Welcome! To all of our returning students, welcome back to FSC. To our first-year students who are just starting your time at Fitchburg State College, we hope that your time here at FSC is enjoyable, productive, and fulfilling!
As you get into the swing of the semester, be sure to visit the Gallucci-Cirio Library in the Hammond Building. If you are just starting out at FSC, the first thing that you’ll need to know is that your One Card serves as your library card. You can check out books and access our journal databases off-campus with your Falcon ID, which is right on the front of your card.
Be sure to check out our Library Homepage if you haven’t already. This page is your gateway to the Amelia V. Gallucci-Cirio Library’s many services and helpful information.
Follow the library online on Twitter, as well as Facebook. You can also send an instant message to a Fitchburg State College Librarian using the meebo box right on this page, or with AIM, Yahoo, MSN, or GoogleTalk. Just send an IM to fsclibrary using any of those services.
The Library hours this semester are as follows: (Starting 9/8/09)
We hope you enjoy your time at Fitchburg State College, and hope to see you in the library! Always remember that our friendly librarians are here to help!
Mergent Online contains company information and financials, including annual reports, EDGAR filings and more, on over 15,000 public US companies and over 20,000 non-US companies.
To access the trial, visit http://www.MergentOnline.com. Click on the Enter Mergent Online button on the top left of the landing page.
Username: fitchburg
Password: mergent
** Note: this trial only allows for 5 simultaneous users. The trial will be available until July 8, 2009.
Leave us a comment and let us know what you think!
The Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Report has been the United States’ principal record of political and historical open source intelligence for nearly 70 years. The original mission of the FBIS was to monitor, record, transcribe and translate intercepted radio broadcasts from foreign governments, official news services, and clandestine broadcasts from occupied territories. Available in a single, complete online collection, FBIS Daily Reports, 1941-1996 constitutes a one-of-a-kind archive of transcripts of foreign broadcasts and news that provides fascinating insight into the second half of the 20th century: Many of these materials are firsthand reports of events as they occurred.
Try this new database here, and leave us a comment to let us know what you think!
In keeping with the new facebook layout, the library has created a new Page (instead of our old “Reference Librarians” profile). Come visit us and become a fan to receive updates about hours, research help, and events at the library!
Even though it is summer, the library remains open and ready to help with your studies! Whether you are taking an on-campus class or an online one, the library’s resources are here to help.
Need more help? Reference librarians will be on duty all summer! Contact us through the Ask A Librarian page, or just meebo us through the chat box right on this blog.
While Wikipedia does its best to keep inaccurate information from its content, this article shows just how easy it is for fiction to be mistaken for fact in the Wikipedia universe.
The Library is testing out Morningstar Investment Research Center, a subscription business database. Morningstar provides daily updates on more than 30,000 mutual funds & stocks, and also includes Morningstar fund and stock screeners, fund and stock Analyst Reports, Portfolio X-Ray and 150 investment classes.
(To access the Morningstar trial: Username: fitchburg Password: college)
Don’t forget to take advantage of Late Night Reference to get you through your last push for classes! Librarians will be available through Meebo until 11 PM Monday 5/4 and Tuesday 5/5!
The Library will also be open the following hours through finals:
Monday 5/4 – Thursday 5/7: 8 AM – Midnight Friday 5/8: 8 AM – 10 PM Saturday 5/9: 10 AM – 10 PM Sunday 5/10: 1 PM – Midnight Monday 5/11 – Tuesday 5/12: 8 AM – Midnight Wednesday 5/13 – Friday 5/15: 8 AM – 5 PM
The last day of classes is Wednesday, May 6 and we know you have a lot to do. If you need help from a librarian, you can meebo us up until 11:00 PM Monday-Thursday April 27-30, Monday May 4, and Tuesday May 5 . Just go to any library webpage (or this blog!) and type your question right into the meebo chat box.
You can also IM us though AIM, YIM, or MSN at fsclibrary. A librarian will be on-call to answer your reference questions!
Today, April 22, is Earth Day. Here are some suggestions on ways to be green @ the library:
1- Print Power Point with multiple slides per page instead of one slide per page – even with six slides per page it’s still very readable. Don’t know how to do this? Watch this video:
2- If you do print more than you need, put the sheets you don’t want in the recycle bin. We take the best sheets of paper to make scrap pads. You may have grabbed one of the pads last week when we gave them away to anyone who wanted them.
3- Look for printer friendly versions of webpages – there is usually a small “Print” or “Printer-Friendly” link on the page. These versions remove ads and graphics resulting in fewer pages and less ink.
4- You can always only print a highlighted section of a webpage. If you only need a paragraph or two, try this instead of printing the whole page.
5- When you search our databases you can often read a summary or abstract of an article. Reading this allows you to make sure you really need the article before you print it.
6- Are you printing or photocopying multiple copies of something? Print out 1 test copy before you make all the others. This way you can make sure it looks right before you print all the other copies.
7- Consider using social bookmarking tools like Delicious or Digg to save webpages instead of printing them out. Saved sites can be accessed from any computer. RefWorks is another great way to collect a list of webpages and articles you want to use for your research.
8- Let a librarian know if your pages didn’t come out of the printer. The printer may simply need paper, or to have a jam cleared. Simply sending your job again may not solve the problem.
9- Ask your professor if you can send your papers and assignments via email or Blackboard. Many professors will allow you to do this.
10- Remember to take your printed pages with you. Lots of people print a large job and then walk out of the library without their printing.
