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WHAT'S NEW - Archives
 September 2002 - December 2002
12/17/02
11/14/02 Anyone with a laptop containing an Ethernet card can connect to the Internet using the campus network by plugging into an Ethernet port in these locations. Now you can work in the library with your own personal computer and be connected to the Internet. Please bring your own cable with you, as we only have a limited number to lend out. Instructions are posted at each access port. For additional information contact Olga Verbeek at 341-2281.
10/15/02
10/09/02 Students, faculty and staff from any of the nine HELIN libraries, may borrow books online with a valid library barcode. The InRhode Catalog is accessible from either the HELIN Library Catalog or Brown's JOSIAH Library Catalog. After performing a search on either HELIN or JOSIAH, the user can click on an InRhode button to replicate their search in the InRhode Catalog. Return to Home button in InRhode will return the user to their home catalog. Sign up for a workshop to learn how easy it is to borrow books from Brown.
10/01/02
AskHELIN is a new virtual reference service pilot project offered by the HELIN Library Consortium. Building on HELIN's long tradition of collaboration and resource sharing, librarians at eight of the HELIN libraries are offering the Rhode Island academic community real-time, online, reference. Faculty, students, and staff at any of the HELIN universities and colleges may ask questions via the Internet and a librarian will be available to answer instantly.
Try it!
9/19/02 Other new databases purchased over the summer break are:
9/19/02
For those of you who use electronic databases off-campus or plan to do so, there is
good news. No longer are you required to set up your web browser for proxy access.
The new HELIN proxy server is set up to automatically configure your browser to allow
access to all of the online McKillop Library databases. The only requirement for
off-campus access to databases will be to enter your name and library barcode number
(14 digit number on your Salve card) when prompted by the server. There are two ways of gaining access from off-campus: The Two Options
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Send comments or questions to Olga Verbeek, Library Webmaster, at verbeeko@salve.edu.
A new index has been added to FirstSearch. The Alternative Press Index
Archive indexes journals from 1969-1990. This increases the coverage of Alternative Press Index which indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political and social change. This index is highly
recommended comprehensive guide to alternative sources of information. Coverage
is international and interdisciplinary. View the 
Access to the Salve Regina University Campus Network is now available in selected study
areas on the Library's third Floor and in all of the library's Study Rooms. The study tables
along the outside walls of the library's third floor now have access to the campus's
network. In addition, all of the library's study rooms on the second and third floors have
connections.
The McKillop Library has recently added more full-text journals to its JSTOR database. The
Language & Literature Collection is a compendium of 47 journal titles that span the literary
cultures of many nations. Developed in conjunction with the Modern Language Association
through a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Language & Literature
Collection offers insight into linguistics; comparative literature; and literary history, theory,
analysis, and scholarship. It also includes core journals in the newer fields of literary
criticism that have emerged over the past 30 years. In addition to English, the Language &
Literature Collection includes articles in languages such as Arabic, Italian, and Russian. A
complete list of titles is available at 
