Year: 2007

The New York Times apparently is having second thoughts about its Times Select program (the one that locks selected content up unless you are a subscriber). Now students and faculty have free access to Select content whether they are subscribers or not. Sign up for an account and have at it! The library, of course,…

Room 106 is now home to Helen – twin to Hector, but without a camera. Like her brother, Helen is a Mac mini with a huge flatscreen monitor, two keyboards, and a cord to hook your own laptop up to her keyboards and screen. Helen is perfect for collaborative projects! Soon a calendar will hang…

The library will be open Friday, March 2, from 8am-6pm, but most services will be unavailable. We will be open regular hours (10am-6pm) tomorrow, Saturday, March 3, with full services (reference 10-5, etc.).

Due to the winter weather, the library will be closing at 10pm on Thursday, March 1. We hope to return to regular hours on Friday, March 2. In the meantime, enjoy the snow!

The library now offers Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (or, TLG). This digital library serves up virtually all surviving Greek texts from Homer’s time (8th century BCE) to the fall of Byzantium in 1453 CE. One could call it the EEBO of ancient Greece! Due to the nature of this product and the cost of a campus-wide…

Room 102 (a study room on the library’s lower level, Chapel side) is now home to Hector, a Mac mini with a wide flatscreen monitor, two keyboards, a laptop hookup and an iSight camera. This flexible workspace is perfect for groups writing collaborative papers, creating Powerpoint for group presentations, or working on other computing projects.…

The library has just set up a trial to AnthroSource, the premier online resource for anthropology. It includes the full text of 32 scholarly journals published by the American Anthropological Association (AAA), most dating back to the first issue and about half continuing to the present. Topics in physical anthropology, cultural or social anthropology, linguistic…

The Journals link from the library’s home page and the button in our databases will be disabled from approximately 9:30-10:30am Sunday morning, February 11, as the University of Minnesota moves the SFX server and runs updates on the software. Thank you for your patience!

In honor of Charles Darwin’s birthday, we’ve pulled together some library books, on display near the front door. Don’t want to come out in the cold? We understand. Luckily, the British Library has put Darwin’s complete works online. You could also browse a museum exhibit, or see how clergy around the country have discussed the…

Due to continued work on our software upgrade, the Interlibrary Loan (ILL) function will not be available through MnPALS or MnLINK from 5:00 pm Thursday, January 4 through sometime on Monday, January 8. During this time you will be able to request items in one of four ways: 1. Submit a printout of what you…