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Library Books Due

With exams and the end of another school year (and for seniors a whole new world opening up) sometimes details can be missed. This is a reminder that all Library books are due on or before May 6th (the last day of exams). Anything not returned by that date will be considered lost and a charge would then be sent to your account with the business office.

Please take a few minutes to check whether you have anything checked out from the library. You can do this online from Patron Information Page of the online catalog. Just type in your student ID and your last name. You can then see just what you have checked out. If you have any questions, please call the the library at 8089 or visit us at the Circulation Desk.

Final Exam Hours

Library operating hours are extended for Final Exams as follows,

• Tuesday, April 29^th(Reading Day) 7:30 a.m.- 12:00 midnight
• Wednesday, April 30^th through Friday, May 2^nd: 7:30 a.m. - 12:00 midnight
• Saturday, May 3^rd: 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
• Sunday, May 4^th: 2:00 p.m. - 12:00 midnight
• Monday, May 5^th: 7:30 a.m. - 12:00 midnight
• Tuesday, May 6^th: 7:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

After May 6^th the Library will operate on an abbrievated 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. schedule on Mondays-Fridays and will be closed on the weekends.

E-Books Now Available

The NetLibrary collection of e-books is now becoming available to the online catalog. Books in this collection, which has been available on NCLive for a number of years (as illustrated from an early EKS Libris article), can now be easily found on the online catalog. It is no longer necessary to look up a title first in the catalog and then go to NCLive. Currently over 7,500 titles from NetLibrary collection have been entered into the catalog and that number will continue to grow over the coming months. Representative titles in the NetLibrary Collection include:

• Agriculture: 105 titles
• Anthropology: 72 titles
• Art: 90 titles
• Bibliography and Publishing: 90
• Business: 1,126 titles
• Education: 265 titles
• Geography: 87 titles
• History: 961 titles
• Language and Literature: 1,210 titles
• Law: 161 titles
• Medicine and Healthcare: 534 titles
• Military and Naval Sciences: 98 titles
• Music 55 titles
• Philosophy: 450 titles
• Psychology: 194 titles
• Religion: 345 titles
• Sociology 167 titles
• Technology: 247 titles

What these figures do not indicate is the range of interest involved. E-books included in the collection range from the scholarly works to instruction to vocational to recreation. Because of the wide range of audiences, one can find material in unexpected places. For instance, a medical title might be of more interest to an education major because it was written for a school-aged child and so could be incorporated in a lesson plan.

Obtaining an e-book is straight forward. If you come across a NetLibrary e-book while looking in the online catalog, you will see the following in the main display:

Linked Resources: NetLibrary (Password Required)

Simply click on the link. You will then be taken to an authentication page where you would enter your University username (the first part of your e-mail address before the "@" sign) and your password. From there you will be taken directly to the e-book in the NetLibrary collection.

Greenwood Digital Collection Enhanced

The web-version of the Greenwood Digital Collection (GDC) has been enhanced. This collection is a new resource from Greenwood that takes the existing HTML content and formats it back into the original book form in which it was published. As a result, these resources will now be in an easily searchable e-book format. Titles in this series include:

American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography

Daily Life Through History

Historic Events of the 20th Century

Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers

Literature in Context

 

Updated April 30, 2008