As of today, any authorized Middlebury College user who has, or creates, a free account with the Chronicle of Higher Education using your @middlebury.edu e-mail address, has three new ways to access The Chronicle: 1) From your iPad. Download The Chronicle’s iPad editions at no cost to the individual.  You can download either or both sections of The Chronicle. The Chronicle’s free iPad app can be found here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id414901678. 2) From your smart phone or tablet using the device’s Web browser. The new mobile interface makes The Chronicle easy to read when one is on the go. 3) From any computer, from any location in the world. You can get direct access to Chronicle.com from any remote location without having to go through a proxy server. This should be very appealing to those who read Academe Today or any of other Chronicle e-newsletters from locations off campus. To take advantage of this mobile access, all that is required is for authorized users to have a free Chronicle account using their @middlebury.edu email address.  A Chronicle account can be created by going to Chronicle.com and clicking on the “create” link at top, right hand side of the Web page. If you are one of the 200 Middlebury users who already have a Chronicle.com account, you don’t need to do anything.  If you have forgotten your password, you can go here for online help:  http://chronicle.com/myaccount/login/forgotpassword/. If you have problems or comments, please e-mail us at eaccess-admin@middlebury.edu.

Through June 14th, the Middlebury College community can temporarily use GREENR – a new online resource that offers authoritative content on the development of emerging green technologies and discusses issues on the environment and sustainability. Let us know if you find this resource worthwhile. Send feedback to Rebekah Irwin or your library liaison.

Find GREENR and other resources that are currently under review at go/trials.

Available for the first time online – archived issues of National Geographic magazine dating from 1888 (currently ending with 1994). Every photograph. Every map.

Let us know if you find this worthwhile. Send feedback to Rebekah Irwin or your library liaison.

Find National Geographic along with other library collections that we are previewing at go/trials.

Spring Employee Golf Tournament

Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Nine-hole Captain and Crew (four-person scramble)
Check-in: starting at 3:45 p.m.*
Shotgun start: 4:30 p.m.
Open to all faculty and staff.

Sign your team up now (limited to the first 30 teams)! – $15 per person ($60 per team)

(Please pay registration fee for entire team at sign-up—checks can be made payable to Middlebury College.)

Please contact Valerie Costello, MariAnn Osborne, or Phil Cyr, to register/pay for your team:

• Valerie Costello, vcostell@middlebury.edu, ext. 5295, Reprographics/FIC
• MariAnn Osborne, mosborne@middlebury.edu, ext. 5435, DKE Alumni House
• Phil Cyr, pcyr@middlebury.edu, ext. 5084, Service Building

Prizes:

• First, second, and third Places (front & back nine)
• Closest to the pin
• Longest drive
• Closest to the line
• 50/50 Raffle: Eight tickets for $5: two winners will be drawn, and 50 percent of proceeds will benefit the Chaplain’s Fund**

* CTO must be used for events during regular work hours

** The Chaplain’s Fund provides monetary support in the form of either a one-time grant or a one-time loan to employees facing an unforeseen financial emergency or crisis. The Chaplain’s Fund committee reviews confidential applications from employees. If approved, funding is provided directly to the employee’s creditors or vendors. Ongoing contributions for this fund are also provided by year-end unused allocations from college employees’ flexible spending accounts. The Chaplain’s Fund has been in existence since 1992 and is just one example of the variety of resources and programs in place to support employees.

Over the months that MiddPoints changed from its printed version to its current online version, Staff Council and members of the administration heard repeatedly from staff members that the classified advertising was one of the most missed parts of the printed MiddPoints. In collaboration with Human Resources and Communications, Staff Council is pleased to announce that online classified advertising is now available to the Middlebury College community – staff, faculty, and students – at http://sites.middlebury.edu/classifieds

The Web Services group of LIS has designed an online classifieds function using the WordPress platform. You will need to log in with the username and password you use for e-mail to view the classifieds or to post an ad – just go to http://sites.middlebury.edu/classifieds or find it easily at http://portal.middlebury.edu

These are the categories in which ads can be posted:

• Books
• Borrow
• Computers & Electronics
• Courses and Training
• Event Tickets
• Everything Else
• Furniture
• Lost & Found
• New
• Care Provider
• Real Estate & Housing
• Sporting Goods
• Transportation
• Wanted

A posted ad will be automatically removed after 30 days. We ask that if your ad is successful before 30 days, you remove the ad yourself. As with all online services provided by Middlebury College, the classified advertising site is governed by the policies stated in the employee and student handbooks.

http://sites.middlebury.edu/classifieds

We thought we would ring-in the new year with a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the work required to bring over 76,000 full-text journals and hundreds of online databases to the Middlebury community. Both the end, and the beginning, of each year are the busiest for those of us maintaining library collections online and off, in print.

Most of our efforts from September into early November go toward making sure our subscriptions, for both print and online journals, continue uninterrupted from one year to the next. Of the nearly 2,000 subscriptions we have, there are always a few that somehow fail to get renewed despite our best efforts. For example, we might discover in March that we have not received any recent issues of Veja, a weekly magazine published in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Occasionally, we can fill the gaps of a lapsed subscription, but not always.

There is usually a mountain of mail awaiting us in the new year: books, newspapers, magazines, and journals from all over the world and bills for these books, newspapers, and magazines from around the world. If we spend the last few days of the previous year ensuring access to our library collections after December 31st, we spend the first few days of the new year digging ourselves out of the mail room, looking for those lost issues from the previous year and for bills to pay.

Especially in the new year, but any other time too, please let us know if you cannot find something online or in print that you know was there before. Our email: eaccess-admin@middlebury.edu. Happy new year!