Book Club set to meet Feb. 23 @ noon
Posted by: Liz Bagley on: February 1, 2010
We’ve chosen Kathryn Stockett’s book The Help as the focus of McCain Library’s Book Club session for February. Bring your lunch and join others for a chat, even if you have not read the novel.
Tuesday, Feb. 23
12 – 1:00 p.m.
McCain 211
We’ll also be selecting a name for the book club then. Here are the ideas suggested so far:
Agnes Off the Shelf
Bookies
Great Scott Reads
Literary Lunch
McCain Monographs
Unshelved
We will select our March book at the meeting. Questions or comments may be directed to Erica Bodnar (ebodnar@agnesscott.edu), Access Services Librarian. Feel free to email her suggestions for future books too.
DVDs relocated to first floor
Posted by: Liz Bagley on: January 28, 2010
We changed the location of the DVD collection and shifted our print periodical collection. The ever-growing DVDs are now in the Main Reading Room (1st Floor), to your left along the Woodruff Quad side (easier to browse, especially near closing time on Fridays).
Our print journals are still housed in the Main Reading Room alphabetically by title, but they now start on the Alston end immediately to the left of the fireplace. They wrap around towards the terrace.
We hope you’ll like these changes. Let us know if you need assistance finding something.
Textbook Rentals
Posted by: Liz Bagley on: January 15, 2010
- In: Self-help| technology
- 1 Comment
Students may be interested in this article on renting textbooks: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/01/12/rent
National coverage about Texting the Library
Posted by: Liz Bagley on: January 11, 2010
Agnes Scott is mentioned in this article: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/01/08/texting
Longer Hours & Carrel Reservations
Posted by: Liz Bagley on: January 11, 2010
Longer hours for McCain Library resume on Tuesday, Jan. 12, the first day of classes. Details are here.
Seniors working on independent studies may request a carrel reservation starting at 8:00am on the 12th too. Pick 2-3 numbered carrels that appeal to you, fill out a request form and bring it to the main circulation desk on Tuesday morning. These go fast, so do not delay. 
The group study rooms were refurbished over the break. All 6 were painted and new whiteboards were installed.
New paint and whiteboard
Create Links to Course Readings
Posted by: McCain Library on: January 5, 2010
Make your course reading list more accessible by linking to articles available in the McCain Library databases. Use the quick tips in this post to get started or check out the Creating Online Reading Lists guide for more advice.
Easiest Method for Linking
Proquest and EBSCOHost are two of main companies the McCain Library works with to provide access to journal content and both make linking to articles extremely easy. Using any Proquest or EBSCOHost database all you need to look for is a document url or persistent link in the article record. The campus proxy server information is already in the URL.
Linking to Content in Other Databases
Many other databases provided by the McCain Library also provide permanent URLs, persistent links, and digital object identifiers (DOI), but since these URLs do not provide the proxy information in the URL you need to add it. If you find a URL in the article record that does not have the following text in the URL, add it to the beginning of the URL (without any spaces):
http://sophia.agnesscott.edu/validate?url=
JSTOR Record Example:
Using the stable URL in the journal record below, the new link will be:
http://sophia.agnesscott.edu/validate?url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/i305803
AP picks up our texting story
Posted by: Liz Bagley on: December 29, 2009
Even if joke-like in tone, the Associated Press picked up our story about being the first library in Georgia to offer students and other patrons the option to text questions.
Georgia’s First Text the Library Service
Posted by: Liz Bagley on: December 8, 2009
Agnes Scott College’s McCain Library debuted its Text the Library service today during daytime business hours. We believe that McCain is the first library in Georgia offering patrons the option of sending a library question via text messaging. Since we aim to meet the needs of students and faculty wherever they use the library’s resources, it seemed like a logical expansion of services with minimal investment. Using Mosio over the Internet, McCain librarians receive and answer texted questions in the same window in which they monitor incoming Meebo IMs, so there is still only one software to watch, along with helping patrons in person at the Reference Desk.
Fuller hours for the texting service will start in January for spring semester. Any texted messages received when librarians are not staffing the Reference Desk will go to the library’s email account for follow up as soon as possible.
The library doesn’t charge to answer, but ASCers without unlimited texting plans on their cell phones may incur standard text messaging fees. For patron privacy, a sender’s phone number is not seen on the library end, but abusive numbers may be blocked, if necessary.
Students encouraged the library to experiment with the idea, so here’s how:
Text to 66746
Type MCCAIN and then your question
Send
Example:
MCCAIN Which library research databases index scholarly psychology journals?
Second Weekend of Extra Hours for Exams
Posted by: Liz Bagley on: December 7, 2009
Friday, December 11
Open late until 10:30pm for studying only – NO library services after 6:00pm
Sunday, December 13 Open early at 10:00am – Circulation/Reserves staffed @ 10:00am forward; Research services on a normal schedule
Other days conform to the usual schedule for library hours.
Good luck and contact us if you need help finishing research for papers!
New York Times Book Review
- Cruel LoveLouise Erdrich’s new novel is a portrait of an “iconic” marriage on its way to dissolution, and it appears to be seeded with deliberate allusions to her own marriage with the writer Michael Dorris.
- Drinking and GrievingThe characters in Amy Bloom’s erotically charged, linked stories struggle with love and its loss.
- He’s So VainThe life of Warren Beatty, a man as hungry for artistic control as he was for women.
- A Touch of EvilThis slender mystery novel from Roberto Bolaño presents a surreal vision of prewar Paris.
- A Wrinkle in TimeDon DeLillo explores the radical manipulation of time in this novel, which brings an Iraq war planner, his daughter and a filmmaker together at a house in the desert.
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