Leadership Reading Room update

Yesterday, the contractors finished the Leadership Reading Room project on the second-floor of the Daniel Library. We still need to add another door handle, replace the windows and furnish the room with collaborative work tables and comfortable seating. As a temporary measure, we have added some simple study desk and chairs. Groups of students are welcome to use the room or reserve the room through the Circulation service desk on the first floor.  Enjoy!

Reading Contest

Win a $5.00 gift certificate to Java City! Tell us what you're reading and write a one or two sentence review. What do you like, what don't you like about the book? Post on our Facebook page. We will pick one winner on the first day of undergraduate exams (Wed. 12/7 at noon) for a $5.00 gift certificate to Java City! You must be a current Citadel student, faculty member or staff member to submit. Good luck!

Progress with Leadership Reading Room construction

Take a look at the nearly finished Leadership Reading Room, made possible through the generosity of the Class of 1980.  Other pictures of this project are available on our Flickr account.

Thanksgiving Hours

The Library hours for the Thanksgiving furlough are the following:

Closed 11/19 - 11/20
Open 8am-5pm 11/21 - 11/23
Closed 11/24 - 11/27

Normal hours resume on 11/28

Construction on Second-Floor Mezzanine

Due to the generosity of the Class of 1980, we have the funds needed to construct a Leadership Reading Room on the second-floor Mezzanine area of the Daniel Library.

Construction starts today and will continue until Thanksgiving 2011.  After final exams are over, work will resume and we hope to have the space finished as an enclosed, collaborative study space room with glass walls, glass doors and woodwork trim that matches the nearby paneling and staircase.

We welcome your thoughts and ideas as this room takes shape.

Elizabeth Connor, MLS, DM/AHIP

Interim Director of Library Services

Graduate Student Ideas Needed

Dear CGC Students,

The Daniel Library has allocated funds to create or modify several spaces on the second floor of the library to support group discussion and collaborative work conducted by graduate and evening undergraduate students.

Library faculty/staff want your input on how these spaces should be designed and furnished, and how you will be using them. Please join them for one of three upcoming brainstorming sessions.  Refreshments will be served.

·        Monday, October 24/4:00 pm

·        Wednesday, October 26/5:00 pm

·        Thursday, October 27/7:00 pm

Spaces at these sessions will be limited so sign up early! Please contact Susan Hayes at shayes1@citadel.edu by October 21st and indicate which session you would like to attend as well as the program that you are enrolled in. We want to make sure we receive input from students in all programs. Susan will send you a confirmation with additional details on where the session will take place in the library.

Thank you in advance for your participation and input!

Elizabeth Connor, MLS, DM/AHIP

Interim Director of Library Services Daniel Library - The Citadel

Why are two windows boarded up with plywood?

Thanks to the generosity of The Citadel Foundation, the Daniel Library will undergo a renovation project that will replace the windows and repair the roof and stucco facade.  In order to fabricate the uniquely-sized and -shaped windows, the contractor removed two windows from the northern end of the second floor to take to the window manufacturer. 

One of these windows was located  in the glassed-in study room and the other was near the portrait of Governor Richardson. Both the interior and exterior were boarded up with plywood.

As we have more details about the progress of the project, we will let you know. If you have any quesitons, please do not hesitate to ask.

Elizabeth Connor, MLS, DM/AHIP - Interim Director of Library Services - elizabeth.connor@citadel.edu

Check out our new Subject Guides

Daniel Library Subject Guides

Civil War collections on the Lowcountry Digital Library

http://lowcountrydigital.library.cofc.edu/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=/CCW

Check out some of our collections pertaining to the Civil War on the LCDL

Introducing ILLiad - our new Interlibrary Loan system

Today the Daniel Library launched a new Interlibrary Loan system called ILLiad.  This new system will provide much better tracking of your interlibrary loan requests and access to your requested documents.

This new system will require you to create an account with ILLiad.  You will be allowed to choose your own username and password.  We recommend for ease of remembering that you choose a username and password that is the same as your Lesesne Gateway username and password.

You can access ILLiad by clicking on the Interlibrary Loan link on the Library’s homepage or by clicking HERE.

We are very excited to offer this new system and we feel it will help us process your interlibrary loan requests faster and more accurately.

If you have any questions regarding setting up a new account, please contact the Reference Desk at 953-2569 or at reference@citadel.edu.

Off-campus access to databases restored

Off-campus access has been restored using your personal credentials.  The temporary username and password are no longer needed and will not work with the new server configuration.  Please note that you may need to refresh your browser to pull up the new login page.

To access databases off-campus you will enter your CWID as your username and your Last Name as your password.

If you have any issues logging into off-campus databases, please:

1. Call the Reference Desk at 843-953-2569

2. Email reference@citadel.edu

International Security & Counter Terrorism Reference Center--trial database

You'll find this resource on the list of EbscoHost databases (e.g., Academic Search Premier's "choose databases" list), or link directly to it by clicking here.

long-term newspaper database trial

Newsbank has offered access to the following collection of newspaper content through December 2011. Any comments, questions, or concerns you have about the search platform, titles included, or other matters are most welcome.

Access World News Research Collection

Research current and archived news content for information on topics, events, issues, people, businesses, and more through this in-depth resource of 5800 + sources. This primary resource solution supports a wide range of academic disciplines, including political science, journalism, English, history, environmental studies, sociology, economics, education, business, social sciences and more. Easy online access to local, in-state, national and international news sources, including newspapers, broadcast transcripts, newswires, news blogs, news web-only content and video. Alerts and "my personal" functionality helps students and faculty track and manage their research projects.

Outage - Off-campus access to databases

Off-campus access to library databases using your own login credentials currently is unavailable.

To obtain the temporary username and password, please contact the reference desk at 843-953-2569 or at reference@citadel.edu

We are working to restore access as soon as possible. Access to databases is still available anywhere on campus.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Jonathan Green Lecture Photographs

Did you miss Jonathan Green's Friends of the Library lecture on February 8, 2011?  We have a collection of photographs taken from that night available on our Flicker page.

Click here to see photo's from the event.

Google Art Project

http://www.googleartproject.com/

February is American Heart Month - check out this video on Films on Demand that talks about diet, exercise, and heart disease.

Lifestyle, Exercise, and Heart Disease (04:11)

Daniel Demos and DONUTS!

Daniel Demos and DONUTS! Come grab a DONUT and learn something new about how to do library research! We had requests to do another demo of EBSCO databases' features and tools. Time and date TBD, but look for information coming in the next week or so...

Daniel Demos - 1/27 4pm, EBSCO databases

Please join us in the LIL (Library Instruction Lab) Thursday, January 27 at 4:00 p.m. for a demo of EBSCO databases. We all know Academic Search Premier and Business Source Premier, but there are some new features and user-friendly tools to help you with your research. See you there!