Thursday, December 14, 2006

Electronic Reserves: Processing Requests for Faculty

We are ready to begin processing, “hard copy and electronic reserves” materials for the spring semester. If you are not in position to bring your reserve materials at this time, please bring reserve items to be process to the Circulation desk as soon as you return from the Christmas break. This will allow us to process your request more quickly and accurately. Our objective is to try to have your material processed and available for your students the first week of classes.

Due to copyright laws, we cannot process course packets, please bring articles along with citations separated and collated. All paper documents must be scanned before they can appear on your electronic course page. We now have a document scanner with a duplexing feature which will allow us to scan double-sided copies. We are very excited about this feature along with many others. Although we are now able to scan two-sided copies, we only have one scanner with this feature. We are also encouraging faculty to use links to articles in the library’s databases. Using direct links to articles in the library databases will help you avoid copyright issues and also allow us to process your materials more quickly since there is no scanning involved. Once you have found an article you would like to use in one of our databases, the link can be emailed to reserves@cofc.edu. Please include the title, course number and instructor’s name in the email message.

Also, be sure to include the title as it appears on the course syllabus. Although, we try to process reserves as quickly as we receive them, please keep in mind there is a 72 hour processing period. It is very important that you submit the electronic reserve form before sending your reserve documents. Sending the documents before submitting the form will only delay processing.

We look forward to assisting you with your reserve materials this fall semester. If you have any questions, please feel free to email us at reserves@cofc.edu or contact us at 953-8001. As always thank you.

This information from
James Williams, Head Circulation Department

Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Media Collections December Hours

Media Collections December Hours
Media Collections is Located in Addlestone Room 350

December 5th-7th: 10am-4pm
December 8th:10am-2pm
December 18th-21st: Closed. For Access please contact Research Desk.
December 22nd-Jan 1st: Library Closed

Media Collections Phone: 953-8040
Research Desk Phone: 953-8000

Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Library Gets New Databases

The Addlestone Library has purchased 11 new databases for 2007.

Among the notable databases are:

  • The Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 contains 36,000 texts, covering a fascinating range of life in 17th- and 18th-century America. Agriculture and auctions, foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, temperance, and witchcraft.

  • Gender Watch is a full text database of publications that focus on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas. Gender Watch supports programs in business, education, literature and the arts, health sciences, history, political science, public policy, sociology and contemporary culture, gender and women's studies and more. Publications include academic and scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books, booklets and pamphlets, conference proceedings, and government, n-g-o and special reports.

  • The African American Experience is a searchable and browseable database of entries on African America life, drawn from encyclopedias and other reference books, monographs, novels and other literary works, collections of interviews, collections of primary source documents, audio clips, images, and Web sites.

The Early American Imprints database is already available on the library website. Information about as well as access to the other databases will become available in early spring 2007.