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07/04 : Library Closed
07/13 : Library Open 2:00-6:00
07/20 : Library Open 2:00-6:00
08/17 : Library Open 2:00-6:00
08/23 : Library Closed 8/23-8/24
08/25 : Library Open 9:00-5:00, 8/25-8/28
08/29 : Library Open 9:00-3:00
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News / Updates / Additions
- Credo Reference has added the Concise Encyclopedia of Plant Pathology and the Encyclopedic Dictionary of Women in Early American Films: 1895-1930 to their collection of online reference books.
The database pages for Biography and Media, Television, Communications, and Publishing have been reorganized, along with lots of cross-references, in order to make browsing easier.
The United States history database page has had the following titles from the Gale Virtual Reference Library added to it: Harlem Renaissance, French and Indian War, War of 1812, Mexican-American War, the Columbia Companion to American History on Film, the Columbia Guide to American Indians of the Great Plains, the Columbia Guide to American Indians of the Northeast, the Columbia Guide to American Indians of the Southeast, and the Columbia History of Latinos in the United States Since 1960.
The library will be closed this Friday and open 9:00-4:00 on Saturday.
- Credo Reference has added the following new titles to their collection of online reference books: the Encyclopedia of Insects, the Encyclopedia of the Solar System, the Encyclopedia of Volcanoes, the International Encyclopedia of Hospitality Management, and the Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs. The latter has an article that analyzes the science behind Jurassic Park.
The database pages for Zoology and Geography and Earth Sciences have been reorganized in order to make browsing easier.
Due to a corporate merger, Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life are no longer available from ABC-CLIO, but they are still available from Ebsco.
The library will be closed this Friday and open 9:00-4:00 on Saturday.
- On Tuesday, the AFS International/Intercultural Program will be using the campus for its Departure Day activities, and the entrance near the library will be very busy with busses coming and going all day. You might find it easier to enter the campus through the east gate instead.
The library will be closed this Friday and open 9:00-4:00 on Saturday.
- Credo Reference has added new editions of the CIA World Factbook, with population, government, and statistical information about all the countries of the world, and the Good Word Guide (formerly the Bloomsbury Good Word Guide), that covers English usage and grammar with an emphasis on British English. Also available is the American Heritage Guide to Contemporary Usage and Style that emphasizes American English.
On Tuesday, the AFS International/Intercultural Program will be using the campus for its Departure Day activities, and the entrance near the library will be very busy with busses coming and going all day. You might find it easier to enter the campus through the east gate instead.
- On Wednesday, the Library Brown Bag series will present Dona McDermott leading a discussion on the use of games in library instruction. Game Studies have indicated that there is a genuine interest in and potential for libraries and librarians to use games for instruction. It begins at 11:00 in the Library Instruction Lab.
A new database available for a trial period is Value Line Research Center that provides stock quotes, company news, extensive graphing, market updates, portfolio tracking with alerts, analyst supplements in real time, educational programs, and more.
Cataloger's Desktop no longer requires a password to access it from either on or off campus.
- The Special Collections Department has added a list of all the Drama and Horror films represented in their collection of over 6,000 posters for movies produced between 1942 and 1962. Look them over (if you dare). Elsewhere on our website, you can also view posters for the top 100 movies from all genres.
The new exhibit in the Hutchins Gallery downstairs is Asian Brush Painting featuring the work of the recent Hutton House Lectures class. The artists' reception will be on Saturday from 1:00-3:00.
This Sunday, the library will be open 2:00-6:00. Happy Father's Day!
On Wednesday, the Library Brown Bag series will present Dona McDermott leading a discussion on the use of games in library instruction. Game Studies have indicated that there is a genuine interest in and potential for libraries and librarians to use games for instruction.
- Coming this week, the new exhibit in the Hutchins Gallery downstairs will be Asian Brush Painting featuring the work of the recent Hutton House Lectures class. The artists' reception will be on Saturday from 1:00-3:00.
This Sunday, the library will be open 2:00-6:00.
Looking ahead: on June 18, the Library Brown Bag series will present Dona McDermott leading a discussion on the use of games in library instruction. Game Studies have indicated that there is a genuine interest in and potential for libraries and librarians to use games for instruction.
- Lots of new online reference books have been added to the database subject pages. From Credo Reference, there are the Handbook of Vegetable Pests, the Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences, Elsevier's Dictionary of Psychological Theories, the International Handbook of Giftedness and Talent, Notable American Women: Completing the Twentieth Century, Word Origins: The Hidden Histories of English Words from A to Z, and the Handbook of Forensic Psychology: Resource for Mental Health and Legal Professionals. And from the Gale Virtual Reference Library, there are the Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender, the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, and the Encyclopedia of Virtual Communities and Technologies.
From Campus Services: "During the weekend of June 6 - June 8, 2008 the Greek Orthodox Church will be using our lower facilities parking lots for its festival parking. In order to accommodate the vehicle and pedestrian traffic from the festival as well as the campus traffic, the East Gate of the campus will be restricted during the following dates and times: Friday, June 6, from 5 PM - 12 Midnight; Saturday, June 7, from 2 PM - 12 Midnight; Sunday, June 8, from 2 PM - 10 PM. All incoming traffic to the East Gate will be diverted west onto University Drive. There will be no exiting traffic at the East Gate. All exiting traffic will be sent to the West Gate. The area immediately inside the East Gate will be open ONLY for pedestrian traffic. If you have any questions please call my office at 299-2824. Thank you for your cooperation."
Looking ahead: on June 18, the Library Brown Bag series will present Dona McDermott leading a discussion on the use of games in library instruction. Game Studies have indicated that there is a genuine interest in and potential for libraries and librarians to use games for instruction.
- From Campus Services: "During the weekend of June 6 - June 8, 2008 the Greek Orthodox Church will be using our lower facilities parking lots for its festival parking. In order to accommodate the vehicle and pedestrian traffic from the festival as well as the campus traffic, the East Gate of the campus will be restricted during the following dates and times: Friday, June 6, from 5 PM - 12 Midnight; Saturday, June 7, from 2 PM - 12 Midnight; Sunday, June 8, from 2 PM - 10 PM. All incoming traffic to the East Gate will be diverted west onto University Drive. There will be no exiting traffic at the East Gate. All exiting traffic will be sent to the West Gate. The area immediately inside the East Gate will be open ONLY for pedestrian traffic. If you have any questions please call my office at 299-2824. Thank you for your cooperation."
- From Information Technology: "On Saturday, May 31st 2008, the Facilities Department will be replacing the UPS that powers the Network Operations Center. During this time, all University systems will be unavailable. This includes PeopleSoft systems, University email, shared network drives, web applications and services. VPN access will also be unavailable during this time. Facilities work will begin at 8:00 AM and is expected to be completed by 8:00 PM. If you have any questions, please contact your local Information Technology office. Thank you for your patience in this effort."
- The library will be open 9:00-3:00 on Friday, 9:00-4:00 on Saturday, and closed on Sunday and Monday.
Added more online reference books from the Gale Virtual Reference Library to the subject guides for Biography, Business Directories, Business Reference Books, Computer Science, Directories, and Film, Theater, and Performing Arts. Also reorganized that last one.
The schedule of Library Workshops for the fall semester has been posted.
- Our newest database is Public STINET, the Scientific and Technical Information Network produced by the U.S. Department of Defense's Defense Technical Information Center. It broadly covers all areas associated with defense research including military, security, international politics, technology, sciences, social sciences, and more.
The Special Collections Department has completed the holdings list for the Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection, a comprehensive collection of over 3,000 books, pamphlets and documents concerning the life, times, and interests of our 26th President as well as Roosevelt's rich and prolific writings. The collection was donated by the Theodore Roosevelt Association in 1974.
A list of new books added to the Center for Business Research's collection has been posted.
- Three new databases for a brief trial period are First Research, with profiles of industries, states, and provinces; MarketLine, with international profiles of industries, countries, and companies; and Britannica Online Academic Edition, with 65,000 articles covering all subjects and much more.
- Just in time for summer vacation trips, the library's newest exhibit celebrates the National Parks of America with profiles of Acadia, Big Bend, Crater Lake, Death Valley, Grand Canyon, Great Smoky Mountain, Redwood, Rocky Mountain, Yellowstone, and Yosemite as well as top ten lists of national parks, state parks, botanic gardens, waterfalls, and more.
- From Wednesday, May 7 through Sunday, May 18, the library will be open
9:00-5:00 Mondays-Fridays and closedSaturdays-Sundays . On Monday, May 19, normal summer hours begin . The Bookmark Café will be closed until the Fall.Credo Reference has added five new online reference books to their collection: Edinburgh Encyclopaedia of Modern Criticism and Theory, Late Antiquity: A Guide to The Postclassical World, Marquis Who Was Who in America: 1985-Present, New Harvard Guide to Women's Health, and Black's Veterinary Dictionary. They've also updated their editions of Philip's Encyclopedia, Philip's World Factbook, and Wisden Archive of Cricketers' Lives.
On Friday, May 16, the Post Library Association will present Carol Tabler's lecture, Introducing Antoine Vollon: A
19th-Century Master Painter. Vollon's still-lifes and landscapes displayed an anti-academic, personal expressiveness that bridged the Impressionist and Modernist movements. Everyone is welcome to this free event that begins at 8:00 p.m. in the library lobby.On Sunday, May 18, there will be an artists' reception for the new exhibit, Local Treasures: Artists Who Go Beyond Originality, downstairs in the Hutchin's Gallery from
4:00-6:00 . The library will be open for the reception only.
- The Library will be open until midnight on Sunday and until 1:00 a.m. on Monday and Tuesday. The Interfaith Center Lounge will be open all night Sunday through Monday morning.
The end of semester and summer holiday hours have been posted. The library will be open 9:00-5:00, Wednesday - Friday and closed the following Saturday and Sunday. The Bookmark Café will be closed until the Fall.
- The new exhibit in the Hutchins Gallery features the work of six C.W. Post students. The artists' reception will be on Wednesday evening from 5:00-8:00.
From now through May 6, the Library will have extended hours for final exams. We will be open until 1:00 a.m. on Mondays through Thursdays and until midnight on Sundays. On Fridays and Saturdays, we will close at our normal time of 5:00, however Hillwood Commons will be open until midnight all days. The Interfaith Center Lounge will be open all night Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday.
After Friday, the Bookmark Café will be closed for the summer.
- A new trial database is Natural Standard that provides peer-reviewed information about complementary and alternative therapies, diet, nutrition, wellness, treatment effectiveness, medical conditions, products, and more.
From now through May 6, the Library will have extended hours for final exams. We will be open until 1:00 a.m. on Mondays through Thursdays and until midnight on Sundays. On Fridays and Saturdays, we will close at our normal time of 5:00, however Hillwood Commons will be open until midnight all days. The Interfaith Center Lounge will be open all night Tuesday through Thursday and Sunday.
- Added some new items to the Special Education pathfinder and the American Dream pathfinder. Pathfinder guides to library resources for many other subjects are also available.
From now through May 6, the Library will have extended hours for final exams. We will be open until 1:00 a.m. on Mondays through Thursdays and until midnight on Sundays. On Fridays and Saturdays, we will close at our normal time of 5:00, however Hillwood Commons will be open until midnight all days. Starting April 29, the Interfaith Center Lounge will be open all night Tuesday through Thursday and Sunday.
- The newest trial database is CQ Press Electronic Library with the full text of Congressional Quarterly's political science periodicals, encyclopedias, and reference books. CQ Researcher presents overviews of controversial topics. CQ Weekly covers Congress' activities each week. Also included are Guide to the Presidency, Guide to the U.S. Supreme Court, Guide to U.S. Elections, The U.S. Constitution A to Z, Vital Statistics on American Politics, and more.
From now through May 6, the library will have extended hours for final exams. We will be open until 1:00 a.m. on Mondays through Thursdays and until midnight on Sundays. On Fridays and Saturdays, we will close at our normal time of 5:00, however Hillwood Commons will be open until midnight.
- From now through May 6, the library will have extended hours for final exams. We will be open until 1:00 a.m. on Mondays through Thursdays and until midnight on Sundays. On Fridays and Saturdays, we will close at our normal time of 5:00, however Hillwood Commons will be open until midnight.
The Special Collections Department has created a finding aid for the Saidie Scudder Archival Collection. Part of the American Juvenile Collection of children's literature published from 1910-1960, it contains pre-publication illustrations and a variety of materials created by well known children's author-illustrators. And there's still time to see the exhibit of Illustrations by Berta and Elmer Hader that are also from the AJC.
The new exhibit in the Hutchins Gallery features the thesis projects of C.W. Post students.
- On Friday, the Post Library Association will present Professor Richard Auletta from the Foreign Language Department with Why We Speak the Way We Do, focusing on the ways in which American English has changed dramatically in both accent and idiom because of the movements of various communities, including those of Germans, Scots and Jews. Everyone is welcome to this free lecture that begins in the library lobby at 8:00. (I'm tempted to use this as an opportunity to shamelessly plug my own, far less knowledgeable webpage about American Dialects, But I won't.)
On Friday will be the last Library Competency Exam of the semester. If you are graduating in May and haven't taken it yet, this will be your last chance. It begins at 12:00 noon in Humanities Hall, room 119.
In observance of Passover, the library will be closed on Saturday and Sunday. We will then begin extended hours for final exams on Monday.
A new database is ARTstor, a digital library of approximately 700,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences, comprised of contributions from museums, individual photographers, scholars, special collections at libraries, and photo archives.
- A new database is ARTstor, a digital library of approximately 700,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences, comprised of contributions from museums, individual photographers, scholars, special collections at libraries, and photo archives.
Reorganized the page of Ethnic Studies and Multiculturalism databases so that more groups get their own sections and lots of cross-references. Also added a whole bunch of new reference books to most of the sections - especially Native American - from the new Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) titles that we added to our online collection earlier this year. Also (again) added several new GVRL titles to the Statistics and Demographics database page. Additional new books can be found on the Culture and Area Studies page sections for Africa, Europe, and Latin America, as well as the Judaism section of the Religion page.
Credo Reference has added New Americans: A Guide to Immigration Since 1965 to their online collection. They also added an updated edition of the Dictionary of Accounting.
From Information Technology: "On Thursday, April 17th 2008, Information Technology will be performing maintenance on the email server that you use to send and receive email. During this time, you will not be able to send or receive e-mail. Please be aware that any incoming email - email that is coming in during that period - WILL NOT BE LOST and will be delivered after the maintenance work is completed. Maintenance work will begin at 8:00 PM and we expect it to be completed by 9:30 PM. We have scheduled this maintenance in the evening to have least impact on regular working hours; however, we apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause. If you have any questions, please contact your local Information Technology office."
On Friday will be the last Library Competency Exam of the semester. If you are graduating in May and haven't taken it yet, this will be your last chance. It begins at 12:00 noon in Humanities Hall, room 119.
On Friday, the Post Library Association will present Professor Richard Auletta from the Foreign Language Department with Why We Speak the Way We Do, focusing on the ways in which American English has changed dramatically in both accent and idiom because of the movements of various communities, including those of Germans, Scots and Jews. Everyone is welcome to this free lecture that begins in the library lobby at 8:00. (I'm tempted to use this as an opportunity to shamelessly plug my own, far less knowledgeable webpage about American Dialects, But I won't.)
In observance of Passover, the library will be closed on Saturday and Sunday. We will then begin extended hours for final exams on Monday.
- Reorganized the page of Education Databases with new sections to make browsing easier, including an Educational Technology section featuring nine new online books such as Technology Application Competencies for K-12 Teachers and Advanced Teaching Methods for the Technology Classroom. Many of the books also focus on the use of technology and computers in the college curriculum. Also new are the Almanac of American Education, with lots of statistics on the national, state, and county levels, and the Comparative Guide to American Elementary and Secondary Schools.
The page of Web Links for Business has been updated.
On Friday will be the last Library Competency Exam of the semester. If you are graduating in May and haven't taken it yet, this will be your last chance. It begins at 12:00 noon in Humanities Hall, room 119.
On Friday, the Post Library Association will present Professor Richard Auletta from the Foreign Language Department with Why We Speak the Way We Do, focusing on the ways in which American English has changed dramatically in both accent and idiom because of the movements of various communities, including those of Germans, Scots and Jews. Everyone is welcome to this free lecture that begins in the library lobby at 8:00. (I'm tempted to use this as an opportunity to shamelessly plug my own, far less knowledgeable webpage about American Dialects, But I won't.)
In observance of Passover, the library will be closed on Saturday and Sunday. We will then begin extended hours for final exams on Monday.
- If you were having trouble accessing Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities lately, it was because they were redesigning their website. The links should be working now, but you have to click on the "Member Area" link on upper right when you get there.
The American Dream pathfinder has been updated with two new articles in online encyclopedias and an article in a new hardcopy encyclopedia.
On Friday will be the last Library Competency Exam of the semester. If you are graduating in May and haven't taken it yet, this will be your last chance. It begins at 12:00 noon in Humanities Hall, room 119.
On Friday, the Post Library Association will present Professor Richard Auletta from the Foreign Language Department with Why We Speak the Way We Do, focusing on the ways in which American English has changed dramatically in both accent and idiom because of the movements of various communities, including those of Germans, Scots and Jews. Everyone is welcome to this free lecture that begins in the library lobby at 8:00. (I'm tempted to use this as an opportunity to shamelessly plug my own, far less knowledgeable webpage about American Dialects, But I won't.)
In observance of Passover, the library will be closed on Saturday and Sunday. We will then begin extended hours for final exams on Monday.
- There are a whole bunch of new databases. The first is the InfoTrac Nursing and Allied Health Collection with the full text of over 300 journals, magazines, and newsletters in these fields, courtesy of the New York Online Virtual Electronic Library.
Next, Credo Reference has added the Handbook of United States Economic and Financial Indicators, Keywords and Concepts in Evolutionary Developmental Biology, Notable American Women: 1607-1950, and Notable American Women: The Modern Period, bringing their online collection up to 280 titles. They've also replaced the old edition of Collins German Dictionary with a new one.
Also, there is a trial of SAGE eReference that provides access to 60 online encyclopedias and reference books.
On Friday will be the teleconference, Trends, Fads or Folly: Spotting Library Trends That Matter. It starts at 12:00 noon in the library instruction lab.
- Three new trial databases for your perusal are Play Index with publication information, cast analyses, and subject indexing of over 30,000 plays, Dun & Bradstreet's Million Dollar Database with information about 23 million public and private companies, and the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Online with 1,850 articles covering the whole sphere of economic thought.
The next Library Competency Exam will be on Friday at 10:00 in Life Sciences room 139.
On Sunday, there will be an artists' reception for the Hutchins Gallery exhibit, Seven Painters and Seven Sculptors: The Second Annual Long Island Professional Artist's Showcase, from 1:00-4:00. Links to some of the artists' websites have also been added.
- The Special Collections Department has added a description and partial holdings list of the Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection, a comprehensive collection of over 3,000 books, pamphlets and documents concerning the life, times, and interests of our 26th President as well as Roosevelt's rich and prolific writings. The collection was donated by the Theodore Roosevelt Association in 1974. In addition, there are now several vintage movie posters accompanying the library's current Women's History Exhibits. They were selected from our collection of over 6,000.
A new trial service is RefShare, an add-on module to RefWorks that enables users to share their database of RefWorks citations with other people.
The next Library Competency Exam will be on Friday at 10:00 in Life Sciences room 139.
On Sunday, there will be an artists' reception for the Hutchins Gallery exhibit, Seven Painters and Seven Sculptors: The Second Annual Long Island Professional Artist's Showcase, from 1:00-4:00.
The Special Collections Department has added a list of all the action and adventure films represented in their collection of over 6,000 movie posters produced between 1942 and 1962. You can view posters for the top 100 movies in all genres online.
Our newest trial database is PsychiatryOnline, an online collection of full-text psychiatry reference books, periodicals, and textbooks.
On Tuesday, the School of Education's and the Instructional Media Center's Spring Into Technology workshops will conclude with Websites for Teachers. "Take a walk on the moon or stroll through the galleries of the Louvre in Paris. Go on an archaeological dig of Jamestown or view Thomas Edison's drawing of the light bulb - all with the click of a mouse. This workshop will introduce the best internet resources for educators. A sampling from a variety of K-12 subject areas will be demonstrated. The New York State Education Department website and how to evaluate a website will also be covered." It will take place downstairs in the Instructional Media Center from 3:45-5:00.
The next Library Competency Exam will be on Friday at 10:00 in Life Sciences room 139.
On Sunday, there will be an artists' reception for the Hutchins Gallery exhibit, Seven Painters and Seven Sculptors: The Second Annual Long Island Professional Artist's Showcase, from 1:00-4:00.
- The Post Library Association Annual Book Sale will continue through Friday and Saturday, and there's still lots of stuff available. In addition to books, there are also DVDs, CDs, videos, records, puzzles, and more. Everyone is welcome.
On Tuesday, the School of Education's and the Instructional Media Center's Spring Into Technology workshops will conclude with Websites for Teachers. "Take a walk on the moon or stroll through the galleries of the Louvre in Paris. Go on an archaeological dig of Jamestown or view Thomas Edison's drawing of the light bulb - all with the click of a mouse. This workshop will introduce the best internet resources for educators. A sampling from a variety of K-12 subject areas will be demonstrated. The New York State Education Department website and how to evaluate a website will also be covered." It will take place downstairs in the Instructional Media Center from 3:45-5:00.
- The newest database trials for you to explore are eighteen databases from Facts on File. They include World News Digest, with weekly news summaries dating back seventy years, and the history databases: American History Online, Modern World History Online, American Indian History Online, African-American History Online, American Women's History Online, Ancient & Medieval History Online, and Issues & Controversies in American History. Also included are the education databases: Curriculum Resource Center, Curriculum Resource Center: Junior Edition, and Today's Science, as well as the business oriented: Ferguson's Career Guidance Center and Personal & Business Forms. Rounding out the package are: World Atlas, Science Online, Issues & Controversies, Health Reference Center, and Bloom's Literary Reference Online.
The Post Library Association Annual Book Sale will run from Wednesday through Saturday. In addition to books, there are also DVDs, CDs, videos, records, and puzzles. On Wednesday, it will be open only to LIU students, faculty, and staff, as well as to PLA members, so you'll get the first chance to buy all the best stuff. On the other days, everyone is welcome.
The next Library Competency Exam will be on Wednesday at 2:30 in Life Sciences 139.
Downstairs in the Hutchins Gallery, the second annual Long Island Professional Artist's Showcase will be opening soon. The artists' reception will be on April 9.
- The Post Library Association Annual Book Sale will run from Wednesday through Saturday. On Wednesday, it will be open only to LIU students, faculty, and staff, as well as to PLA members, so you'll get the first chance to buy all the best stuff. On the other days, everyone is welcome.
The next Library Competency Exam will be on Wednesday at 2:30 in Life Sciences 139.
Downstairs in the Hutchins Gallery, the second annual Long Island Professional Artist's Showcase will be opening soon. The artists' reception will be on April 9.
- During Spring Break, the library will be open 9:00-5:00 on Monday-Thursday and 9:00-3:00 on Friday. We will be closed on Saturday and Sunday. The Bookmark Café will be closed during the break.
On Monday, March 24, the School of Education's and the Instructional Media Center's Spring Into Technology workshops will present a demonstration of WebQuests, "online inquiry-oriented lesson formats that make an effective use of Internet resources". It will take place downstairs in the Instructional Media Center from 3:45-5:00.
The next Library Competency Exam will be on Wednesday, March 26, at 2:30 in Life Sciences 139.
The Post Library Association Annual Book Sale will run from March 26 through March 29.
- On Friday, the Post Library Association invites you to hear The Parts of Ten Famous Songs You've Probably Never Heard, a musical evening with David Fuchs in which he will play and discuss ten famous songs, their forgotten verses, and the people who wrote them. All are welcome to this free event that begins at 8:00 p.m. in the Library lobby.
Credo Reference has added new editions of the Dictionary of Law and Debrett's People of Today.
The library will be open normal hours this Saturday and Sunday. During Spring Break, we will be open 9:00-5:00 on Monday-Thursday and 9:00-3:00 on Friday. We will be closed the following Saturday and Sunday. The Bookmark Café will be closed during the break.
- The new exhibit in the library's lobby celebrates National Women's History month with profiles of women honored by the National Women's History Project, artists, statistics, historical facts, and more.
A list of new books added to the Center for Business Research's collection has been posted.
On Thursday, Hao Zeng and the Digital Initiatives Department invite you to a demonstration of Moodle and DSpace. Moodle is an open source course management system that effectively assists educators in creating online learning communities. DSpace serves as an online repository system for the academic community and enables the archiving, storage, indexing and redistribution of research materials and publications in an online commons. It begins at 11:00 in the Library Instruction Lab.
On Friday, the Post Library Association invites you to hear The Parts of Ten Famous Songs You've Probably Never Heard, a musical evening with David Fuchs in which he will play and discuss ten famous songs, their forgotten verses, and the people who wrote them. All are welcome to this free event that begins at 8:00 p.m. in the Library lobby.
The library will be open normal hours this Saturday and Sunday. During Spring Break, we will be open 9:00-5:00 on Monday-Thursday and 9:00-3:00 on Friday. We will be closed the following Saturday and Sunday.
- On Wednesday, the library will be holding a webcast on Plagiarism and Turnitin. It will focus on best practices in using Turnitin effectively to prevent and detect plagiarism. In addition, this online meeting will also demonstrate how to use this database on the WebCT platform. By simultaneously broadcasting this session at the Brooklyn Campus Library, we will be able to share experiences online with our Brooklyn colleagues. Follow the link for more information.
BioEngineering Abstracts, Medical & Pharmaceutical Biotechnology Abstracts, and Agricultural & Environmental Biotechnology Abstracts, have been absorbed into Biotechnology Research Abstracts.
On Thursday, Hao Zeng and the Digital Initiatives Department invite you to a demonstration of Moodle and DSpace. Moodle is an open source course management system that effectively assists educators in creating online learning communities. DSpace serves as an online repository system for the academic community and enables the archiving, storage, indexing and redistribution of research materials and publications in an online commons. It begins at 11:00 in the Library Instruction Lab.
On Friday, the Post Library Association invites you to hear The Parts of Ten Famous Songs You've Probably Never Heard, a musical evening with David Fuchs in which he will play and discuss ten famous songs, their forgotten verses, and the people who wrote them. All are welcome to this free event that begins at 8:00 p.m. in the Library lobby.
Saturday and Sunday, the library will be open normal hours. Spring break hours will begin on Monday.
- On Wednesday, the library will be holding a webcast on Plagiarism and Turnitin. It will focus on best practices in using Turnitin effectively to prevent and detect plagiarism. In addition, this online meeting will also demonstrate how to use this database on the WebCT platform. By simultaneously broadcasting this session at the Brooklyn Campus Library, we will be able to share experiences online with our Brooklyn colleagues. Follow the link for more information.
Two new trial databases are ReferenceUSA with information about businesses, health care providers, and individuals; and the Cambridge Companions Complete Collection with the full text of over 170 books covering literature, philosophy, religion, culture, and ancient Greek and Roman civilization.
The Special Collections Department has added a list of all the westerns represented in their collection of over 6,000 movie posters produced between 1942 and 1962. You can view posters for the top 100 movies in all genres online. There's also a new description of the Cedar Swamp Historical Society Collection.
On Thursday, Hao Zeng and the Digital Initiatives Department invite you to a demonstration of Moodle and DSpace. Moodle is an open source course management system that effectively assists educators in creating online learning communities. DSpace serves as an online repository system for the academic community and enables the archiving, storage, indexing and redistribution of research materials and publications in an online commons. It begins at 11:00 in the Library Instruction Lab.
On Friday, the Post Library Association invites you to hear The Parts of Ten Famous Songs You've Probably Never Heard, a musical evening with David Fuchs in which he will play and discuss ten famous songs, their forgotten verses, and the people who wrote them. All are welcome to this free event that begins at 8:00 p.m. in the Library lobby.
Saturday and Sunday, the library will be open normal hours. Spring break hours will begin on Monday.
- On Monday, the School of Education's and the Instructional Media Center's Spring Into Technology workshops will present Visual Learning with Inspiration, Kidspiration, and InspireData, graphic organizing programs that help you to visualize, think, be creative, and understand data. It will take place downstairs in the Instructional Media Center from 3:45-5:00.
On Thursday, Hao Zeng and the Digital Initiatives Department invite you to a demonstration of Moodle and DSpace. Moodle is an open source course management system that effectively assists educators in creating online learning communities. DSpace serves as an online repository system for the academic community and enables the archiving, storage, indexing and redistribution of research materials and publications in an online commons. It begins at 11:00 in the Library Instruction Lab.
On Friday, the Post Library Association invites you to hear The Parts of Ten Famous Songs You've Probably Never Heard, a musical evening with David Fuchs in which he will play and discuss ten famous songs, their forgotten verses, and the people who wrote them. All are welcome to this free event that begins at 8:00 p.m. in the Library lobby.
- The Special Collections Department's webpage has been redesigned, and they've added a list of all the science fiction movies represented in their collection of over 6,000 movie posters produced between 1942 and 1962. You can also view posters for the top 100 movies in all genres online.
On Friday, the Library Brown Bag series will present the webcast, Library Spaces: Future Need, in which "panelists will address design and function in all types of libraries, and explore creative ways of configuring current and future library spaces to meet new services". It runs from 12:00-1:30 in the Library Instruction Lab.
On Monday, the School of Education's and the Instructional Media Center's Spring Into Technology workshops will present Visual Learning with Inspiration, Kidspiration, and InspireData, graphic organizing programs that help you to visualize, think, be creative, and understand data. It will take place downstairs in the Instructional Media Center from 3:45-5:00.
- The Special Collections Department has a collection of over 6,000 movie posters produced from 1942-1962. Complete lists of all the comedies and musicals have just been posted, and you can view images of the posters for the top 100 movies as well.
The next Library Competency Exam will be on Tuesday at 3:00 in Life Sciences 139.
On Tuesday and Wednesday, there will be a Campus Blood Drive. Please donate if you can. Call (516) 299-2611 for details.
On Wednesday, section 3 of the Library Workshop will begin at 9:30 in the Library Instruction Lab.
On Wednesday, the School of Education's and the Instructional Media Center's Spring Into Technology workshops will present SMART Board Interactive Whiteboard Basics from 3:45-5:00 in the Library Instruction Lab.
On Friday, the Library Brown Bag series will present the webcast, Library Spaces: Future Need, in which "panelists will address design and function in all types of libraries, and explore creative ways of configuring current and future library spaces to meet new services". It runs from 12:00-1:30 in the Library Instruction Lab.
- Credo Reference has added the Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy to their collection of online reference books. They've also added new editions of the Collins Dictionary of Medicine, the Dictionary of Business, Marquis Who's Who in America, Marquis Who's Who in the World, Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary, the New Penguin Dictionary of Science, the Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Design Since 1900, the Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Fashion and Fashion Designers, and the Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Graphic Design and Designers.
Added the newest Academy Award nominees (no winners this year) to our African Americans in Motion Pictures page.
All the 2007 announcements from this page have been archived for posterity.
The next Library Competency Exam will be on Tuesday at 3:00 in Life Sciences 139.
On Tuesday and Wednesday, there will be a Campus Blood Drive. Please donate if you can. Call (516) 299-2611 for details.
On Wednesday, section 3 of the Library Workshop will begin at 9:30 in the Library Instruction Lab.
On Wednesday, the School of Education's and the Instructional Media Center's Spring Into Technology workshops will present SMART Board Interactive Whiteboard Basics from 3:45-5:00 in the Library Instruction Lab.
- On Wednesday will be the lecture, Traveling the New York City African American Experience: 1623-1830, with urban anthropologist Sherrill Wilson discussing the people, places and events that document the role of the African people in 17th and 18th centuries New York City. Everyone is welcome to this free event that begins at 12:30, downstairs in the Hutchins Gallery. It's accompanied by our African American History Month exhibits in the lobby.
The schedule of events sponsored by the Post Library Association has been posted.
- Two new trial databases for your enjoyment are Faulkner Advisory for IT Studies, an online reference library of information about computers, communications, and the IT industry, and Security Management Practices, that provides information about facility security, IT and network security, financial and legal security, business continuity, biometrics, risk and crisis management, public safety, personnel security, and security technology. The trial period for Gale's Nursing Resource Center with Allied Health has been extended so that you can compare it with Ebsco's Nursing Reference Center.
Manga, a new exhibit, features sixteen original drawings by Christina Tumminello and takes a look at the history and characteristics of Japanese comics along with explorations of the various genres, such as shojo (girls' comics), and manga's adoption by the west. Also on display are examples of manga books and magazines, as well as Japanese fans and other artifacts.
The next Library Competency Exam will be on Monday at 3:30 in Life Sciences 139.
On Wednesday will be the lecture, Traveling the New York City African American Experience: 1623-1830, with urban anthropologist Sherrill Wilson discussing the people, places and events that document the role of the African people in 17th and 18th centuries New York City. Everyone is welcome to this free event that begins at 12:30, downstairs in the Hutchins Gallery. It's accompanied by our African American History Month exhibits.
- On Friday, as part of the Teaching and Learning Initiative's Teaching with Technology Workshop, Navigating the Technical World, the library's Robert Battenfeld and Wendy Roberts will present "Locating Peer-reviewed Journals Using Ulrichsweb and Cabell's". Registration is required for the day's events.
In observance of Presidents' Day, the library will be closed on Saturday and Sunday and open 12:00-8:00 on Monday.
In March, the School of Education and the Instructional Media Center will present a series of workshops called Spring Into Technology 2008 that will present introductions to educational technology resources like SmartBoards, Inspiration, Kidspiration, InspireData, WebQuests, and websites for teachers.
- The Special Collections Department has added a taste of their Joan Hoerger Fern Place Elementary School Library "Letters to Authors Project" collection to their website. It consists of letters written by famous children's authors - such as Judy Blume, Eric Carle, Roald Dahl, Charles Schultz, Dr. Seuss, and many others - in response to letters that the children wrote to them for a school project. It's an archival collection that is part of the American Juvenile Collection of children's fiction, folklore, and fairy tales printed in North America, covering the years 1910-1960. There is an extensive Reference Collection, as well as some children's books in foreign languages. They also added a brief description of the Sadie Scudder Archival Collection of illustrations and pre-publication materials created by well-known childrens' authors in the AJC's time period.
Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities can now be searched from off campus.
There's a jar of candy hearts at the reference desk. Guess how many are in it, and you could win the jar. The first person to guess correctly wins, and the top ten correct guesses will be entered into a drawing for a $10 gift certificate.
The next Library Competency Exam will be given on Thursday at 2:00 in Life Sciences 139.
Also on Thursday, the Palmer School of Library and Information Science Doctoral Colloquium will present CIDOC CRM: A Cultural Heritage Ontology for Interoperability, Preservation and Reuse with Dr. Stephen Stead discussing this "international standard ontology for mapping cultural heritage resources to facilitate resource sharing among repositories by providing semantic interoperability". (The link is to a PDF document.)
On Friday, as part of the Teaching and Learning Initiative's Teaching with Technology Workshop, Navigating the Technical World, the library's Robert Battenfeld and Wendy Roberts will present "Locating Peer-reviewed Journals Using Ulrichsweb and Cabell's". Registration is required for the day's events.
In observance of Presidents' Day, the library will be closed on Saturday and Sunday and open 12:00-8:00 on Monday.
- There's a jar of candy hearts at the reference desk. Guess how many are in it, and you could win the jar. The first person to guess correctly wins, and the top ten correct guesses will be entered into a drawing for a $10 gift certificate.
The next Library Competency Exam will be given on Thursday at 2:00 in Life Sciences 139.
Also on Thursday, the Palmer School of Library and Information Science Doctoral Colloquium will present CIDOC CRM: A Cultural Heritage Ontology for Interoperability, Preservation and Reuse with Dr. Stephen Stead discussing this "international standard ontology for mapping cultural heritage resources to facilitate resource sharing among repositories by providing semantic interoperability". (The link is to a PDF document.)
On Friday, as part of the Teaching and Learning Initiative's Teaching with Technology Workshop, Navigating the Technical World, the library's Robert Battenfeld and Wendy Roberts will present "Locating Peer-reviewed Journals Using Ulrichsweb and Cabell's". Registration is required for the day's events.
In observance of Presidents' Day, the library will be closed on Saturday and Sunday and open 12:00-8:00 on Monday.
- The Business Source Premier database has changed it's interface, but you can get to something like the old interface by clicking on the "Advanced Search" tab.
The next Library Competency Exam will be given on Thursday at 2:00 in Life Sciences 139.
Also on Thursday, the Palmer School of Library and Information Science Doctoral Colloquium will present CIDOC CRM: A Cultural Heritage Ontology for Interoperability, Preservation and Reuse with Dr. Stephen Stead discussing this "international standard ontology for mapping cultural heritage resources to facilitate resource sharing among repositories by providing semantic interoperability". (The link is to a PDF document.)
On Friday, as part of the Teaching and Learning Initiative's Teaching with Technology Workshop, Navigating the Technical World, the library's Robert Battenfeld and Wendy Roberts will present "Locating Peer-reviewed Journals Using Ulrichsweb and Cabell's". Registration is required for the day's events.
In observance of Presidents' Day, the library will be closed on Saturday and Sunday and open 12:00-8:00 on Monday.
- Two new trial database are Nursing Reference Center that provides access to drug information, evidence-based care sheets, patient information handouts, continuing education modules, daily FDA updates, reference books, and more. Educational Administration Abstracts covers educational leadership, educational management, educational research, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.
The next Library Competency Exam will be given on Thursday at 2:00 in Life Sciences 139.
Also on Thursday, the Palmer School of Library and Information Science Doctoral Colloquium will present CIDOC CRM: A Cultural Heritage Ontology for Interoperability, Preservation and Reuse with Dr. Stephen Stead discussing this "international standard ontology for mapping cultural heritage resources to facilitate resource sharing among repositories by providing semantic interoperability". (The link is to a PDF document.)
On Friday, as part of the Teaching and Learning Initiative's Teaching with Technology Workshop, Navigating the Technical World, the library's Robert Battenfeld and Wendy Roberts will present "Locating Peer-reviewed Journals Using Ulrichsweb and Cabell's". Registration is required for the day's events.
- In celebration of African American History Month, the library is presenting three exhibits. Created by the Upstate History Alliance, Respect for Diversity: Valuing Our Museums, Libraries and the Communities They Create highlights the importance of diversity in communities and examines the rich diversity of New York State as well as the ways our cultural institutions work to represent that diversity in their collections. Carter G. Woodson and the Origins of Multiculturalism displays selected resources from the Association for the Study of African American Life and History as well as materials from the library's collections, including vintage movie posters. From Slavery to Freedom: Africans in the Americas features materials from the library, the U.S. Library of Congress, and the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. And, on February 27, there will be the lecture, Traveling the New York City African American Experience: 1623-1830. More about that later.
The next Library Competency Exam will be given on February 14 at 2:00 in Life Sciences 139.
Also on February 14, the Palmer School of Library and Information Science Doctoral Colloquium will present CIDOC CRM: A Cultural Heritage Ontology for Interoperability, Preservation and Reuse with Dr. Stephen Stead discussing this "international standard ontology for mapping cultural heritage resources to facilitate resource sharing among repositories by providing semantic interoperability". (The link is to a PDF document.)
On February 15, as part of the Teaching and Learning Initiative's Teaching with Technology Workshop, Navigating the Technical World, the library's Robert Battenfeld and Wendy Roberts will present "Locating Peer-reviewed Journals Using Ulrichsweb and Cabell's". Registration is required for the day's events.
- Forty new online reference books - covering educational technology, ethnic studies, literature, history, and more - have been added to the Gale Virtual Reference Library, bringing the total to 266. They're listed individually only on the alphabetic list of databases for now, but they'll soon be added to the various subject listings as well. You can also search through all 266 at once.
- There are two new trial databases: Communication Abstracts from Cambridge Scientific Abstracts covers communication and related disciplines - such as broadcasting, journalism, film, public relations, marketing, and speech. Compare it with our existing trial of Communication and Mass Media Complete from Ebsco. Also, we've added a trial of PAIS Archive that supplements our existing trial of PAIS International with coverage of the 20th century's public and social policies and issues back to 1915.
The dates of this year's Post Library Association Book Sale have been announced.
The page of Web Links for Business has been updated.
- The newest trial database is PAIS International that covers current and historical perspectives on the significant political, economic, social, and cultural issues that affect international and local communities, countries, governments, and society.
The schedule of holiday and extended hours for the Spring semester has been posted.
Section 2 of the Library Workshop will begin on Monday. (If you signed up for Section 3, it begins in March).
- Scroll down a bit to see all the new databases and online reference books that were added during the break. There are some new trial databases too.
The Hutchins Gallery is currently exhibiting Found Drawing, featuring the art of Rim, Jai Kwang and Dialogue, featuring the art of Lee, Sang-Bong.
Section 4 of the Library Workshop will begin on Thursday, January 24. Section 2 begins on Monday. (If you signed up for Section 3, it begins in March).
- Credo Reference has added four new reference books to their online collection: the Dictionary of Existentialism, the Encyclopedia of Classical Philosophy, Chambers Dictionary of the Unexplained, and Contemporary Youth Culture: An International Encyclopedia. They've also added new editions of Collins Italian Dictionary, Collins Spanish Dictionary, and the Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics.
Three new trial databases are: Communication and Mass Media Complete, Public Administration Abstracts, and Urban Studies Abstracts.
Added a guide to using Ulrich's Periodicals Directory.
From Information Technology: "On Thursday, January 17th, Information Technology will be performing maintenance on the University network and systems. During this time, Internet connectivity, Email and network files storage access may be intermittently unavailable. Maintenance work will begin at 8:00 p.m. and will be completed by 11:00 p.m. We have scheduled this maintenance to have least impact on regular working hours; however, we apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause."
The library will be closed Saturday and Sunday and open 9:00-5:00 on Monday. Normal hours will resume on Tuesday, January 22.
Section 1 of the Library Workshop will begin on January 22. Section 4 begins on January 24.
- Our newest database is Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities that provides publication and submission information for Business, Education, Library Science, and Psychology journals.
From Information Technology: "On Thursday, January 17th, Information Technology will be performing maintenance on the University network and systems. During this time, Internet connectivity, Email and network files storage access may be intermittently unavailable. Maintenance work will begin at 8:00 p.m. and will be completed by 11:00 p.m. We have scheduled this maintenance to have least impact on regular working hours; however, we apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause."
The library will be open 9:00-5:00 on Monday-Friday, closed Saturday-Sunday, and open 9:00-5:00 on January 21. Normal hours will resume on Tuesday, January 22. The Bookmark Café will resume operation then as well.
Section 1 of the Library Workshop will begin on January 22. Section 4 begins on January 24.
- The newest trial database is Nursing Resource Center with Allied Health that provides the full text of medical encyclopedias, nursing textbooks, and 540 journals, as well as over 200 multimedia animations.
The library will be open 9:00-5:00 on Monday-Friday, closed Saturday-Sunday, and open 9:00-5:00 on January 21. Normal hours will resume on Tuesday, January 22. The Bookmark Café will resume operation then as well.
Section 1 of the Library Workshop will begin on January 22. Section 4 begins on January 24.
- The library will be closed Saturday-Sunday and then be open 9:00-5:00 on Monday-Friday. We will also be closed the following weekend and open 9:00-5:00 on January 21. Normal hours will resume on Tuesday, January 22. The Bookmark Café will resume operation then as well.
All the volumes of the Dictionary of Literary Biography have been moved downstairs to the Reference Annex, but the full text of them is also available online in the Literature Resource Center database.
Section 1 of the Library Workshop will begin on January 22. Section 4 begins on January 24.
- Credo Reference has added three new online books to their collection: the Dictionary of Italian Literature, the Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature, and the Handbook of Environmental Sociology.
The January list of acquisitions in the Center for Business Research has been posted.
ProQuest Psychology Journals is no longer available, but there are still many psychology journals that can be accessed through PsycINFO, PsycARTICLES, Psychology: A Sage Full-Text Collection, and our other databases.
This week, Reference Commons and the Circulation/Reserve Department will be open 9:00-8:00, Monday-Thursday, with the other departments remaining open until 5:00. All departments will be open 9:00-5:00 on Friday. The library will be closed Saturday-Sunday. All departments will be open 9:00-5:00 next week. The Bookmark Café will be closed until the spring semester begins.
The 2008 Calendar has been posted for your enjoyment.
Section 1 of the Library Workshop will begin on January 22. Section 4 begins on January 24.
- The 2008 Calendar has been posted for your enjoyment.
This week, Reference Commons and the Circulation/Reserve Department will be open 9:00-8:00, Monday-Thursday, with the other departments remaining open until 5:00. All departments will be open 9:00-5:00 on Friday. The library will be closed Saturday-Sunday. All departments will be open 9:00-5:00 next week. The Bookmark Café will be closed until the spring semester begins.
The Library Workshop Schedule has been posted. Section 1 will begin on January 22.
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