State of the Library: Spring Survey Result HighlightsI hope your fall semester is going smoothly. The library team is so relieved to be glimpsing normality this semester with the library much more lively.We were happy with last spring's responses to our annual survey despite the disruption caused by COVID. We received approximately 50 faculty respondents, around 100 each freshmen and sophomores respondents, and around 50 each junior, seniors, and grad/PhD respondents. We were interested to see that even during COVID, a majority of respondents reported at least weekly use of the library. In open-ended comments several students reported frustration with distancing and masking requirements, but even with these inconveniences, students felt they needed library spaces.  Regarding information literacy, students reported their top concerns as citing sources, knowing when they have collected enough information, internet and source evaluation, and finding and using scholarly articles. Faculty concerns diverged with students' in that they placed more emphasis on students' ability to discern between scholarly and popular sources and finding scholarly articles, but they were likewise concerned with internet evaluation and using scholarly articles. 
 Our students still prefer reading books in print:  This year we asked several questions about our collections and received interesting feedback. Students requested that we develop our print collection in several areas, including cryptocurrency, Black Lives Matter, justice system, Lindy Hop, and African American dance. Students also asked for more access to e-books in humanities, philosophy, and international relations. The library, which has for several years recognized a need to support growing distance doctoral programs, has subscribed to a collection of "frontlist" JSTOR ebooks, including the most recent titles by university presses. These are accessible through the library catalog and in JSTOR. Students requested more access to full text of applied behavior analysis articles. We have recognized a gap in coverage with the core journal in this discipline and have been researching how to fill that gap. Faculty reported a desire for more access to journals in religious and theological studies, early childhood education, English, and materials related to music. Faculty also reported wishing that there were more books related to history. If you reported concerns about our collections in the survey or would like to discuss how the library might better support your students' work, please contact your librarian liaison and/or library director Dawn Emsellem. If there are gaps in subject matter within these disciplines, we would like to know where to focus our energies so we can purchase print monographs. We can also work with you to review our current article access in your discipline and identify where we are lacking. While we do have a tight budget, understanding your needs will allow us to keep an eye out for opportunities to improve your students' access to research in your discipline. Library Services / Circulation Update
Below includes information about the newest updates regarding policies, hours, library spaces, etc. amid the COVID-19 pandemic. For up-to-date information, please visit the library's COVID guide at https://salve.libguides.com/COVID-19. Refer also to our FAQs for answers to Frequently Asked Questions. Library Hours Library hours* for the Fall 2021 semester are as follows:
All current members of the Salve Regina community will continue to have access to HELIN and interlibrary loan books, in addition to the collections owned by McKillop Library. As always, you can request electronic resources via interlibrary loan. Library of Things McKillop Library is now offering a selection of novelty baking pans and cookie cutters, popular and classic board games and table games, and outdoor lawn games for check-out!  Each Thing in our Library of Things can be borrowed for three days at a time, perfect for playing games or baking with friends over the weekend.Current Things include: Baking
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. Library Facility Safety 
McKillop Library is open to current Salve students, faculty and staff, as well as members of local colleges/universities, visitors and local guests. To keep the Salve community safe and to abide by University and RIDOH policies, masks are required indoors at all times regardless of vaccination status. Masks should fit snugly but comfortably over your nose, mouth, and chin without any gaps. McKillop Café is open and meals may be consumed on the café side of the first floor only. Snacks and beverages are allowed throughout the building. Masks are still required, though people can remove them while actively eating/drinking. Hand sanitizing stations and cleaning wipes and supplies are available on all floors. Library staff will also regularly clean high-touch surfaces. Research & Information Services UpdateThe research & information desk is once again staffed in-person with (masked) librarians and Plexiglass dividers on the desk (stop by and say hello or ask us a question!). Salve students/faculty/staff can walk-in for on-demand assistance at the Information or Circulation desks or, if preferred, schedule a virtual consultation. Our community can also call, email, text or chat with a librarian from the library's website.Website Update New features have been added to the library home page over the summer, such as an added tab for searching item records and viewing digital materials from our Archives & Special Collections. We also have a revamped image carousel, updated weekly, to showcase library resources, upcoming events and other information. Catalog Update Our catalog search interface has been updated with a new look! Many of the features are the same, but some are located in different places. Here is a quick overview of some of the features: Search Results  Holding information such as location in the library, call number, availability and summary are conveniently located on the search result page. Limiters such format, publication year, etc. are still available in the left column. Click any item title for detailed information and request buttons. Access Options  Clicking the title of an item from the search result will bring you to the detailed item page where you can easily find access options to find Salve items on the shelf (or request them and we can retrieve it for you!), request the item from HELIN libraries or via Interlibrary Loan. Button options will change depending on format and which libraries hold the item. If you are not already logged in, you may be prompted to enter your Salve credentials to request. Additional Features  On any detailed item page, scroll down for more tools and information such as relevant subject headings, "browse the shelf," additional "editions and formats" and more. Search the catalog from the library homepage! New Resources The digital edition of the New York Times is now available. Access requires creating an individual account. Register for an individual account with your Salve email address and any password that you choose. Once registered, users can login to the New York Times website and access all digital content both on and off campus, including the NYT app. Content goes back to 1851. For articles from 1923-1980, users are limited to view and/or download 5 PDFs per 24-hour period. (Please note that for those with an existing personal subscription to the New York Times digital edition that uses their Salve email in the login, they will need to first cancel their personal subscription to be able to register. Occasionally when trying to register, users may get an error message of "access unavailable," which indicates that they should first cancel any personal NYT account, then use an incognito/private browser window to register, or use a different browser to register.) 
See also the database Historical New York Times, which provides unlimited access to older articles. For additional newspapers, the library also offers the Wall Street Journal, Nexis Uni, and America's News. The Vogue Archive contains the backfile of Vogue magazine (US edition), spanning from the first issue in 1892 to the current month, reproduced in high-resolution color page images. Issues are scanned from cover to cover, including articles, advertisements, covers and fold-outs, with full indexing. The Vogue Archive preserves a unique record of American and international fashion, culture, and society. Our JSTOR subscription now includes two large new collections of ebooks, which provide over 160,000 volumes from a range of scholarly publishers in multiple subject areas. Titles from 275 academic publishers and university presses based in 43 countries are included, such as American Psychological Association, University of California Press, Harvard University Press, Catholic University of America Press, MIT Press, and Duke University Press. Approximately 100 new ebooks are added each week. These ebooks are included in the library catalog, and are searchable within JSTOR. Streaming video requests Faculty can request access to streaming videos for their classes. Requests are accepted for films that will be required viewing for an entire class, with a maximum of 5 requests per class. To request a film, please fill out the course reserve request form. Since streaming film access expires after one year, please fill out a request for each streaming film every semester, so that the library will be notified to renew access to films that are still needed. For copyright reasons, the library is only able to purchase streaming films from vendors which provide institutional licensing for academic use. Unfortunately due to their terms of use and lack of institutional licensing, the library is not able to purchase films from services such as Netflix, Amazon Prime, or PBS"s Passport. The library also provides full access to two large video databases, Films on Demand and Academic Video Online (AVON). For more information, see the library"s streaming film policy. If you need assistance or have questions, please contact us! Archives & Special Collections NewsYou can now search University Archives & Special Collections (UASC) on the library website at https://library.salve.edu. This search box searches ArchivesSpace, a catalog of information about archival records, manuscript collections, and more. This is best for searching for paper materials which have not been digitized. Books in Special Collections, the Newport Collection, and similar collections will continue to be searchable through the regular library catalog search, and photographs/media are searchable through the digital collections linked from the archives website: https://library.salve.edu/archives.The Archives now has a digital collection of A/V! You can view audio and moving image materials from the Archives in Artstor. The materials in this collection so far include VHS tapes of Commencements and related ceremonies, digitized by previous archivist Julie Swierczek, and A/V reels of events and musical performances (dating mostly from the 1960s-1970s), digitized last year by Mass Productions. The fruits of much audiovisual digitization labor over the past few years are finally available to the public! Sound and moving image materials from the Archives are now in Artstor. Some of these items were digitized from VHS by previous archivist Julie Swierczek, and in 2020 we worked with Mass Productions to digitize reels that we did not even have the equipment to play. There are hundreds of AV items (inventoried by former employee Hilary Gunnels in 2019-2020) for us to tackle next! In late spring we finished adding the Winslow Family Papers to our JSTOR site. This collection includes correspondence and other materials created by several branches of a family, mostly New York businessman Henry Brevoort, Jr. and his children in the 1830s. This summer we added more historical press releases to the digital collection in Digital Commons. We've made it up to 1978! A donation from Sister Eileen Schwenk '51 filled a gap in our holdings of Ebb Tide: https://digitalcommons.salve.edu/student-newspapers. We also scanned and posted over 50 photographs from the early 1980s, donated by alumna Marie Taylor Benson ('84). October is American Archives Month, so check out the UASC social media feeds and follow the hashtag #AskAnArchivist on October 13! UASC is once again open to in-person research by appointment. If you are interested in working with our collections, please email archives@salve.edu. |
BACK ISSUESAug. '98-current  All programs are free and open to the Salve community unless otherwise noted. Our special programs and events are once again being held in person and in some cases, in hybrid format (online and in-person). See a full list of up-coming events throughout the semester and register for events at https://salve.libcal.com/. You can even save events to your Outlook or Google calendars and share via Facebook or Twitter! Inclusive Reading Club (IRC) Join us once a month on Thursday afternoons in person or remotely to engage on issues of diversity and multiculturism through short readings and discussions. Sign up today through the library's IRC Calendar of Events to receive links about the readings and the meeting invitation. We hope you can join us! IRC: I'm Not Your Superwoman: Healing Black Women's Pain Thurs., Oct. 14 at 4 p.m. Library 2nd FL or online via Zoom (click to Register) 
Join us in reading excerpts from Black Pain: It Just Looks Like We're Not Hurting by Terrie M. Williams and Black Women's Mental Health: Balancing Strength and Vulnerability, edited by Stephanie Y. Evans, Kanika Bell, and Nsenga K. Burton.
Click here to get started with the readings. We also have a place to share your thoughts on the IRC's online bulletin board: https://padlet.com/salvelibrarian/irc.
Faculty Lecture SeriesOur popular Faculty Lecture Series continues this semester with engaging presentations. Visit the library's Calendar of Events for details on all up-coming lectures.Dr. Hyoyeun Jun: "Why aren't you getting vaccinated? Unintended effects and barriers of health and risk communication" Thurs., Oct. 28 at 4p.m. Library 1st FL, East Wing 
Join us for our second lecture of the McKillop Library Faculty Lecture series with Dr. Hyoyeun Jun, Assistant Professor of English, Communications, and Media, to explore some unintended consequences of not being vaccinated. Dr. Jun applies both qualitative and quantitative methodology to understand the existing and upcoming barriers for health behavioral change. By presenting understudied barriers perceived by diverse demographic groups, Dr. Jun's research sheds light on effective health risk messaging strategies for governmental health. New ArrivalsCheck out our newest selection of books, DVDs and more! Below is a sampling of our newest releases or browse all new acquisitions.
 Additional displays in the library -- come by and check them out! Mexican Culture & History 
View our display on Mexican Culture and History, where you can explore the food, literature, art, and history of Mexican culture. Library 1st FL. Author Spotlight: Tomie Depaola
Come see our 2nd FL Curriculum Library display on Tomie Depaola, author of Strega Nona, The Art Lesson and more. Find additional info at https://www.tomie.com.Indestructible Poetry  Check out the new Special Collections display, "Indestructible poetry: The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám." (Library 3rd FL).
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