Give us Feedback and Enter to Win!

This year, those students who complete the Library’s annual Student Survey will be entered to win one of three $100 Amazon Gift Cards. The student survey helps the Library find out what students want, and directs the library’s improvement process. Based on the previous years’ surveys, the Library has: offered 24/7 hours during Finals week [...]

Library Graffiti: Islamic Awareness Week

Here’s some sources to learn more about Muslims & Islam: Muslim Life in America Trying to explain or understand what it’s like to be Muslim in America? The U.S. Department of State offers this magazine-like profile of everyday Muslims. http://infousa.state.gov/education/overview/muslimlife/homepage.htm Ethnic NewsWatch For non-mainstream news coverage of Islam, try this full text news source. http://www.drew.edu/library/er/ethnic-newswatch [...]

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Thomas H. Kean Gallery

The Library will feature an exhibit honoring Thomas H. Kean, former governor of New Jersey (1982-1990) and president of Drew University (1990-2005), in the newly completed Thomas H. Kean Reading Room and Gallery.  The exhibit will highlight items from the Governor Thomas H. Kean Collection, the Drew University Archives, and personal memorabilia belonging to the Governor, and will include material covering [...]

Library Adds Scanning!

With our newest copier up and running, the Library has added the capacity to scan documents and save  them to a USB memory stick. Scanning can be done at the Sharp copier next to the Reserve desk. Instructions are posted next the Sharp copier. You can only scan to save to a USB memory stick. [...]

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Library Graffiti: Civil War Supplements

Interest piqued by the “Future of Civil War History” conference? Follow up:   Civil War: a Newspaper Perspective What was the news from the front—and the home front—on both sides of the War Between the States? Find full text of selected articles from Northern and Southern American newspapers, Nov. 1860-April 1865. Find on Drew Library [...]

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Copyright, CopyLeft, and Creative Commons: Using them in your Classes

Space still available for this workshop: Though there’s more educational media—images, audio, video, learning interactives – out there than ever, there’s a  bottleneck keeping instructors from using it. The academic culture of information sharing comes up against the restrictions of copyright law with increasing frequency these days, restricting faculty to using expensive for-profit resources or [...]

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Drew’s Media Library

As of Monday, March 19, management of the University’s Media Collection is moving to the Library.  Faculty will now have access to the collection on nights and weekends, in keeping with Library hours. Services will be provided as follows: All circulation, both check out and reserve, will go through the Library. Requests to place media [...]

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Google Scholar Presentation, March 12

What is Google Scholar and Why Would I Use it? Are you or your students struggling to find scholarly material on interdisciplinary and/or esoteric topics? Unlike regular “Google” search, Google Scholar covers only what it considers “scholarly” material, mostly journal articles and conference publications and course materials, and Google Books. Some of these materials are [...]

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