Thursday, March 30, 2006

Addlestone Media Room Services Coming on Strong

It has been about a year since the video/DVD media collection was transferred to the Addlestone Library from the College Relations and Media Communications lab in the Education Center. Since then the media room has received increasing use by students and faculty. Faculty members have ordered a number of new titles and the librarians are working to replace missing or damaged ones. New televisions and flat screen VHS/DVD viewing equipment are now available as well. The Media Room is located on the third floor of the library in room 350. It contains viewing stations and headphones for individual or small group video viewing.

Details for faculty and student access to the collection, including viewing, placing items on reserve, office delivery and other details about the Media Room and collection can be found at http://www.cofc.edu/~library/media/media.html.

Media Room Operation Hours & Contact Information

Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, 10:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.

Thursday and Friday, 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Phone: 843.425.5064 Email: MediaLibrary@cofc.edu

Newest Library Databases

London Times Digital Archive: 1785 to 1985
This database is complemented by current access to the London Times (1986 to present).

Reference Universe
A comprehensive index to over 4,500 titles from 395 publishers provides access to widely held print and electronic reference works, including subject encyclopedias and monographs.

Hospitality & Tourism Index
This database covers scholarly research and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism. This comprehensive database contains more than 490,000 records from 500 titles, with coverage dating as far back as 1965.

Health Source: Consumer Edition
This database provides access to nearly 300 full text, consumer health periodicals and indexing and abstracts to over 300 additional periodicals. The database covers topics such as AIDS, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, aging, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, women's health, etc. Full text information in this database dates as far back as 1985.

Gale Virtual Reference Library
This resource includes encyclopedias, dictionaries and other reference works in the fields of arts, biography, business, education, environment, history, law, literature, medicine, multicultural studies, religion, science, and social science.

You can access any of these databases from the library database page at: http://www.cofc.edu/~library/databases.html and click on the first letter of the database you need.

Library Seminars: The Thursday @ Three Addlestone Sessions

The Thursday @ Three Addlestone Sessions on information technology debuted this semester and received rave reviews. The sessions are designed to assist faculty and students with technologies and software that have significant impact on teaching and learning.

March 30 Google for Scholars -- Sheila Seaman
This hands-on session will feature a wide variety of techniques and resources to support college level research including: Google Scholar, Google Print, advanced search techniques for Yahoo! and Google, ".edu" search engines, image and multi-media sources, and more.

April 6 Blogging 101 -- Dongmei Cao
Are you ready to become a part of the blogosphere? Why blog? There are many reasons. You will learn a few here (or add a few of your own after the workshop). In this class you will learn the basics of blogging. You will learn to create your very own blog (using Blogger). We will also touch on a few related topics such as RSS feeds and feed readers.

April 13 Excel -- Mike Phillips
Learn how to create basic Excel spreadsheets from scratch. No prior experience necessary.

April 20 Google for Scholars -- Sheila Seaman
See March 30 for description

Location: Marlene and Nathan Addlestone Library, Room 120
Time: 3:00 – 4:30 pm

Registration: Please contact Jared Seay and indicate the session(s) and date(s) Phone: 843.953.1428
E-mail: seayj@cofc.edu (please note the seminar title in the subject line)

More detailed descriptions of the sessions available from this link-- http://www.cofc.edu/~library/libseminars.html

Addlestone Library on CofC Radio

As part of the library’s outreach effort, reference librarian Steven Profit is collaborating with the staff of the College of Charleston’s radio station to promote the library to the college radio audience. A disc jockey or DJ himself, Steven mentions the library resources he consults in scripting his on-the-air segments.

This outreach effort is beneficial for both the library and the radio station. The hot link to the radio station’s streaming webcast is featured prominently on the library’s web page, making the broadcast easily accessible to all who visit the library online. Steven will assist the radio staff in selecting brief narratives to adapt for theatrical radio productions. The radio station has purchased 40 cool, retro-looking headphones that will be donated to the library. The headphones, emblazoned with the station’s logo, will advertise CofC Radio and add to Circulation Services headphone cache. Students can request the headphones at the library’s main circulation desk.