Information Commons Open House April 16

Library Open House for the Information Commons Experiment

Come to the Hoover Library and discover the new and innovative ways we are experimenting with Creative Learning Spaces.  This open house event will familiarize the McDaniel community with the details of the project and our future plans.  Please join us and see how we are providing new environments to support student collaboration on group projects and facilitating learning activities outside of the classroom.

Date:     Friday, April 16, 2010

Time:     2:00-4:00 Open House Event and Refreshments Available / At 2:45 the Director of Hoover Library, Jessame Ferguson will provide brief comments in the Rotunda

Self-tours will be available throughout the day, so please stop by earlier if you can’t join us for the main event.

For more information, please visit our news blog on the project at: http://hooverlib.wordpress.com/information-commons/ – leave us comments and see updates.  Or contact Jessame Ferguson at X2281 or jferguson@mcdaniel.edu

Database Trials

Hoover Library is conducting trials of the databases America: History and Life with Full Text and Historical Abstracts with Full Text. To access the trial databases, go to our A-Z Database List at http://hoover.mcdaniel.edu/journal/. If you have any questions, please contact Sally Jones at sajones@mcdaniel.edu.

America: History and Life with Full Text “is the definitive index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. With indexing for 1,700 journals from 1964 to present, this database is without question the most important bibliographic reference tool for students and scholars of U.S. and Canadian history.”

Historical Abstracts with Full Text “is an exceptional resource that covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women’s history, history of education, and much more.”

Open this Weekend

The Hoover Library plans to be open Saturday, February 13 from 9am to 5pm and on Sunday, February 14 from Noon until Midnight with limited staffing.  Please call in advance if you are making a trip from off campus to assure we have been able to stay open these hours.  The library’s main number is 410-857-2281.  Be careful traversing the campus, there is still ice and snow in some areas.

Hoover Library Closure

Due to inclement weather, Hoover Library will be closed beginning at 12:30 pm on Friday, February 5 and also all day on Saturday, February 6.

Library Open House Postponed

The Open House event in the Library originally scheduled for Friday, February 5 has been postponed due to the anticipated weather.  A new date will be announced at a later time.  In the meantime, please visit our blog site for information about our Information Commons Experiment and leave us your comments at: http://hooverlib.wordpress.com/information-commons/

Library Hours for November 30-December 13

Thanksgiving Week

Monday, November 23                                           8:00 a.m.-12:00 a.m.

Tuesday, November 24                                           8:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m.

Wednesday, November 25                                     8:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.

Thursday, November 26                                                    CLOSED

Friday, November 27                                                          CLOSED

Saturday, November 28                                                      CLOSED

Sunday, November 29                                              6:00 p.m.-12:00 a.m.

Week before Exams

Sunday, November 29                                             6:00 p.m.-12:00 a.m.

Monday, November 30                                           8:00 a.m. – 2:00 a.m.

Tuesday, December 1                                              8:00 a.m. – 2:00 a.m.

Wednesday, December 2                                        8:00 a.m. – 2:00 a.m.

Thursday, December 3                                            8:00 a.m. – 2:00 a.m.

Friday, December 4                                                 8:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Exam Week

Saturday, December 5                                            9:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Sunday, December 6                                              10:00 a.m. – 2:00 a.m.

Monday, December 7                                            8:00 a.m. – 2:00 a.m.

Tuesday, December 8                                            8:00 a.m. – 2:00 a.m.

Wednesday, December 9                                      8:00 a.m. – 2:00 a.m.

Thursday, December 10                                       8:00 a.m. – Midnight

Friday, December 11                                             8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Saturday, December 12                                                   CLOSED

Sunday, December 13                                                      CLOSED

 

 

Books Sandwiched In – November 19, 2009

Please join us Thursday, November 19, for “Books Sandwiched In.” Now in its 18^th season!

Good books make great gifts.  Jane Sharpe, McDaniel College Associate Librarian, will take the guesswork out of finding the best books to give this holiday season. Her forum, “Books Sandwiched In,” will be held from noon to 1 p.m. on Thursday, November 19, in McDaniel Lounge.

The event is free and open to the public. Participants are invited to bring a bag lunch.  Beverages and snacks will be provided.

The one-hour session will cover as many as 25 books, including fiction and non-fiction for children and adults, a cookbook, biography, and picture books.

“I try to have something for everybody,” Sharpe said.  “I approach it as though I’m taking the list of people I would buy for, and select books that I would pick for them.”

“Books Sandwiched In” is jointly sponsored by the Hoover Library, McDaniel’s Communications and Marketing Office, and Locust Books of Westminster.

For more information, contact Debbie in the Hoover Library at extension 2281.

Access to Full-Text Articles

Due to a system upgrade, full-text articles from the Library’s databases may not be available on October 24. The upgrade is scheduled to start 11am and last until approximately 6pm.

The “360 Link – click here for full-text availability” function  will not be working during this time. This means that some linking options to full-text articles will be inaccessible, and you will not be able to search by journal name.  We are sorry for any inconvenience.

National Library Week April 13-18, 2009

Come into Hoover Library to celebrate National Library Week (yes, we do have our own week because libraries are that important!) We  have cookies, lemonade (which I hear on good authority is actually quite good),  snacks, and a used book sale, 50¢ a book. Pretty hard to pass up! And, there is, of course, the library itself with over 200,000 volumes of intellect and intrigue.