NC LIVE has cooked up some pretty major changes in their offerings to us, effective immediately. All of the changes involve products from EBSCO. There are several new resources:
Art & Architecture Complete
Biography Reference Center
Entrepreneurial Studies Source
Environment Complete
Legal Information Reference Center
Points of View
Small Business Reference Center
Small Engine Repair Reference Center
There are also a couple of big upgrades. Academic Search Premier and Business Source Premier become Academic Search Complete and Business Source Complete, respectively. That change results in a ton more full-text journals for us.
In other news, the e-audiobooks that had to be temporarily removed earlier this semester are now about to be made available on the new platform (called OneClickDigital, from Recorded Books). It won't go live officially until January, but PC users (sorry, Mac folks, but they are fixing a bug for you) can use it now at:
http://www.nclive.org/cgi-bin/nclsm?rsrc=264
Enjoy!
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Friday, December 2, 2011
New Resources for November
Noteworthy additions in November include Annie Jonas' dissertation, Practices of Two Experiential Teachers in Secondary Public Schools in an Era of Accountability (373.110209756 J76p), and Beverly Ohler's For the Love of Animals: Stories from the Mother of a Veterinarian (636.0887 O37f). A list of the items we added last month are listed on our page of Recent Additions to Our Collection. For December, we are pleased to feature some of our newspaper resources. Newspaper Source Plus includes the full text of The New York Times from 1985 to the present.* It also provides cover-to-cover full text for 149 other national and international newspapers, such as The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, The Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The Times (London), The Age, The Australian, The Toronto Star, The Irish Times and others; and selective full text for more than 410 U.S newspapers, including The Chicago Tribune, The Detroit Free Press, San Jose Mercury News, etc. In addition, full-text television & radio news transcripts are provided from CBS News, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, National Public Radio (NPR), etc. * In case you are wondering: yes, we also have the New York Times Historical, which contains full-image articles of the newspaper back to the very first issue in 1851 up through 2007.
Our featured electronic resource last month was Credo Reference, a collection of reference works.
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
New Resources for September
Among the new books added in September were Remembering : Stories from My Life, by Bev Ohler (792.026092 O37r); and Their Maker's Image: New Essays on John Milton (821.4 M662Yfen.1), which includes an article by David J. Bradshaw, "Self-sacrifice and Heroic Martyrdom in the Aeneid and Paradise Lost." Congratulations, Bev and David. Other new items in our collection are listed on our page of Recent Additions to Our Collection.
This month, we invite you to explore the SpringerLink All-Americas Package, a collection of around 1,800 full-text and pdf-image academic journals covering the sciences, health & medicine, mathematics, and social and behavioral sciences. Most titles provide coverage from 1997 to the present. You can keyword search the entire collection, browse subject collections, or browse individual titles.
This month, we invite you to explore the SpringerLink All-Americas Package, a collection of around 1,800 full-text and pdf-image academic journals covering the sciences, health & medicine, mathematics, and social and behavioral sciences. Most titles provide coverage from 1997 to the present. You can keyword search the entire collection, browse subject collections, or browse individual titles.
Friday, September 16, 2011
Online Audiobooks Going Away (for now)
Please see the announcement below from NC LIVE about our e-audiobooks:
"The MyiLibrary Audio Books service available through NC LIVE will soon change to a new audio book provider and platform, Recorded Books One Click service. The new service will include the same audio book titles available now, but through the new Recorded Books One Click platform. Though NC LIVE staff had originally planned to simply swap one service out for the other, the Recorded Books One Click platform will not be ready until later this fall.
Because MyiLibrary is no longer supporting their audio book platform, and due to the level of patron complaints, NC LIVE will disable the MyiLibrary Audio Books platform from use beginning Monday, September 19th. Unfortunately, this change will result in a gap in audio book service until we are able to begin service with Recorded Books One Click. You may continue to use the MyiLibrary service through September 19th, at which point you will no longer be able to download additional audio books from the MyiLibrary service.
The transition to Recorded Books One Click platform is expected to happen in late October. A specific date for the transition has not yet been announced, but we will continue to provide updates as we have more information. **When the new Recorded Books One Click service launches, all audio book users will be required to create a new personal audio book account. Your MyiLibrary user account information will not be saved or transferred. This also means that any books you have on hold at the time of the transition will not be transferred over to the new platform."
Please note that the MyiLibrary ebooks are not changing and will remain available. We will let you know more about the new platform for the e-audiobooks when we have more info,
"The MyiLibrary Audio Books service available through NC LIVE will soon change to a new audio book provider and platform, Recorded Books One Click service. The new service will include the same audio book titles available now, but through the new Recorded Books One Click platform. Though NC LIVE staff had originally planned to simply swap one service out for the other, the Recorded Books One Click platform will not be ready until later this fall.
Because MyiLibrary is no longer supporting their audio book platform, and due to the level of patron complaints, NC LIVE will disable the MyiLibrary Audio Books platform from use beginning Monday, September 19th. Unfortunately, this change will result in a gap in audio book service until we are able to begin service with Recorded Books One Click. You may continue to use the MyiLibrary service through September 19th, at which point you will no longer be able to download additional audio books from the MyiLibrary service.
The transition to Recorded Books One Click platform is expected to happen in late October. A specific date for the transition has not yet been announced, but we will continue to provide updates as we have more information. **When the new Recorded Books One Click service launches, all audio book users will be required to create a new personal audio book account. Your MyiLibrary user account information will not be saved or transferred. This also means that any books you have on hold at the time of the transition will not be transferred over to the new platform."
Please note that the MyiLibrary ebooks are not changing and will remain available. We will let you know more about the new platform for the e-audiobooks when we have more info,
Thursday, September 1, 2011
New Resources in August
See new items in our collection in their usual place.
Notable additions this month include dissertations by Erin Amason Montero, Julie Caro, Jennifer Mozolic, and Brian Olechnowski. Were you aware that we collect your dissertations and list them on this page? Dissertations by some of our former colleagues are searchable in our catalog. This month's featured resources are stand-by literature databases from Gale: Contemporary Literary Criticism and Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism. For many years, we have collected every volume of these titles in print (nearly 500 volumes in total). Now we have acquired the full backfiles of these volumes online. The benefits of online access include keyword searching, 24/7 access from anywhere, and downloads. We are certain that this will increase usage of these important titles, making them even more of a go-to source for literary criticism.
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Ebook News
Some of you have noticed that Netlibrary has disappeared/changed. Don't worry, this is a good thing. The Netlibrary collection has been taken over by Ebsco. So, now, it's called "eBooks on EBSCOhost."
You can still get to the ebooks either by going through the library catalog or by going directly to the eBooks on EBSCOhost link on the library site. Give it a try--if you are used to some of the other Ebsco databases like Academic Search, the interface will be familiar.
The new interface is quite an improvement over Netlibrary, we think. And, a new added bonus is that these ebooks can now be downloaded, either to your computer, or many of the portable ereaders (sorry, apparently, the Kindle is still too proprietary to work at this point--maybe sometime soon). In order to download ebooks, you will need to register an account with Ebsco. This is a free, one-time registration. The downloads are PDF files that require Adobe Digital Editions (free download with a link from Ebsco). You may also still view the book on the screen without downloading it.
Please give the new interface a try and let us know how it goes. And, remember, we get ebooks from several other vendors (though Ebsco is by far the largest), so the interfaces, download capabilities, etc. will differ between those various vendors. Most all of the ebooks have records loaded in the main library catalog, so that is probably the best way to access them.
You can still get to the ebooks either by going through the library catalog or by going directly to the eBooks on EBSCOhost link on the library site. Give it a try--if you are used to some of the other Ebsco databases like Academic Search, the interface will be familiar.
The new interface is quite an improvement over Netlibrary, we think. And, a new added bonus is that these ebooks can now be downloaded, either to your computer, or many of the portable ereaders (sorry, apparently, the Kindle is still too proprietary to work at this point--maybe sometime soon). In order to download ebooks, you will need to register an account with Ebsco. This is a free, one-time registration. The downloads are PDF files that require Adobe Digital Editions (free download with a link from Ebsco). You may also still view the book on the screen without downloading it.
Please give the new interface a try and let us know how it goes. And, remember, we get ebooks from several other vendors (though Ebsco is by far the largest), so the interfaces, download capabilities, etc. will differ between those various vendors. Most all of the ebooks have records loaded in the main library catalog, so that is probably the best way to access them.
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
New Extended Hours!
Over the years, students have asked for later library hours, and we have now figured out a way to do it. Yippie! So, starting with our regular hours next week, we will be open:
Don't forget to come--we don't want to be lonely down here.
| Monday - Thursday | 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 midnight |
| Friday | 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. |
| Saturday | 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. |
| Sunday | 1:00 p.m. - 12:00 midnight |
Don't forget to come--we don't want to be lonely down here.
Monday, August 8, 2011
Recent Additions to Our Collection
We have recently expanded our new books list to include magazines and journals, as well as online resources. See our new and improved list at http://www.warren-wilson.edu/~library/mont1.htm. By the way, this list is also posted on our Twitter account, which you can access from our home page, or here: http://www.twitter.com/WWCLibrary. Beginning this month, we will feature one or two of our online resources. We think you will like this month's database, Films on Demand, http://0-digital.films.com.library.acaweb.org/portalplaylists.aspx?aid=12208. Our subscription to the Master Academic streaming video collection gives us access to over 6,400 full-length video programs and 74,000 video segments. Collections cover the humanities & social sciences, business & economics, science & mathematics, and health & medicine. Producers of films include: Films for the Humanities & Sciences, NBC, CNBC, ABC, PBS, BBC, National Geographic, and many more.
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
This probably isn't going to be a blog, but...
Nonetheless, we wanted to add another way to communicate with folks about the things we have and cool stuff we do for you. So, here goes.
We have a new way of providing the off-campus username and password for accessing our databases remotely. Give it a try. Once you click on "Off-Campus Users" under "Articles & Databases," you should see a link that will get you started.
We have a new way of providing the off-campus username and password for accessing our databases remotely. Give it a try. Once you click on "Off-Campus Users" under "Articles & Databases," you should see a link that will get you started.
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