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http : / / l ib .newpal tz .edu

Sojourner Truth Library is happy

to announce that we will now open

library doors at 8 a.m., instead of

8:30 a.m., during the week. In our

effort to better serve students and

the campus community we have

extended hours to match the class

schedule currently in effect on

campus. Closing time and week-

end hours will remain the same.

The late night study room,

equipped with six computers and

many work tables continues to be

open until 3 a.m., after the library

closes, Sunday through Wednes-

day nights.

If you are not sure of library

hours, you can find them listed

daily, on the library homepage.

Library Announces

New Opening Time

8 a.m. Monday—Friday

New innovat ions

& Latest Changes

The Latest @ the Library Spring 2009 - 40th Anniversary of Sojourner Truth Library

SOJOURNER TRUTH L IBRARY SUNY NEW PALTZ

New Year Starting Out with an Improved STL18

STL 18, our primary space for library instruction for the past ten

years, has received a significant upgrade in technology and in ap-

pearance over the winter break. New desks with smaller foot-

prints, allowed for the addition of four PCs, bringing the total to 27. New widescreen monitors

and PCs also take up less space. There is a new, higher quality

projector and screen, as well as a more efficient instructor’s station

with an updated version of Net Op teaching software.

STL 18 is one of the busiest areas

of the library. All incoming first year students attend Composi-

tion or Honors English sessions in STL 18 in partial fulfillment

of the General Education infor-mation literacy competency. Librarian instructors collaborate

with faculty to teach nearly 150 classes in this room each semes-

ter.

Special thanks to Gary Oliver

from STL’s Computer Support team and Joe D’Agostino of IMS. If you haven’t already

done so, you may arrange for library instruction using the form

at: http://lib.newpaltz.edu/ assistance/faculty/instruct_

req.html .

Friends of the Library Spring Used Book Sale will take place April

23rd through May 1st. The library is accepting donations of gently

used books in all areas. You may bring small quantities of books to

the Checkout desk during library hours. If you have a large dona-

tion please contact Erin Barnard at 257-3679 to arrange a drop off.

THE LATEST @ THE L IBRARY SPRING 2009 · PAGE 2

Database Update ACLS Humanities E-book Project ACLS Humanities E-Book has recently added 509

books to its collection, bringing the total to 2,199.

The latest round adds reference works, such as the

AHA Guide to Historical Literature, the Catalogus

Translationum et Commentariorum and the indexes

from the American Folklore Society, and expands its

primary source materials with the Records of Civili-

zation and the Collected Writings of Walt Whitman.

Mental Measurements & Tests in Print now online

Produced by the Buros Institute at the University of

Nebraska, the Mental Measurements Yearbook

(MMY) provides users with a comprehensive guide

to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. Tests

in Print (TIP) serves as a comprehensive bibliogra-

phy to all known commercially available tests that are

currently in print in the English language.

New E-Reserve Procedures There will be some improvement to library reserve

procedures for the Spring 2009 semester. The process

for library course reserves has been largely manual.

Since electronic reserves was implemented back in

the 90’s, things have changed in the world of infor-

mation. Much more content is now digital and it

makes sense to obtain these documents in digital

form since they are intended for use as electronic

reserves. We’d like to introduce a few options that

can save everyone time.

• New online forms have been created to expedite

and simplify submission of electronic reserve re-

quests. It is not necessary to fill out forms manually.

• If you already have the reserve article/course mate-

rial in digital form, we request that you not print it to

have library staff in turn rescan it. Instead, use the

“electronic reserve submission form” that allows file

attachments and attach the digital file to the form.

• We would prefer that you submit digital content

rather than printed copy whenever possible. If your

reserve article is available through one of the Li-

brary’s licensed full-text databases, please obtain the

digital copy or link from that source instead of sub-

mitting a printed copy. If you would like assistance in

New SciFinder Scholar - Web version The SciFinder Scholar database is now available on

the web. No need to download the client version

from Blackboard anymore. Access to the client ver-

sion will end April 10, 2009. SciFinder Scholar con-

tains the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) litera-

ture database containing over 28 million references

back to 1900. For more information:

http://lib.newpaltz.edu/getscifinder.html

the use of the databases to obtain digital copy, please

ask a librarian for help.

• You are welcome to add course content yourself to

Blackboard “Course Documents” in lieu of submis-

sion for E-Reserves. Academic Computing staff will

be happy to show you how to upload files to

“Course Documents” if you are unfamiliar with the

process.

• The Library has a user-friendly walk-up scanner in

the MediaSpace that you are welcome to use to scan

your course related material if you prefer to do this

yourself. There are easy instructions for using the

scanner and library staff would be happy to assist

you. You may easily upload digital files you create

this way to Blackboard “Course Documents” or sub-

mit via the Library electronic reserve online form.

• Links from Blackboard “Course Documents” to

relevant printed course material on traditional re-

serve will be added by library staff for all courses.

Students will have access to all their course-related

materials through Blackboard.

The new procedures are available at:

http://lib.newpaltz.edu/reserves.html

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