Every spring, graduating senior library student workers can pick an item (book, CD, DVD) to add to the collection in their honor. They can choose an item within their major or an item of general interest. Here’s what this year’s seniors chose: Research Help Circulation Media Desk …
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Doing great library research is a journey, with many wrong turns and some truly great eureka moments. Following are 3 great library research tools that can make your research journey less tedious, quicker, easier to track, and maybe even a little fun: Zotero An open-source citation management system, this is a tool to never leave …
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EXAM WEEK (DECEMBER 9–18) Friday, December 9 8 a.m. – 6 p.m. Saturday, December 10 10 a.m. – midnight Sunday, December 11 10 a.m. – 2 a.m. Monday, December 12 8 a.m. – 2 a.m. Tuesday, December 13 8 a.m. – 2 a.m. Wednesday, December 14 8 a.m. – 2 a.m. Thursday, December 15 8 …
Van Wylen Library will be performing system maintenance to the library’s catalog on Tuesday, June 20, beginning at 5 p.m. During this time, the following services will be unavailable: HopeCat library catalog Patron account info We apologize for any inconvenience.
If you’ve visited our lower level this fall, you may have noticed some changes to the layout. Over the summer, we shifted the entire level so that the journals are now clustered together at the south end of the floor. Browsing the print books should be much easier without having to bypass long runs of …
The library wants all your dirty secrets. For the month of January, Van Wylen Library is collecting your secrets and posting them to a board in the entrance. Don’t worry, you can deposit these completely anonymously in a box next to the board. For the brave among you, we’ve provided markers and thumbtacks so you can …
Who has experience preparing legal documents, managing a bakery, teaching algebra/geometry/math as well as grades pre-K to 12, and leading a wine training program? Who has done graduate studies at Notre Dame, Yale University, and the University of Michigan? Who owns approximately 500 social and strategy board games? If you guessed Joshua B. Miller, Van …
The college is in the third year of administering a national survey on student research practices and information literacy skills. The Research Practices Survey will be administered to all first-year students and to seniors this spring. Email invitations will go out to students on March 20 and will be open until April 24. Through this …
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For those of you who haven’t used it before, Naxos is the library’s primary tool for online streaming classical music. It contains over 100,000 CDs from 100s of labels such as Naxos, Sony Classical, Albany, and Inova. Naxos has recently released a new version of its app, available for apple and android. Use this app …
There are all kinds of fantastic arts-related tools hiding out there on the open web. Here are a few random favorites of mine: Chinese Painting and Calligraphy at the Seattle Art Museum – This is a fantastic online interactive exhibit of 150 works of painting and calligraphy. Not only are the digital images high quality, …
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