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–Ernie Rubinstein, Theological Librarian Sabbaticals are partly a misnomer, since they are not for absolute rest, but merely for rest from the accustomed rounds. This past summer I enjoyed a 14-week sabbatical from my library work that allowed me to finish writing a book long in process, and to begin another that will also likely [...]
A great article by Amanda Tesarek highlights the newest technologies in the library collection & Services!
The horror of the “Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male.” New York Times Historical The NY Times helped break the story on July 26, 1972. Find it here under “Syphilis Victims in U.S. Study Went Untreated for 40 Years:” http://www.drew.edu/library/er/new-york-times-historical Or go right to the article: http://bit.ly/P5pwxN Medicine, health, and bioethics: [...]
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 [...]
You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in a library everyday of your life. – Ray Bradbury Summon that Source! Our new service searches nearly everything and then provides a variety of faceted limiters to let you pinpoint exactly the information [...]
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 [...]