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Colgate Libraries' Student Open House

August 27, 2008 - 8:39am — clarence

Monday, September 1, 2008, 9am to 1pm
Stop by between classes to learn about services offered by Libraries and Information Technology Services.

  • Interactive Information Stations to answer your questions
  • Free continental breakfast at Cooley Science Library
  • $2 off coupon at Case-Geyer’s Hieber Cafe

Visit all four Information Stations at either library, and enter our contest to win:

  • First Prize: Flip Video Camera
  • Second Prize: 4GB iPod Nano
  • Third Prize: $50 iTunes giftcard

 

New Feature: Search the Reference Collection

August 27, 2008 - 8:27am — mike

An exciting new enhancement to our library catalogs - Encore and the Classic Catalog - is enabling users to limit searches to just the Reference Collection.
 
In Encore, perform a search and then select the facet - Reference - in the Refine By: menu under Collection. This will return just the items which are in one of the print reference collections or which have been marked as Online Reference.
 
In the Classic Catalog, the feature is available in author, title, subject and genre searches. In the "View Entire Collection" drop down box, change the selection to "Reference".
 

Finding Center for Research Library materials within the ConnectNY catalog

August 27, 2008 - 8:26am — emily

Colgate Faculty and students can now borrow material from the Center for Research Libraries (3 month loan). The holdings of the CRL can be found within the ConnectNY catalog and this is how you can limit your search to find that material.
Go to the ConnectNY catalog
Choose "keyword search"Type in your keyword
choose location: crl

Tool for determing copyright

August 20, 2008 - 8:11am — francesca

Determining whether or not a work is under copyright can sometimes be a complex process, here's a tool developed by the ALA (American Library Association) that you might find useful when you find yourself in a copyright conundrum.

Library Hours updated for Fall 2008 through Spring 2009

August 19, 2008 - 1:23pm — mike

The hours for the Colgate University Libraries have been updated for Fall 2008 through Spring 2009.

CSA's Biological Sciences collection discontinued

August 5, 2008 - 2:51pm — mike

The subscription to CSA's Biological Sciences Collection has been discontinued in favor of a subscription to Biological Abstracts which has superior indexing of articles and greater coverage of journals in the life sciences.  Access ceased with August 1st.

New online reference sources from NOVEL

August 5, 2008 - 10:58am — mike

NOVELny provides access to digital resources for all New York State residents.  Additional titles were added this summer and they include:

Africa Development Indicators Online

August 5, 2008 - 10:49am — mike

A subscription to Africa Development Indicators online has been added. This resource provides the most detailed collection of data on Africa. It contains over 1,000 indicators covering 53 African countries.  The library prevously subscribed to this title in print - African Development Indicators.

New Books and Videos list added during July created

August 4, 2008 - 10:14am — mike

The new book and video lists of titles added during July have been created.  The new book list are available by the first subject term on each title and also by the Call Number.  The new video list is sorted by Call Number.