January 2012
2 posts
What is IDS Search? How will it help me?
Hello all,
The library is pleased to make available a new search and discovery service that will not only replace our old library catalog, Aleph, but also integrate with our interlibrary loan platform and many of our other library resources to improve your access to the scholarly resources you need. This new service was developed by the IDS Project, a mutually supportive resource-sharing...
READ ABOUT MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. AT YOUR LIBRARY
“He would not give up, no matter how long it took, because in the smallest hamlets and the darkest slums, he had witnessed the highest reaches of the human spirit; because in those moments when the struggle seemed most hopeless, he had seen men and women and children conquer their fear; because he had seen hills and mountains made low and rough places made plain, and the crooked places made...
December 2011
2 posts
An important message from Herman, your virtual...
Holidays! – Catch the Spirit! – Light the Lights!
A gathering of Holiday books is on display at the library for the month of December. Come in…
Check these books out for your reading pleasure…
November 2011
2 posts
ebrary Free Open Access Collections for You!
Ebrary, our online collection of ebooks, has offered you some special freely available collections. Please visit our ebrary site, on our library website, and look for the “Searchable Information Center” collections that are presently available. Or to find out more about these free collections, click here.
More information from the ebrary website:
“This site is one of a series...
Celebrate National Native American Heritage Month!
National Native American Heritage Month is November, and the library will be celebrating with a display of recent titles on this topic. The display is located just inside the library entrance on the main floor. These books are just a sampling of our considerable book resources on Native Americans; please ask to see our bibliography on Native Americans, available online. A librarian will be...
October 2011
4 posts
Library promotes National Domestic Violence...
The White House
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release October 03, 2011
Presidential Proclamation—National Domestic Violence Awareness Month
NATIONAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARENESS MONTH, 2011
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
During Domestic Violence Awareness Month, we recognize the significant achievements we have made in reducing domestic...
Full text access problems
Gale/Cengage Learning has reported an access problem with New York Times full text in their New York State Newspapers database, which is provided to us through NOVEL NY.
The technical support team at Gale/Cengage Learning is working to correct this problem.
Access to the New York Times full text will be restored soon.
I want a 'JobNow'!
(Answer):
JobNow, powered by Brainfuse, provides live interactive online help combined with online resources to guide you through the necessary tasks to get a job.
The Hermann Memorial Library has just recently added this online service to its webpage. You can access this service by going to the library home page, then clicking on “Subject Resources” under the heading “Find...
September 2011
5 posts
Celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month at your...
About National Hispanic Heritage Month (excerpted from hispanicheritagemonth.gov website):
Each year, Americans observe National Hispanic Heritage Month from September 15 to October 15, by celebrating the histories, cultures and contributions of American citizens whose ancestors came from Spain, Mexico, the Caribbean and Central and South America.
The observation started in 1968 as Hispanic...
New enhancements to SciVerse/ScienceDirect...
“Your Search, Your Way”. This fall SciVerse/Science Direct delivers the tools to enable you to construct searches and analyze results YOUR way. Through September, Elsevier is launching several highly anticipated enhancements to SciVerse that expand your search options, speed up your research and boost efficiency.
Click here to read more!
ScieVerse/Science Direct from the publisher...
Celebrate Constitution Day at your library!
Celebrate the Birthday of Our United States of America Government September 17, 2011 (Observed September 16, 2011) On September 17, 1787, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention met for the last time to sign the document they had created. We encourage all Americans to observe this important day in our nation’s history by attending local events in your area. Celebrate Constitution...
WatchHermann, your virtual SUNY Sullivan librarian, has a few words for our incoming freshmen. Topic: the world of information management.
Alert: Science Direct/SciVerse down time
Please note on September 10 we will be releasing several new enhancements to the SciVerse platform. Therefore, we have a scheduled outage on September 10 which will affect the following products:
SciVerse ScienceDirect
Journals Consult
The products and services mentioned above are expected to be offline and unavailable for approximately 11 hours on Saturday, September 10. Down time by region is...
August 2011
1 post
Interlibrary Loan Workshops in the Library...
Welcome back!
Many of you already take advantage of our interlibrary loan services at the library, but not all of you do! It’s time for everyone to get familiar with the process. Why? Simply put, no library can ever be exhaustive. Don’t get me wrong; we have a great collection for a small library, but we just can’t be everything for everyone all the time (despite our best efforts). Invest a...
July 2011
1 post
Testing & Education Reference Center now...
The Hermann Memorial Library presents a new electronic resource to help you plan and meet your educational and career goals, whatever they may be. It’s the Testing & Education Reference Center from Gale/Cengage Learning.
Are you taking a college entrance or licensing exam? Looking for a college or graduate school? Need help finding scholarships? Use this database to search thousands...
May 2011
3 posts
New Reference Chat Service Available!
Doing research late at night? Have questions how to find a book or article on your topic? Need some professional guidance, or just an answer to a concrete question?
Now you can chat with a reference librarian at any time with our new service Ask Us 24/7, which is available on our library web site.
Ask Us 24/7 is a cooperative library service which staffs the virtual reference desk around...
Attention: database service interrupted
We have received this notice from the SciVerse Science Direct database, one of our subscription journal databases:
“On May 7 we will be releasing several new enhancements to the SciVerse platform (more information on these to follow shortly). While we expect this release to go smoothly, it is possible that you and your users experience temporary service disruptions on Saturday, May 7,...
May is Mental Health Awareness Month
“For any mental disorder (including substance disorders), the lifetime prevalence rate is an astonishing 57.4 percent. That’s more than every 1 in 2 Americans. If you don’t think mental illness will impact your life, you’re sadly mistaken. If it doesn’t hit you, it’s going to hit someone you love or are close to.”—from the PsychCentral Website
In recognition of Mental Health...
April 2011
3 posts
'America's Historical Newspapers' debuts in...
What is “America’s Historical Newspapers”?
America’s Historical Newspapers is a research database package comprising the facsimile content of thousands of local American newspapers from the colonial period through the year 2000, designed as a way for students to do primary source research on selected periods and issues in American history. Students can pick a subject from...
ARTstor, a new image database, now available!
The Hermann Memorial Library is proud to announce it has acquired a license to ARTstor Digital Library, making available to our faculty, staff and students this vast database of high quality digital images for teaching, presentations and other scholarly use. “The ARTstor Digital Library offers more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences with a suite of...
Read a good poem lately?
Well, April is “National Poetry Month”
“National Poetry Month is a month-long, national celebration of poetry established by the Academy of American Poets. The concept is to widen the attention of individuals and the media—to the art of poetry, to living poets, to our complex poetic heritage, and to poetry books and journals of wide aesthetic range and concern. We hope to...
March 2011
1 post
Celebrate Women's History Month at Your Library!
“During Women’s History Month, we reflect on the extraordinary accomplishments of women and honor their role in shaping the course of our Nation’s history. Today, women have reached heights their mothers and grandmothers might only have imagined. Women now comprise nearly half of our workforce and the majority of students in our colleges and universities. They scale the...
February 2011
2 posts
Workshop on new library databases for students,...
What: Workshop to introduce three terrific new online databases found on our Library Home Page: Credo Reference Service, Lexis Nexis Academic, and CQ Researcher.
When: Next Thursday, February 17, 2011, from 2:30 to 3:15 PM
Where: In the Library Instruction Room, E-105 (first floor of the Library)
Who: Students doing research, faculty and staff too!
Presented by: Rich Arnold, Public Services...
Black History Month 2011
Above: Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr., (17 August 1887 – 10 June 1940) was a publisher, journalist, entrepreneur and orator
February is Black History Month, and the library has for the occasion assembled a selection of current as well as earlier books from our circulating collection that celebrates, interprets, documents, and narrates the achievements and influence of Blacks in history, from the...
January 2011
1 post
Welcome to the Library!
Hello from the library staff to all returning and new students on the first day of classes. Here are some things we think you will find useful:
You can contact the library during the hours that it is open by calling the phone on the circulation desk, Ext. 4389, and rest assured the call will be answered by a real live person to help you. Other than by phone, you can ask your questions in live...
December 2010
4 posts
Students! Now we have CQ Researcher Online to help...
What is CQ Researcher Online and how can it help me?
“The CQ Researcher is your #1 source for original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues shaping our world. CQ Researcher is used by students, teachers, librarians, journalists, and more, who need to complete an assignment, prepare for a debate, or become a quick expert on a topic. Each 12,000-word report is a unique work,...
Library adds new collection "Credo Reference"
Credo Reference Service is Here!
What is Credo Reference and how can it help me?
With Credo Reference, you get content from hundreds of reference books covering every major subject. There are over 3 million entries, 200,000+ images (art, diagrams, maps and photos), and over 100,000 audio pronunciation files and sound clips. The content is enriched by a network of cross-reference links that cut...
"The Definitive Record of the English Language"...
Welcome to the new OED Online
from the Editor, John Simpson, excerpted from the website:
Welcome to the new OED Online web site. You’ll find it quite different from the old site in many ways (new design, new functionality, etc.), but with a strong element of continuity in the form of the editorial content.
We’ve tried to tilt the site more towards the English language than towards...
LexisNexis Academic Search Now Available
What is LexisNexis Academic and how can it help me?
[From publisher’s description:]
“LexisNexis Academic provides access to full-text news, business, and legal publications, using a variety of flexible search options. One of the most heavily used databases in higher education, LexisNexis Academic is available at over 1,500 libraries serving over 8 million students and faculty....
November 2010
2 posts
November is National Native American Heritage...
“For millennia before Europeans settled in North America, the indigenous peoples of this continent flourished with vibrant cultures and were the original stewards of the land. From generation to generation, they handed down invaluable cultural knowledge and rich traditions, which continue to thrive in Native American communities across our country today. During National Native American...
Try our new "Integrated Search"!
What is ‘integrated search’ and how can it help me? Well, if you want to search for information in many different databases at one time, then integrated search is worth a try. Go to the college library home page, and on the right hand column you will find the link to “integrated search”, a new searching tool from our database publisher EBSCO. We have put up a search box...
October 2010
1 post
What is TumbleBookLibrary?
TumbleBookLibrary is an online collection of TumbleBooks – animated, talking picture books which teach kids the joy of reading in a format they’ll love. TumbleBooks are created by adding animation, sound, music and narration to existing picture books in order to produce an electronic picture book which you can read, or have read to you. The TumbleBookLibrary is a collection of licensed...
September 2010
3 posts
Celebrate Hispanic Heritage at your library! Sept....
“From the early settlers of the New World to those reaching for the American dream today, Hispanics have shaped and strengthened our country. During National Hispanic Heritage Month, we pause to celebrate the immeasurable contributions these individuals have made to our Nation — from its inception to its latest chapters.
Reflecting the remarkable diversity of the American people,...
Constitution Day, Sept. 17, 2010, @ your library!
Joining the campus-wide celebration of Constitution Day, the Hermann Memorial Library has put together a display of books from its circulating collection on this topic, mostly titles published within the past few years. The book display is in the front of the Reference Area as you walk into the library: all the books may be checked out. Ask one of our staff to show you our online bibligraphy of...
Student Library Orientation for "Weeks of Welcome"
As part of the “Weeks of Welcome” for new (and returning) students, the library is offering a basic orientation every day this week up until Friday that will cover what students need to know to access their computer/email/ANGEL accounts; as well as an overview of library resources and services. The orientations will take place at 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. and there is no need to register:...
May 2010
2 posts
Return your library books!
Library End of Semester Notice
The semester will end on 5/14/2010. If you have books or other materials on loan from the library, please return everything that you borrowed by the last day of the semester.
Remember, you are responsible for all items borrowed on your card from the library.
Failure to return the items will result in your records being impounded. This means that you will not be...
May is Mental Health Awareness Month
This year’s theme for Mental Health Awareness Month is ”Live Your Life Well”, a challenge for us to promote whole health and wellness in homes, communities, schools, and inform those who don’t believe it’s attainable. We have put on display in the reference/circulation area of the library a small sampling of recent and not-so-recent books on the subject of mental...
April 2010
3 posts
Earth Day, April 22, 2010
In celebration of Earth Day, the Library has mounted a select exhibition of recent books on the subject of environment, ecology, and sustainability. For the past few years the library has increased its holdings in this area, so come in to see some of our recent acquisitions. Bibliographies on Sustainability and Organic Gardening have also been developed for use of faculty, staff and students,...
Yom Hashoah. Holocaust Remembrance.
NEVER AGAIN! “The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed.” Historian Stephen Ambrose
NEVER AGAIN! “To this day, there are those who insist that the Holocaust never happened — a denial of fact that is baseless and ignorant and hateful.” President Barack Obama
NEVER AGAIN! “To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would...
New improvements in EBSCOhost databases
EBSCO, the publisher of many of our online subscription article databases, has just announced a significant improvement in their searching capabilities. Now for the first time when you run a search in any EBSCOhost database, and pick out a full text article from the results list, you can pull up not only the complete article as a PDF file; but you can also immediately see the table of contents of...
March 2010
3 posts
Research is getting easier with e-books
From a recent news release from EBSCO, our provider for many of our online databases:
“As EBSCOhost is the single most-used premium research platform in libraries worldwide, and overall usage continues to steadily increase, it follows logically that searching databases and eBooks on a single platform would create a more complete, fruitful one-stop research experience for end users. Many...
Films on Demand: Digital Educational Video
“The library has subscribed to the Master Academic Collection of Films on Demand, a web-based, digital video delivery service. This collection provides access to a growing collection of over 5,500 educational streaming videos on subjects within the Humanities & Social Sciences, Business & Economics, Science & Mathematics, and Health & Medicine. Many of these titles were...
Celebrate the Achievements of Women!
This month, March 2010, we celebrate Women’s History Month, focusing this year on women’s contribution to environmental protection. In his executive proclamation, Gov. Paterson states: “during this month, we hail the great women scientists, engineers, business leaders, writers, filmmakers, conservationists, teachers, community organizers, religious and workplace leaders who fill...
February 2010
1 post
Read About African American History!
President Barack Obama’s proclamation of African American History Month, February, 2010, begins with the following words:
”In the centuries since African Americans first arrived on our shores, they have known the bitterness of slavery and oppression, the hope of progress, and the triumph of the American Dream. African American history is an essential thread of the American narrative...
November 2009
2 posts
Celebrate Native American Heritage!
“Pride in Our Heritage. Honor to Our Ancestors”
By proclamation of the President, November is National Native American Heritage Month. We celebrate the achievements of Native Americans in all fields of endeavor: art, literature, dance, music, politics, science, sports, medicine, spirituality and culture. Their influence is felt everywhere. The library has put on a display of recent...
Laptops in the library
The library is pleased to offer laptops for lending to current students.
Who Can Borrow Laptops: ♦ Laptops can only be checked out to currently enrolled students with a valid SCCC ID card. ♦ A current SCCC ID must be presented at the Library’s Circulation Desk at the time of checkout. ♦ Each borrower must complete a Laptop Agreement Form each academic year. This form details the borrower’s...
October 2009
3 posts
Oh, by the way, October is National Information...
Giving this idea, around for several decades among librarians, a pre-eminent place on the nation’s calendar, the President issued the following proclamation.
Information literacy is not new to Sullivan County Community College; we’ve had an Information Literacy Program since 1992, and still going strong. If you’re unfamiliar with the concept or the facts, visit our Information...
More Green Databases You May Have Overlooked
New since this past summer are two new databases devoted to all things “Green”.
Environment Complete, from EBSCO publishing, is a database containing full text for more than 680 journals and 120 monographs covering the following subject areas: green agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography,...