PASCAL Delivers: Statewide Library Borrowing

What is "PASCAL Delivers"?

“PASCAL Delivers” is a rapid book delivery service for the patrons of all PASCAL member institutions, which includes the College of Charleston, Addlestone Library. PASCAL Delivers begins with a single, web-based, unified catalog of library holdings. Library users search the PASCAL Catalog, locate books in any member-library, submit an electronic request for delivery of a book to their home institution, and receive those books within a few days. Pascal Delivers is part of the State-wide Electronic Academic Library.

What is PASCAL?

The Partnership Among South Carolina Academic Libraries (PASCAL) is consortium of academic libraries in South Carolina. Pascal is a strategic initiative launched by South Carolina's public and private academic libraries in conjunction with their parent institutions: the Commission on Higher Education (CHE), the SC Independent Colleges & Universities (SCICU), the Office of State Chief Information Officer, the State Library, and the Department of Archives and History. Pascal was created to respond to the information-access needs of South Carolinians. Visit us on the web at: http://pascalsc.org.

Find out more about PASCAL Delivers at http://pascalsc.org/public/PD/aboutPD.html.

Charleston Conference This Week

The Charleston Conference is an informal annual gathering of librarians, publishers, electronic resource managers, consultants, and vendors of library materials in Charleston, SC, in November, to discuss issues of importance to them all. It is designed to be a collegial gathering of individuals from different areas who discuss the same issues in a non-threatening, friendly, and highly informal environment. Presidents of companies discuss and debate with library directors, acquisitions librarians, reference librarians, serials librarians, collection development librarians, and many, many others. Begun in 1980, the Charleston Conference has grown from 20 participants in 1980 to over 1,000 in 2005.

The web site for this conference can be found at : http://www.katina.info/conference.

While most of the events are at the Francis Marion Hotel, the Addleston library is happy to be the site for several programs. Here's the schedule for the library events.

Wednesday, Nov 8

9- noon Room 227 Implementing ERM Systems

1-5 Room 227 Mapping License Language for ERM

2:30 coffee break outside room 227

Friday, Nov 10

11-12:45 Room 122 Endeavor presentation

12:45-1:45 Staff Lounge – box lunches for attendees @ Endeavor presentation

7 -9 pm Rivers Green Library Reception

(Addlestone is rain location)

Humor Columnist to Speak at Addlestone

Syndicated humor columnist and slightly crazed "belle" Celia Rivenbark will be visiting the College of Charleston and speaking on Monday, November 13th.

Come on by - sit a spell and enjoy her southern humor.

Talk begins at 6:30 pm in Addlestone Library room 227.

Ms. Rivenbark is also an award winning author of three books:

Bless Your Heart Tramp

We're Just Like You Only Prettier

Don't Dress Your Six Year Old Like a Skank.

Q&A and book signing immediately following

Sponsored by - Women and Gender Studies and Student Life