The Fall Semester is almost over! If you are looking for a much needed distraction, check out the new DVDs for November.
Jarhead 2: Field Of Fire – coming soon
*X-Men, How to Train Your Dragon, Let’s Be Cops, A Most Wanted Man, and Tammy posters from Wikipedia
For her internship, business student Jenny Silva will be helping the Library create personas. Personas are profiles of typical users of a product or place, created through actual data gathered from users and merged to create fictional (but likely) users to help guide decisions and better understand users needs and wants.
To gather data, we’ve created anonymous surveys that students, faculty and staff can complete. All answers are optional. Even if you’ve never used the Library, we are interested in your thoughts. Thank you for participating!
Survey for Students
Survey for Faculty/Staff
If you’d like to know more about the project or have any questions, please contact Amanda McLellan.
University of Richmond professor and Executive Producer and Host of the radio series “A Moment In Time” Dan Roberts will speak at Longwood University on November 4, 2014. Titled “The Last Great Battle: Losing Virginia’s Grasp on the National Myth”, the lecture will begin at 7:30pm in the Molnar Recital Hall in Wygal Music Building.
Sponsored in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Library of America, and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, the event is free and open to the public.
We are past midterms and things are probably pretty hectic in your life. If you find yourself looking for a break, come to the Library and grab one of these new titles!
Chef
Deliver Us From Evil
The Grand Seduction
Million Dollar Arm
Mr. Peabody and Sherman
Neighbors
Once Upon A Time: The Complete Third Season
Sex Tape
Snowpiercer
Check back next month for more new DVDs.
Greenwood Library is pleased to make available to the Longwood community a unique database from World Trade Press. “A to Z” is a survey of world nations and their cultures, with an added emphasis on business culture within different nations. Each country’s profile provides detailed coverage of more than 100 topics each, including the nation’s culture, currency, economy, food, greetings, holidays, human rights, language, stereotypes, weather, and much more.
You can access it from within Databases A – Z (which is linked from the library’s homepage), or directly here (requires Lancernet ID and password for off-campus access).
The semester is heating up and you might need a break from your studies. We bought a few new movies to help with that. Click on the titles below to find out their availability.
Belle
Brick Mansions
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Evergreen: The Road to Legalization
The Fault in Our Stars
Fed Up
Godzilla
Homeland: Season Three
Oculus
Think Like a Man Too
Transformers: Age of Extinction
A Haunted House 2– coming soon
Captain America and Belle poster images from Wikipedia.
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!
The Library’s computer printers use LancerCa$h. All users will need a current LancerCard or Guest Card for printing. Guest cards can be purchased for one dollar at a LancerCa$h add-value station, one of which is in the Library between the copiers. Printing costs 9 cents per page for black and white, and one dollar per page for color.
To print, you will log on to any of the desktop computers in the Library and open the file you wish to print, then follow the steps below.
Looking for some Friday fun? Join us September 12th from 1pm-6pm in the Library.
Kick start the weekend with a game of Apples to Apples, Pictionary, or Jenga.
Play out your rock star dreams with Wii Rock Band or PS3 Guitar Hero.
Just Dance, Dance on Broadway, or simply hang out with your favorite brothers, the Mario Brothers.
We’ll have food, music, board games, card games, and video games… just a sampling below:
We asked our staff what advice they would give to first year students at Longwood. What advice would you give?
Brad Taylor
1. Always re-write your notes after class and read over your notes before class – professors give pop quizzes.
2. Make friends in all your classes and outside of class
3. Participate in class – Sometimes extra points toward your grade
4. Enjoy College Life – Goes by way too fast!
Tammy Hines
The early bird gets the newest DVDs!
Ken Vaiden
Rest, Relax, Trust in your abilities, work hard, do not be afraid to ask for help, remember to enjoy the experience.
Amanda Hartman
It’s okay to admit that you need help! I thought I was supposed to already know how to do everything when I started college, but I learned a lot by asking my professors, librarians, and other college staff. Remember that we are here to help you succeed!
Oh, and keep your eyes open for free food!
Ruth Gowin
Don’t go crazy your first time being away from parents and the structure they provided you back home! Remember the reason you are here – to study and learn, not to party! I have seen students who can not handle their newfound freedom and flunk out, sadly. This is a big opportunity lost.