Colgate University Libraries News and Events

Courtesy of the Center for Learning, Teaching and Research, we are providing you with a comprehensive listing of spaces available to students at the end of the semester. If you have any questions, please contact Renee Chapin at rchapin@colgate.edu
 
Primary Key: S = Individual quiet study, G = Group study/discussion, C = Computers Available.
 
Spaces with the greatest number of seats

• Case Library and Geyer Center for Information Technology (S, G, C): M-TH 8am-2am, F 8am-2am, Sat 10am-10pm, Sun 10am-2am (special hours for April 30th and May 1st). 24/7 Access on Level 5 Hieber Cafe and Theriot Flexible Work Room 565.
• Cooley Science Library (S,C): Open 24/7 April 25th-May 7th
• Commons (S): M-TH open 24 hours
• Lawrence Hall Humanities Lounge (G): M-TH 6pm-2am, Sat & Sun 10am-2am
• COOP: 24/7 April 26th-May 6
• COOP Fireplace and TV lounge (S, G) M-F 8am-2:30am, Sat & Sun 11am-2:30am
• COOP Computer Lab (C): M-Sun 10am-10pm

Additional Spaces: 

• ALANA Cultural Center (G, C) - Lounge, Computer/study room: M-TH 8am-10pm, F 8am-8pm, Sat 8am-2am, Sun 4pm-10pm
• Center for Learning, Teaching and Research (S, G, C): M-F 8am-Midnight, Sat 12pm-Midnight, Sun 11am-Midnight
• East Hall, COVE (S): M-TH 9am-Midnight, F 9am-5pm, Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 10am-Midnight
• Ho Science Center (S, G): M-F 7am-Midnight, Sat & Sun 10am-11pm
• Lawrence Hall Classrooms 101, 109, 110, 118 (S, G): M-TH 6pm-2am, Sat & Sun 10am-2am
• Lawrence Hall Classrooms 203, 209, 210, 220, 304, 310, 320 (S, G): M-TH 6pm-2am, Sat & Sun 10am-2am
• Keck Center (C): M-TH 8:30am-11pm, F 8:30am-6pm, Sat 11am-6pm, Sun 11am-11pm
• Memorial Chapel Garden Level (S): M-Sun 8am-Midnight when not in use
• Persson Hall Bridge (S): M-Sun 8am-1am
• Persson Hall Classroom/Lab 209 (S, C): M-W 4pm-Midnight, TH 5pm-Midnight, F 4pm-6pm, Sat 12pm-6pm, Sun 12pm-Midnight
• Saperstein Center (S): M-TH 4pm-10pm, F 12:30pm-4pm, Sun 12pm-10pm
• Wynn Hall, Lobbies 1st and 2nd floors (S): Sun-TH 8am-11pm, F-Sat 8am-7pm

The new book lists are available for the month of March.  New videos added during March have also been processed.

Case Library and Geyer Center for Information Technology invites you to join us in celebrating National Library Week, April 11th through the 17th. This year's theme is "Communities Thrive @ Your Library."
 
We support the Colgate community and celebrate your right to read by providing hundreds of thousands of books, journal articles, movies, and electronic content for your education and informational needs.  Stop by the library to view the slideshow on books which have been banned, challenged or censored from around the world in the past 8 years.
 
First sponsored in 1958, National Library Week is a national observance sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA) and libraries across the country each April. 

Colgate is participating in Project Information Literacy (PIL), a research project undertaken by faculty at the University of Washington's iSchool (Information Sciences Graduate Program) investigating how undergraduate sophomores, juniors, and seniors use, evaluate, and integrate research sources for course-related and everyday life research.
Key points:

•  Sophomores, juniors and seniors receive an e-mail request with a link to the voluntary survey on April 6.
• The survey is 22 questions long and should take about 15 minutes to complete. 
• The survey will be open between April 6 and April 20.
• One Colgate student participant will be selected to receive a $150 Amazon gift certificate.
• Approximately 30 other institutions (over 100,000 students nationwide) will be participating in this survey.

 
This year's survey builds on the researchers' earlier work with undergraduates at Harvard, Illinois State, University of Washington, and three community colleges, which focused on how students conceptualize and operationalize course-related and everyday life research. For more information, see the research report, How College Students Seek Information in the Digital Age, released by the research team in December 2009. In June 2010, Colgate will receive a brief report of major findings nation-wide, a simple statistics report with frequencies per question based on our students' survey results, and an Excel data file with all of Colgate's results.
 
We look forward to sharing the findings for discussion with the community next fall!
 
Note: Project Information Literacy has obtained Human Subjects Approval for survey administration on the Colgate campus.
 
Questions about the study can be directed to pilstudy@u.washington.edu
 
Joanne A. Schneider
University Librarian

The decennial census is well underway. Mandated by the Constitution, this head count of the people living in the United States happens every 10 years, and has significant consequences that last until the next Census. Census results are used to help determine the number of representatives for each state in the House of Representatives, and to equitably distribute federal funds for social programs, infrastucture, and emergency services. Closer to home on a college campus, many of the statistics that you use in your research, papers, and projects come from the census.
You should have received a decennial census form in the mail, and I hope that you have returned it (it's not too late). Right now, only 64% of the people living in the village of Hamilton have. Didn't get or lost your form? Call the Telephone Questionnaire Assistance toll-free number 1-866-872-6868. Students: have a question about whether or not to indicate that you live in Hamilton on your form? The quick answer is yes, the full answer is at http://2010.census.gov/2010census/how/where-counted.php ; click on "Students".

FAQs are on the Census 2010 website. Start with http://2010.census.gov/2010census/about/whole.php . As the federal documents librarian, I get 2 questions/comments: "I don't want just anyone knowing about me and my household" and "How come the survey is so short?". The response to the first comment is that the Census takes your privacy very seriously, and does not provide public access to individually identifiable information. Check out http://2010.census.gov/2010census/privacy/index.php . The answer to the second question is that the Bureau of the Census now runs an annual survey called the American Community Survey, which is sent to a sample of the U.S. households each year. See http://www.census.gov/acs/www/SBasics/ for more information. Yes, you may get both surveys this year.

One is tempted to ask "Why is "Census Day" was April 1st, but there it is. Proof that the federal government has a sense of humour!

The Government Printing Office (GPO) has posted to the Federal Digital system (FDsys) the authenticated full text of H.R. 3590 (Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act) and H.R. 4872 (Health Care and Education Reconcilliation Act of 2010), and of  debates and votes in the Congressional Record.
 
Direct links to the bills:
H.R. 3590
H.R. 4872

Direct links to Congressional Record debate:
Congressional Record Volume 156, Issue 43 (March 21, 2010)
Congressional Record Volume 156, Issue 43 (March 21, 2010)
Roll call vote no. 165
 
If you (like many of us) are overwhelmed by the sheer size of the bills, you can get a good start at Thomas. The Health care bills are front and center on the website today, but you can always search by the bill numbers to get to a summary, view the actions and ammendments proposed on the House and Senate floor, and link to the texts and the Congressional Record.
 
Your tax dollars at work, courtesy of the federal depository system. We will have paper copies of the law in time, but online's the way to go for now!

Read the latest issue of the Libraries' newsletter to learn more about open access, teaching with media, the changing role of libraries in higher education, as well as about a host of other projects and initatives that the Colgate Libraries have been engaged in.

The new book lists are available for the month of February.  New videos added during February have also been processed.

Due to budget cuts, the Getty is ceasing to support the BHA (Bibliography of the History of Art). As of March 31, all access to the online version of BHA will cease. They are working to find partners or buyers for the product but have not had any luck with that so far. This event, happening as it does to a resource that we always considered to be stable, is really indicative of just how volatile the traditional publishing market is right now. It's disheartening for the BHA to cease to be as it has such a long history and represents content that we currently have no other way to access (no other group is indexing some of it and/or it is not available online/full-text). 
 
Here is the link to their announcement:
 
http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/bha/
 
So, to reiterate, after March 31 the BHA is no more. We're keeping an eye on the situation to see if there's a last minute reprieve but we should all assume and plan to no longer have this important resource available.
 

The new book lists are available for the month of January.  New videos added during January have also been processed.