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.

ScienceDirect Database Down for Maintenance

This announcement comes from our ScienceDirect database provider (Elsevier).  Please take note of the down-time, as it may affect your ability to search the database:

“ScienceDirect will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance for approximately 9 hours from 1:00AM GMT Sunday, 1 November to 10:00AM GMT (9:00PM EDT Saturday, October 31 to 5:00AM EST Sunday 1, November).“

If you have any questions regarding our databases, don’t hesitate to Contact Us.

LexisNexis Down for Maintenance

This message comes from our LexisNexis provider, please take note of the scheduled outage date and time:

All LexisNexis online products will be unavailable during a scheduled maintenance outage related to the end of Daylight Savings Time.  Products affected include LexisNexis Academic, Congressional, and Statistical.

LexisNexis online products will be unavailable to users from October 31, 9:00 p.m. through November 01, 2009, 5:00 a.m. Eastern Time.

While we have scheduled the outage at time of relatively low activity, we regret the inconvenience it will cause for some users.  Please help us minimize the inconvenience by notifying the users at your institution who may be affected by this interruption.

360 Link and Journal Title Search Down for Maintenance

From Serials Solutions (our 360 Link and Online Journal Title Search provider):

We would like you, as a valued user of a Serials Solutions service,
to be aware of an upcoming system downtime that will occur later next
week.
Upcoming system downtime: We are scheduled to upgrade our systems on
Saturday, October 24, from 3:00 am – 5:00 am Eastern Time. As a result of this upgrade, all services (Serials Solutions 360 services, Client Center, Ulrich’s, and Summon) may be unavailable for this period of time.

President Obama Makes Proclamation on the Importance of Information Literacy

President Obama has made a Proclamation that created Information Literacy Month for October.  According to the National Forum on Information Literacy, “Information Literacy is defined as the ability to know when there is a need for information, to be able to identify, locate, evaluate, and effectively use that information for the issue or problem at hand.”

President Obama has made his declaration about the importance of information literacy at all ages, and the library is one organization that is working towards the education of and improvements in information literacy, which is why the Resnick Library has decided to create a post about this important proclamation.

To get more information from a Resnick Librarian, just contact us, or schedule an information literacy session for yourself, your students, or your colleagues.

NetLibrary Down for Maintenance

From Status Line:
OCLC has notified us that NetLibrary will experience two maintenance periods in October that will affect libraries and users.

October 6th, Approximately 9:00 – 11:00am EDT

Though the impact on the NetLibrary site is expected to be minimal, servers will be taken out of service incrementally and the operating systems will be patched. Consequently users may experience unexpected behavior during this time (e.g. losing sessions unexpectedly or losing access to a title). In these cases the users should be able to log back in and return to what they were doing within a few minutes.

October 11th, 4:00 – 6:00 am EDT

This scheduled maintenance will result in a temporary outage of all NetLibrary services, which includes the NetLibrary patron site and the NetLibrary Media Center. During this time an explanatory page will display in place of the patron website.

Attn Faculty: Persistent Links Will Not Work from Cancelled DB’s

This blog posting is mainly for faculty, but also for anyone that has used persistent/permanent links to articles featured in these two databases from EBSCO: Academic Search Premier and Business Source Premier.

Over the summer, the library was able to upgrade to the fuller versions of these: Academic Search Complete and Business Source Complete. Our subscription to the older ones were canceled, rendering links to these broken. To update your links, simply change the letters in the links.
Academic Search Complete (db=aph should change to db=a9h)
Business Source Complete (db=buh should change to db=bth)

If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact the library.