Library Services During COVID-19Welcome back! We are excited to see you and your students again whether in-person or virtually! Below includes information about the newest updates and changes to policies, staffing, hours, library, spaces, etc. amid the COVID-19 pandemic.Library Hours Due to service changes during COVID-19 and staffing shortages, library hours will be slightly reduced:
HELIN and interlibrary book loan are back! We will be offering contactless hold pickup at the front of the circulation desk. As always, you can request electronic resources via interlibrary loan. Due to staffing shortages and the pandemic, the research & information desk will not be regularly staffed but Salve students/faculty/staff can walk-in for research assistance or schedule a virtual consultation.  Our community can also call, email, text or chat with a librarian from the library's website. Research & Information Services For safety's sake, we are offering virtual research instruction, either with a flipped model where we make a video to show a research tool or illustrate a research concept, and then work with students via web conference to practice and answer questions, with traditional instruction via web conference, and/or by creating online research guides to support your assignments. 
To support online learning, the library created four new interactive tutorials for students: Finding Books, Finding Articles, Citing in APA, and Evaluating Sources. These can be used to flip learning before a librarian visits your class or on their own to ensure that students understand how to do basic research activities.
Contact your liaison to discuss how to provide your students with access to the tutorials.Database News We currently have temporary access to additional e-journals via JSTOR. Access to Campus Research (Westlaw) will end at the end of October 2020. Similar legal information is available in Nexis Uni. Access to Book Review Digest, ACLS Humanities Ebooks, McGraw-Hill Access Science, and Oxford Bibliographies: Literary & Critical Theory ended as of July 1. For CQ Researcher, access to new issues ended as of July 1, but we will still have access to past issues. Please refer to our database list for access to these resources. Course Reserves & E-Reserves McKillop Library will continue to offer physical reserves while in-person classes remain in session, and will offer online reserves through the fall and spring semesters. To this end, we have made temporary changes to our e-book and streaming film purchase policies to best accommodate students studying both in-person and virtually. Library Facility Safety Library access is restricted by Salve ID card swipe to current Salve students, faculty and staff only. Unfortunately, alumni, Circle of Scholar members, and members of the local community will not have access to the building, which also means that non-Salve patrons can neither borrow materials nor access our electronic resources. Previously, in-person use was the only way non-Salve patrons could use our databases and e-books. As with the rest of campus, masking is required at all times throughout the library building. The only exception to this rule will be on the first floor Café side of the library, where people can remove their masks while they are actively eating. Beverages will be allowed through the building, but we will ask patrons to please use a straw under their mask or briefly remove their mask to sip and put it back on right away.  Library staff measured and moved all library furniture to ensure six-foot distancing throughout the library. This has cut our total capacity to about 250 seats, but our circulation department notes that hourly headcounts show that we only hit 200 capacity during exam periods. Faculty Lecture SeriesOur popular Faculty Lecture Series returns this semester with three engaging online presentations. Be sure to visit the library's Calendar of Events for details and registration. Emily Colbert Cairns: "Breast is Best in Early Modern Spain"Thurs., Sept. 17 at 4p.m. via Zoom Click to register Maternal milk is the first food practice that serves to control the female body, enabling certain women but not others from nursing infants. In this presentation, Dr. Colbert Cairns shares her research from a sabbatical in the fall of 2019. While in Spain, she conducted primary research in hospital archives regarding the use of wet-nurses and their orphan charges in the Archivo de la Diputación Provincial de Sevilla (Seville, Spain). Establishing a primary residence in Seville, Spain, allowed Dr. Colbert Cairns to visit and study first-hand some of the important artistic representations of the lactating virgin in the Museum of Bellas Artes, within the Cathedral of Seville and in the Archbishop's Palace. These paintings comprise a key aspect of the research _ they reflect the widespread and popular appeal this topic had for an early modern Iberian audience. The discussion will focus on two of these paintings found within Seville's Cathedral: Virgen de los Remedios (anonymous 1400) and The Purification of the Virgen (1555) by Pedro de la Campaña.  D. Matthew Ramsey: "Taking Popular Culture Seriously, or, How I Learned to Love 'Hack' Faulkner"Mon., Oct. 19 at 4p.m. via Zoom Click to register Dr. Ramsey examines the work of renowned, Nobel Prize-winning Southern author William Faulkner and his intersections with popular culture. To illustrate issues regarding the canon, literary snobbery, or assumptions about Southern white male authors, Dr. Ramsey employs examples of film, novels, and other works, including a Saturday Evening Post all-male war story transformed into a Joan Crawford melodrama, a "scandalous" Pre-Code Hollywood film about rape and murder, and The Long, Hot Summer and the queerness of 1950s Southern melodramas.  Anthony F. Mangieri: "Epic Fashion: Dress Decoration and Homeric Storytelling in Ancient Greek Art"Tues., Nov. 11 at 4p.m. via Zoom Click to register Lecture description coming soon! Anthony F. Mangieri is an Associate Professor of art and art history, and chair of the Department of Art and Art History. His areas of specialization are in ancient Greek and Roman art. In particular, his research focuses on Greek vase-painting, iconography, Classical mythology, dress and adornment, and issues of gender and sexuality in the ancient world. He received his Ph.D. in art history from Emory University in 2008. Please see the library's Covid-19 Research and Support Guide. We update the guide regularly and it contains the most up-to-date information related to library services, online learning, and more! Stay safe and be well! |
BACK ISSUESAug. '98-current  All programs are free and open to the Salve community unless otherwise noted. Inclusive Reading Club (IRC) Sign up today through the library's Calendar of Events and join us once a month in an online discussion where we will explore, through short readings, issues surrounding voter suppression in the United States in September and racial and ethnic disparities in the juvenile justice system in October. We've moved our time and date to Thursdays at 4 p.m. We hope you can join us!  IRC: Voter SuppressionSept. 24th at 4 p.m. via Zoom Where: Online via Zoom (click to Register) With a big election coming in November, we're going to be talking about voter suppression in the United States. Why are some communities disproportionately affected by tactics such as voter roll purges, changes to voter ID requirements, the rigging of rules, and gerrymandering? We'll read excerpts from Stacey Abrams' new book, Our Time is Now, and learn more about how some communities are confronting acts of voter suppression. IRC: Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Juvenile Justice System Oct. 22 at 4 p.m. IRC: Stay tuned for more information on November's topic! Nov. 19th at 4 p.m. via Zoom New ArrivalsCheck out our newest selection of books, DVDs and more! Below is a sampling of our new releases or browse all newest acquisitions.
   
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This summer we said goodbye to three wonderful library colleagues as they left us for exciting new opportunities. 
Alicia Vaandering is now Assistant Professor, University Libraries/Student Success Librarian at University of Rhode Island. She wrote to us, "I have genuinely enjoyed the opportunities that I've had to oversee the CRC collections and instruction space, work closely with the education and history majors at Salve, spearhead assessment initiatives for university seminars, and learn more from a team of knowledgeable and experienced librarians."
Nicole Marino is now Digital Scholarship Librarian at Fairfield University. She wrote, "I am grateful for your shared wisdom, professionalism, and humor over the past 2 years."
Hilary Gunnels is now Collections Manager at the South County History Center. She wrote, ". . .words cannot express the gratitude I feel for the library and everyone who has made my experience working here as rich and fulfilling as it has been."