Kindles are Here
The Library purchased three Kindles, the e-book reader from Amazon for use by faculty beginning immediately. Faculty can borrow a Kindle for three weeks with one renewal. One book download is permitted per circulation. Any Amazon book ordered through any Kindle is available on all three Kindles since they are all on one Amazon account. To find out what other Kindle titles have already been downloaded, do a keyword search in the library catalog for "kindle." Contact Patty Mason at Media Services at 445-4323 to get on the waiting list.
Staff News
Wayne Stevens, Interlibrary Loan Supervisor, received a Certificate of Appreciation for his work in coordinating public service desks coverage during the training of student assistants. Ramping up for the start of the academic year requires that the Library provide the full level of services while supervisors train the returning student assistants for two days before classes begin. Thank you, Wayne, for recognizing that people cannot be in two places at one time, and for placing us in different places at various times, one at a time!
Gretchen Pearson, Public Services Librarian, announced her retirement effective December 31, 2009.
The Bene Merenti awards for 20 years of service were presented to Gretchen Pearson, Public Services Librarian, and to Betty Schindler, Cataloging Assistant at the Fall Convocation. Congratulations and thank you to both!
Cathy Scott can now be reached at extension 4322. During the fall semester, Cathy will be full time and helping with the management division collections and instructional sessions, in addition to serving as librarian for the medical programs and computer science and math.
Kelly Delevan joins the professional staff this fall as temporary, part-time reference librarian to assist with the management division courses and collections. Kelly is new to the Syracuse area and comes to us from New York Public Library.
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Federated Search with QuickSearch
Searching across several databases at once for resources on a topic is now available through the acquisition of Serials Solutions' 360 Federated Search product.
Through December the Library's "Databases by Subject" nav bar button will bring you to this feature. This will be re-named to QuickSearch in January.
Library Extends Regular Hours to 109 Per Week
The Library will open at 8:00am, instead of 8:30am, on Mondays through Fridays beginning August 31 and remain open until 2:00am on Sundays through Thursdays. It used to close at midnight.
During final exams from December 13 through December 17 the Library will remain open for 24 hours.
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