Is the outlet out? Is the carrel light dark? Please, report it!
It’s finals week, and students are making use of every desk, table, carrel and recliner in the libraries. Surely, someone will find something amiss.
Please feel welcome to alert library staff to outages and other problems in the building. Visit the Circulation Desk, or report the issue via our Library Feedback Form at go.middlebury.edu/libfeedback. We want to keep our facilities in top-top shape for you!
Thank you!
We’re getting Halloweenish at the Davis Family Library with Special Collections pop-up cards in the atrium, trick-or-treats at the Research Desk, and scary movies in between. Come and visit!
The library now offers patrons the option of receiving circulation notices via text message. If you choose to opt in, you will get overdue, hold pickup, and courtesy notices on your phone, in addition to via email. To opt in, login to My MIDCAT at go/renew, click the “Modify Personal Info” button, enter your mobile phone number, check the “Opt in” box, read the conditions, and click “Submit”. Opt out at any time by following the same procedure and unchecking the “Opt in” button. Contact library_circulation@middlebury.edu with any questions.
Hey, first-year students! Now that you’re settled in to campus, it’s time to explore the libraries a little more. Here’s some insider advice to get you going (thanks, College Newsroom!):
What Every First-Year Student Should Know about Middlebury Libraries
P.S. You can meet all of the librarians at go.middlebury.edu/librarians.
Zotero makes citations and bibliographies easy.
Get started: go.middlebury.edu/zotero.
Find help: go.middlebury.edu/zoterohelp.
Ask a librarian about Zotero!
MIDCAT, the Library catalog, is currently experiencing some problems with searches limited to certain media formats (“scopes” in library lingo). This problem is affecting searches limited to formats selected from the drop-down menu as well those selected using the tabs across the top of the search screen:
Specifically: searches using AUTHOR, TITLE, etc., indexes in combination with the format limits are NOT working properly (we definitely have CDs with “Beethoven” as the author!):
The easiest way to work around this might be to simply use a KEYWORD search. KEYWORD searches in combination with the limits (scopes) seem to be unaffected:
If a KEYWORD search returns too many results, or is undesirable for some other reason, another way to work around this issue is as follows:
1) Perform a search of any kind WITHOUT using one of the media limits. This search can be a search of a specific index (e.g., AUTHOR, TITLE, SUBJECT, etc.) or a KEYWORD search.
2) Once you receive your results, click either the “Modify Search” button (if you searched by KEYWORD) or the “Limit/Sort Search” button (if you searched using an AUTHOR, TITLE, etc. index)
3) From the next screen, you can choose a format limit and click “Submit”
We apologize for the inconvenience this is causing, and hope to have this corrected soon.
Terry Simpkins
Director, Discovery & Access Services
Davis Family Library 135A
Middlebury College
110 Storrs Ave.
Middlebury, VT 05753
802-443-5045
tsimpkin@middlebury.edu
Is the Research Desk in your toolkit yet? Come and talk with a librarian when you start your first assignment. You’ll find that we are always happy to help. You don’t even need a question! Just tell us what you’re working on. Together, we can figure out what you’ll need to do first, next and last.
Fall Research Desk Hours
(September 10 – December 14, 2018)
And online anytime!
go/askalibrarian/ or
http://go.middlebury.edu/askalibrarian
Have a question outside of the Research Desk hours?
Visit us in our offices! Librarians are conveniently located right behind the Research Desk.
September is right around the corner, so it’s time to start wrapping up your summer checklist. Go out and explore Vermont! Borrow a pass at the Davis Family Library Circulation Desk for free or reduced entry fees at:
Learn how to borrow these passes, and what the benefits are, at: VT Historic Sites Pass now available and ECHO Pass now available.