Meet Your LibrarianNatalie Browning serves the information needs of students and faculty in Accounting, Economics, Finance, & Real Estate, Management & Marketing, Information System & Security, Nursing, and Psychology. As your liaison, she provides research consultations, information literacy instruction, and collection development. Contact Natalie (browningnl@longwood.edu) with your reference questions or to schedule a research consultation.
Meet Your LibrarianTammy Hines serves the information needs of students and faculty in Biological & Environmental Sciences, Chemistry & Physics, Education, Special Education, HARK, International Studies, Mathematics & Computer Science, and Speech & Language Pathology. As your liaison, she provides research consultations, information literacy instruction, and collection development. Contact Tammy (hinestm@longwood.edu) with your reference questions or to schedule a research consultation.
Meet Your LibrarianSarah Reynolds serves the information needs of students and faculty in Music, Theatre, Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice. As your liaison, she provides research consultations, information literacy instruction, and collection development. Contact Sarah (reynoldsst@longwood.edu) with your reference questions or to schedule a research consultation.
Meet Your LibrarianJennifer Beach serves the information needs of students and faculty in English & Modern Languages, History, Political Science, Philosophy, and Women & Gender Studies. As your liaison, she provides research consultations, information literacy instruction, and collection development. Contact Jennifer (beachjs@longwood.edu) with your reference questions or to schedule a research consultation.
Meet Your LibrarianVicki Palmer serves the information needs of students and faculty in Art, Graphic Design, Communication Studies, Communication Sciences & Disorders, and Social Work. As your liaison, she provides research consultations, information literacy instruction, and collection development. Contact Vicki (palmervm@longwood.edu) with your reference questions or to schedule a research consultation.
Due inclement weather, Greenwood Library will be open 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. on Friday, March 6.
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Most titles in the JSTOR (The Scholarly Journal Archive) database have “moving walls” which represents the time period between the last issue available in JSTOR and the most recently published issue of a journal. Publishers determine the moving wall length in their license agreements with JSTOR. Moving walls may range from zero to ten years, although most titles range between 3 and 5 years. The attached list represents the issues of print titles that Greenwood Library subscribes to that are now available in electronic format through JSTOR.
We are offering these print issues to academic departments for departmental use only. This transaction is considered to be a department to department transfer and the issues must be housed in the department. If you would like any of these issues for your department, please fill out the Interdepartmental transfer form and send it to Tammy Hines at Greenwood Library.
If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact Tammy Hines (hinestm@longwood.edu), Head of Collections and Information Services, or Blaze Pappas (pappasbe@longwood.edu), Collections Manager.
2015 JSTOR Titles for Departmental Transfer 
(This file will download.)
During the 2015 Spring semester, the Library needs your engagement and advice as we undertake a serials review. Serials subscriptions typically increase in price from 8% – 12% annually, however we sometimes see increases as high as 100%. This serials review ensures that we are acquiring the best resources for your teaching and scholarship needs within the confines of our budget.
What is a Serials Review?
The purpose of this review is to retain the most critical resources for the Longwood community. It is also an opportunity to refine our subscriptions to better reflect current curricular needs. Our goal is to ensure we continue to support your areas of scholarship as well as add key new journals in important areas of research. Because the Greenwood Library collection is a living and growing collection, in order to stay relevant and current, we need to unsubscribe to some titles that were selected many years ago and are no longer relevant to your curricula or titles that have not lived up to expectations. We are not targeting a specific dollar amount of savings; rather, conducting a Serials Review periodically is considered a best practice among collections librarians and allows us to investigate new titles.
What can you do to help?
Members of the faculty can take a variety of actions that will contribute to the success of the serials review. These include:
When will any cancellations go into effect?
Most of the cancellations will take effect in FY 2016-2017. This means that, in most instances, the Library’s subscriptions and standing orders for titles slated for cancellation will end with the 2015 volume.
How can I get access to a title I need if it has been cancelled?
Copies of journal articles may be obtained through the Library’s Interlibrary Loan (ILLiad) service that is offered to Longwood faculty, staff, and students. In most cases, articles are posted as PDFs on a server within the ILLiad system. Requests may be submitted online via the Interlibrary Loan link on the Library’s Homepage or from the FindIt! Buttons found in online databases.
What is on the Spreadsheet?
There are master alphabetical lists at the start of the spreadsheet for journals, and standing orders. The tabs after these include titles by departmental fund codes. You will notice that some of the prices are zeroed out. There are a few reasons for the “zero” amounts. Some are memberships or part of a bundle of titles and the total cost is listed elsewhere; some are part of our VIVA (The Virtual Library of Virginia) collection, which cannot be dropped.
Serials List for Review (This file will download.)
How will the Library conduct the serials review?
Your input is needed by April 30, 2015. Please take a moment to review the titles in your areas of expertise and make a note of any we should retain, as well as those you feel we could drop, we would truly appreciate your help.
If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact Tammy Hines, Head of Collections and Information Services, or Blaze Pappas, Collections Manager.
For faculty linking to or embedding video from the Films on Demand database: the URLs will be changing this week and you will need to update your links.
While the old URLs will still work, they direct users to a general index page from which they must browse to the desired title. To include a link, find the video or clip you wish from the database and scroll to the bottom of the page. Select the URL and place that link in Canvas.
As always, if you need help, please don’t hesitate to ask us!
It has been several years since Greenwood Library piloted the first instance of wordpress at Longwood. Since that time, the Digital Education Collaborative (DEC) was formed to support instructional technology, and we believe that Longwood Blogs is a natural fit under their mission.
As of today, August 11, the DEC will be the primary point of contact and support for the Longwood Blogs WordPress platform. Both the DEC and Greenwood Library will be working collaboratively to ensure that this transition is conducted as smoothly as possible for both faculty and students. The Library will still provide library instruction sessions as well as research support; for more information, questions, or concerns, please contact us.
The Library and DEC are excited to partner to provide better service to our students, faculty, and staff!
