Check out a Nook or a Kindle to experiment with reading your favorite books on light weight e-devices. The Greenwood Library has purchased 12 Nooks and 12 Kindles to provide a way for LU students, faculty, and staff to interact with emerging book and information technologies. For more information, please go to the E-readers guide.
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Grant funding resources available
Are you looking for grants? You may find our new research guide helpful.
We are happy to announce that we have added a Grants guide to our research collection:
Grants Research Guide features resources on finding and applying for grants as well as our newly-acquired Foundation Center Cooperating Collection, including 2 new databases:
Foundation Directory Online (Professional), a comprehensive database for finding financial support for non-profits, and Foundation Grants to Individuals, a database that provides funding opportunities from nearly 2,000 programs funding individual grantseekers.
As a Cooperating Collection, the Greenwood Library houses a Foundation Center print collection devoted to foundations and grant-seeking resources. The collection is located in the Learning Commons and offers individuals and non-profit organizations the ability to identify funding resources. The two databases are accessible from any public workstation in the library. This print collection and licensed databases are provided as a service to the academic community and outreach to the public.
Have you looked for grant information before? What aspects did you find difficult to search for?
Emilie Richards at Friends of the Library Fall Event
Emilie Richards featured at Friends of the Janet D. Greenwood Library’s Fall event Friday, October 1, 2010 |
Emilie Richards, USA Today bestselling author, will speak on Friday, October 1st at 7 p.m. in the Atrium of the Janet D. Greenwood Library.
Richards is author of more than 60 fiction novels focusing on family and romance. Many of her novels feature complex characterizations and in-depth explorations of social issues, a result of her training and experience as a family counselor. Some of her popular series include Happiness Key, Ministry is Murder, Shenandoah Album, and Men of Midnight.
In 2004 Richards began a series of single-title novels centered around quilting. The novels were inspired by her work as a volunteer teaching quilting to residents of the Arkansas Ozark Mountains while she was an undergraduate student at Florida State University.
The program, sponsored by the Friends of the Janet D. Greenwood Library, will be preceded by a reception at 6 p.m. and followed by a book signing. Books for sale at the event include Happiness Key, Fortunate Harbor and Sister Choice.
This event is free and open to the public, though, due to limited seating, those interested in attending must RSVP to Keary Mariannino by phone (395-2431), email (marianninokm@longwood.edu), or in person (Room 121, Greenwood Library).
We look forward to seeing you on Oct. 1st!
Game Night Fall 2010
Greenwood Library is hosting their fall semi-annual game night, Friday, September 24th from 6:30 to 10. PLAY video games, board games, etc., enjoy refreshments and listen to great music provided by WMLU. We hope to see you there!
LISTA Full Text replaces Library Literature
Following evaluation by librarians and school library media faculty, the Greenwood Library has subscribed to LISTA (Library, Information Science, and Technology Abstracts) with Full Text instead of renewing its subscription to Library Literature.
LISTA with Full Text extends coverage of librarianship, classification, cataloging, and bibliometrics as far back as the mid-1960s and includes broader technology-related topics such as online information retrieval, information management and more. The database contains full text for more than 240 journals and indexes more than 600 journals, plus books, research reports and proceedings.
TeachingBooks.net and Guide to Reference
Greenwood Library has new and trial databases of interest to students and faculty in school library media, children’s literature, and elementary/secondary education.
TeachingBooks.net is a new database that contains multimedia resources about fiction and non-fiction books used in the K-12 teaching environment, including book guides, book readings, and author web sites.
Guide to Reference is a selective guide to the best reference sources, organized by academic discipline and published by the American Library Association. Individuals may set up their own user profiles so they can create and save lists, notes, and searches. The library has a 60-day free trial that will run until August 4, 2010.
Library Survey Prize Winners
Congratulations to grand prize winners Suzanne Locascio, Quan Zhou, Natalie Massey, and Steven Oliver, chosen at random from respondents to the Greenwood Library LibQUAL+ service quality survey. They are shown below receiving their prizes: an iPod Touch, a Nintendo Wii, a Nikon CoolPix camera, and a Tom Tom navigation system. Thirteen additional winners received Barnes & Noble gift cards.
Thanks to the 935 Longwood students, faculty, and staff who responded to the survey!
Suzanne Locascio and Dean of the Library, Wendell Barbour
Quan Zhou and Dean of the Library, Wendell Barbour
Natalie Massey and Dean of the Library, Wendell Barbour
Steven Oliver and Electronic Resources Librarian, Virginia Kinman
New self-checkout station in the library
Greenwood Library now has a second self-checkout station. It’s located in the library atrium, back to back with the first self-checkout that was added in 2005. Just scan your Longwood ID card and follow the instructions on the screen to check out books, CDs, and DVDs. If you have questions about using self-checkout, ask the person at the Information station. If you have fines or other holds on your library account, you will have to go to the Circulation Desk first.
Please come by and try it out!
Text a librarian! New!
Do you have a burning research question for a paper or assignment, but you’re on the go? Text a librarian at (434) 414-1305 until 10 pm on school nights and/or until 5 pm on Fridays and Saturdays.
African-American and Virginia Historical Newspapers Online
Two new databases are available at your fingertips:
African-American Newspapers, 1827-1998
Explore this database to compare and contrast African American views on practically every major theme of the American past. The database offers users valuable primary sources for cultural, literary, social history, and ethnic studies research by accessing approximately 270 U.S. newspapers.
Virginia Historical Newspapers, 1750 – 1880
Interested in local history or genealogy research? Browse over 70 Virginia newspapers from early 1750 to late 1880 for news, opinions, prices, birth and death notices.