The Birds of North America Online Trial is on Now!

BNA Online provides comprehensive life histories for each of the 716+ species of birds breeding in the USA (including Hawaii) and Canada.

Our trial is IP-based, so if you are on campus you can gain access to it directly via the following link: http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna

In two centuries of American ornithology, The Birds of North America (BNA) is only the fourth comprehensive reference covering the life histories of North America’s breeding birds. Following in the footsteps of Wilson, Audubon, and Bent, BNA provides a quantum leap in information beyond what those historic figures were able to assemble. The print version of BNA was completed in 2002 – 18 volumes, 18,000 pages -- a joint 10 year project of the American Ornithologists' Union, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and the Academy of Natural Sciences. Now as an online project of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, BNA is becoming a living resource. Account contents are updated frequently, with contributions from researchers, citizen scientists, and designated reviewers and editors. In addition, BNA Online contains image and video galleries showing plumages, behaviors, habitat, nests and eggs, and more. And most online BNA accounts now feature recordings of the songs and calls of their species, recordings selected from the extensive collection of Cornell's Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds. Future work will enhance BNA’s audio and video contributions, speed revisions via efforts coordinated online, and provide a significant boost to the number of photos available to subscribers.

Credo Reference Trial

Blackwell Library is pleased to announce a trial subscription to Credo Reference.

More information about Credo Reference can be found here.

If you'd like to give us feedback about this product, please click here.

Blackwell Lab Hours for Finals

The Blackwell computer lab will be open for Exam Week! Here's the schedule:

Monday, December 14 8am-10pm
Tuesday, December 15 8am-10pm
Wednesday, December 16 8am-10pm
Thursday, December 17 8am-10pm
Friday, December 18 8am-5pm

Best of luck on your finals! If you haven't already become a fan of Blackwell Library on Facebook, click here to visit our page!

Attention Faculty Who Use Course Reserves and E-Reserves

Our wonderful Course Reserves and Access Services staff member, Susan Wheatley, will be retiring this month. We are sad to see her go, but wish her a relaxing and enjoyable retirement!

Meanwhile, The World of Course Reserves will continue to turn, and we have enlisted some new staff to make the World of Course Reserves turn as smoothly as possible! So, starting in January, Susie Ruddy will be processing the traditional paper Course Reserves, while Debbie Malone will be processing e-Reserves. Please let these very capable and knowledgeable ladies know if you have any questions!

Help is coming your way!

Feeling stressed about semester deadlines? Need last minute help with your assignments? Help is coming your way! During the week of December 7-11, SU librarians will be available to assist you from 2:00-4:00 p.m. at these locations:

Guerreri Center, commuter lounge area
TETC
Henson

And, as always, a friendly librarian will be at the Research Help desk in the library from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Also, you can listen to our podcast!

Become a Fan of Blackwell Library on Facebook!

Blackwell Library is pleased to announce our new fan page on Facebook. We will be sharing tips about using the library, links to helpful resources, and hope to solicit feedback about our services. We will also set up a RSS feed for the Blackwell Buzz so you can be alerted of new posts there! Stop by our fan page today!

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Access World News Trial!

Blackwell Library is pleased to announce trial access to Access World News: Research Collections. You can test out this databases by navigating to this page and clicking Access World News. A description of the database follows:

Access World News: Research Collection
Research unique current and archived news content for information on topics, events, issues, people, businesses, and more through this in-depth resource. Easy online access to local, in-state, national and international news sources, including newspapers, broadcast transcripts, newswires, news blogs, news web-only content and video. Alerts and "my personal" functionality helps students and faculty track and manage their research projects.

Our trial runs through December. Please let us know what you think of it!