Friday, November 11, 2011

Putting the Library in iLearn: Mair Room, Thursday Nov. 17, 1-4 pm.


Come and learn how easy it is to link to the Library’s online articles, books, videos and images this coming Thursday from 1:00 to 4:00 pm. This CTE session will be held in Margaret Mair Room in the James A. Cannavino Library.

This will be a practical hands-on session.  You will learn how to copy article links from library databases and embed those links into iLearn "Resources", "Lessons", "Emails", "Forums", etc.  You will be introduced to the Marist iLearn Library Site which contains written instructions and brief instructional videos created by the Library.

The Library has a strong collection of electronic resources that you can use in iLearn including:

  • 5,000+ Online Videos (Documentaries, American History, Counseling & Education)
  • 85,000+ e-books
  • 55,000+ electronic periodicals
  • 1.7 million images (Artstor, etc.)
  • Hundreds of electronic reference resources

Register for this session at the Center for Teaching Excellence Workshops: iLearn Training Workshops page.  (Its the last session at the bottom of the page.)

If you are interested in this topic but have a time conflict, please email Kathryn.Silberger@marist.edu and we will arrange to work with you at a more convenient time.

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Student Newspaper Archive Now Available On-line


You can now read 40 years’ worth of Marist College Students newspapers on-line. To search across four decades of campus history you can use our new Archives Search, or to browse issues of the Record or the Circle by year please visit our Student Newspaper Webpage.


Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Help Us Build Marist's Collections

We all know that the Library exists to support Marist's fundamental teaching mission.  But we sometimes forget that faculty may be the first to discover critical gaps in our collections, or hear about important new works we should acquire.  So here's a reminder.  Please regularly submit recommendations, via our Materials Suggestion Form, or by any other reasonable means:
  • email book reviews or publication notices;
  • circle items on a photocopy of a bibliography page or journal review article; 
  • tear out a publishers catalog page, circle your recommendation and send it along (or send the whole catalog!);
  • use the "Notes" field in an Inter-Library Loan request to alert  us that an item would make a good addition to the collection.
Rules of Thumb
  1. Send suggestions to Judy Diffenderfer (Judy.Diffenderfer@marist.edu), Collection Development Librarian, or your department's Library Liaison.  They can expedite purchases, alert you when items arrive on shelf, and/or advise on collection policy for your discipline.
  2. Include your name on everything you send in. 
  3. Supply a good citation. Minimally - title, author(s), publisher and year; better -ISBN.  Or try emailing a reference from Worldcat.org (a massive database of over a billion items held in libraries worldwide).
 Of course the Library faces budget and policy constraints.  We won't be able to acquire every recommendation automatically.  But it's highly valuable to know what faculty are looking for.  Even when we cannot fill requests immediately, we do keep them on file for when opportunities arise down the road.

We are very grateful to the many of you who stay involved in library collection building.  For those who haven't, or haven't recently, please give it a try.  You'll be surprised how easy it is to help strengthen Marist's library in the areas that matter most to you.