filled with leaflets and the treasure trail sheets. Books and videos to do with pirates, piracy and the like. But mostly a large breadbasket full of sand and piles of little flags. The idea was for students to guess where the buried treasure was hidden and the nearest flag would win one of the book tokens. While they scribbled name and a contact number (either a phone number or a student number) onto the flag, we could tell them about the treasure trail where they had the chance of winning the other book token, tell them about the library, and given them some specially designed leaflets about the 'buried treasure' in the library. It was very well thought out and for all the fears that some had that it might not 'work', it was tremendously successful. Something like 800 students had a go at planting their flag and more took away leaflets.

When I got there I quickly found that standing behind the stall willing students to stop by wasn't half as effective as standing out in the middle of the thoroughfare offering sweets and promoting the chance of a booktoken for the small effort of putting your name on a flag. Many thought they'd have to pay to enter so the chocolate money I was doling out was a great way of saying "nope - I'll pay you!". Later on I wondered why we weren't handing out pieces of After Eight!?

Of course, there were those who saw us dressed as pirates and thought we were something to do with an amateur dramatic society or a local football club, but no one actually ran off when they found we were from the library. Most were quite amused and some almost impressed that we'd come to promote ourselves.

It was fairly exhausting work (I pretty much collapsed at home at the end of a 2nd day of it) but there were nearby stalls giving away cola or slices of pizza which could be raided for grog and rations. And meeting students later in the day actually doing the treasure trail was quite rewarding as well - though your odds of winning the trail rather than with a flag were much higher!

Despite the senior colleague who semi-seriously suggested we weren't doing the library profession any favors (though I felt happier that my boss was participating too), it seemed worthwhile. And how many other times am I going to have the excuse to wear a large gold ear-ring at work! Aaaarrrr!

Interesting session today. All of the faculty's PhD students. I underestimated how many there were but was also a bit taken aback by the supervisors and many of the academics being there as well. (They were having a whole day of induction to the university). The briefing gave me half an hour just before lunch and I thought I would set off very early and sit in on some of the prior session just to get a feel of it.

Good job I did. They were in a part of the campus I'd not visited before and at least a mile away behind the old naval port gate. Interesting space to inhabit but modern rooms in an old warehouse type of place where the new had to be removable with no damage to the old. Anyway, what with the distance and not being too sure where I was going I just about arrived on time. Only to find they were running seriously behind in any case.

I sat through some of their induction until it was my turn but with only 10 minutes to the scheduled lunchtime and what looked like it had been a long morning, I decided to cut out some of what I planned and just cover the basics after introducing myself.

It was the right decision. All were much relieved and I felt less intimidated than I might have done trying to go into details that probably weren't appropriate to the session. Both academics that I spoke to over a quick bite to eat (including the nice Dutch lady I'd met a week or three back) and the researchers thought that it had been just right.

Phew! Given that at TheOldPlace I rarely got to see this level of researcher at all and if I did it was usually in very small groups, it had been a bit unnerving to walk in and see 50+ people and a much more formal setting than I might have expected.

Quiet day today which worries me as several colleagues seem to be up their eyes in training/induction/teaching. Others are racing round putting the finishing touches to things like treasure chests to go with the pirate theme tomorrow at the freshers' fayre.

I seemed to spend much of my day with either boss discussing where I'm at or my mentor doing a one month check list to make sure I'm not unhappy or missing something in my induction and so on.

All seems to be going swimmingly. Just a visit to the public library to arrange. (Which I started on before as I know a friend and former colleague there, but she's been a little busy to get together.) Still, it can't be too hard to manage.

Back at TheOldPlace term has started and they're no doubt inundated as usual with students. We've another week to go before that. But our freshers are starting and I had my first 'induction' session to run this afternoon.

In fact these were computing students going directly into the third year from elsewhere (one owned up to having transferred from TheOldPlace though he wisely didn't admit to knowing or not knowing who I was). So a mix of what's new here and what do you need to know for your studies. The lecturer responsible stayed as well and both he and the students gave me some good feedback on what I'd covered so that was encouraging.

Spent some of the day exploring a database and experimenting with downloading interesting references to then import into some bibliographic software. I've not had much call for that before but think I'll have to be much more of an expert here. It was a very useful way of exploring library holdings and how well the article linking feature works (a tool we've bought into which attempts to locate any fulltext holdings of an article of interest in a database). I was quite impressed with it.