Welcome back!

Welcome back!
As you begin the semester, remember that we in the library are here to support your teaching and your student's research.  We are happy to create a course-specific library resource pathfinder, and are always available for in-class research skills presentations.
Enjoy the beginning of classes!

Lowell Thomas Scavenger Hunt Questions

Join in the fun, as we celebrate Lowell Thomas' 125th birthday!

Take a “selfie” in each location (with the location clearly visible and identifiable) and tweet or post to Facebook with the #MARISTARCHIVE #LOWELLTHOMAS

1.      An entire building on the Marist campus is dedicated to this person born on April 6, 1892.  Which building is it?

2.     In which building could Lowell Thomas have sheltered his pony as a boy?

3.     Lowell Thomas built an enormous fireplace at his home, Quaker Hill, where on campus can you find a working fireplace?

4.     If Marist were to screen an “Out of This World” film, where on campus could you watch it?

5.     Where on the Marist campus would you find Lowell Thomas’ “Nine Old Men” playing?

6.     Lowell Thomas was an avid sportsman. Where would he go if he were alive today to work out and stay in shape?

7.     During his visit to Tibet, Lowell fell from a horse on a mountain pass and broke his leg.  Students will soon be able to study a field of Science that would have helped him recover. In what building will they be learning these skills?

8.     In what display are there cameras, and a microphone showing the different media types Lowell used throughout his career?

9.     When Lowell returned from Tibet he brought back several artifacts to share with everyone. If he were to have an exhibition today, which building space would he use?

10.  Lowell Thomas was credited for creating a cinema experience much like IMAX today. Where can you find and entire display dedicated to this?

Once you have tweeted or posted all your “selfies” go to the Archive and Special Collections on the first floor of the library to see if you have won a prize!

Help Celebrate Lowell Thomas' 125th Birthday

Join the Marist Archives and Special Collections department in the James A. Cannavino Library as we celebrate Lowell Thomas' 125th birthday!

On Monday April 10^th, there will be a scavenger hunt where you will be able to post “selfies” to social media sites at various locations around campus.  The first 25 participants with all 10 locations posted will win a Marist Library travel mug, and the first 3 winners with all correct answers will win prizes!

Rules for the scavenger hunt are:

• All locations are on the Marist campus.
• You must take a selfie at each location and the location MUST be easily identifiable.
• All “selfies” must be posted and hash-tagged with #MARISTARCHIVES  #LOWELLTHOMAS and tweeted or posted to Facebook
• All contest entrants will come to the Marist Archive and Special Collections found on the first floor of the library to verify their entry and to see if they have won a prize.
• Contest will begin on Monday April 10^th at 9:00am and will end by Tuesday April 11^th at 9:00am.

Contest is open to all members of the Marist community.

Celebrate Children's Books!

Join us on Thursday, April 27 at 4 p.m. in the James A Cannavino Library's Gartland Reading Room for Story Fest: A Celebration of Marist's Favorite Children's Books.  In conjunction with the American Library Association's Children's Day/Book Day, we are encouraging the entire Marist community to view the book display, enjoy some refreshments, and read from their favorite books. Children are more than welcome!

Explore the New Book Display

To highlight the library's recent acquisitions, we have created a New Book Display, located next to the Research Desk.  Stop by and browse the latest in fiction and non-fiction, and check out a title to explore and enjoy!

Library open 24/7 as study space

If your students are looking for a place to study, remind them that from now until 5:30 p.m. this Friday, December 16, the library will be open 24/7 as a study space.  Full library services will be available from 7:30 a.m. until 2 a.m.

Librarians Reviewing Reference Collection

Over the fall and spring semesters librarians will be reviewing the titles in the reference collection housed on the second floor of the library.  Our goal is to create a more up-to-date and useful collection and free up prime space in order to add student seating.  As each title is examined, we will:

• ·       Discard physical materials that are outdated or in poor condition,
• ·       Examine our electronic holdings to determine if more current information is readily available on the topic.  If not, electronic replacements will be considered for purchase as our budget allows,
• ·       Move those materials that are not outdated, but would prove more useful if available for check-out, to the circulating collection.

If you refer your students to particular titles in this collection and need to have them remain there, please contact your subject liaison, whom you can find here http://libguides.marist.edu/faculty 

Library announces participation in Empire Library Delivery service

The James A. Cannavino Library has joined a network of 131 other libraries across the state of New York in a service designed specifically to expedite library materials delivery.  Empire Library Delivery is a van service that picks up and drops off materials, by-passing standard mail services.  Marist has chosen to have library materials delivered twice a week, resulting in a shorter turn-around time for interlibrary loan request fulfillment, if those materials are held in a participating New York state library.  If you have any questions about this new service, please contact Judy Diffenderfer (judy.diffenderfer@marist.edu)

What’s New at the James A. Cannavino Library

What’s New at the James A. Cannavino Library

Welcome back to campus!  Marist librarians and library staff are ready to help you get this academic year off to a great start with the following new products:

·       Credo Reference—an excellent resource to help students find core information about hundreds of topics.  The content includes over 650 encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, and topical handbooks.  Of particular interest is the ability to generate mind maps, creating a visualization of the relationships among a variety of related subject areas.

·       PrivCo—PrivCo offers Marist users extensive profiles of over 850,000 privately-held companies around the world.  In addition PrivCo contains information about private equity firms, mergers and acquisitions, and venture capital funding.  This is a useful resource for management students, but also any student looking for a job or internship with a private company. 

·       MLA Handbook 8^th edition—if you use the MLA style guide for your writing, please note that a new edition is now available.  MLA notes that this guide was updated to make the format of the information source irrelevant when creating the citation.  Information about the print version of the MLA Handbook as well as online guides that cover the new edition are available on our Citation Style Pathfinder

Finally—a reminder to contact your subject liaison to schedule an in-class bibliographic instruction session or to have a Pathfinder created for your course.  We are here to help!

Road to the Workplace: Research Tools

Do you know students who are preparing to go on job interviews?  The Library has a special The Road to the Workplace:Research Tools (RTTW)  to help students prepare for job interviews.  Entering an interview with an awareness of the strengths and challenges facing a company and its industry creates a positive impression, and enables students to highlight their relevant knowledge and skills.

Pathfinder,

The Road to theWorkplace : Research Tools Pathfinder  highlights the resources most helpful in researching an employer prior to an interview.  The guide breaks down the research process for a wide variety of employers, from for-profit companies to non-profits organizations and government agencies.  Databases with daily updates provide articles with the latest information about a company or organization. RTTW also contains guidance on how to read important business documents and provides information about salary ranges for typical jobs in all fields. 

A connected resource, EmployerProfiles Database, provides an overview of potential employers and internship providers.  It includes freely available information and links to data, articles and reports available within Marist’s subscription databases.

Marist Librarians are available to help you research potential employers at the Reference Desk, by telephone at 845-575-3292, or by email form.

24/7 Study Space in Library

Beginning at 10:00AM Saturday, 12/12/15 through 5:30PM Friday, 12/18/15 the Library will be open as a study space 24 hours a day.  Please share this information with your students.

Fox Hunt Enhancements

Fox Hunt underwent an upgrade this summer resulting in several enhancements.  The Fox Hunt search still begins with a simple, Google-like search box on the Library homepage, but the results display is now divided into three columns.  The enhancements are seen in the new right hand column.  This new design saves the searcher time by displaying dynamic information about the document currently highlighted.  By moving the cursor over one record after another, the searcher can read a series of summaries and abstracts without ever having to open a separate tab or document.  In the case of a book, the table of contents and links to book reviews are also provided.

  

Also in the right hand column are buttons for citing and emailing.  The Email button will send a link to the full text article.  The Cite button allows the user to choose a citation format and then displays an easily copied citation that can be pasted into a document.

The limiters are still available in the left hand column.  Searchers can limit results to peer reviewed content, to various format types, by discipline, and they can specify a publication date range with the date slider.  The book/ebook format limiter has been enhanced.  When it is checked additional limiters such as “author”, “genre”, “region”, and “time period” become available.  

Fox Hunt now has a responsive design web architecture which means that it will adapt to all sizes of screens, from desktop to smartphone.  The Search box now features predictive text.  Midway down the search results page are links to possible related searches.  Finally the searching algorithms were enhanced to present the most relevant documents at the top of the results display.

KANOPY STREAMING MEDIA SERVICE

The Cannavino Library is happy to announce that after our campus trial in the spring, we have subscribed to Kanopy's streaming media patron driven demand service.  In order to pay for the service, we have cancelled all but one of our subscriptions to the Alexander Street Press media databases;  we have retained our subscription to the Filmakers Library Online.

Kanopy currently has over 26,000 films in their database and fifty or more new titles are added each month.  The videos come from leading producers such as Criterion, PBS, California Newsreel, Kino Lorber and First Run Features.  During our trial, several faculty members commented on the currency and breadth of the collection.

To assist in using the service, please note:

• The database can be browsed by subject area or keyword.  
• Each subject page and each individual film have a permanent URL that can be used for direct linking from a course pathfinder or your iLearn site.
• By establishing an account, you can create clips, playlists, and a watch list for future viewing.
• The homepage features a listing of new videos added that month, as well as other special listings.  For example, right now one of the featured listings is for films relevant to college orientation.

Under Kanopy's patron driven demand model, the Library will  pay streaming license fees for only those films that are viewed at least four times for more than 30 seconds each view within a twelve month period. This will allow faculty and students to browse the collection for classroom and research purposes without actually triggering a purchase.  Once a film has been "viewed" four times, the Library will be charged a streaming license fee and the film can then be played unlimited times in a one year period without incurring additional cost.

If you have any questions on this new service, please contact your librarian liaison.

Trial to Kanopy Streaming Media Service

The Library has arranged one final streaming video trial.  This time we will be examining over 26,000 videos available through Kanopy.  The videos come from leading producers such as Criterion, PBS, California Newsreel, Kino Lorber and First Run Features.  And more are being added each year.

The Kanopy service is different from the ones we trialed previously, in that it is a patron driven acquisitions model.  If we decide to join the service, we will  pay only streaming license fees for those films that are viewed at least four times for more than 30 seconds each view within a twelve month period.  The company believes this should allow faculty and students to browse the collection for classroom and research purposes without actually triggering a purchase.  Once a film has been "viewed" four times, a streaming license fee will be charged and the film can then be viewed unlimited times in a one year period without incurring additional fees.

According to the company, their patron driven acquisitions model is currently used in over 700 academic institutions, including UMass, Harvard and Columbia with research showing "films are mostly triggered by faculty usage and generate significantly more than 4 plays".  

As with our other trials, we are posting a survey for your feedback.

Your input is very important and we greatly appreciate your time in participating in these trials.

Important Survey If You Use Library Online Videos

The business of academically-oriented video streaming currently is undergoing dynamic changes.  Recently we have trialed several new services, and we appreciate the great feedback we received from the faculty.  As yet, we have not identified one streaming service that meets most of the needs of our campus.  Indeed, there may not be a one size fits all service available.

Before we arrange one final trial (this time with Kanopy  which will run after the spring break), we would like to survey the faculty on which online videos you plan on re-using from our current streaming service.  This survey is important, as we may need to discontinue our service with Alexander Street Press this August in order to subscribe to a new video streaming service for the next academic year.  We currently subscribe to the following collections with Alexander Street Press:  American History in Video; Counseling & Therapy in Video; Education in Video; and Filmakers Library Online.

Please email the list of video titles you are interested in re-using (or any comments) to Judy.Diffenderfer@marist.edu.   We thank you for your time and support.

Road to the Workplace – Employer Research from the James A. Cannavino Library

New Updates to Road to the Workplace

Last semester, in response to the competitive job market that all students find themselves in upon graduation, the James A. Cannavino Library introduced Road to the Workplace, designed to help Marist students preparing for interviews, internships, and their post-college futures.

Road to the Workplace has just been updated to include points of interest to Marist students, updated RSS feeds and social media links and 22 additional potential employers!

           We hope that you will visit this newly updated resource and share it with your students.

           Road to the Workplace provides collected data on potential employers. Public companies, private companies, non-profit organizations, and government agencies are all represented. Employers have been selected based on their relevance to Marist students seeking employment, and based on some of their relationships with the Marist community. Some of the profiled employers will even be present at the upcoming Spring 2015 Career and Internship Fair.

Road to the Workplace can be accessed at http://library.marist.edu/roadtoworkplace/
A printable flyer is available.

For more information contact:

Nancy L. Lewis

Nancy.Lewis@Marist.edu

845-575-2523

Or

Ask-A-Librarian@marist.edu

Trial to A Different Video Streaming Service - Films On Demand

The Library has arranged a trial to a new video steaming service, Films On Demand, which is from a different provider than previous trials.  This service comes from the Films Media Group.  We already own a number of their educational VHS tapes and DVDs; some of these were published under the Films for the Humanities & Sciences label.

We are attempting to find the video streaming service that best meets the needs of the majority of the academic departments and their programs before approaching the college for funding.

This trial includes the following collections and is good through March 5:

• Master Academic Collection
• Archival Films & Newsreels Collection
• World Cinema Collection
• Nursing Video Collection
• Career & Technical Education Collection

As always, we really need your input.

Will you please check out the videos in your area and respond to the survey we have put up next to the trial link.  We especially need your thoughts on how these videos compare to those from Alexander Street Press (VAST) - the ones you looked at in the Fall.  We also need to know how they compare to the films we already have access to in our Filmakers Library Online, American History in Video, and Education in Video subscriptions.  If you are using any of the films in these current video databases for your courses, please let us know.

If you have any questions or concerns, please reach out to either your Library Liaison or to Judy Diffenderfer.

Ebook Readings for Course Work

We are pleased by how many faculty are using chapters from our many ebooks as part of their assigned course work.  Sometimes a collection of these readings (often from several different books) can actually take the place of a text book, saving students money.   And who doesn't like to save money?

If you are planning on assigning your students chapters to read from our ebooks in the Spring semester, we would like to request that you let your librarian liaison know.  Why?

1.       Most of our ebooks are part of our subscription to Ebrary's Academic Complete collection.  Each book in that collection is under contract between the publisher and Ebrary for a certain period of time.  Once the contract expires, if a new contract is not signed, then the book will disappear from our subscription, sometimes in the middle of a semester.  If you let us know ahead of time, we can correspond with Ebrary to see if any of your assigned titles are in danger of being removed soon.  If any are, we can often “purchase” a perpetual rights copy of the online book.

2.      Some of our ebooks only allow one or three simultaneous users.  This can represent a problem if all your students must read chapters from the book in a limited amount of time.  If the ebook you choose for your course is in Ebrary, you can see how many simultaneous users are allowed, by searching on the title and looking under availability where the system will tell you, "Your institution has access to "x" copies of this book" (A).

                 

For the title above, three students can read the book at any one time  (A).  At the moment this book was searched, two copies were already in use and only one copy remained for another student to read (B). Needless to say, students become frustrated in attempting to complete a course assignment when they are repeatedly denied access because all our copies are in use at the time they sign in. 

If you would like to assign a limited access ebook, your librarian liaison can explore options with you, such as procuring another electronic copy of the book, upgrading to an unlimited users license if available, or procuring a print copy of the book (which is usually cheaper) to be put on reserve in the library as a back-up copy.

And if you have never assigned readings from any of our ebooks, but would like to explore this option, your librarian liaison can also assist you with identifying possible titles.

     

New, More Extensive Video Database Trial

Earlier this semester we had a trial for the video database VAST. We would like to thank the dozens of faculty who took time to look over the database and fill out the short survey.  We learned that VAST was useful to some disciplines but not others.  The publisher has just published an even more extensive collection of streaming videos called "Academic Video Online:  Premium" (AVOP).  Because of the more extensive discipline coverage, we have signed up for a new trial that will expire on December 6, 2014.

AVOP has over 41,000 videos covering most disciplines taught at Marist College.  The 32 collections are listed below by general subject category. Like VAST,  AVOP  includes synchronized and searchable transcripts, clip-making, send-to-mobile capability, embed/link features, and subtitle toggle.

To access AVOP, click on any link in this post, or select the "Trials" menu option from the top of any of the Library webpages.  As before, please fill out our short survey and share your opinions about this video database.  AVOP is under consideration for the next fiscal year.  As always, faculty input is crucial in the decision making process.

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Academic Video Online: Premium

Business

Business Education in Video
Human Resource Management Online
International Business Online

Engineering

Engineering Case Studies Online

Health Sciences

Counseling and Therapy in Video Series
Health and Society in Video
The Video Journal of Counseling and Therapy

History                                                                           Social Sciences

American History in Video                                            Black Studies in Video
The March of Time®                                                     Criminal Justice and Public Safety in Video
Meet the Press                                                                 Current Affairs in Video
World History in Video                                                  Education in Video Series
World Newsreels Online, 1929–1966                            Environmental Studies in Video
                                                                                          Ethnographic Video Online Series                                                                                                                LGBT Studies in Video                                                                                                                               Psychological Experiments Online

Multidisciplinary                                                       Visual Arts     

Filmakers Library Online                                             Art and Architecture in Video
The PBS Video Collection                                             Asian Film Online Series
VAST: Academic Video Online                                    Fashion Studies Online: The Videofashion Library                                                                            New World Cinema: Independent Features                                                                                                     and Shorts, 1990–Present                                                                                                                     Silent Film Online

Music and Performing Arts

Classical Music in Video
Dance in Video Series
Opera in Video
Theatre in Video

Road to the Workplace - Employer Research from the James A. Cannavino Library

The James A. Cannavino Library is introducing a new set of resources for Employer Research:  Road to the Workplace

In response to the competitive job market that all students find themselves in upon graduation, the James A. Cannavino Library is introducing a new set of resources, Road to the Workplace: Research Tools and Road to the Workplace: Employer Profiles. This set of resources is designed to help Marist students preparing for interviews, internships, and their post-college futures.We hope that you will visit this new set of resources and share it with your students.

Road to the Workplace: Research Tools

Road to the Workplace: Research Tools is a guide designed to provide students with the tools to conduct employer research on their own.  This is a guide to databases and websites that will help students gather the best information about potential employers. It contains guidance on how to read important business documents and how to discover what types of salaries are typical of a chosen field. Road to the Workplace: Research Tools can be accessed at:  http://libguides.marist.edu/RoadtotheWorkplace.

Road to the Workplace: Employer Profiles

Road to the Workplace: Employer Profiles provides collected data on potential employers. Public companies, private companies, non-profit organizations, and government agencies are all represented. Employers have been selected based on their relevance to Marist students seeking employment, and based on some of their relationships with the Marist community. Many in the first batch of profiled employers will be present at the upcoming Fall 2014 Career and Internship Fair.

 Road to the Workplace: Employer Profiles can be accessed at http://library.marist.edu/roadtoworkplace/ or through the link provided on Road to the Workplace: Research Tools.

Road to the Workplace is a new resource, still very much in development. We are looking for feedback to help us to develop the best possible tools for the Marist College community. Please take a few minutes to complete our survey on the Road to the Workplace: Research Tools site.

For more information contact:
Nancy L. Lewis
Nancy.Lewis@Marist.edu
845-575-2523
Or
Ask-A-Librarian@marist.edu