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Winter is Coming…. (ILL services in December)

November 28, 2012 by
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And with winter comes the massive shipping rush of late December.  Due to the increased risk of losses (and the lack of open libraries willing to send things) the Interlibrary Loan Department limits ordering and shipping during this time.

If you need anything before winter break request it now!  Interlibrary loan requests submitted to ILLiad after Dec. 15th will be ordered in early January.

ILLiad article requests will continue to be filled by RapidILL through Dec. 21st, but must have a valid ISSN and year to be processed a as Rapid request.

For loan materials use NExpress: (http://go/NExpress).  NExpress will stay open during break.  Requests placed in NExpress go straight to the Lending Library for processing.  Loans ordered from NExpress over break should arrive in early January.

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Trial access to Oxford Handbooks Online through December

November 27, 2012 by
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Until December 26 we have access to all of Oxford’s fourteen handbooks in the Oxford Handbooks Online (OHO) collection. Middlebury currently has access to only three OHO collections: Philosophy, Religion, and Political Science.

Get started with a video tutorial or browse and search OHO.

Find OHO and other New & Trial Resources here (go/trials).

Email Rebekah Irwin or your library liaison with comments.

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The slow rise of ebooks (by the numbers)

November 27, 2012 by
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The Library took note in May 2011 when Amazon.com announced that its customers were purchasing “more Kindle books than all print books – hardcover and paperback – combined.” Though we’re certainly not yet debating the idea of a bookless library at Middlebury, some number crunching over a 14 month time period seems to show that Middlebury faculty, students, and librarians are beginning to favor ebooks over print too:

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A 14 Month Snapshot of Library Requests (Sept. 1, 2011-Nov. 1, 2012)

1,339 faculty, students, & librarians requested books

Overall 35% preferred a print book

Overall 65% preferred an ebook

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Of the 211 students requests 45% preferred a print book and 55% preferred ebooks

Of the 432 librarian requests 33% preferred a print book and 67% preferred ebooks 

Out of 696 faculty requests 34% preferred a print book and 66% preferred ebooks

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National Book Award Winners (on the shelves) of the College Library

November 15, 2012 by
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Find recently announced National Book Award winners at the Middlebury College Libraries *links point to Midcat, the College Library catalog

To request a book that is “IN PROCESS” or checked out already, look for the “Notify me when available” button on the bottom of the Midcat record.


Fiction winner

Louise Erdrich, The Round House

 

Fiction runner ups

Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her

Dave Eggers, A Hologram for the King

Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk

Kevin Powers, The Yellow Birds

 

Nonfiction Winner

Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

 

Non fiction runner ups

Anne Applebaum, Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1945-1956

Robert A. Caro, The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson (on order and due to arrive anytime!)

Domingo Martinez, The Boy Kings of Texas

Anthony Shadid, House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East

 

 

Poetry winner

David Ferry, Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations

 

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Kotobarabia Arabic E-Library (trial access through Nov. 23)

November 9, 2012 by
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For two weeks, you can explore over 3,500 contemporary and classic Arabic books from Egypt that are available in e-book form for the first time in the Kotobarabia Arabic E-Library.Works in the collection are divided into 29 thematic categories and several subcategories. Let us know what you think – email Rebekah Irwin or your liaison.

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Ebooks for Kindle Fire, Android, iOS

November 5, 2012 by
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New versions of OverDrive app for Android and iOS (iPhone/ iPad/ iPod touch).

What’s Overdrive? It’s Middlebury’s ebook and audiobook collection of prize-winning fiction, non-fiction, and popular reading…(go/Overdrive).
If you already have the app installed, you’ll see an “update” prompt the next time you open it. Otherwise, download the updated apps here:

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Churchill Archive (trial access)

October 31, 2012 by
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Now through January 14, 2013 we have access to the Churchill Archive.

The Churchill Archive includes more than 800,000 pages of original documents, produced between 1874 and 1965, ranging from Winston S. Churchill’s personal correspondence to his official exchanges with kings, presidents, politicians, and military leaders.

Find this and other trials at http://go.middlebury.edu/trials (go/trials).
Contact your area liaison with comments and feedback.

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