Open Access Week: What is It?

Open Access Week is an international event that raises awareness of the many benefits of making research free and open for others to use. This year’s theme is “Open for Whom? Equity in Open Knowledge,” which asks libraries and researchers around the world to consider how they will create and support platforms for sharing knowledge […]…Continue Reading Open Access Week: What is It?

Bye-bye Summon, Hello LibrarySearch

The Library has hundreds of databases, indexes and catalogs, providing access to millions of articles, books, films, musical recordings and primary sources.  That sounds promising… until it sounds overwhelming. Where should you start your research? We used to recommend Summon, but over the summer, we replaced Summon with LibrarySearch.   Like its predecessor Summon, LibrarySearch is […]…Continue Reading Bye-bye Summon, Hello LibrarySearch

Macbook recalls

ITS wants to make all employees and students aware of two current serious Macbook recalls: Recall #1: Apple has issued a battery recall notice for “Mid-2015” model 15″ Macbook Pro laptops. The situation is a safety issue as according to Apple “the battery may overheat and pose a fire safety risk.” Apple’s customer info page […]…Continue Reading Macbook recalls

Interlibrary Loan Service changes

Dear Library Patrons:You may have noticed that turnaround times to complete ILL requestshave of late at times been slightly longer than in the past.  As aresult of workforce planning, we have reduced the number of staffworking in this department by .5 FTE. We will of course continue tofill requests as quickly as we can, but […]…Continue Reading Interlibrary Loan Service changes

Announcing the New Library Website

You’re right, things look a little different this week! We’re excited to announce the launch of our new library website. We’ve streamlined and reorganized our content, and we’re now mobile-friendly! We hope it’ll be even easier for you to find what you need, and to discover useful and inspiring resources that you didn’t even know […]…Continue Reading Announcing the New Library Website

Summer Reading!

Summer’s almost here! The library has added 30 new titles to our print browsing collection, and another 30 (including many non-English titles) to our collection of e- and audiobooks (go/overdrive/). These books are available for borrowing by t……Continue Reading Summer Reading!

Attention VPN (Pulse Secure) Users!

On January 31, 2019, Information Technology Services (ITS) will enable a feature on the Virtual Private Network (VPN) system that will detect if your VPN software needs to be upgraded to the latest release. If an upgrade is indicated, you will see a popup window from the Pulse Secure VPN application informing you that “An […]…Continue Reading Attention VPN (Pulse Secure) Users!