Please Read: Changes to Fines Coming Soon!

Very soon the Library will be changing the way it handles your library fines.  One option, which hasn’t changed, is to pay your fines immediately at the Library Circulation Desk.  What’s new is that after 30 days your fines will be transferred to the SU Cashier, and the Library will no longer be able to accept your payment.  The benefit of this change is that the Cashier will accept your credit card, as well as Gull Card or personal check, for payment.

Announcing ARTstor Mobile!

The ARTstor Digital Library is now accessible to registered ARTstor users through the iPad, iPhone, and the iPod Touch, providing read-only features such as searching and browsing, zooming, and viewing saved image groups. We are also introducing the Flashcard View for ARTstor Mobile, which allows users to test their knowledge by viewing the image without textual information, and then flipping the image to reveal the image record. This new view can be found under the “Views” menu as “Flashcard.” ARTstor Mobile is only available through the Safari browser, just go to http://library.artstor.org  from your mobile device. For more details, visit our Help page at http://help.artstor.org/wiki/index.php/ARTstor_Mobile.

Announcing Another way to Get Research Help! ER: Emergency Research - All this week!

Welcome back to campus!  We at Blackwell library hope you had a relaxing Thanksgiving Break.  We realize now it's "noses to the grindstone" through the rest of the semester.  Maybe you still need sources for a paper?  Maybe you need to find some data?  Perhaps you need some help with citation?

Don't worry, we've got your back!  Blackwell Librarians will be stationed all over campus this week to help you with last minute research needs as part of our ER (Emergency Research) service!  We will be available from 2-4PM in three locations this week: Guerrieri Center, Henson Food Court and TETC Food Court. 

Stop by and see us!

Business Resources - One of our 10&2 Research Clinics!

Sign up for our 10&2 Research Clinic: Business Resources

Is business research driving you batty? Want to find company histories, income statements, balance sheets, cash flow statements?  Market share, anyone?  Want a company SWOT analysis?  How about surveying a particular industry?  Come join me for a session covering how to choose and search our business databases. This workshop will also focus on the Business Subject Guide as well as the following databases: Gale’s Business & Company Resources, Business Source Premier (linked with other appropriate EBSCO databases), ABI Inform and more.

This clinic will be offered 11/23 and 12/1 from 2-3PM with librarian Gaylord Robb.

Sign up here.  View the descriptions of other research clinics here.

Be a Hero for Homeless Pets!

Blackwell Library is once again collecting food and supplies for homeless animals in shelters across Wicomico and Somerset counties.  The collection boxes are available on the main floor of the library from today through the last day of the semester.  Please check out the display of pets and their adoption stories as well!

Let's make the holidays bright for our furry friends!

If you have any questions, please contact Susan Wheatley.

Advanced Searching in EBSCO - one of our 10 & 2 Research Clinics!

Want to become an expert researcher?   We have the class for you:

Advanced Searching in EBSCO

Academic Search Premier, ERIC, PsycINFO, Business Source Premier – do these databases sound familiar?  They all come from the vendor EBSCO and their interfaces are identical.  This one hour workshop will make you an EBSCO Guru, able to use limiters, save citations, set up search alerts, and use all the other bells and whistles in these powerful databases!

Please join instructor Krista Knapp on 11/17 or 11/30 at 10:00 AM!  Sign up here!

Advanced Science Database Searching - A 10&2 Research Clinic!

Have you checked out our 10 & 2 Research Clinics yet?  These hour long sessions are perfect for giving you an in depth look at one aspect of research.

One of the topics available is Advanced Science Database Searching:

Science Direct, Web of Science, BioOne, and BioMed Central – some of the heavy hitters in the science database world!  While all a bit different from each other in focus and scope, they have a number of similarities that makes becoming a searching expert in them a breeze!  After this one hour clinic you’ll be able to use limiters, save citations, set up search alerts, and use all of the other powerful tools that these databases offer up to those in the know.

You can join instructor Susan Brazer for this research clinic on 11/17 or 12/1 from 10-11 AM in BL142.   Sign up here!