Winter Break Hours and Services

Resnick Library & Learning Center is CLOSED for winter break, from December 19, 2009 through January 18, 2010.  

Online resources are available as always 24×7.   The AskUs online reference assistance is also available except Christmas Day and New Year’s Day.  AskUs service is available from the library web site and VanckoHall.

Staff will be checking messages periodically, and will try to respond within 48 hours. 

Library fines… charges for the fall semester have been applied to your fall bill (and will hold up grades and transcript requests).  Please contact Student Accounts at 746-4625 with any questions about your charges.

Interlibrary loans….faculty and staff may continue to request materials through ILLiad, but delivery will be delayed during the holidays, especially the week between Christmas and New Year’s. 

Returning library materials…please use the outside bookdrop near the library entrance.  You may also drop items off at any SUNY library to be returned to Delhi through the LAND courier service.

We will open Tuesday-Friday, January 19-22, 2010, 8 am – 5 pm and also Saturday-Sunday, January 23-24 for special Orientation hours.  Spring semester hours begin Monday, January 25.

Contact us with any questions at 746-4635 or library@delhi.edu. 
And have a happy holiday!

EBSCO databases are Back Up

12/03/09

EBSCO databases appear to be running normally again.  As of now, we are still unaware of what caused the outage, and EBSCO has not put out any notice explaining the outage to us.

If you experience any issues with out databases, please use our troubleshooting checklist located in Vancko Hall, and contact us if the problem has not already been reported.

12/02/09

It was reported to us, and we have experienced the same problem, that the databases provided by EBSCO are down. These include databases like CINAHL, Academic Search Complete, and Business Source Complete.

We will post again when services are restored.

Extended Hours December 2009

The Resnick Library’s hours of operation for the month of December are listed here in a calendar view.  Finals hours start Sunday, December 6th and end after Wednesday, December 16th.  The Library will close for the holidays starting after Friday, December 18th and will not reopen until Monday, January 4th.

Hours of Operation December 2009

Requesting ILL Materials Stop Date

Attention Students:
The library asks that you not request Interlibrary Loan (ILL) materials via ILLiad on or after Monday, December 7th.   The reason is due to the improbability that the materials will arrive in time for you to use them before the December 11th due date imposed on all library materials.  Thank you for using ILLiad, and we look forward to serving you in the Spring.

Library Hours Thanksgiving Break

The Resnick Library and Learning Center will be closed for Thanksgiving break from Tuesday 11/24 at 5pm through Sunday 11/29.  

Have a great holiday everyone, and look for news about midnight hours for the end of the semester coming soon!

New Content in Business Source Complete

The following message comes from EBSCO, the provider of Business Source Complete:

“We are pleased to announce that Business Source Complete now includes a business video collection with 55 videos from the Harvard Business School Faculty Seminar Series, at no additional charge.

The series features engaging video lectures from renowned professors and experts at the Harvard Business School . All lectures are captured from executive education programs, and offer groundbreaking ideas, insightful research, and practical advice on management issues.”

New Trial Database: Credo Reference

From now until the end of November, the Credo Reference database will be on trial. It is designed to be a great place to start looking for information, and it enables a user to connect quickly to different databases to find further information on a topic. For example, if you find a great biography on an artist, you can then click on the link for the Resnick Library Catalog, and it will search for your artist to see if there are any books in the library about that artist. Pretty cool, huh? Check it out, and give us feedback on whether or not this new database is useful to you.

More Faculty Publications

There are two new additions to the Resnick Library Faculty Publications Display Cabinet and are available for checkout.

 Floyd Vogt, B.A., Professor, Technology Division

 Carpentry (5^th Edition). Delmar Cengage Learning. 2010.

  Beginning with building layout, contemporary light frame building construction is presented all the way to ending trim carpentry. In this updated fifth edition, logical progression, photo-realistic drawings and step-by-step procedures convey varied concepts in clearly explained detail. Features include: “What’s Wrong With This Picture?”; “Estimating Formulas”; “Going Green Tips” and more.

Sharon Ruetenik, B.A., M.L.S., ESL and Writing Center Coordinator and Adjunct Instructor

  The Wooden Bowl: Poems by Sharon Ruetenik. Bright Hill Press. 2009

The Wooden Bowl: Poems by Sharon Ruetenik. Bright Hill Press. 2009

 Kennedy Fraser wrote: “Women must set aside the bowl they have used to beg for approval and praise.” And with that, Sharon Ruetenik thought, wrote, and, in the end, published poems that expand and explore this theme.

“Exotic, surreal, loaded with wit: I’ve never read any poems like them”, Lynn Domina, SUNY Delhi Professor, Liberal Arts & Sciences Division.

BLING!

Through the month of November, view a creative display of  dining table place cards  produced by the Fall 2009 “Wine, Life & Society” class, Gennaro R. Pellegrino, Instructor.

 Dress up your table for the holidays or any occasion with the addition of place cards.

 Using champagne cork baskets as the base, students fashioned place cards using only foil and paint.

 Elegant or casual in style, expensive or not, place cards are sure to enliven your table, enhancing the first impression of a positive dining experience to come.

 Bon Appétit!

Free Books!

Resnick Library Offers Free Materials through November 23, 2009

Where: Resnick Library’s 3^rd Floor

What: Withdrawn/donated materials.  Distribution will be on a first come, “as is” basis

When: October 30 – November 23, 2009

Cost: Free to you!

Clearly marked as “Free”, browse the selections located at the top of the stairs on the 3^rd floor. No need to stop at the Front Desk with these free items, but please ask if you have any questions!

Click HERE for the Library’s Hours of Operation.