Author Archives: Amanda McLellan

Feb 20 2008
Events

Coffee With Virgil

Where: Greenwood Library – Children’s Literature Room
When: February 26, 2008
Time: 3:30 pm

Please come for some coffee and a brief discussion (interactive we hope)
of Virgil the celebrated classical Roman poet. He was born October 15, 70 BCE
and died September 21, 19 BCE. He authored three types of epics: the Bucolics
(or Eclogues), the Georgics and the virtually completed Aeneid, the last
an epic poem in imitation of Homer. This work became the Roman Empire’s
national epic.

“Virgil is suddenly newsy” reported the New York Times (Ja. 2007).
Nicholas Kristof invokes the Aeneid as a “tale of war and empire, and a
constant subtext is how easy it is to be uncivilized when promoting civilization.
[…] In war, moderation is the first casualty.” Of the new version by
distinguished translator Robert Fagles, an Atlantic Monthly reviewer wrote
that it is “…for our age, if not necessarily for the ages.”

After coffee and a social, Raymond Cormier will lead the discussion.

Jan 22 2008
Events

Spring 2008 Library in the Afternoon Series

The Janet D. Greenwood Library is continuing its monthly series, “What is the Library doing for me?” to inform the Longwood community about library services and new products. To R.S.V.P. to our programs or comment, please contact Liz Kocevar-Weidinger at x2445 or kocevarweidingerea@longwood.edu.

Session Date/Time
RSS Feeds Wednesday, January 23rd, 3 – 4 p.m.
Black History Month Wednesday, February 6th, 3 – 4 p.m.
Women’s History Month Wednesday, March 5th, 3 – 4 p.m.

RSS Feeds – What is an RSS Feed?

What can it do for me? What can it do for students?

When: Wednesday, January 23rd, 3 – 4 p.m.
Where: Library Computing Center, 2nd Floor Children’s Collection
Presenter: Tatiana Pashkova-Balkenhol, Assistant Instruction/Reference Services Librarian, Janet D. Greenwood Library

What is an RSS Feed? We’ll tell you, plus teach you how to use this new technology to keep up with information in your fields of interest.

RSS saves time. Instead of remembering to visit a favorite Website, the news or information you want comes directly into your computer at whatever interval you want. In addition, most RSS feeds contain only links, headlines, or brief synopses of new information.

Black History Month

What resources are available for my students and me for research?

When: Wednesday, February 6th, 3 – 4 p.m.
Where: Library, Room 147B
Presenter: Virginia Kinman, Electronic Resources Librarian, Janet D. Greenwood Library

Virginia Kinman will provide an overview of the resources available for research on the African-American Experience through Greenwood Library.  The focus of this session will be recent acquisitions and primary resources. This session is particularly geared towards faculty and students researching or taking classes in either African Studies or African American Studies.

Women’s History Month

What resources are available for my students and me for research?

When: Wednesday, March 5th, 3 – 4 p.m.
Where: Library room 147B
Presenter: Mark Lenker, Assistant Instruction/Reference Services Librarian,
Janet D. Greenwood Library

Mark Lenker will provide an overview of the resources available for Women’s and Gender studies available through the Greenwood Library. The focus of this session will be the multi-disciplinary nature of research in this area.  This session is particularly geared towards faculty and students researching or taking classes in Women’s or Gender Studies.

Nov 08 2007
Databases

VIVA Cancels Databases Because of Budget Cuts

VIVA has announced that it will cancel three databases and two full-text journal resources because of state budget cuts:

  • Associations Unlimited (12/14/07)
  • Biography & Geneaology Master Index (12/14/07)
  • LexisNexis Statistical (2/28/08)
  • Cambridge Journals Online& (12/18/07)
  • Duke University Press Journals (12/31/07)

The Greenwood Library will not be picking up these subscriptions due to our budget cuts, so access to these resources will terminate on the indicated end date.

The library’s subscription to Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated will continue to provide online biographical information. STAT-USA and Historical Statistics of the United States will serve as alternate online sources of U.S. statistical data.

Cambridge and Duke journals for which the library maintains a paid subscription will still be accessible in the format indicated by the individual title subscription terms. Interlibrary loan will be the only way to obtain articles in the 190 Cambridge University Press journals for which the library has no other access.

Sep 24 2007
Events, Services

Fall 2007 Library in the Afternoon Series

This year the Janet D. Greenwood Library will offer a monthly series, “What is the Library doing for me?” to inform faculty, staff, and students about library services and new products. To R.S.V.P. or comment, please contact Liz Kocevar-Weidinger at x2445 or kocevarweidingerea@longwood.edu.

Session Date/Time
What is LibX? Wednesday, September 26th, 3 – 4 p.m.
What is the Learning Center? Wednesday, October 17th, 3 – 4 p.m.
What is RefWorks? Wednesday, November 14th, 3 – 4 p.m.

LibX – What is LibX?

What can it do for me? What can it do for students?

When: Wednesday, September 26th, 3 – 4 p.m.
Where: Library Computing Center, 2nd Floor Children’s Collection
Presenter: Mark Lenker, Assistant Instruction/Reference Services Librarian, Janet D. Greenwood Library

LibX modifies your Internet browser to provide direct access to the Library’s resources from most locations on the web. For example, if you see an interesting book at Amazon.com or the New York Times Review of Books, or an article in Google Scholar, you can check to see if the Library owns it with a single mouse click. It also allows you to search directly from the references page of online documents – even PDFs!

Learning Services – What is the Learning Center?

What can it do for me? What can it do for students?

When: Wednesday, October 17th, 3 – 4 p.m.
Where: Library, Room 147B
Presenter: Rebecca Sturgill, Learning Center Director, Janet D. Greenwood Library

Topics for discussion will include the following: what is the role of our Learning Center; what services does the Learning Center offer and to whom; does learning assistance make a difference in students’ success; how critical is faculty support; and what can faculty do to support student use of the Learning Center? Come and discuss strategies faculty, campus administration, learning support center personnel, and students can use to optimize learning and success.

RefWorks – What is RefWorks?

What can it do for me? What can it do for students?

When: Wednesday, November 14th, 3 – 4 p.m.
Where: Library Computing Center, 2nd Floor in the Children’s Collection
Presenter: Liz Kocevar-Weidinger, Instruction/Reference Services Librarian, Janet D.
Greenwood Library

RefWorks allows you to generate your personal bibliographic database by importing references from online databases into your own web-based account. These references can then be integrated into papers and can also be used to format bibliographies.

During this session, you will create a personal Refworks account on the web, create a database of cited literature by importing references from online databases, and learn how to organize references and generate bibliographies.

Sep 12 2007
Events

Ice-Skating, Dickens, Motoring and Route 66

On Thursday, September 27, the library will host an event in a series of ongoing lectures related to the Greenwood Library’s archival and special collections. This event will feature Dr. Mike Lund, professor of English at Longwood University, and author of the Route 66 novels. Dr. Lund will speak in the Atrium of the Greenwood Library at 3:30 p.m. on a topic that relates to both the Library’s rare book collection and its collection of faculty publications. The title of Dr. Lund’s presentation is “Ice-Skating in Charles Dickens’ Novel, The Pickwick Papers, and Motoring along in the Route 66 Movie, Cars.” Charles Dickens’ popularity with a mass audience was launched through the serialization of his first novel, The Pickwick Papers. Charles Dickens’ story has inspired two interpretations of literary history, one based on the concept of the writer’s genius and another on the emergence of new readerships. Popular recent books and movies about historic Route 66 in America can similarly be explained as the product of individual talent or of forces reshaping American society.

Following the presentation, refreshments will be served in the Library’s Special Collections Room. Dr. Lund will be on hand to sign copies of his books, which the Barnes and Noble Bookstore will make available for purchase.

Greenwood Library’s first edition of The Pickwick Papers—in nineteen monthly parts—will be on display as well as the speaker’s Route 66 novels.

Apr 16 2007
Events

Friends of the Greenwood Library

The inaugural event of the Friends of the Janet D. Greenwood Library on April 27 will feature a program by Henry Wiencek, author of The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White and An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America. The opening reception begins at 6 pm in the atrium and will close with a book signing session in the Special Collections Room. Please contact Tonya Smith via email or at 434.395.2431 for more information.

The first newsletter of the Friends of the Greenwood Library is now available, with articles about the recently opened Special Collections Room on the second floor and the new learning spaces in the library’s Information Center. Click here to read the newsletter and learn how you can become a Friend of the Greenwood Library.

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Apr 10 2007
Services

Visit the Library’s Special Collections Room

The Janet D. Greenwood Library now has a Special Collections Room which is filled with a variety of unique book collections. The collections include Longwood faculty publications, the Virginia Authors Collection, the Virginiana Collection, the Edward Gorey Collection, the Droessler Collection, and a collection of rare books. This room holds treasurers that are priceless—some because they are inscribed by the author, some because of the illustrative matter, some because they are first edition classics and some because they are no longer available in print but have an enduring value.

The room is a warm and inviting place to visit; it is a place where you can sit and read from one of the many books housed on its shelves. Books may be used in the room during the open hours. The room is open during the academic sessions on Monday through Thursday from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.; it is open on Friday from 10:00 am. to 12:00 p.m. The room is closed during fall and spring breaks. Special Collections Usage Policies and Procedures has more information about hours and using the materials.

The Special Collections Room is located on the west end of the second floor of the library. You are invited to visit the room and enjoy browsing through some of the treasures that make this room so special.

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Mar 26 2007
Events

Presentation on the “Longwood Revolution of 76″

On April 5 the library will sponsor its premiere event in a series of ongoing lectures related to the Greenwood Library’s archival and special collections. This first event will feature Dr. James Jordan, professor of Anthropology at Longwood University. Dr. Jordan will speak in the Library Atrium at 3:30 p.m. on a topic that relates to the history of the University — “The Longwood Revolution of 76: The History of the Male Student at Longwood.” Following this presentation, refreshments will be served outside the Special Collections Room on the second floor which will be open for all to visit. This will be an opportunity for you to learn more about the history of Longwood and to visit the Greenwood Library’s new Special Collections Room.

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Mar 05 2007
Databases

Women’s History Month Online Resources

The Greenwood Library has free access to three full-text collections of primary sources related to women’s studies from Alexander Street Press during the month of March. These may be accessed from on-campus locations through March 31:

  • British and Irish Women’s Letters and Diaries contain the personal writings, many of them previously unpublished, of women from England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales from 1500 through the 1950s, including recently acquired items from the Imperial War Museum in London.
  • North American Women’s Letters and Diaries draws from more than 1,000 sources to document the views of women in the U.S. and Canada on personal experiences and historical events from colonial times to the 1950s.
  • Women and Social Movements in the U.S. examines perspectives on women’s social activism from colonial times to the present by combining primary documents and images with scholarly essays.

Other resources available on the Women’s Studies Databases page include three full-text databases: Contemporary Women’s Issues, Women Working 1870-1930, and the Women’s Studies Encyclopedia.

Feb 09 2007
Databases

Black History Month Online Resources

The Greenwood Library has free access to three full-text collections of fiction and non-fiction writings by African Americans from Alexander Street Press during the month of February. These may be accessed from on-campus locations through February 28:

  • Black Drama contains approximately 1200 plays by 201 playwrights as well as selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays.
  • Black Thought and Culture contains letters, speeches, essays, political leaflets, trial transcripts, and interviews of important African Americans, including 2,500 pages of exclusive Black Panther oral histories.
  • Black Women Writers contains fiction, nonfiction and poetry by women from North America, Africa and the Caribbean plus genre studies and essays about the history of the feminist movement in these regions.

The Library also has continuing access to the Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, which chronicles the African experience in the Americas through scholarly essays, research, primary sources, timelines, video clips and images on multidisciplinary topics such as black women’s studies, religion, black cinema, the black press, African-American labor history, slavery, and sexuality.

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