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Hoover Library Hours for Exam Week, May 10th - May 18th:
Thursday, May 15th 8:00 am - 12:00 am
Friday, May 16th 8:00 am - 4:00 pm
Saturday, May 17th Closed
Sunday, May 18th Closed
Hoover Library Hours for Senior Week, May 19th - May 25th:
Monday, May 19th - Friday, May 23rd 8:30 am - 4:00 pm
Saturday, May 24 (Commencement) 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
Sunday, May 25th Closed
Hoover Library has received a complimentary subscription to the database GreenFILE. “GreenFile offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for approximately 295,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,600 records.” To access GreenFILE, go to the library home page at http://hoover.mcdaniel.edu/, click on Find Articles, then scroll down to Databases & Indexes and click on GreenFILE. If you have any questions, please contact Sally Jones at sajones@mcdaniel.edu.
Hoover Library has added Standard & Poor’s Net Advantage to our electronic collection. “S&P’s Net Advantage is a comprehensive source of business and investment information, offering on-line access to Standard & Poor’s independent research, data and commentary on stocks, bonds, funds, and industries.” S&P Net Advantage replaces our print subscriptions to Corporation Records, The Outlook, Stock Guide, Bond Guide, Quarterly Dividend Records, and Credit Week. To access the database, go to the library home page at http://hoover.mcdaniel.edu/, click on Find Articles, then scroll down to Databases & Indexes and click on Standard & Poor’s Net Advantage. If you have any questions, please contact Sally Jones at sajones@mcdaniel.edu.
Hoover Library is conducting trials for the databases listed below. To access the trials, go to the library home page at http://hoover.mcdaniel.edu/, click on Find Articles, then scroll down to the Trials feature and click one of the links provided. Don’t forget to sign-on! If you have any questions, please contact Sally Jones at sajones@mcdaniel.edu.
Harper’s Weekly - “Harper’s Weekly was the definitive newspaper of record for the latter part of the 19th century and early 20th. It had broad distribution and a broad circulation and effective readership of at least half a million people.”
Classical Music Reference Library - “Classical Music Reference Library brings together more than 30,000 pages of essential reference materials, including Baker’s Dictionary of Music, Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, and Baker’s Student Encyclopedia of Music, which have never before been available in electronic form.”
The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online - “The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online is the first comprehensive online resource devoted to music research of all the world’s peoples. More than 9,000 pages of material, combined with entries by more than 700 expert contributors from all over the world, make this the most complete body of work focused on world music. Since its first publication in 1997, The Garland Encyclopedia has been the preeminent reference work for research in this area and a favorite of libraries everywhere.”
Classical Scores Library - “Classical Scores Library contains 400,000 pages of the most important classical music scores, manuscripts, and previously unpublished material, allowing for the study and analysis of more than 8,000 musical scores. Many items have associated audio tracks in Classical Music Library, so that subscribers to both databases can listen to a recording online while following along with the full score.”
African American Music Reference - “From early slave spirituals to 20th century movements revolving around jazz, blues, and gospel, African American music has played an integral role in the development of music worldwide. African American Music Reference is the first comprehensive reference database to chronicle this rich history of African American music through 1970.”
Hoover Library is conducting a trial of Standard & Poor’s Net Advantage. “S&P’s Net Advantage is a comprehensive source of business and investment information, offering on-line access to Standard & Poor’s independent research, data and commentary on stocks, bonds, funds, and industries.” To access the trial, go to the library home page at http://hoover.mcdaniel.edu/, click on Find Articles, then scroll down to the Trials feature and click on Standard & Poor’s Net Advantage. Don’t forget to sign-on. If you have any questions, please contact Sally Jones at sajones@mcdaniel.edu.
Hoover Library is currently experiencing printing problems in the reference area. IT has been notified. If you experience difficulties with printing, you can save your document to a flash drive, email it to yourself, or print from one of the computer labs. We are sorry for the inconvenience. If you have questions, call the help desk at x3390.
Standard & Poor’s Corporation Records is now available in electronic format. We will no longer have the paper copies in our collection. The records can be accessed by choosing Find Articles on the Hoover Library home page, then scrolling to #51 on the database list.
Hoover Library is conducting a trial of the database Westlaw Campus Research. “Campus Research™ is a superior research service for news, business and law related information – and it is designed especially to meet the needs of both librarians and students.” To access the trial, go to the library home page at http://hoover.mcdaniel.edu/, click on Find Articles, then scroll down to the Trials feature and click on Westlaw Campus Research, don’t forget to sign-on. If you have any questions, please contact Sally Jones at sajones@mcdaniel.edu.
The McDaniel College IT Department has implemented a new printing system that has been installed on all of the Library computers. For more information about this system, please see the email below sent by the IT Department to all McDaniel students.
From: “McDaniel Computer Lab Information” <labhelp@mcdaniel.edu>
To: allugstudentslist@mcdaniel.edu, allgrstudentslist@mcdaniel.edu
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 10:13:26 AM (GMT-0500) Auto-Detected
Subject: [Allugstudentslist] New Computer Lab Print Management System
In conjunction with the Green Terra program, the Information Technology
department has implemented a print management system in the campus
computer labs. Through this system, any person with a valid McDaniel
email account will have their printing account credited with $20 worth
of free printable pages. Each page printed will deduct five cents from
the printing account, and users will be able to purchase additional
pages at five cents per page as the initial $20 quota is nearing
exhaustion.
To purchase additional pages, you may see either Donni Folendorf in the
main Information Technology office, lower level of Decker Center, or
Marylin Bell in G3 LHS during regular working hours of 8:30am-4:30pm on
weekdays. If you are not on campus during those hours you may send your
CASH or CHECK payment to IT (checks made payable to McDaniel College)
via campus mail. Be sure to include your name, and student ID # or Email
address with your payment. (Your account CANNOT be accessed by your SSN,
so please do not give us that information.)
Important user information:
In order to print in a lab (or in the Library)*, when the Print Limit Pro window opens, enter your McDaniel email username and password. Once logged in, your balance
will be shown in an onscreen window and you will be able to print.
While the printing system is set to logout after five minutes it is
still highly recommended that you make sure that you logout before
leaving the computer. Your current balance, printing history, charges
per print job and environmental impact may all be viewed by logging into
the web interface of Print Limit Pro (using your McDaniel email username
and password) at this address:
https://labprint.mcdaniel.edu:9192/user
*added by Hoover Library
For the Spring semester, the Library’s archive hours will change. Currently, the archive is only open until 1:30 pm, but beginning January 28th it will be open on Wednesdays from 3:00 pm until 8:00 pm so students, faculty, and staff will have greater opportunities to utilize the resources.
For the spring semester the Archive hours will be:
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday: 8:30 am - 1:30 pm
Wednesday: 3:00 pm - 8:00 pm
A reminder that the final session in the Library’s five-part reading and
discussion series will be held Tuesday, December 4 from 7:00-8:30 pm in the
Hoover Library Board Room.
The Rabbi’s Cat by French author Joann Sfar will be the featured title for
discussion.
Light refreshments will be served.
Dr. Art Lesley, Associate Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature at
Baltimore Hebrew University, will serve as the guest scholar.
Copies of the discussion series books are available for check out at Hoover Library.
All members of the campus community and the general public are welcome!
For more details, contact Debbie at extension 2281, or visit the discussion
series website at http://www.carr.org/jl .
Please join us this Thursday, November 15 for “Books Sandwiched In”
Now in its 16th season!
Good books make great gifts. McDaniel College Associate Librarian Jane Sharpe will take the guesswork out of finding the best books to give this holiday season. Her forum, “Books Sandwiched In”, will be held noon to 1 p.m. on Thursday November 15 in McDaniel Lounge.
The event is free and open to the public. Participants are invited to bring a bag lunch. Beverages and snacks will be provided.
The one-hour session will cover as many as 20 books, including fiction and non-fiction for children and adults, a cookbook, biography, picture book and a coffee table book.
“I try to have something for everybody,” Sharpe said. I approach it as though I’m taking the list of people I would buy for, and select books that I would pick for them.”
“Books Sandwiched In” is jointly sponsored by the Hoover Library, McDaniel’s Communications and Marketing Office, and Locust Books of Westminster.
For more information, contact Debbie in the Hoover Library at extension 2281.
A reminder that the third session in Library’s five-part reading and
discussion series will be held Tuesday, October 23 from 7:00-8:30 pm in the
Hoover Library Board Room.
Julius Knipl: Real Estate Photographer by Ben Katcher will be the featured
title for discussion.
Light refreshments will be served.
Dr. Art Lesley, Associate Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature at Baltimore Hebrew University, will serve as the guest scholar.
Copies of the discussion series books are available for check out at Hoover Library.
All members of the campus community and the general public are welcome!
For more details, contact Debbie at extension 2281, or visit the discussion series website at www.carr.org/jl <http://www.carr.org/jl> .
Alcohol Awareness Week begins October 8th and runs through October 13th. Come to the library and check out our display located in the reference area.
Hoover Library is conducting a trial of the database Westlaw Campus Research until October 15th. “Westlaw Campus Research is a superior research service for news, business and law related information and it is designed especially to meet the needs of both librarians and students. “ To access the trial, go to the library home page at http://hoover.mcdaniel.edu/, click on Find Articles, then scroll down to the Trials feature and click on Westlaw Campus Research. If you have any questions, please contact Sally Jones at sajones@mcdaniel.edu.
Banned Books Week begins on September 29th and runs through October 6th. Come to Hoover Library and check out our banned books display located in the reference area. For more information about Banned Books Week, go to http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bannedbooksweek.htm.
Hoover Library is conducting a trial of the database Tests in Print. “Tests in Print produced by the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements at the University of Nebraska, serves as a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. TIP provides vital information to users including test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s).” To access the trial, go to the library home page at http://hoover.mcdaniel.edu/, click on Find Articles, then scroll down to the Trials feature and click on Tests in Print. If you have any questions, please contact Sally Jones at sajones@mcdaniel.edu.
We have added a new database to our electronic collection. ARTFL, the project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language, consists of nearly 2000 texts, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing. The eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries are also represented, with a smaller selection of seventeenth century texts as well as some medieval and Renaissance texts. Recently added is a Provençal database that includes 38 texts in their original spellings. Genres include novels, verse, theater, journalism, essays, correspondence, and treatises. Subjects include literary criticism, biology, history, economics, and philosophy. If you have any questions, please contact Sally Jones at sajones@mcdaniel.edu.
Please mark your calendars! All members of the College community are cordially invited to attend
Hoover Library will host a free five-part reading and discussion series called “Let’s Talk About It: Jewish Literature – Identity and Imagination.” The series explores Jewish literature and culture through scholar-led discussions of the Jewish Graphic Novel. Hoover is one of 250 libraries nationwide receiving American Library Association (ALA) grants to host the series, developed by Nextbook and the ALA. Local partners include the Interpreters Forum, Carroll County Public Library and Carroll Community College Library.
All sessions will be held from 7:00-8:30 pm in the Hoover Library Board Room. The first will explore /A Contract with God/ by Will Eisner, and will be held on Tuesday, September 11, 2007. / The Complete Maus: A Survivor’s Tale/ by Art Spiegelman will follow on October 9. /Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer/ by Ben Katcher will be our subject on October 23, with /The Quitter/ by Harvey Pekar receiving our attention on November 6, and /The Rabbi’s Cat/ by Joann Sfar bringing the series to a close on December 4. Light refreshments will be served.
Dr. Arthur Lesley, Associate Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature at Baltimore Hebrew University, will serve as the series scholar. He holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley, and his varied research interests include Hebrew literature in Renaissance Italy. Previously he led a discussion series on “Demons, Golems and Dybbuks: Monsters of the Jewish Imagination,” at Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore.
Copies of the discussion series books are available for check out at Hoover Library, Carroll County Public Library Westminster Branch, and Carroll Community College Library.
For more details, contact Debbie at extension 2281, or visit the discussion series website at www.carr.org/jl .
Welcome Back!
We hope everyone had a wonderful summer and are ready to resume life on the Hill. The summer brought many changes to Hoover Library, including staffing and departmental changes, a new software program aimed at making it easier to access full-text articles, and the debut of a brand new website. It’s been very exciting to say the least.
Website
We hope you like the new website! Please keep in mind that it is a work in progress, so things may be changing throughout the semester. What we are hoping for is feedback from you so we can make the site both aesthetically pleasing and easy to navigate. If you have any suggestions or questions, or if there is something you can’t find on the new website, please email Rhonda Stricklett rstricklett@mcdaniel.edu or Sally Jones sajones@mcdaniel.edu.
360 Link
We also have a new software program called 360 Link. The purpose of 360 Link is to provide more options for accessing full-text articles when searching in our databases. So, for example, let’s say you’re searching for articles on poverty in a database, like Academic Search Premiere, and you find an abstract of an article that isn’t available full-text in that database. If you click on the 360 Link option or the text that says: Click here for full-text availability, depending on the database, the software program will check all of the online databases. This should make finding information just a little bit easier!
Staffing Changes
Hoover Library also experienced some staffing changes over the summer. The AV department, which used to located on the second floor of the Library, is now under the realm of IT. Heshmat Badiee and AV services are now located in the basement of Lewis Hall, extension 2779. We also said goodbye to Michael Vyskocil, Circulation Desk Supervisor, who left the Library in July to pursue other activities. But, we are happy to report, that the position has been filled by Angie Rasche! Please join us in welcoming her to Hoover Library!
AV Move
Audio Visual Services transfered to IT the week of May 21-25. Heshmat Badiee is now located in Lewis Hall and will assist with Smart Box maintenance, as well as AV delivery.
Other News
New DVD’s-Top 100
The library has added over 40 new DVD titles generously donated by McDaniel’s Communication Department. The new titles expand our collection of movies from the American Film Institute’s “AFI’s 100 Years…100 Movies” list, which rates the 100 greatest American movies of all time. The Communication Department has also supplied gold stickers with the numbering from the list, which have been applied to the new & existing titles.
Student Employees Can Apply Online !
Students can now apply for library employment online by filling out the electronic application form. If you have any questions, please contact the Assistant to the Library Director, Debbie Green, by email at dgreen@mcdaniel.edu, or by phone at (410) 857-2281.
