I miss the old way that MIDCAT organized the ‘new acquisitions’ lists by the month. The new format, with the covers of the various library acquisitions, looks nice but it’s not very useful for browsing. I think it would be very handy to be able to sort the list by acquisition type — e.g, book, DVD, music CD, score, map, etc.
Mike Sheridan
We need more awesome books!
From suggestions poster
The Chicago Defender: the archive, all of it, should be digitized please.
From suggestions poster
Please bring back that service where you can request book/cds online from other Middlebury libraries and then simply pick them up from the one closest to you . I was really able to utilize that for the music library because I rarely have the opportunity to go down there. It was such a great service…I really hate to see it go
From sherb
This is not really my suggestion; I’m passing it along:
A user from outside the Middlebury College community (a college library director from another Vermont institution) using the Middlebury catalog remarked that it was difficult to determine which library housed the particular item she was interested in. A patron of hers planned to travel here to use the item, and wanted to make sure she had her destination correct.
I have no way of knowing whether or not this is a common concern, but I wonder if it might warrant exploring additional options for displaying additional location information? Would it help to add “Main Library/Armstrong library/Music library” in addition to the current location information for those patrons who don’t know what “Armstrong stacks” or “Main stacks lower level” mean? (Or to help those who aren’t even aware that we have branch libraries?)
Thanks!
From Jess Isler
Is there a way to see what materials the library holds that are published by Middlebury faculty? And how do we make sure that we systematically buy all books published by Middlebury faculty?
It would be great to have an email response after submitting a purchase request to let me know: 1. request received 2. general sense of how much time this will take and 3. human contact or other means to track progress of the request. Thanks!
From Lisa Gates
Provide a form on the MC Libraries website to report a missing book.
The Manga section is really lacking. (3 requests)
Better selection of light reading fiction books. ( 3 requests)
More browsing movies so you can take them out of the library. (16 requests) We should also have some screenplays.
(22 suggestions)
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