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  • Happy Open Access Week!

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    It’s Open Access Week, a week when the potential for sharing scholarship widely is promoted and celebrated. If you aren’t entirely sure what “open access” means, it’s essentially putting scholarship online so that anyone can benefit from it. This has, of course, some implications for the traditional ways that scholarship is shared – through publishing…

  • Disappearing Documents

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    Due to the federal government shutdown, a number of websites are currently unavailable, including American Facfinder and other data from the Bureau of the Census. Other sites, such as PubMed, are running but with minimal staff. Links to government documents in our catalog may not work. Contact with people is also affected as offices are…

  • Constitution Day Event Today at 2:30

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    Last May, Edward Snowden began to disclose in the press classified information about a sweeping surveillance program conducted by the National Security Agency. Is Snowden a traitor or a whistleblower? Is the NSA program a necessary safeguard or unconstitutional? What expectations of privacy can we have the digital era? Join us in the GLA Reading…

  • Historic Yearbooks Now Online

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    Exciting news from the College Archives: All published editions of Gustavus yearbooks from 1904-1992 are now searchable online along with the student newspaper. Utilize this new resource to dig up family history at Gustavus, uncover old traditions and campus events, or use for your own personal research topic of interest. The Gustavian has chronicled the lives…

  • Retooled

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    Thanks to the wizardry of Anna Hulseberg, who looked under the hood and made a number of adjustments to the innards with her html tools, our old website now sports new features. We hope you will like them. The major changes are that searches for print reserves and journals by title have moved to the…

  • We Now Return You To . . .

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    . . . your previous library home page.  The problem we ran into is is not going to be an easy fix, and so we’ve had to pull the plug on our new design for now. We hope, whether the page is the current one or our ideal new page, that it won’t be too…

  • Whoops! Firefox Glitch

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    If you are using Firefox as a browser, you may be either unable to get links to work – or may be seeing nothing much at all on the library’s website.  Gustavus Technology Services is on the case! Meanwhile, please use another browser, such as Chrome or Safari, or try this alternative page. Apologies for…

  • New Look for the Library’s Front Page

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    No, it’s not you: the library’s website has changed. Many months ago, after a careful study involving focus groups with students, a user survey, and studying best practices, we simplified our site dramatically. It turned out we’d made some things a bit too simple, so we’ve made adjustments. We now have a tab for finding music…

  • Congratulations, Tenured Colleagues

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    The library has honored the faculty who received tenure this year with bookplates in new books in their disciplines. Check it out in the library’s new books area. Special congratulations to library faculty Julie Gilbert and Jeff Jenson, tenured this year.

  • WiFi Issues?

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    We’ve heard complaints that connectivity is slow in the library’s study rooms. If you run into that situation, there’s an app for that – or rather a diagnostic survey that will help GTS identify the problem. Of course, if it’s really slow, you might need to move to complete the form! But don’t move far…