Longwood University Library

Through our relationship with the Virtual Library of Virginia, we now have access to the EBL e-book collection which contains almost 3,000 books in the areas of science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and health.  Publishers included in EBL include Wiley, Oxford University Press, Sage, McGraw-Hill, and Jossey-Bass.  E-books from this collection can be read online or checked out to a tablet or e-reader for seven-day loans.  If you are using this collection on or off campus, you will need to use your LU username and password to access, and choose Longwood University as your affiliated institution.

While you are spending some, or all, of your evening with us, keep in mind that Instructional Technology Collaborators (ITC’s) and Resident Technology Associates (RTA’s) are available in the Library each evening throughout the week.  ITC’s are available Sundays from 5-9pm, and Monday-Thursday from 6-8pm.  RTA’s are available Sunday-Thursday from 7-9pm.

What can an RTA or ITC do for you?  Click on the chart below to determine who you should meet with:

Beginning Sunday, December 1, join us as we kick off the last two weeks of the semester in the Library.  As deadlines and studying begin to take over your days and nights, take a study break in the Atrium or stay until 2am as we begin extended hours.  Here are the details:

• Fort Finals:  We’ve turned our study break tent into a winter wonderland in the Atrium!  Stop by from Sunday December 1 – Wednesday, December 4 at 8pm for healthy and sweet snacks, postcards to send home, make a snowflake station, and our LU snowman photo booth.
• Extended hours:  Beginning Monday, December 2, we will be open until 2am.  To find out more about our hours, click here. 
• Cookie breaks:  Every evening from Thursday, December 5 – Thursday, December 12 cookies will be available on the first floor.

Thanks to our Fort Finals sponsors: Cook-Cole College of Arts & Sciences, Cormier Honors College, Dining Services, the Office of Enrollment Management and Student Success, and LU’s The Big Event.

Great news for scholars and students of English literature and language!  We have recently switched content providers (from Gale to Proquest) for the Modern Language Association (MLA) International Bibliography; take a look at it’s new look and interface.  This index is considered the leading annual bibliography of books and articles of modern languages and literatures, literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts, linguistics, folklore, and other related topics.

In addition, we now have access to Literature Online (LION), which includes over 350,000 texts of literature as well as a vast collection of criticism and reference, such as the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL).  Other resources included in LION are:  The full nine-volume Bibliography of American Literature, the full text Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare, the W.B. Yeats collections, and Twentieth Century American Poetry, which includes 500 volumes of modern and contemporary writing.

You can still access Literature Resources from Gale for critical essays and author biographies from Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and Gale literary criticism series.

Interested in exploring tablet technology as part of a class assignment or campus event?  We now have 30 iPads available for checkout!  Similar to our other multimedia equipment, the loan period for iPads is 72 hours.  The iPad comes in a carrying case with charging cables.  The standard applications are included, but the tablet can be customized by signing into your personal iTunes account.  After the iPad is checked back in, it will be cleared of all personal data and downloads.  To learn more, read the iPad Use Policy.

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As new students, faculty, and staff begin their journey at Longwood with the dawn of a new school year, make sure you are in the know with Greenwood Library!  Like us on Facebook to keep up with the latest happenings in the Library (we post lots of photos!)  and follow us on Twitter to join in the conversation with other Lancers.

Demolition is underway in the Library!  The Circulation/Reserve desk is receiving an updated design this summer that will provide a warm and inviting service point for our community.  The new desk will be a more functional space for both our patrons and Library staff.

Making way for a new desk!

Renovations should be completed by the beginning of the fall semester.  If you are visiting us over the next few weeks, you will notice that our temporary Circulation desk will be located in the Atrium, directly ahead of you as you enter the Library.  As always, please let us know if you have questions!

Temporary Circulation desk location starting July 11th.

Are you curious how we make sounds? Speech Language Pathologists know that verbal communication involves physical processes and movements that many of us take for granted. Greenwood Library is happy to make available Speech Language Pathology (Anatomy.tv).  Speech Language Pathology (Anatomy.tv) is an interactive, digital resource developed by Primal Pictures, which provides 3D modeling views of the head and neck including facial muscles, tongue, oral and nasal cavities, larynx, pharynx, ear, and nerves — all aspects of human anatomy that affect speech.  Dive in by accessing Databases A-Z from the Greenwood Library homepage and locating Speech Language Pathology!