Greenwood Library is hosting Game Day, Tuesday, January 18th from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m. Come play video games, board games, card games, and enjoy refreshments before classes start. We hope to see you there!
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Library opening at 7:30 a.m.
We are pleased to announce that due to high-demand and increased usage, the Library will now open at 7:30 a.m. when classes are in session.
When classes are not in-session, the Library will open at 8:00 a.m.
This change will take effect Wednesday, Nov. 17th, 2010.
Thank you,
The Library
Business E-Book Collection Trials
The Greenwood Library has 30-day trials of two business e-book collections. Both trials run into the first week of December.
- Books 24×7 BusinessPro and FinancePro includes publications from AMACOM, ASTD, Bloomberg Press, Harvard Business School, John Wiley & Sons, Jossey- Bass, McGraw-Hill, MIT Press, Oxford University Press and more.
- Safari Business Books Online includes over 1,900 titles from well-known publishers in the field, including AMACOM, Addison-Wesley, Wharton School and more.
You may access the collections and provide feedback on our new Trial Databases guide.
Major Historical Sources Available for Trial Access
The Greenwood Library is evaluating a number of major archival sources that support research in a wide variety of disciplines, including history, political science, sociology, communication studies, language and literature, and more.
Most of the trials run through the first week of December. You may access all of them on our new Trial Databases guide and provide your feedback. The databases include:
- Times Digital Archive – every issue of The Times (London) from 1785 to 1985.
- British Literary Manuscripts Online, c. 1660-1900 – poems, plays, essays, novels, diaries, journals, correspondence and other manuscripts from the Restoration through the Victorian era.
- 19th Century Masterfile – index to Anglo-American materials published prior to 1925, including Poole’s Index to Periodical Literature, 1802-1906, Stead’s, Royal Society scientific publications and Swem’s Virginia Index 1619-1930.
- German Biographical Archive (DBA I) – articles from 265 sources published from 1707 to 1913 in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, former or partly German-speaking areas such as East Prussia, Silesia, Pomerania and Livland.
NBC News Archive Database Trial
Greenwood Library has a free trial of the NBC News Archives on Demand database for the rest of the Fall 2010 semester.
NBC News Archives on Demand is specifically tailored to the needs of college and university students and instructors. The 26 “course” collections include Biology, Psychology, Forensic Sciences, Environmental Sciences, U.S. History, Business, Economics, Urban Studies, Women’s Studies, and many more.
The trial will run through December 10, 2010 and may be accessed only from an on-campus computer. To access and comment on the NBC News on Demand and other active database trials, visit the Trial Databases guide at http://libguides.longwood.edu/trials.
Read Your Favorite Books on Nooks & Kindles @ Greenwood Library
Check out a Nook or a Kindle to experiment with reading your favorite books on light weight e-devices. The Greenwood Library has purchased 12 Nooks and 12 Kindles to provide a way for LU students, faculty, and staff to interact with emerging book and information technologies. For more information, please go to the E-readers guide.
Grant funding resources available
Are you looking for grants? You may find our new research guide helpful.
We are happy to announce that we have added a Grants guide to our research collection:
Grants Research Guide features resources on finding and applying for grants as well as our newly-acquired Foundation Center Cooperating Collection, including 2 new databases:
Foundation Directory Online (Professional), a comprehensive database for finding financial support for non-profits, and Foundation Grants to Individuals, a database that provides funding opportunities from nearly 2,000 programs funding individual grantseekers.
As a Cooperating Collection, the Greenwood Library houses a Foundation Center print collection devoted to foundations and grant-seeking resources. The collection is located in the Learning Commons and offers individuals and non-profit organizations the ability to identify funding resources. The two databases are accessible from any public workstation in the library. This print collection and licensed databases are provided as a service to the academic community and outreach to the public.
Have you looked for grant information before? What aspects did you find difficult to search for?
Emilie Richards at Friends of the Library Fall Event
Emilie Richards featured at Friends of the Janet D. Greenwood Library’s Fall event Friday, October 1, 2010 |
Emilie Richards, USA Today bestselling author, will speak on Friday, October 1st at 7 p.m. in the Atrium of the Janet D. Greenwood Library.
Richards is author of more than 60 fiction novels focusing on family and romance. Many of her novels feature complex characterizations and in-depth explorations of social issues, a result of her training and experience as a family counselor. Some of her popular series include Happiness Key, Ministry is Murder, Shenandoah Album, and Men of Midnight.
In 2004 Richards began a series of single-title novels centered around quilting. The novels were inspired by her work as a volunteer teaching quilting to residents of the Arkansas Ozark Mountains while she was an undergraduate student at Florida State University.
The program, sponsored by the Friends of the Janet D. Greenwood Library, will be preceded by a reception at 6 p.m. and followed by a book signing. Books for sale at the event include Happiness Key, Fortunate Harbor and Sister Choice.
This event is free and open to the public, though, due to limited seating, those interested in attending must RSVP to Keary Mariannino by phone (395-2431), email (marianninokm@longwood.edu), or in person (Room 121, Greenwood Library).
We look forward to seeing you on Oct. 1st!
Game Night Fall 2010
Greenwood Library is hosting their fall semi-annual game night, Friday, September 24th from 6:30 to 10. PLAY video games, board games, etc., enjoy refreshments and listen to great music provided by WMLU. We hope to see you there!
LISTA Full Text replaces Library Literature
Following evaluation by librarians and school library media faculty, the Greenwood Library has subscribed to LISTA (Library, Information Science, and Technology Abstracts) with Full Text instead of renewing its subscription to Library Literature.
LISTA with Full Text extends coverage of librarianship, classification, cataloging, and bibliometrics as far back as the mid-1960s and includes broader technology-related topics such as online information retrieval, information management and more. The database contains full text for more than 240 journals and indexes more than 600 journals, plus books, research reports and proceedings.