SU Fun Day at Blackwell!

Saturday, September 20th is SU's annual Fun Day from 1-5 pm. Come see what the Blackwell Library staff has cooked up! I have heard the fun will include crafts, bingo and the opportunity to create a Read Poster with your child's image. Plus, I'm sure there will be much, much more fun to be had! You don't want to miss out on all the FUN!!!

New Database!

We are very pleased to announce the addition of the EBSCO product, Communication and Mass Media Complete, to our exciting lineup of databases! You can find it in our Database by Subject or Database by Title lists, as well as through Research Port.

Communication and Mass Media Complete (CMMC) boasts many full text journal articles, as well as Find It Buttons for documents for which full text is not available in CMMC. Please let me, Krista Knapp, liaison to the Communications Department, know if you have any questions or want some help searching CMMC!

EBSCO Databases Have a Brand New Interface!

Popular database vendor EBSCO has released the 2.0 version of their interface, so when you access Academic Search Premier, ERIC, PsycINFO, and a slew of other EBSCO databases, everything will look very different! If you need any help navigating the new interface, please stop by the research services desk or give us a call (especially during the closure due to recarpeting). The desk number is 410-548-5988. You can also reach us via the Meebo chat widget during the library closure, accessible via this web page.

New Find Books & More/Find Articles & More Pages!

If you take a gander at the Find Books & More/Find Articles & More links on the library's homepage, you will notice the pages have a brand new look. From the Find Books & More page, you now have the option of searching the Blackwell/SU catalog like before, but now also have a direct link to the catalog for the entire USMAI system, and links to Electronic Books, Print Journals & Newspapers, and Interlibrary Loan.

The Find Articles & More page gives you many more options for accessing our databases, including links to subject and alphabetic lists of database, and links to Research Port, a journal title list, a list of databases only accessible inside the library, and Interlibrary Loan.

We hope these changes will provide better and more intuitive access to our vast and exciting array of resources!

Blackwell Library Will Be Closed from August 1-24, but Never Fear!

We are striving to serve our patrons in spite of our closing due to recarpeting. We're even going to break out some new tricks like instant messaging with a Meebo widget. For more information about how to get all the resources and services you need during this brief closure, please check out this web page. So don't worry, we're still here for you, and just think about how nice that new carpet will look!

Relax on the beach with a great book this summer!

Check out Blackwell Library's Leisure Reading Collection! After all, one of the greatest pleasures of summer is reading a good novel or two (or three or four!) The Leisure Collection is located on the shelves by the elevator on the first floor of the library, to the left of the circulation desk and across from the current periodicals. Here is a list of new titles added in the past few months:

• Water for elephants: a novel/Sara Gruen
• Marker/Robin Cook
• Eleven on top/Janet Evanovich
• Talyn: a novel of Koore/Holly Lisle
• Indian killer/Sherman Alexie
• Three complete novels/John Brunner
• Burning bright/Tracy Chevalier
• Eat, pray, love: one woman's search for ... /Elizabeth Gilbert
• Cold running creek/Zelda Lockhart
• Plain truth:a novel/Jodi Picoult
• Nelly's version;light;waking/Eva Figes
• Different seasons/Stephen King

Happy reading!

Congratulations

Congratulations to Mou Chakraborty, our Head of Public Services, on the birth of her son, Urjit, born May 18th and weighing in at 6.93 pounds!