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Archive for March, 2007

The library is launching a blog in order to share news about the many excellent resources and services available to our community. We invite you to comment online and to send us your own news about sources and research that you are engaged in on campus. In this way, we aim to facilitate a [...]

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The library provides access to our bindery service for Graduate students that are or will be completing a thesis.
There is a minimum requirement of 3 copies per student, although students are welcome to have additional copies bound. The price for binding is now $11 per copy. Additional information is available at http://www.fsc.edu/library/access/borrowing/index.html#thesis.
If you have any [...]

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Our staff has implemented a new service which makes it easy to connect to full-text journal articles available through the library databases. The “Get Article” service uses information from journal indexes to connect you to full-text articles.
Here’s how it works:
When you search a database and find [...]

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It’s crunch time for many of you!
Your librarians are here to help:
http://www.fsc.edu/library/ask
You’re keeping us busy at the reference desk where we have been helping students to start research papers, locate scholarly materials, cite sources, find company information and much more. Our data shows us that we answered more than 7300 questions last year. [...]

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Over the Spring break, the IT department installed brand new computers in the library. This is a significant improvement to our first floor research area which is heavily used throughout the week. The new workstations have a smaller footprint and much better monitors. They also have the Microsoft Office suite of programs.
The stand alone computers [...]

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As we plan for the future of the Amelia V. Gallucci-Cirio Library, it is important that we understand our users’ perceptions and expectations so that we can provide the services that you need. Your opinion counts!
Coming Soon!!
In early April, you will receive an email providing you with a link to our library service quality survey. [...]

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The library has a new display located on the 3rd floor near the Archives and Special Collections room depicting life in Miller Hall. Stop by and view images and memorabilia from the days when it served as a dorm.
The Library’s Archives and Special Collections contain a variety of documents relating to the history of [...]

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We are in the process of shifting books at the begining of the main book collection.
Call numbers beginning with letters A through DJ are on the 3rd floor. The collection continues on the 4th floor with call numbers DK through Z.

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ProQuest Education Journals
Our newest education database gives users access to over 730 top educational publications, including nearly 600 of the titles in full text. You will find complete information on hundreds of educational topics, this database offers complete text and images from journals such as:
• Childhood Education
• College Teaching
• Harvard Educational Review
• Journal of Athletic [...]

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The Professor Emerita Lillian M. Tater Children Literature Collection has a new home on the 3rd floor. The books were relocated to lower shelves in order to make browsing easier. This new area will also make this wonderful collection of books easier to find. This spring, education majors and students in the [...]

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