Welcome Back
Welcome back to our returning students and a special welcome to all new students to ETBU!
This year in the library you'll find a few changes and we hope that you will like them.
First of all - one extra hour added to Sundays! Yes, the library will now stay open on Sunday nights until 11 PM instead of closing at 10 PM. The library will still continue to open at 4 PM on those days.
Second - for the first month of school the Heritage Room will be closed as we clear out all the shelves and bells! This room is being prepared for use during President Oliver's inaugural festivities and after that this area will be converted into a group study area. It will also double as library instruction classroom when necessary, and also as a meeting place for library meetings such as the Mary K. Armstrong Society or meetings of librarians. For instance - in November of 2010 we will host the other Baptist Academic Librarians for a day of meetings. For the time being all computers have been moved to the Heritage Court or the main part of the library. Some will be moved back to the Heritage Room after October 2nd.
Third - by the end of the academic year we will begin to reorganize the main part of the library into learning communities. In each area you will find the circulating, reference, journal, and audiovisual collections for the respective disciplines - all connected by general knowledge.
Fourth - the "new furniture" is now a year old, and some of it has replaced the old soft seating in the Heritage Court to allow room for the empty shelving that is being moved into the main part of the library. A large number of furnishings remain where they were, so you can still sit "downstairs" if you wish. The old soft seating has been placed around the library to give you a variety of seating options.
Fifth - we are planning some fun (and free!) activities on one or two Friday nights each semester - a game night - perhaps a showing of a classic film. Keep watching this site and student activity announcements for further information. In addition the library plans on other Friday night events such as lectures, discussions of current topics, concerts, and a variety of other options.
Sixth - this is one we're really excited about. The library now has a feature film collection - mostly classic films - which you can check out for up to three days. Best of all, there is no charge like you'll find at a rental store! We hope to have these ready for you to check out by the second week of classes (or maybe sooner).
As usual, we have added some new electronic resources and made some changes to the web pages. Two more collections have been added to JSTOR and we also added the complete Cambridge Histories as well as selected Oxford reference materials. Political Science Complete is now among our wonderful EBSCOhost databases. We also have a new map resource called AtoZ Maps Online and it has a wonderful interactive game called GeoFindIt -try it and see how many countries you can identify in the various regions of the world!
We look forward to seeing everyone once you're back. Come by and see us!
This year in the library you'll find a few changes and we hope that you will like them.
First of all - one extra hour added to Sundays! Yes, the library will now stay open on Sunday nights until 11 PM instead of closing at 10 PM. The library will still continue to open at 4 PM on those days.
Second - for the first month of school the Heritage Room will be closed as we clear out all the shelves and bells! This room is being prepared for use during President Oliver's inaugural festivities and after that this area will be converted into a group study area. It will also double as library instruction classroom when necessary, and also as a meeting place for library meetings such as the Mary K. Armstrong Society or meetings of librarians. For instance - in November of 2010 we will host the other Baptist Academic Librarians for a day of meetings. For the time being all computers have been moved to the Heritage Court or the main part of the library. Some will be moved back to the Heritage Room after October 2nd.
Third - by the end of the academic year we will begin to reorganize the main part of the library into learning communities. In each area you will find the circulating, reference, journal, and audiovisual collections for the respective disciplines - all connected by general knowledge.
Fourth - the "new furniture" is now a year old, and some of it has replaced the old soft seating in the Heritage Court to allow room for the empty shelving that is being moved into the main part of the library. A large number of furnishings remain where they were, so you can still sit "downstairs" if you wish. The old soft seating has been placed around the library to give you a variety of seating options.
Fifth - we are planning some fun (and free!) activities on one or two Friday nights each semester - a game night - perhaps a showing of a classic film. Keep watching this site and student activity announcements for further information. In addition the library plans on other Friday night events such as lectures, discussions of current topics, concerts, and a variety of other options.
Sixth - this is one we're really excited about. The library now has a feature film collection - mostly classic films - which you can check out for up to three days. Best of all, there is no charge like you'll find at a rental store! We hope to have these ready for you to check out by the second week of classes (or maybe sooner).
As usual, we have added some new electronic resources and made some changes to the web pages. Two more collections have been added to JSTOR and we also added the complete Cambridge Histories as well as selected Oxford reference materials. Political Science Complete is now among our wonderful EBSCOhost databases. We also have a new map resource called AtoZ Maps Online and it has a wonderful interactive game called GeoFindIt -try it and see how many countries you can identify in the various regions of the world!
We look forward to seeing everyone once you're back. Come by and see us!
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