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Feb 20 2011

Databases

New History Primary Source Databases

The Greenwood Library has purchased five digital collections of primary documents relevant to history, political science, sociology, and military science.

Two new Civil War archives complement the Civil War: Newspaper Perspective from Accessible Archives:

Civil War: The Soldiers’ Perspective contains regimental histories published after the war as well as rosters and muster lists of all Union regiments.
Civil War: The Generals’ Perspective contains books and memoirs with an emphasis on battle strategies and tactics, primarily by Union officers with some Confederate generals’ narratives.

Three collections from Gale Cengage’s Archives Unbound offer full-text primary sources on a variety of topics:

Mountain People: Life and Culture in Appalachia contains diaries, journals, and narratives of explorers, emigrants, military men, Native Americans, and travelers about Appalachia.
“We Were Prepared for the Possibility of Death:” Freedom Riders in the South, 1961 contains primary documents from the FBI Library related to the 1961 Freedom Ride and subsequent events.
Witchcraft in Europe and America includes classic texts, anti-persecution writings, legal and church documents, transcripts of trials and exorcisms and other documents, primarily in English, Latin or German.

Feb 02 2011

Miscellaneous

Looking for the artist

Thank you to the artist who created this terrific white board drawing to share with everyone in the Library. We’d like to thank you personally, so let us know who you are and how we can contact you.

Feb 02 2011

Services

We have developed two new student work areas in the Library. Students may use our low, fun seating underneath the stairs on Floor 1 of the Library. On Floor 2, room 210, we have new individual and group work spaces; they have electricity and hardwired and wireless Internet connectivity for laptops. These spaces increase the number of student work areas in the Library. We hope you find them to be useful.

Jan 20 2011

Alerts, Services

Important Printing/Photocopy Charging Changes

Who’s effected?

Everyone who prints in the campus computing labs or who prints/photocopies in the Greenwood Library.
Non-affiliated users: If you are not affiliated with Longwood you may purchase a “Guest Card” for $1 at the Add Value Station located in Lankford Hall. You will then need to add funds to this card through the same machine or in the LancerCard Center located in G22 Lancaster Hall

What’s changed?

You must have a cash balance on your Lancer CA$H account to print or photocopy in the labs and/or Library. Print charges will no longer be billed to your student account. Photocopies cost $.08 and computer prints cost $.09 for b/w and $1.00 for color.

When does this change take effect?

January 18, 2011
For more information about Lancer CA$H, visit our website at www.longwood.edu/lancercard

How to deposit money:

In person at the LancerCard Center in G22 Lancaster Hall (cash, checks, MasterCard and Visa accepted)
At the Add-Value station in Lankford (cash only)
Online at www.longwood.edu/lancercard (MasterCard and Visa)

Jan 18 2011

Services

Yearbook Digitization Project

In an effort to make Greenwood Library’s archival materials more accessible to the public and as an outreach to our alumni, the Library is participating in a mass digitization collaborative made possible through a Sloan Foundation Grant. Lyrasis, a regional non-profit membership organization serving libraries, is coordinating the project in partnership with Internet Archive, a non-profit building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. The Library’s digitization project includes Longwood’s yearbooks dated 1898 and titled Normal Light, through the Virginian, 2006. Each yearbook is searchable, can be viewed online, printed, or downloaded onto an e-reader such as the kindle. Choose a year, type in a name, and find a photo of a Longwood friend. Also included are the student publications the Normal Record, 1897, through Gyre, 1975. Soon to be added will be the student newspaper, The Rotunda, from 1920 through 2006. The collections are available at: http://www.archive.org/details/longwooduniversity. Click on “Browse by Subject/Keywords” and choose yearbooks or student publications. For more information, contact Pat Howe: howepa@longwood.edu or Lydia Williams: williamslc@longwood.edu.

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Jan 10 2011

Events

Game Day!

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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Nov 17 2010

Alerts, Services

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

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Nov 10 2010

Databases

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.

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Nov 08 2010

Databases

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.

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Oct 28 2010

Databases

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.

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