Check your departmental budget allocations, spending, and balance.
Review databases charged to your department.
Check the status of all your book, eBook and media orders - date ordered, date received, list, cost, call number assigned, etc.
Contact your liaison to order new materials.
Contact Head of Acquisitions to inquire about unfilled orders.
Lorraine Casey, Head of Acquisitions, has worked in the library since 1998. During that time she helped order and process 213,000 books, eBooks, VHS, DVDs, Cassettes, LPs, CDs, magazines, journals, microfilm, microfiche, bound periodicals,dissertations, slides, kits, games, manipulatives, textbooks, puppets, costumes, 2D, 3D, tests, and other formats you can't even imagine.
Lorraine came in with a typewriter and the card catalog and will be leaving with cloud based library automation. She has also weeded and discarded over 13,000 outdated titles and engaged in countless inventories..She has handled bills and renewals, correspondence, opened and closed the library, and worked the front desk. She also helped move the Olin D. Johnston Memorial Library to the Thrift Building in 2006. Throughout this time her smile and helpfulness has been one of the library's greatest strengths.
If you would like to stop by Technical Services to wish her well, her last day will be January 16. Lorraine works Mon- Thurs.
Pictured is Lorraine Casey, former librarian Brenda DuBose, and Kay Maynard at last week's retirement lunch.
Have you told your students?
Which do you use more often to find and retrieve full text articles and eBooks? Google Scholar or the Thrift Library’s OneSearch? If your answer is Google Scholar, you are looking in the wrong place!
FYI - The Thrift Library has access to 260,00 streaming videos via a half dozen vendors. Some are free. Others cost between $135 and $135 per year. All you have to do is find the one you want and load the link into Canvas. The library does the rest - including paying for them!
Here are more than dozen currently active through Kanopy.
Kanopy ID Title 1 Yr. License start
The Wonder Year https://anderson.kanopy.com/node/76432 1 Oct 2019
Emma Wants To Live https://anderson.kanopy.com/node/530746 1 Oct 2019
Babies Outdoors https://anderson.kanopy.com/node/76426 1 Oct 2019
Becoming 13 https://anderson.kanopy.com/node/1326218 1 Oct 2019
Being and Becoming https://anderson.kanopy.com/node/203419 1 Oct 2019
Virgin Tales https://anderson.kanopy.com/node/2594347 1 Oct 2019
Beware the Slenderman https://anderson.kanopy.com/node/5300813 1 Oct 2019
Sex(Ed): How Did You Learn About Sex? https://anderson.kanopy.com/node/139554 1 Oct 2019
All this Panic https://anderson.kanopy.com/node/564728 1 Oct 2019
The Visual Language of Herbert Matter https://anderson.kanopy.com/node/437837 1 Sep 2019
Pure https://anderson.kanopy.com/node/2612650 1 Sep 2019
Design is One https://anderson.kanopy.com/node/133672 31 Jul 2019
Design and Thinking https://anderson.kanopy.com/node/91352 31 Jul 2019
American Commune https://anderson.kanopy.com/node/240479 31 Jul 2019
Maker https://anderson.kanopy.com/node/3147845 31 Jul 2019
Objectified https://anderson.kanopy.com/node/2931960 31 Jul 2019
The Pruitt-Igoe Myth https://anderson.kanopy.com/node/126560 31 Jul 2019
Hoop Dreams https://anderson.kanopy.com/node/154458 31 Jul 2019
Purple Noon https://anderson.kanopy.com/node/113488 30 Jun 2019
Helvetica https://anderson.kanopy.com/node/2874826 31 May 2019
A Poem is a Naked Person https://anderson.kanopy.com/node/219427 31 May 2019
If you are interested in linking out to any of the LibGuides above, let us know.
The HeinOnline databases supports legal research in Business, Political Science and Criminal Justice. Beyond US Codes, law reviews, case law, and Supreme Court decisions, it also has a number of special collections including:
Last month HeinOnline added a new impeachment collection to the U.S. Presidential database. This collection now includes President Donald Trump, as well as access to the whistleblower documents.
Last year the library added JLG - Junior Library Guild - an inexpensive rotating collection of about 30 children's eBooks. Now the Junior Library Guild has backed out of the eBook market.
