ETBU Library Blog

Welcome to all our new students and welcome back to all our returning students. We hope you had a healthy and productive summer! Big news for the coming year. Beginning on Sunday, August 29th, the hours of Jarrett Library will be extended to midnight, Sunday-Thursday nights! We hope you'll take advantage of this time! Other news - recent graduate Jeremy Closs will be joining the regular staff as our weekend circulation supervisor, working the front desks Saturdays and Sundays. We're grateful to have Jeremy helping us out this year! No other major changes in the library though several of our electronic resources have undergone extensive "remodeling" of their interfaces. You'll see the biggest changes in the EBSCOhost databases - if you have any questions please ask for help at the reference desk, by phone, by email, via online chat (see the library home page) or through LibAnswers.

Welcome back to another semester at ETBU and another semester of information seeking in Jarrett Library. There are a few new things to be watching for in the Library. Last semester we introduced LibGuides, and many of the old static web pages have been converted over to LibGuides because they're easier to use and have a lot of bells and whistles we can add to your research experience. Some LibGuides are being developed for specific classes and we're also adding pathfinders and guides to assist you with basic research skills such as searching databases effectively or evaluating the sources that you use for your papers or presentations. We're even developing a few video tutorials that will help you learn how to use specific sources in a more efficient way - TigerCat will be one of the first ones completed. This semester we'll be introducing LibAnswers which will allow you to type in a question you have about the library - anything about the library is fair game - polic...