A great article by Amanda Tesarek highlights the newest technologies in the library collection & Services!
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Drew University
A great article by Amanda Tesarek highlights the newest technologies in the library collection & Services!
Drew Faculty Seminar 2012-13 The First of Four Events on the Theme Scholarly Openings Monday, September 10, 2012 4 p.m. Refreshments 4:30 p.m. Guest Speaker and Conversation Founders Room, Mead Hall Topic: Open Access: Maximizing the Impact of Research and Scholarship Guest Speaker Heather Joseph, Executive Director, SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) Heather [...]
Welcome back! While you were gone, we added a few things: Debit printing is here! Put money on your Drew Debit (bookstore) account, and print – fast, simple and private! (The option to bill your Library account is now history.) Summon/Drew Library ( http://www.drew.edu/library/research ), which searches across material available in most of Drew’s databases [...]
Summon: ’Drive-thru searching. No waiting.’* New at the Library! Not sure where to start looking for information? Tired of having to look in multiple databases in order to find relevant articles? Frustrated with Google Scholar’s links to nowhere? Drew Library users now have a powerful new tool for finding reliable information. With a user-friendly, Google-like [...]
Welcome back to campus, faculty and graduate students! Interlibrary Loan (ILL) has 2 new capabilities to better assist you with your classes and research. 1. Faculty members who have Research Assistants may ask the ILL Department to set up an RA account for them in ILLiad (Drew’s interlibrary loan system). This will enable RA’s to [...]
Policies for the Media Library for Fall 2012 have been updated.
John Cunningham, popular historian and alumnus of the College of Liberal Arts class of 1938, passed away on June 7, 2012. In memory of his distinguished career– including authoring the definitive history of Drew University– the library is hosting a small exhibit of his works in the entrance to the main library. On campus, Cunningham [...]
A series of afternoon talks with collectors hosted by The Friends of the Library Norman Tomlinson initiated the Conversations on Collecting series on October 12, 2011 with a talk about his adventures in collecting Byron and Whitman. James Fraser, an authority on international ephemera created during times of political upheaval, visited the Library on December [...]
By Kathleen Juliano, Head of Interlibrary Loan In February 2012, the Interlibrary Loan office introduced a new Interlibrary Loan system, ILLiad, to the Drew community. The office had been using ILLiad internally for lending books to other libraries, since the summer of 2011. ILLiad is a system used by many libraries throughout the country to [...]
Three students won $100 Amazon Gift Cards after completing the Library’s 2012 Student Survey and entering the raffle. Congratulations to: Noelle Bernard Elena McKeown Komal Chandra Thanks to all 187 students who entered. We’re tabulating the results now and will post a summary in time for the Fall semester!