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Spring 2009 - 40th Anniversary of Sojourner Truth Library
Library Announces
New Opening Time
8 a.m. Monday—Friday
Sojourner Truth Library is happy
to announce that we will now open
library doors at 8 a.m., instead of
8:30 a.m., during the week. In our
effort to better serve students and
the campus community we have
extended hours to match the class
schedule currently in effect on
campus. Closing time and weekend hours will remain the same.
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New innovations
& Latest Changes
New Year Starting
Out with an
Improved STL18
STL 18, our primary space for
library instruction for the past ten
The late night study room,
years, has received a significant
equipped with six computers and upgrade in technology and in apmany work tables continues to be pearance over the winter break.
open until 3 a.m., after the library New desks with smaller footcloses, Sunday through Wednes- prints, allowed for the addition
day nights.
of four PCs, bringing the total to
27. New widescreen monitors
If you are not sure of library
and PCs also take up less space.
hours, you can find them listed
There is a new, higher quality
daily, on the library homepage.
projector and screen, as well as a
more efficient instructor’s station
with an updated version of Net
Op teaching software.
STL 18 is one of the busiest areas
of the library. All incoming first
year students attend Composition or Honors English sessions
in STL 18 in partial fulfillment
of the General Education information literacy competency.
Librarian instructors collaborate
with faculty to teach nearly 150
classes in this room each semester.
Friends of the Library Spring Used Book Sale will take place April
23rd through May 1st. The library is accepting donations of gently
used books in all areas. You may bring small quantities of books to
the Checkout desk during library hours. If you have a large donation please contact Erin Barnard at 257-3679 to arrange a drop off.
Special thanks to Gary Oliver
from STL’s Computer Support
team and Joe D’Agostino of
IMS. If you haven’t already
done so, you may arrange for
library instruction using the form
at: http://lib.newpaltz.edu/
assistance/faculty/instruct_
req.html .
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New E-Reserve Procedures
There will be some improvement to library reserve
procedures for the Spring 2009 semester. The process
for library course reserves has been largely manual.
Since electronic reserves was implemented back in
the 90’s, things have changed in the world of information. Much more content is now digital and it
makes sense to obtain these documents in digital
form since they are intended for use as electronic
reserves. We’d like to introduce a few options that
can save everyone time.
the use of the databases to obtain digital copy, please
ask a librarian for help.
• You are welcome to add course content yourself to
Blackboard “Course Documents” in lieu of submission for E-Reserves. Academic Computing staff will
be happy to show you how to upload files to
“Course Documents” if you are unfamiliar with the
process.
The Library has a user-friendly walk-up scanner in
the MediaSpace that you are welcome to use to scan
• New online forms have been created to expedite
your course related material if you prefer to do this
and simplify submission of electronic reserve reyourself. There are easy instructions for using the
quests. It is not necessary to fill out forms manually.
scanner and library staff would be happy to assist
• If you already have the reserve article/course mate- you. You may easily upload digital files you create
rial in digital form, we request that you not print it to this way to Blackboard “Course Documents” or submit via the Library electronic reserve online form.
have library staff in turn rescan it. Instead, use the
“electronic reserve submission form” that allows file
• Links from Blackboard “Course Documents” to
attachments and attach the digital file to the form.
relevant printed course material on traditional re• We would prefer that you submit digital content
serve will be added by library staff for all courses.
rather than printed copy whenever possible. If your
Students will have access to all their course-related
materials through Blackboard.
reserve article is available through one of the LiThe new procedures are available at:
brary’s licensed full-text databases, please obtain the
digital copy or link from that source instead of subhttp://lib.newpaltz.edu/reserves.html
mitting a printed copy. If you would like assistance in
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Database Update
ACLS Humanities E-book Project
ACLS Humanities E-Book has recently added 509
books to its collection, bringing the total to 2,199.
The latest round adds reference works, such as the
AHA Guide to Historical Literature, the Catalogus
Translationum et Commentariorum and the indexes
from the American Folklore Society, and expands its
primary source materials with the Records of Civilization and the Collected Writings of Walt Whitman. New SciFinder Scholar - Web version
Mental Measurements & Tests in Print now online The SciFinder Scholar database is now available on
Produced by the Buros Institute at the University of the web. No need to download the client version
from Blackboard anymore. Access to the client verNebraska, the Mental Measurements Yearbook
(MMY) provides users with a comprehensive guide sion will end April 10, 2009. SciFinder Scholar conto over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. Tests tains the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) literature database containing over 28 million references
in Print (TIP) serves as a comprehensive bibliograback
to 1900. For more information:
phy to all known commercially available tests that are
http://lib.newpaltz.edu/getscifinder.html
currently in print in the English language.