New Content Added to PBS Videos Database
NC LIVE has added 24 new PBS videos to its collection of more than 400 online videos, including Ken Burns’ The War, Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey, Mansfield Park, and Persuasion, Dickens’ Oliver Twist, Shakespeare’s King Lear, and more. The site has also been updated with a new more modern look and feel.
All videos in this collection can be streamed online by accessing the PBS Videos database through the Ethel K. Smith Library homepage at http://library.wingate.edu/. Just click on the link for Databases, Articles, Etc., then scroll down and click on the link for PBS Videos and enter your Wingate Network userid and password if prompted.
For more information, just Ask Ethel or contact the reference desk at 704-233-8097.
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Lyceum Event on March 15th with Author Elissa Schappell
The Friends of the Ethel K. Smith Library (FOL) will host a free Lyceum Master Class and book signing event with guest author Elissa Schappell on Monday, March 15th at 7:30 p.m. in the Recital Hall. She is the author of the novel Use Me, which was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway award, a Borders Original Voice selection, a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year selection, and a New York Times Notable Book selection.
Schappell is co-editor with Jenny Offill of the anthologies The Friend Who Got Away and Money Changes Everything. Her short stories, non-fiction, book reviews and essays have appeared in such places as The Paris Review, The New York Times Book Review, BOMB, Vogue and SPIN, and her work is frequently anthologized. She is a former Senior Editor of The Paris Review, a contributing editor at Vanity Fair where she writes the “Hot Type” book column, and a founding editor, now Editor-at-Large, of the literary magazine Tin House. Schappell currently teaches at New York University and the MFA program at Queens University in Charlotte.
For more information, contact Luanne Barbee at ext. 8093 or lbarbee@wingate.edu.
ScienceDirect Maintenance
ScienceDirect will be unavailable for approximately 8.5 hours from 10:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 13th to 8:00 a.m. on Sunday March14th for scheduled maintenance.
LexisNexis Maintenance
LexisNexis has announced that it has scheduled some downtime for maintenance related to Daylight Savings Time. LexisNexis Academic will be unavailable between 11:00 p.m. on Saturday, March 13th and 6:00 a.m. on Sunday, March 14th.
Online Catalog Maintenance Update
The maintenance scheduled for March 1 did not fix the issue with online catalog. The require fix will require data on the online catalog be erased and restored. For this to work, there can be no transactions on the online catalog between closing tonight and the restore (which will begin sometime after 11:30 a.m. Tuesday).
This means:
- No cataloging after midnight on March 2 and the restoration of the system
- All Circulation transactions must be made offline between midnight and the restoration of the system.
- The OPAC will be unavailable between 11:30 a.m. and 2:00 p.m., when work is expected to be done.
Online Catalog Maintenance
The Voyager Online Catalog will be down for maintenance to repair a broken mirror on its server on Monday, March 1 at 11:30 a.m. Anticipated down-time is between forty-five minutes and an hour, although the maintenance window runs until 6:00 p.m. During this time the online catalog and circulation modules will be off-line. It will still be possible to check items in and out, but these transactions will not be recorded until after maintenance is completed.
The World at the Library
InterLibrary Loan (ILL) is a service whereby the Ethel K. Smith Library can request a copy of books or articles we do not own or have access to from another library. Articles cost 10¢ per page, but there is no charge for book requests. ILL requests can take anywhere from 2 days to 2 weeks to fulfill. Visit the InterLibrary Loan link on the Library homepage for more information!
EKS Library Hard at Work on the 9th Annual FOL Author Luncheon
The staff of the EKS Library and the FOL Board are busy preparing for our next event: the 9th Annual FOL Author’s Luncheon. This year we welcome author Elissa Schappell, author of the novel Use Me which was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway award, a Borders Original Voice selection, a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year selection, and a New York Times Notable Book selection. Click here for a reading guide from HarperCollins.
Please join us for the event on Tuesday, March 16th. The luncheon will begin at 11:30 a.m. in the La Verne Dining Hall on the campus of Wingate University with a book signing to follow. Ticket prices are $20 for faculty/staff and $15 for WU students.
For reservations and/or more information, please contact Luanne Barbee at lbarbee@wingate.edu or 704-233-8093. See you there!
Library Director Invited to Attend Van Dyke Book Club Meeting
Just last week I had the opportunity to be the guest of a Friends of the Ethel K. Smith Library (FOL) Board member at one of her book club meetings. I attended the Van Dyke Book Club meeting with Mrs. Elizabeth Gibson (Van Dyke Book Club President and EKS FOL Board Vice-Chairperson).
The Van Dyke Book Club is one of the oldest in Monroe – the club has been active for over one hundred years. The members allowed me opportunity to chat about the EKS FOL and Wingate University’s upcoming common reading author scheduled for September 2010 (keep checking EKS Libris for more details).
The guest speaker was Hugh Howey, a Monroe native and author of the Molly Fyde book series. I always consider hearing an author read and talk about his work a wonderful opportunity.
Friends of the Library Event to Air on WUTV
We recently celebrated the publication of Dr. Jerry Surratt’s book, The History of Wingate Baptist Church 1810-2009. Dr. Surratt, Wingate University Emeritus Faculty – History, is author of Part II (1985-2009). The Friends of the Ethel K. Smith Library (FOL) hosted a book signing and reception with Dr. Surratt in the Efird Memorial Library, Wingate University Academic Quadrangle on February 9th.
The staff of WUTV was present and conducted interviews with Dr. Surratt and Dr. Derrill Smith, pastor of Wingate Baptist Church and Co-Chairperson of the 09-10 FOL Board. Be sure to look for the segment on WUTV, Cable Channel 22.
