Monday, November 05, 2012

Mobile Users: Try the New Library Mobile Site!

m.macalester.edu/library


The library recently launched a new mobile-optimized website.  It is a website designed to work well on mobile browsers and it includes a mobile-friendly WorldCat Local search, as well as links to research databases, contact options including a mobile chat option, and news and events.

The library's mobile site can be found in the Academics section in the College's new mobile site. 
We are interested in your feedback about this new service. You may contact Ask Us or Johan Oberg, Digital Scholarship and Services Librarian, with any questions or comments.

Friday, November 02, 2012

It's Sustainability Awareness Week!

What can you do to celebrate our campus commitment to creating a smaller Mac footprint?
  • Buy a onesie
  • Learn a new print-less technique. 
  • Share a bike
  • Read Stuffed and Starved by Raj Patel, and come to Friday's Sustainability Book Club meeting.
  • Nominate your professor to be recognized as a Sustainable Scholar
  • Use our Sustainable Scholar nomination form to tell us the great things Mac faculty are doing in your classroom to be sustainable. You might win a pizza party for your prof and your class. 
  • Check out our kiosk display and web site to learn more about the ways the library and other departments are collaborating toward the goal of zero waste. 
  • Drop in at one of our trick and treats hands-on happenings at the library's new MediaScape this week. 

Watch the Piper and the library home page for our trick and treats schedule and more information.

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

OA Quiz Answers and Winners

Open Access Quiz Winners
Thank you to everyone who entered the library’s Open Access Week prize drawing last week. Please contact the library if you have any question about what your options are for making your scholarship accessible to scholars across the world.

The prize winners are:

Kindle Fire
  • Kimberly Goodnight, Student
Open Access T-shirts
  • Imogen Pursch, Student
  • Erin Porter, Student
  • Beth Severy-Hoven, Faculty
  • Ryan Sutley, Student
  • Keri Ann Yatogo, Student
The Correct Answers
Open access means that online access to the information is unrestricted and free of charge. 

Himalaya, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, is the most frequently accessed journal in Digital Commons, Macalester's open access repository. Articles have been downloaded from this journal approximately 104,000 times.

True: Publishing or adding a research article to Macalester’s Digital Commons gives it a permanent online home, makes it findable via Google, and increases readership and visibility.

Professor Joan Ostrove’s article “Social class and belonging: Implications for college adjustment” has been downloaded 2,252 times from Macalester’s Digital Commons.

True: The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) lists over 8,200 journals and provides access to over 916,000 open access articles.

True: Federal law requires an electronic version of final, peer-reviewed manuscripts that are results of research funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to be submitted to PubMed Central within 12 months of publication.

SciFinder Scholar, a major research tool in the chemical sciences, indexes articles from over 10,000 journals. The average 2012 price of a chemistry journal title is $4,227.

Monday, October 29, 2012

It's Sustainability Awareness Week!

What can you do to celebrate our campus commitment to creating a smaller Mac footprint?
  • Buy a onesie
  • Learn a new print-less technique. 
  • Share a bike
  • Read Stuffed and Starved by Raj Patel, and come to Friday's Sustainability Book Club meeting.
  • Nominate your professor to be recognized as a Sustainable Scholar
  • Use our Sustainable Scholar nomination form to tell us the great things Mac faculty are doing in your classroom to be sustainable. You might win a pizza party for your prof and your class. 
  • Check out our kiosk display and web site to learn more about the ways the library and other departments are collaborating toward the goal of zero waste. 
  • Drop in at one of our trick and treats hands-on happenings at the library's new MediaScape this week. 
Watch the Piper and the library home page for our trick and treats schedule and more information.

Thursday, October 25, 2012

Open Access Week: Thursday's Quiz

Do you know about Open Access? There's still time for Mac community members to enter our Kindle Fire prize drawing by submitting correct answers to our daily quiz. The winner will be determined by random drawing from the correct entries. Not sure of the answers? Look online or come to the library to see our Open Access display.

Thursday's Quiz

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Open Access Week: Wednesday's Quiz

Do you know about Open Access? During Open Access Week, October 22-28, submit correct answers to our daily quiz to be entered into a drawing for one Kindle Fire or one of five open access-themed T-shirts. The winners will be determined by random drawings from the correct entries. Not sure of the answers? Look online, guess, or come to the library and check out our Open Access display.

Wednesday's Quiz

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Open Access Quiz: Win a Kindle

Do you know about Open Access? During Open Access Week, October 22 through 28, submit correct answers to our daily quiz to be entered into a drawing for one Kindle Fire or one of five open access-themed T-shirts. The winners will be determined by random drawings from the correct entries. Not sure of the answers? Look online, guess, or come to the library and check out our Open Access display.

Tuesday's Quiz

Monday, October 22, 2012

International Open Access Week: Win a Kindle from the Library

Do you know about Open Access? During Open Access Week, October 22 through 28, submit correct answers to our daily quiz to be entered into a drawing for one Kindle Fire or one of five open access-themed T-shirts. The winners will be determined by random drawings from the correct entries. Not sure of the answers? Look online, guess, or come to the library and check out our Open Access display. Monday's Quiz

International Open Access Week, Oct 22-28

Free and open access to scientific and scholarly research benefits everyone.The Dewitt Wallace Library will celebrate Open Access with several events in the next week, including an online quiz and contest (first prize: a Kindle Fire), button making, and a copyright workshop. Watch next week's Daily Piper for more information.

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Donate Winter Clothing and More!

The DeWitt Wallace Library staff is gathering donations for the students of Wellstone International High School, named in honor of Paul and Shelia Wellstone. We will have a box for donations at the SAC Luncheon and in the library until the end of October.

Wellstone International High School is designed to serve students ages 14 to 22 who have limited to no English language skills. Wellstone also helps students get accustomed to their new country and educational system. Read More

Thursday, October 11, 2012

Mobile Users: Try the New Library Mobile Site!

m.macalester.edu/library


The library recently launched a new mobile-optimized website.  It is a website designed to work well on mobile browsers and it includes a mobile-friendly WorldCat Local search, as well as links to research databases, contact options including a mobile chat option, and news and events.

The library's mobile site can be found in the Academics section in the College's new mobile site. 
We are interested in your feedback about this new service. You may contact Ask Us or Johan Oberg, Digital Scholarship and Services Librarian, with any questions or comments.

Tuesday, October 09, 2012

"An idea that is not dangerous..."

"...is unworthy of being called an idea at all." - Oscar Wilde.
Thank you to everyone who participated in our efforts to raise awareness of Banned Books Week, October 1-October 7. Below is a photo from Thursday evening's public reading event in the Harmon Room.


Friday, September 28, 2012

Events: Banned Books 2012

Help us celebrate intellectual freedom with the following fantastic events:
  • Tuesday 11a - 1p: Make Your Banned Books Button. (Main level, library)

  • Tuesday 7p - 9p: Film screening of Truffaut's Fahrenheit 451, co-sponsored by the Media and Cultural Studies Department. John B. Davis. There will be snacks.

  • Thursday 7 p - 8:30p: Hear your favorite English faculty, alumni authors, and current students read from their favorite banned books. Co-sponsored by the English Department. Harmon Room. Refreshments will be served. 
Learn more about Banned Books Week 2012

Monday, September 17, 2012

Working on an Honors Paper This Year?

Learn how to be more efficient in your research and find out about special resources and services, just for you. Sessions will be offered:

  • Tuesday, September 25, 5pm-6pm
  • Thursday, September 27 from 12-1pm

Sign Up Here

Saturday, August 18, 2012

Welcome to Class of 2016!

...and welcome back to returning students, and new and returning faculty and staff! We look forward to working with you on your research and information needs for the coming academic year!

Saturday, June 16, 2012

The 2012 Senior Book Project

We'll miss you, graduating student employees! But we'll enjoy the books you selected for the 2012 Senior Book Project.

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Network Maintenance, Saturday, 6/16, 6am-Noon

Macalester ITS will be performing system maintenance on Saturday, June 16 2012. Beginning at 6:00 AM, all networked services will be unavailable, completely or intermittently, during the maintenance period, which ends at noon.

Services that will be down for maintenance include Internet connectivity, email, networked printing, file servers, Banner, Argos and Macalester's Web server. This will affect the library's web services as well, however, Macalester WorldCat will be available from off-campus locations.

Research Databases Unavailable This Morning

We are upgrading our research database management server and our research databases are temporarily unavailable this morning. In the mean time, you may search some databases via Macalester WorldCat. Thank you for your patience while we restore access.

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

The 2012 Senior Book Project

We'll miss you, graduating student employees! But we'll enjoy the books you selected for the 2012 Senior Book Project.

Friday, April 20, 2012

Congrats!

Congrats to Nina Slesinger and Lillie Jacobson for the snuggie-winning post in last week's Facebook contest, with 74 likes at noon on Monday. No faculty or staff posted so we awarded the bag of coffee tokens to Colin Jarvis, whose post also scored more than 70 likes. Thanks to all who submitted. Enjoy your coffee! Tokens are on their way via Mac SPO.

Monday, April 16, 2012

Thank you, DeWitt Wallace Library fans!

Thank you all who participated in our National Library Week celebration. We loved the photos you posted on our Facebook page! We've grabbed the data from our facebook page and will message all our winners.

Interested in Librarianship?

April 8-14 is National Library Week 2012 and as part of this week we're highlighting and celebrating all things library. If you're interested in a career in librarianship, check out these
resources for library and information science careers. Or, come and talk to one of your friendly Macalester librarians.

Did you know...



  • Most librarian positions require a 2-year graduate degree in library or information science.

  • In survey after survey, librarians report a high job satisfaction.

  • We don't shush people! (Usually, it is the librarians that need to be shushed).

Monday, April 09, 2012

Win a Snuggie or Coffee Tokens!

This week is National Library Week and in its honor we're doing a contest we're calling Where do YOU belong @ the DeWitt Wallace Library?

To Participate in the Contest

  1. Like the DeWitt Wallace Library on Facebook.
  2. Post a picture or video of you enjoying your favorite location in the Library to the page.
  3. Tell us what makes that spot your favorite.
  4. Then get your friends to "Like" your post.
Participate early! The first 20 entries will receive a free coffee token.


Prizes...

The picture or video that gets the most likes will win a prize!
  • For the winning student: a Snuggie and a week’s worth of coffee tokens
  • For the winning faculty/staff member: Double coffee tokens (10, so you can treat a friend)
Voting ends at 8 a.m. on Monday, April 16.

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Use RefWorks to Manage Citations!


Want to organize citations for a paper or research project? RefWorks is an online service that you can use to:
  • Create bibliographies in many citation styles including MLA and APA
  • Save search results to directly from research databases
  • Insert references into Word


Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Macalester Internet Service Outage Tonight

Macalester's Internet Service Provider will need to perform system updates tonight between 12:00 midnight and 1:30 AM Central Daylight time. As a result, Internet will not be available on campus during the outage.

Note: Only Internet service will be affected: all on-campus services, such as printing, Moodle, Banner, 1600grand and file access on the G: and H: drives, will continue normally.

Posted February 14, 2012 at 15.37PM

Sunday, February 05, 2012

Use RefWorks to Manage Citations!


Want to organize citations for a paper or research project? RefWorks is an online service that you can use to:
  • Create bibliographies in many citation styles including MLA and APA
  • Save search results to directly from research databases
  • Insert references into Word


Saturday, February 04, 2012

MacLinks and JournalFinder Unavailalble Sunday Morning

MacLinks and the Journal Finder will be unavailable in the morning of Sunday, February 5, 6 a.m.-9 a.m. The outage is due to server maintenance and we expect that service will be restored at or before 9am.

Please contact us if you have any questions or concerns.

Thank you.

Monday, January 23, 2012

Use RefWorks to Manage Citations


Want to organize citations for a paper or research project? RefWorks is an online service that you can use to:
  • Create bibliographies in many citation styles including MLA and APA
  • Save search results to directly from research databases
  • Insert references into Word


Sunday, January 08, 2012

Library Winter Break Hours

During the winter break, the library will be open as follows:

Monday, January 9-Friday, January 13
10am - 4:30pm

Saturday, January 14-Sunday, January 15
Library Closed

Monday, January 16
Library Closed - MLK Holiday

Tuesday, January 17-Friday, January 20
10am - 4:30pm

Saturday, January 21
Library Closed

Sunday, January 22
1pm - 10pm

Monday, January 23
Regular semester hours begin: 8am - 1am

For Media Services School Break Hours details, please see the Arts and Events Calendar.

Saturday, January 07, 2012

Library Winter Break Hours

During the winter break, the library will be open as follows:

Tuesday, January 3-Friday, January 6
10am - 4:30pm

Saturday, January 7-Sunday, January 8
Library Closed

Monday, January 9-Friday, January 13
10am - 4:30pm

Saturday, January 14-Sunday, January 15
Library Closed

Monday, January 16
Library Closed - MLK Holiday

Tuesday, January 17-Friday, January 20
10am - 4:30pm

Saturday, January 21
Library Closed

Sunday, January 22
1pm - 10pm

Monday, January 23
Regular semester hours begin: 8am - 1am

For Media Services School Break Hours details, please see the Arts and Events Calendar.

Wednesday, January 04, 2012

Jan 4: EBSCO Databases Down

Academic Search Premier and other EBSCO research databases are currently not working (January 4, 11am). EBSCO is working to restore access by the end of the day.

Please contact the library if you have any questions. Our reference librarians are happy to assist in using alternative resources.

Tuesday, January 03, 2012

CLICnet Downtime, Jan. 3, 10pm

The CLICnet catalog will be undergoing system upgrades on Tuesday, January 3, from 10pm to ca midnight. During this upgrade, local holdings information may not display properly in Macalester WorldCat Local.

CLICnet Catalog Downtime, January 3, 10pm-12am

The CLICnet catalog will be undergoing a system upgrades on Tuesday, January 3, from 10pm to ca midnight. During this upgrade, local holdings information may not display properly in Macalester WorldCat Local.

Library Winter Break Hours

During the winter break, the library will be open as follows:

Tuesday, January 3-Friday, January 6
10am - 4:30pm

Saturday, January 7-Sunday, January 8
Library Closed

Monday, January 9-Friday, January 13
10am - 4:30pm

Saturday, January 14-Sunday, January 15
Library Closed

Monday, January 16
Library Closed - MLK Holiday

Tuesday, January 17-Friday, January 20
10am - 4:30pm

Saturday, January 21
Library Closed

Sunday, January 22
1pm - 10pm

Monday, January 23
Regular semester hours begin: 8am - 1am

For Media Services School Break Hours details, please see the Arts and Events Calendar.