2014 came and went, but 2015 has arrived. Lucky for you, new DVDs have arrived with it. If the new school year is bogging you down, check out these new DVDs to give you a break!
> As Above, So Below
> True Blood: The Complete Seventh Season
*Left Behind poster courtesy of Roger Ebert
Boyhood
The Drop
The Equalizer
Gone Girl
Left Behind
No Good Deed
When the Game Stands Tall
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.
The Library understands you may want the fastest and most direct way to find and access the resources you need for your coursework. With the start of Spring semester 2015, we have introduced a new feature in the Library’s OneSearch portal. In the upper left of the results page when searching in OneSearch, you’ll notice the header Refine Results, and beneath that, Current Search. Under Current Search, now you will find the default limiter, “In Print and Online at Longwood.” This automatically directs the search service to retrieve only the records for material which is directly available for your use, whether physically or electronically – ignoring all listings in databases for materials which are not either owned by the Library or available through Library resources.
This limiter can also be removed if you wish to search more broadly; clicking the white-on-blue “X” to the right of “In Print and Online at Longwood” disables the limiter, enabling the retrieval of citations and abstracts for un-owned materials, for which you may place Interlibrary Loan Requests (by clicking on the “Request through interlibrary loan” link in blue text beneath each result’s brief record). Closing your search page and restarting another search will re-enable the “In Print and Online at Longwood” limiter if you again wish to limit your search results.
We’ve reached the end of the semester and it’s time for a break. New DVDs are just what you need, and we’ve got them for you.
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
The Expendables 3
The Giver
The Hundred-Foot Journey
If I Stay
A Madea Christmas
The Maze Runner
The November Man
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Guardians of the Galaxy
Hercules
Into the Storm – coming soon
*Guardians of the Galaxy image from Wikipedia.
As you suit-of-armor up and prepare to battle Final Exams, the Library wants to support you with study breaks! Fort Finals begins Sunday, November 30th and ends Thursday, December 11. Healthy and sweet snacks start at 8pm each evening, and some of the activities will include:
Fort Finals Tent
Be sure to thank campus police for helping us stay open later hours. As always, many big thank yous to our daily sponsors:
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).