Archive for 2005
Chaos in the Library!
Here’s the tree in all its hand-made glory. Photo courtesy of Kathie Martin. It’s hard to believewe’re one day away from the end of finals – the library is packed on Monday afternoon with students studying together, hunching over books on the “quiet floor” and working on last-minute papers. Students are checking out books to [...]
Shelve Under Ick
Students who spend hours in the library naturally want to be comfortable, and that means being able to have food and drink handy. We’re okay with that. We’re not okay with leaving trash around for others to pick up, and we’re troubled by the sheer amount of waste involved. The Student Senate and the Gustavus [...]
The Latest from the Library
Focus groups of students and faculty have given us much food for thought about our library’s Web page. Thanks to Anna Hulseberg and Michelle Twait, as well as to Laura MacPherson and Paul Coleman, the library’s Academic Assistants, for taking on this project – and to the students and faculty who participated. We’ll be discussing [...]
Go Ahead, It’s Good For You
Chill out! Students working in our Interlibrary Loan department had a table at the annual wellness fair. Here they are, proving the point that reading leads to happiness. We’re happy they took the initiative to represent the library at this event. Looking for something to read? Check out our latest list of new books. Jane [...]
Horde, IMP, and imapproxy
So it turns out that the cache in imapproxy that we turned on yesterday has a problem. First of all, it seemed to work great. I think webmail was more responsive and there was a reduced load on our mail disks. However not all was well. It seems like some times when you deleted a [...]
Focus on the Library
Tell us what you really think. The library will be conducting a focus group this fall to help us evaluate the effectiveness of our website. We would like to invite 5-10 faculty to share their unique perspective on the library and its resources – we would love to hear your thoughts and suggestions. (We will [...]
Webmail and IMAP proxy server
One of the 2 webmail servers imap proxy services stoped working around noon whatever day that was. I started the service again and now webmail should be back to normal. During that time, 50% of webmail users were not able to log in.
ERIC update and more
The ERIC education database underwent some major changes last year as it launched a new Website. It was an improvement, especially in the way full text ERIC documents were linked, but the interface wasn’t without its problems. We’re now getting it through the Cambridge Scientific Abstracts interface. This allows for better advanced searches, easy interlibrary [...]
new books and book news
Check out our list of new books added to the library in the second half of September. We make these lists available twice a month. It’s one way to see what’s new – an armchair (or desktop) version of browsing the new books shelf in the comfy area near the front door. Also in that [...]
Find it!
Our link resolver is working well. You’ll find yellow “find it” buttons in most of our online databases that will take you to full text in other databases or to the library catalog. (In many cases, you’ll go to the full text article directly, but not in databases such as LexisNexis that don’t have persistent [...]