New Books & Media:
Library Holdings Updates
Please visit our New Books & Media List was recently updated to show all additions to the Library collection during 2005 and 2006.
to see what we added to the collection in the past two years. Keep an eye out for a “New Books” button in the Library Catalog that will list new titles in real time, as soon as they are cataloged.

Our DVD & Video List has also been updated. In addition to being online, a printed copy will be upstairs next to the DVDs and videos, so you won’t have to try to guess which call number area will have a particular title.

Trial Databases: Get 'em While You Can
Do you have a journal article that is going to be difficult to retrieve?
Maybe it is available via a Trial Database.
For example, through March 10th we have access to AnthroSource,
and through January we have Pro & Con Online, which has teaching resources.
These trial databases cannot be linked to our journals search, so must be checked separately for content.

WorldCatDissertations allows searching for complete citations and availability of all dissertations and theses cataloged in OCLC, the database shared by academic and other larger libraries worldwide.

Try, for example, searching Hotchkiss, Eugene by author to discover that six libraries hold his thesis from Cornell: Jacob Gould Schurman and the Cornell tradition, and so it could be requested via interlibrary loan, unlike most dissertations and theses that are only held by the publishing institution's library.

Disserations available at only one library can be purchased for about $32 via via UMI's Dissertation Express online. The College is not affiliated with UMI.

Contact your library liaison or call the Reference Desk (x5074) for assistance with WorldCatDissertations or other databases.

The Chronicle of Higher Education
You may now access the Chronicle of Higher Education directly from its website, either while on campus, or, when off campus, via the VPN or from the databases page with your ID barcode number.

Also for Faculty, EBSCO's Professional Development database has scholarly articles on higher education, for example, on quantitative literacy.

One More Database: Info To Go, formerly only in print, is now online. Info To Go is a monthly update on Internet news and information resources for educators and information professionals.
Check it out.

New Multi-Monitor Display
Coming soon to the atrium of the Library...read more

A New Technology Fellow is among us... read more

New Faces
Several new members of the LIT team arrived during the Fall 2006 semester.
Carmen in the Library
Esteban in Networking
Tonja in Database Programming