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WHAT'S NEW - Archives
 September 2000 - August 2001
7/16/01 The library has much to offer even when classes are not in session. We
carry popular
titles on the library's first floor for casual reading. We have a video collection
that includes classics from the motion picture industry. We also carry a
large collection of children's
literature, books
on tape to listen to in your car, and for the academi a new book listing
by title and subject area of all materials in the library.
6/1/01 Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is designed to be the most
comprehensive source for theory and research in international
affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 on that
includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional
papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and
proceedings from conferences. You can receive monthly updates about new
content on CIAO, by joining the the CIAO mailing list. To join, simply
send a message to ciao-request@columbia.edu with
“subscribe” in the message field. Be sure to send the message from the
e-mail address at which you would like to receive the CIAO updates.
5/10/01 This will be a bi-monthly service to keep the Salve community informed
on the Library's latest acquisitions. It is a customized view of the new
books and other materials that the McKillop Library adds to its
collections every year. You can browse recently received items by
title, author and subject. You can even set up your
own personal
profile which will allow you to receive bi-monthly e-mail updates
of new books arriving in the subject areas you select.
Thirty-five full-text journals
online are available from the American Chemical Society. Other
services are also offered. ACS Publications' FREE
E-mail Alerts includes ASAP Alerts which are daily or weekly e-mail
alerts of when individual articles (Articles ASAP) are released on the
web, prior to being assigned to an issue. Also offered is Table of
Contents Alerts that are e-mail alerts of the Table of Contents (TOC) for
specific issues on the day the complete issue is posted on the web,
enabling you to scan the issue's entire contents at once. Listing of the
individual journals is also available in our online journal
listing. These journals are available to the Salve Community
"This online encyclopedia includes an index of all the rulers of the Roman Empire from 27 B.C.E. to 1453, biographies of major figures, a history of imperial dynasties, an index of significant battles, and maps of the changing Empire. This is the perfect site to begin a "Western Civ" term paper."
Read the library's latest newsletter! It features: Oz, Jazz, JSTOR, Preservation, Archives, ColdFusion, and more ... 2/28/01 Now you can renew SALVE or HELIN material without leaving home. Simply click on View Your Library Record.
Remember non-HELIN Interlibrary loan materials cannot be renewed online. 2/20/01 Serial and Video Lists accessed from the library website are using Allaire's ColdFusion to create dynamically served pages. Information is stored in one database and then can be displayed in various ways on the WWW. Title and subject lists are available. Storing the information in one database means automatic updating of the serials and video lists. The lists are viewable under the Catalog catagory on the library's homepage. Printed Video and Serials Lists are also available for use in the Library. 2/7/01 JSTOR is an archive of complete
backfiles of 117 journal titles from
15 academic disciplines, a collection numbering nearly 5,000,000
pages. 1/20/01 Sign up now for library workshops to better your information literacy skills! Offered are workshops on ProQuest, the HELIN catalog, IMP Email, Interlibrary Loan, and Internet searchng. 1/20/01 A follow-up to last year's user survey is being conducted as part of the university-wide self-study process. Your answers will continue the process of assessment and improvement of the library and university computer lab resources and services. 12/08/00 FISonline is a product of FIS Mergent and is a database containing information on over 25,000 companies worldwide with special software that facilitates the most demanding analytical research. It also includes Moody's News Reports. 11/15/00 Read the Fall 2000 issue online or pick up a copy in the library. In this issue an article on Information Literacy - Getting ready for the Information Age. New services and new additions to the collection are described. Check out the "How To" section on HELIN loan. 11/07/00 Don't know where to start to find the information you need? Check out the new Information Literacy Course (LSS060) offered for Spring 2001. 11/1/00 Search, browse and read thousands of full text publications from the leading publishers in the IT industry. Access books, tutorials, source code and guides to train yourself on today's problems and learn more about tomorrow's technologies. 10/5/00 The library has added netLibrary's Electronic Books Online to its collection. eBooks are electronic copies of published works, which can be "checked out" and read on your computer through the netLibrary web site. 9/15/00 The library has improved its Interlibrary loan service by speeding up delivery of documents to and from libraries participating in Ariel, an electronic document delivery service. For library patrons, articles requested through Interlibrary loan, which can be delivered by an Ariel participating library can reach the library in less than a week! 9/7/00 Sign up now for library workshops to better your information literacy skills! Most workshops are offered multiple times, so that it can readily fit it into one's schedule. |
Send comments or questions to Olga Verbeek, Library Webmaster, at verbeeko@salve.edu.
Revised: October, 2002
