To celebrate the American Library Association’s National Library Week and follow the 2011 theme “Create your own story @ your library,” we asked LU students, staff and faculty what they liked most about the Janet D. Greenwood Library. Below is a video of their testimonials:
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The newly acquired database American History in Video is just right for you! It provides more than 5,000 streaming videos and searchable transcripts of documentaries from Biography, The History Channel, A&E, PBS, Bullfrog Films and more, as well as United News and Universal newsreels. Many of the videos are also listed in the library catalog.
Take a break and browse these videos by historical events, people or places.
American History in Video is provided by VIVA (Virtual Library of Virginia), the consortium of nonprofit academic libraries within the Commonwealth of Virginia. Members include all of Virginia’s state-assisted colleges and universities, as well as 33 private, nonprofit institutions and the Library of Virginia.
Have you ever wanted to look for journal articles AND books from a single search box? The Greenwood Library invites you to try the “one-stop” EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) on trial through May 2011.
This search tool allows you to use the familiar EBSCOhost interface to search the Library’s catalog and many of our article databases at one time. Test it from the library home page.
We hope you’ll also tell us your impressions. The Greenwood Library is considering purchasing this product. Your feedback will help us determine if EDS is a useful tool for conducting research at Longwood University.
Here are a few things to note about the trial:
If you have questions about the trial, which ends May 31, 2011, please contact the Learning Commons at x2435 or refdesk@longwood.edu.
Twelve Barnes and Noble’s Nook e-readers are available on a first-come, first-served basis. The Nook makes it easy to download free books and audio files from various online sites. To check out a Nook, please go to the Circulation/Reserve Desk. To find out more about loading free books & audio books please go to the E-readers guide.
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Twelve Amazon Kindle e-readers are available on a first-come, first-served basis with the following preloaded assortment of titles. To check out a Kindle, please go to the Circulation/Reserve Desk. To find out more about the E-readers Pilot Program, please go to the E-readers guide.
The Greenwood Library has purchased five digital collections of primary documents relevant to history, political science, sociology, and military science.
Two new Civil War archives complement the Civil War: Newspaper Perspective from Accessible Archives:
Three collections from Gale Cengage’s Archives Unbound offer full-text primary sources on a variety of topics:
Thank you to the artist who created this terrific white board drawing to share with everyone in the Library. We’d like to thank you personally, so let us know who you are and how we can contact you.
We have developed two new student work areas in the Library. Students may use our low, fun seating underneath the stairs on Floor 1 of the Library. On Floor 2, room 210, we have new individual and group work spaces; they have electricity and hardwired and wireless Internet connectivity for laptops. These spaces increase the number of student work areas in the Library. We hope you find them to be useful.
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In an effort to make Greenwood Library’s archival materials more accessible to the public and as an outreach to our alumni, the Library is participating in a mass digitization collaborative made possible through a Sloan Foundation Grant. Lyrasis, a regional non-profit membership organization serving libraries, is coordinating the project in partnership with Internet Archive, a non-profit building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. The Library’s digitization project includes Longwood’s yearbooks dated 1898 and titled Normal Light, through the Virginian, 2006. Each yearbook is searchable, can be viewed online, printed, or downloaded onto an e-reader such as the kindle. Choose a year, type in a name, and find a photo of a Longwood friend. Also included are the student publications the Normal Record, 1897, through Gyre, 1975. Soon to be added will be the student newspaper, The Rotunda, from 1920 through 2006. The collections are available at: http://www.archive.org/details/longwooduniversity. Click on “Browse by Subject/Keywords” and choose yearbooks or student publications. For more information, contact Pat Howe: howepa@longwood.edu or Lydia Williams: williamslc@longwood.edu.