Individual and Quiet Study Rooms Available at the Library
Need someplace quiet to study? The Ethel K. Smith Library has the solution!
Individual and quiet study options available at the Library include:
15 individual study carrels in the Quiet Room located off the Mezzanine on the 2nd floor. No key is necessary.
Seven two-person individual study cubicles located off the AV Hallway on the 1st floor. Keys for these rooms are available for checkout at Circulation.
For more information about the Library, just Ask Ethel or call the reference desk at 704-233-8097. It’s always a great day at the Ethel K.!
Celebrate National Library Week with the EKS Library
Celebrate National Library Week (April 11-17, 2010) with the EKS Library. The American Library Association (ALA) has been celebrating National Library Week since 1958 to endorse the importance of libraries in their respective communities.
To join in the festivities, the EKS Library will debut a series of ALA READ posters at this week’s Faculty/Staff lunch featuring local Wingate University faces such as Megan Wood, 2009-2010 SGA President (at left). Posters will then be on display in the EKS Library.
For more information about ALA’s National Library Week, please visit: http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/pio/mediarelationsa/factsheets/nationallibraryweek.cfm.
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!
Image from Microsoft Word Clip Art
WiFi at the Library
Bring your laptop computers and mobile devices! Free wireless Internet access is available in the Ethel K. Smith Library and in the Ethel K. Café. The networks are:
EKS Library: WaveLAN
Ethel K. Café: CoffeeBar
Happy computing!
For more information, Ask Ethel or contact the Reference Desk at 704-233-8097.
Computers at the Library
The Library offers two computing areas to serve your needs.
The Library Lab has two scanners and 12 Dell Desktops available with Internet access, Microsoft Office, SPSS, and other specialized software. Network login is required.
The Reference Area has 19 HP Thin Clients available for Internet access and research using the Library’s databases. No software or word processing is loaded on these units and no login is required.
For more information, call the Reference Desk at 704-233-8097 or use Ask Ethel for online assistance.
It’s a great day at the Ethel K.!
Sister Helen Prejean to Visit Wingate University: Get Ready at the EKS Library
Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Men Walking, will be on Wingate University’s campus for a Lyceum event on Thursday, January 7th at 7:30 p.m. in McGee Theatre and for class visits on Friday, January 8th.
Need a refresher on her work? The EKS Library has the following items:
Dead man walking : an eyewitness account of the death penalty in the United States / Helen Prejean.
New York : Vintage Books, 1994.
Main Stacks HV8699.U5 P74 1994
Reading is believing : the Christian faith through literature and film / David S. Cunningham.
Grand Rapids, MI : Brazos Press, c2002.
Main Stacks PN59 .C86 2002
Dead man walking / PolyGram Filmed Entertainment presents a working Title/Havoc production ; a film by Tim Robbins.
New York, NY : PolyGram Video, c1996.
DVD Video PN1997 .D412 1996
Videos PN1997.D412 1996
Matthew Modine to Speak at Wingate on Thursday: Brush Up on His Filmography at the EKS Library!
Actor Matthew Modine will be a guest speaker at Wingate University in the Recital Hall in the Batte Center this Thursday, November 12th, at 7:30 p.m. This free Lyceum event is arranged in part by the Union County Community Arts Council.
Need a refresher on Modine’s body of work? The EKS Library has And the Band Played On on VHS and Full Metal Jacket on DVD. Ask for them at the Reference Desk!
And the Band Played On
Library Location: Videos
Call Number: RA644.A25 A5 1993
Follows the struggle of a handful of strong-willed men and
women who took on the fight to save lives in the face of
a mysterious illness now called AIDS.
Full Metal Jacket
Library Location: DVD Video
Call Number: PN1995.9.W3 F84 1999
Vietnam war drama which begins with a depiction of the
brutality of Marine Corps training and then shifts to
Vietnam, focusing mainly on a group of Marines
responding to the Tet Offensive of 1968.
Going to the Lyceum on Buddhist Ethics? Get Prepared at the EKS Library!
This week Wingate University will be hosting six Tibetan Monks on campus and there will be a Lyceum event on Wednesday night, November 11th, at 7:30pm in the Recital Hall to talk about Buddhist Ethics.
Want to go but need to find out more about this topic? Check out these resources on Buddhist Ethics available at the EKS Library:
An introduction to Buddhist ethics : foundations, values, and issues / Peter Harvey.
Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Main Stacks
BJ1289 .H37 2000
Ethics for the new millennium / His Holiness The Dalai Lama.
New York : Riverhead Books, 1999.
Main Stacks
BJ1012 .B74 1999
Ethics, wealth, and salvation : a study in Buddhist social ethics / edited by Russell F. Sizemore & Donald K. Swearer.
Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, c1990.
Main Stacks
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EKS Librarians Attend North Carolina Library Association Conference
EKS Librarians Marilyn Brown, Debbie Hargett, Amee Odom, and Greta Wood recently attended the 58th biennial conference of the North Carolina Library Association (October 6-9, 2009) in Greenville, North Carolina. This year’s conference theme was “North Carolina Libraries: Serving Knowledge…Serving You.” Over 500 academic, public, and school librarians were registered for the 3-day event. Keith Michael Fiels, Executive Director for the American Library Association (ALA), delivered the opening keynote address and the State Librarian of North Carolina, Mary Boone, provided the closing session address.
See the conference write-up and photo of two EKS Librarians that appeared in Greenville’s local newspaper, The Daily Reflector!
Got a Group Project? Group Chat About It!
Need to talk with your colleagues about a group assignment but can’t get together in person? Chat about it online! The chat feature in Wingate’s myGateApps Email also supports group chat so you can invite multiple contacts to join the conversation.
Before you get started, adjust the Chat Settings in your myGateApps Email Settings to “Save Chat History” as shown in the image below. This way your chat conversations will be saved in the Chats system label in your myGateApps Email.
Now you’re ready to initiate a group chat. First, start a chat session with one person in your Contacts list, and then click the “Video & More” link at the bottom left of the chat window and select the “Group Chat” option:
Then enter the name of each contact you want to add in the “Add people to this chat” field:
That’s all there is to it! To leave the conversation, click the X in the upper right corner of the chat window. To rejoin the conversation, you will need to be invited back by someone still participating in the group (initiate a new chat with them and ask them to add you back to the group chat).
Got questions? Call the Reference Desk at 704-233-8097 or contact a Librarian using Ask Ethel.
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