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| Volume 1, Issue 1 August 2010 |
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Make certain you stop by for our famous nachos and cheese as well. Everything during Welcome Week is free and we encourage students to bring their parents and families to join in the festivities. Parents of new students may especially enjoy seeing where their children will be studying and taking classes. As always, our main goal during Welcome Week is having any student without a barcode come to the library Circulation Desk and get one. The process is easy: Just hand your student ID to the person at the counter; they will put a library bar code sticker on the back of the ID. You’ll also be asked to fill out a short form with your contact information to drop in our raffle box for a chance to win our big prize, a Sony E-Reader Pocket Edition! The winner of the Sony E-Reader will be selected by drawing one of the information forms from those students entered in the raffle box. When you fill out your information sheet, also be sure to guess the number of candies in the jar at the counter. The person with the closest guess can win a $20 gift certificate to the Lemon Grove. Other close guesses will receive items such as a ComDoc copy card with 25 free copies, a gift certificate to Coyocan, or a Jazzman’s coffee mug. We’ll be holding the festivities Monday and Tuesday, August 23 and 24, from 10:00 AM until 4:00 PM on the patio outside Maag Library near the Wick Avenue Bridge. The rain location is inside the Maag Library Lobby. Make sure you stop by for a Plinko prize and some nacho chips! |
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Maag Library has undergone some major improvements this summer. Be sure to stop by the library and check them out during the fall semester!
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In the lobby of Maag Library, behind the circulation desk, there are shelves of YSU textbooks and other classroom related materials for students to borrow. Most of these items are IN -LIBRARY USE only for a 3-hour loan period. However, there are a small number of items that may be borrowed for use outside the building for a longer loan period. To borrow an item: (1) present your YSU ID with your Maag Library barcode and (2) know the title and author of the textbook you want to use and/or the name of the Professor/Instructor of your class. Knowing exactly what you need is key to learning if Maag Library owns it. The syllabus or the instructor’s remarks at the first class meeting will give you the information you need before you come to the library. You can search the online library catalog, called MaagNet, for available reserves (http://jupiter.ysu.edu/search). A binder containing an alphabetical list of the textbooks we own is available at the circulation desk as well . Also in this binder is an alphabetical list of Faculty/Instructors who have materials required for class assignments on reserve. Maag Library Reserves also are circulated electronically. From the Maag website look for Quick Links, then click Course Reserves. You can search by choosing Instructor or Course. At present, textbooks are not available electronically; however, scanned materials which meet copyright laws have been submitted by faculty members and uploaded to the Maag Library Course Reserves web page. From the Reserves page, you can save or print the materials needed for your course. Faculty members wishing to place items on the Maag Library Reserves shelf or on electronic reserve should complete the online course reserve form and follow the instructions found in Online Request Forms available from Quick Links on the Maag Home Page. Contact Michael Lisi at 330-941-3684 if you have questions regarding Textbook and Course Reserves at Maag Library. |
It’s been a busy summer in
Maag Library. We’ve been
working on some changes
that we hope will be very
visible to faculty and students.
New hi-definition
display panels will be going
up in the lobby of Maag
library to help us communicate
library news and information
to our faculty, students
and staff. New groupstudy
rooms will open on
Level 4 of the library with
computer displays that will
enable several users to plug
in and collaborate using
work that is stored on their
laptops. We’ve adjusted the
collection of journals on
Level 6 to make it easier to
find the newest journal articles
and we’ve made it
safer by removing heavy
bound journals from those
over-your-head shelves. We’ll
be testing information delivery
on a few iPads and Kindles.
New digital books, and even
some older classics, are being
added to the OhioLINK catalog
by YSU’s cataloging staff.
And going way out on a limb,
Maag Library is one of the
very first US academic libraries
to initiate an electronic
textbook center, designed to
assist YSU faculty in the development
and use of open
source (free) digital textbooks.
And that’s just what we did
this summer. While all that
was going on, we’ve even prepared
our strategic plan for
the next three years. As you
can see, summer was not our
“down time.”
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Maag Library recently purchased
two Kindle E-Readers
and one Apple iPad
that will be available for
check out starting this fall.
Both the Kindle and iPad
will only be available to
YSU students, faculty, and
staff and will not circulate
on OhioLink.
To check out either item,
you will be asked to sign the
Maag Library Electronic
Device Agreement form and
to be gentle with either item.
To use the iPad you must
have wireless access to the
Internet. To download materials
you must have an
iTunes account.
All items downloaded to either
the Kindle or the iPad
will be deleted when it is returned.
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Collections Services has been working toward advancing access to information, keeping in mind strategic goals to consider all OhioLINK library collections before shaping our own. In addition we are concerned with making full use of available information formats to provide access to unique resources. Our projects have been centered on an increasingly unique collection, more responsive to state university information needs. We continue to shape our print serials collection for a stronger focus on current issues, making better use of reliable online resources for access to retrospective issues. Secondary copies in our monographs collection that have purnever circulated are in the process of being removed to make way for current items to serve YSU and Ohio- LINK information needs better. We have provided access to unique resources by cataloging local archival collections and linking to finding aids in PDF format stored in D-Space, our local online repository. We also have partnered with the YSU School of Graduate Studies and Research and OhioLINK since 2007 to provide online access to all theses and dissertations produced by the YSU academic community. The YSU Electronic Theses and Dissertations program has been successful with thousands of monthly requests world-wide for YSU ETDs.
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 Rebecca Roberts (center) with two colleagues at
the 2009
Turning Technologies User Conference. |
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