O r a n ge Co u n t y C om m u n it y C ol l e ge
M i d d l et ow n & N e w b u r g h ca m p u s es
T H E L I B R A RY S C O O P
Library Hours—Middletown
Monday - Friday 8 am—9 pm
Saturday
9 am—3 pm
Library Hours—Newburgh
Monday
9 am—8 pm
Tuesday
9 am—8 pm
Wednesday
9 am—5 pm
Thursday
1 pm — 8 pm
Friday
9 am — 5pm
Phone Numbers:
Middletown
Circulation: 845-341-4855
Reference: 845-341-4260
Newburgh: 845-341-4542
The library staff is committed to
providing helpful and friendly
service. If you can’t find a book,
are having trouble formatting
your paper or are wondering
what books you have taken out
please direct your questions to
anyone at the front desk on the
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Newsletter of the
Libraries of
Orange County Community
College
N E W BU R G H C A M P U S L I B R A RY
N E W L I B R A R I A N & E X PA N D E D S E R V I C E S
Please welcome Debbie Canzano the Newburgh Campus Library’s new supervisor. Debbie
was most recently the library director at the Cohoes Public Library, a small library north of Albany. Before that she was the director of the Garfield Library (now known as the Brunswick
Community Library) and has also worked at Albany Public Library. While a graduate student,
Debbie worked at the SUNY Albany library in the Special Collections department where she
spent a year in a sub-basement processing the Marcia Brown collection. Marcia Brown is an
award winning author of children's books and her collection includes papers, stories and original artwork. Debbie has interned at the New York State Library and worked for the New York
State Division of Library Development as a special grant librarian for a project with the New
York State Developmental Disabilities Planning Council. Debbie brings many years of experience in library service to the Newburgh Campus library.
Now that the library has two librarians the doors are open more hours. Debbie is encouraging faculty, students and staff to come in and look around. The
Expanded Newburgh current library location is bright and sunny and offers a great view
Library Hours
of the Hudson. Expanded services include more books, both referMonday
9-8 ence, non-fiction and fiction, a small magazine and journal collection, four public computers, a printer, and WiFi. Reserve books are
Tuesday
9-8 now available in the library and book deliveries between Newburgh
Wednesday
9-5 and Middletown has improved
Thursday
1-8 Debbie will be leading the effort to transform the library from its
present form to the new Kaplan Hall library. The library has grown
Friday
9-5 from its beginning in a single room to its present form with an instruction room, quiet study room and computer area. Kaplan Hall
may still be a hole in the ground the library’s plan for expansion is in place. The expected date
of first classes, set for Spring Semester 2011, is getting closer. By that time the library will be
a fully functioning information commons with books, computers and other vital resources side
by side. Students in Newburgh will have access to the same resources that are available in
Middletown. Debbie is also at work on building the book collection to suit the needs of the
faculty and students and expanding the reserve and periodicals collection. Stop by for a visit
and find out how the library can be of use for you whether you are a student, faculty member
or staff.
The library will be hosting an information session that will allow
you to test, examine, play and see
A Tree Grows in the Information Commons
for your self how
Turnitin.com functions.
Are you doing your part to conserve paper? To demonstrate
Sessions in Middletown.
how much paper is used in the Information Commons a lush
verdant tree has sprouted between the printer stations. The
leaf clusters represent 50 gallons of paper sent to be recycled.
Afternoon: Tue. Oct. 13 3pm
For each load sent a leaf cluster is removed. Our goal is to have
Evening: Wed. Oct. 14 7pm
a healthy tree by the end of the semester.
Sessions in Newburgh
Our tree was created by local artist and former Goshen Intermediate School art teacher Arthur Ahr. The trunk and branches
Afternoon: Tue. Oct . 20 3pm
were carved out of a used packing box. The leaves were printed
If you can’t make any of these
times contact Andy Heiz at exten- on paper recovered from the recycling bins and the backings
sion 4253.
were made out of newspaper.
Morning: Thu. Oct. 15 10am
Paper saving tips are linked from the library’s web site
http://www.sunyorange.edu/lrc/docs/paper-saving-tips.pdf.
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Take a look at history: Access to articles from the first Hudson­ Fulton event in 1909 is available through OCCC databases JSTOR and HarpWeek. Search the NY Times on microfilm in the library or use NYtime.com’s 1851—1980 archive for the original articles.
Imagine a world where the space between the eastern and western coasts of the United
States is largely unknown. Where explorers speculated that an unknown waterway would connect the two coasts. In that world it was thought that the river we know as the Hudson was
such a waterway. Encyclopedia Britannica Hudson River entry tells us the river was known to
the Mohican Indians as Muhheakunnuk (“Great Waters Constantly in Motion”). And that the
river was known to European explorers as early as 1524. It wasn’t until September 1609 that
Henry Hudson sailed up the river, to where Albany is today, and discovered the river was not
the way west.
This September the Hudson Valley
celebrates this voyage as the beginning of colonization of our
home region. Hudson’s voyage, on
his ship the Half Moon, brought
Europeans along with conflict over
who lived where.
The Hudson River was important
to the colonies and the new nation
that formed around it. Many of the
battles during the revolution were
over control of river navigation. It
was as vital then as the MissisHenry Hudson exploring the river.
sippi River is now.
Detail of an image from Encyclopedia Britannica.
In the early 1800s artists, starting
with Thomas Cole, flocked to the area and began the first truly American art style, The Hudson River School of Art. As a subject for scientific study the river has a few quirks. Its bends
through the Hudson Highlands are unusual in an otherwise straight course and it is, arguably,
a fjord (the most southern in the Northern Hemisphere).
All these issues and more can be explored using the library’s resources. From the original
inhabitants to efforts to remediate pollution the library has the subject covered.
New Software
in the Library
GOT ART?
OFFICE 2007 has arrived
All the computers in the library
now have Office 2007. If you
have difficulty working with these
tools you can ask for help at the
desk. Menus are replaced by the
ribbon so let us know if you are
confused.
Your 2003 applications can open
2007 documents if you save
them in the 2003 format. Some
fancy formatting may be lost but
this usually isn’t a problem for
school papers.
NY Police Patrol Guide
This authoritative volume is available at the print station. Search
and print police procedures you
need to know.
Install your own software
The library computers allow you
to install software that you may
need for your class. If you don’t
you have the disk download the
software the net. Remember it
will be deleted when the computer is turned off.
SUNY Orange now subscribes to ARTstor digital image library. ARTstor is a comprehensive
image collection of art from many cultures and eras. The image library is available through
browsing or a keyword search. Advanced search options permit searching geographic regions,
time periods and collections. Some of the collections that can be accessed include selections
from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Minneapolis Art Institute, Smithsonian American
Art collection, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco and one hundred other worldwide collections. ARTstor is the place to go to find a specific image or to browse.
ARTstor is available on all campus
computers at artstor.org.
For students and faculty who use
ARTstor frequently can set up an account
and save images for quick retrival. The
account can be set up into categories for
easy retrieval of images.
The images in the library are usually
high quality art slides. Once the image is
on the screen the browser can zoom in
and magnify specific areas of the image. If
there are multiple images in ARTstor a
simple click will display all the images. A
very useful feature if you are interested in
exploring sculpture.
Come to the library for a demonstration of all the features ARTstor offers.
Artstor search screen from artstor.org