DeWitt Wallace Library News

Timeline: DeWitt Wallace Library Turns 25!

noreply@blogger.com (DeWitt Wallace Library) — Fri, 17 May 2013 21:09:00 +0000

In 2013, the DeWitt Wallace Library will celebrate its 25th birthday. To start off our celebration, we've created a timeline of the DeWitt Wallace Library, with some history of other campus libraries included as well.

Share your memories, images and stories, and reconnect with former students and staff on our Facebook celebration page called Macalester College's DeWitt Wallace Library Turns 25!

Research Consultations: Take our Brief Survey

noreply@blogger.com (DeWitt Wallace Library) — Thu, 02 May 2013 12:16:00 +0000

Please take our Research Consultation Survey and help us understand how we can best meet your research consultation needs.

Thank you!

Check out a Laptop from the Library!

noreply@blogger.com (DeWitt Wallace Library) — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:32:00 +0000

Need a laptop to use in the Art Commons, or some other place on campus?

The library has 15 MacBooks available for checkout
...and 7 Dell laptops

Laptop computer checkout is available to current Macalester faculty, staff and students. The laptops can be checked out from the circulation desk, and can be used on or off campus.

Protect your stuff!

Borrowers are responsible for damage or loss of equipment
Security cables are available for checkout

For more information, please see our Laptop Checkout page.

Happy National Library Week!

noreply@blogger.com (DeWitt Wallace Library) — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 21:10:00 +0000

Check Out a Laptop From the Library!

noreply@blogger.com (DeWitt Wallace Library) — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 13:35:00 +0000

Need a laptop to use in the Art Commons, or some other place on campus?

The library has 15 MacBooks available for checkout
...and 7 Dell laptops

Laptop computer checkout is available to current Macalester faculty, staff and students. The laptops can be checked out from the circulation desk, and can be used on or off campus.

Protect your stuff!

Borrowers are responsible for damage or loss of equipment
Security cables are available for checkout

For more information, please see our Laptop Checkout page.

BrowZine: Journals on the iPad

noreply@blogger.com (DeWitt Wallace Library) — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 00:50:00 +0000

The library has a new service called BrowZine. BrowZine is an iPad app that lets you browse, read and monitor some of the library's best journals, all from your iPad or tablet.

Setup Information

First get the App from the App Store. It's free.
When launching for the first time: Set Macalester College in the top dropdown.
Username and password is your Macalester username/password.

More Details

You can search by titles or by subjects.
Not every title to which we have a subscription is included.
To learn more, check out this 2-minute video.

Feedback Welcome!

We'd love to know if you're using this service. Please send us your feedback.
If you have any questions, please contact us.

Try BrowZine: Academic Journals on the iPad

noreply@blogger.com (DeWitt Wallace Library) — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 22:37:00 +0000

The library is now running a trial of BrowZine. BrowZine is an iPad app that lets you browse, read and monitor some of the library's best journals, all from your iPad or tablet.

Important Trial Information

First get the App from the App Store. It's free.
When launching for the first time: Set Macalester College in the top dropdown.
Username and password is your Macalester username/password.

More Details

You can search by titles or by subjects.
The trial expires mid-March.
Not every title to which we have a subscription is included.
To learn more, check out this 2-minute video.

Feedback Welcome!

We appreciate your feedback to help us determine if we should subscribe to this service.
If you have questions, please contact us.

Mobile Users: Try Out Our Mobile Site

noreply@blogger.com (DeWitt Wallace Library) — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 18:41:00 +0000

m.macalester.edu/library

The library has a mobile-optimized website that is designed to work well on mobile browsers. It includes a mobile-friendly WorldCat Local search, links to research databases, 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.

Library Databases Currently Unavailable

noreply@blogger.com (DeWitt Wallace Library) — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 17:05:00 +0000

Due to a technical glitch, library databases, such as Academic Search Premier, are currently unavailable on either the Database pages or Worldcat. We apologize for the inconvenience and are working on a solution as quickly as possible.

Illiad Service Outage, January 23

noreply@blogger.com (DeWitt Wallace Library) — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 06:30:00 +0000

Due to a service upgrade on January 23rd at 10am, the Illiad interlibrary loan request system will be temporarily unavailable. We anticipate that all services will resume at noon on the same day.

Mobile Users: Try the New Library Mobile Site!

noreply@blogger.com (DeWitt Wallace Library) — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 16:35:00 +0000

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.

It's Sustainability Awareness Week!

noreply@blogger.com (DeWitt Wallace Library) — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 20:07:00 +0000

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.

OA Quiz Answers and Winners

noreply@blogger.com (DeWitt Wallace Library) — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 16:27:00 +0000

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.

It's Sustainability Awareness Week!

noreply@blogger.com (DeWitt Wallace Library) — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 05:30:00 +0000

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.

Open Access Week: Thursday's Quiz

noreply@blogger.com (DeWitt Wallace Library) — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 20:45:00 +0000

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

Open Access Week: Wednesday's Quiz

noreply@blogger.com (DeWitt Wallace Library) — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 16:39:00 +0000

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

Open Access Quiz: Win a Kindle

noreply@blogger.com (DeWitt Wallace Library) — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 13:45:00 +0000

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

International Open Access Week: Win a Kindle from the Library

noreply@blogger.com (DeWitt Wallace Library) — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 16:02:00 +0000

International Open Access Week, Oct 22-28

noreply@blogger.com (DeWitt Wallace Library) — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 05:48:00 +0000

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.

Donate Winter Clothing and More!

noreply@blogger.com (DeWitt Wallace Library) — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 18:06:00 +0000

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

Mobile Users: Try the New Library Mobile Site!

noreply@blogger.com (DeWitt Wallace Library) — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 15:48:00 +0000

m.macalester.edu/library

"An idea that is not dangerous..."

noreply@blogger.com (DeWitt Wallace Library) — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 17:18:00 +0000

"...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.

Events: Banned Books 2012

noreply@blogger.com (DeWitt Wallace Library) — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 10:51:00 +0000

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

Working on an Honors Paper This Year?

noreply@blogger.com (DeWitt Wallace Library) — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:52:00 +0000

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

Welcome to Class of 2016!

noreply@blogger.com (DeWitt Wallace Library) — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 12:32:00 +0000

...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!