Due to social distancing (the six foot rule) all study room seating was reduced to two per room this summer. This was done in part because study rooms are equipped with a single table and there was no way to place more than two people six feet apart on the same table.
Then we got clever. What if we had more tables? So we put out an appeal and the Physical Plant found three more tables.
Now Study Rooms 101, 103, and 106 have two tables and four chairs, and everyone still gets to sit six feet apart.
How can you stay safe in a study room?
The Thrift Library was recently gifted a collection of memorabila by former missionary, Rev. John Dill of the Southern Baptist Convention, currently working here in Anderson with the Saluda Baptist Association as Director of Missions.
Rev. Dill donated items from his years in the Philippines and travels in Zambia.
Come by and see them.
PASCAL Delivers has been integrated into OneSearch. If you find a bibliographic record for a physical book held by another college library in SC, click "sign in" and enter your AU email address and password. Those credentials will allow you to request the physical book to be sent to AU within 5 to 7 days.
Impacts on Services due to COVID-19:
The library has acquired 139 eTextbooks for the Fall Semester, the largest number ever. Want to save our student's $173,000? Post the provided links in Canvas and let your students know they have free textbooks at their disposal.
Taking advantage of the New OneSearch and its integration of multiple library functions, the library has simplified its Home Page.
Gone are:
Find books, eBooks, articles, media, databases, journals, research guides, and more.
Social distancing
Study Rooms
No coffee (unless someone invents a way to drink it through their mask.)
Three day quarantine - All library materials will be quarantined for three days upon return. Student workers shelve them using gloves.
Open Stacks - Users will be able to browse the stacks and select materials.
Touchless Checkout - The library's two check out stations at the Front Desk will have sneeze shields installed with bar code readers placed facing the front. Patrons hold their AU IDs under the reader, then scan the barcodes on their books. Reciepts are emailed.
Digital Course Reserves - Faculty are asked to switch from physical reserves to digital reserves. To successfully accomplish this, please contact your library liaison ASAP so that we can identify, purchase, and provide links for use in Canvas.
Public Computers
Ask-A-Librarian - This service tripled in 2019-20.. We will continue to promote its use 7 days a week as the preferred method of assistance.
Online Library Instruction - Although we can visit your class, we would prefer to do it online via zoom, LibGuides, canned videos, etc.
Mail Out - Students and faculty located more than 30 minutes from campus may request mail out of library materials. The library pays for outgoing mail. The user pays to return materials. Contact the library via phone or email.
Scan and Deliver - Another option is to request chapter scanning of books. Note: Copyright laws forbid scanning entire books, but one chapter per book is ok.
"Blessed by be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God." II Corinthians 1:3-4.
Stats and Figures / General
Medical
Higher Ed
Business
A rescue boat with many oarsmen is out on a stormy sea to help a ship in distress. [Photograph]. Retrieved from Encyclopædia Britannica ImageQuest.
https://quest.eb.com/search/125_1224344/1/125_1224344/cite
During the short time before online classes began the Thrift Library searched for every textbook for every class and tried to obtain an eBook for unlimited users.
FYI - We had already done that before the beginning of Spring semester and shared urls with faculty to load into Canvas - about one in ten titles. Unsurprisingly the second search was not very successful. We only found two additional titles, which we then shared with faculty to add to Canvas.
Bottom line - If a textbook is available for purchase for unlimited online users, we have bought it and made it available through the Library Catalog. Your instructor should have also posted the link in Canvas.
If you want to double check you can search the Library Catalog or the list in the box below.
eTextbooks Spring 2020
Titles are in alphabetical order. Remember to look for your title under A, An, and The.
Cost saved = Cost of one physical texbook X number of classes using that title X average class size (20).
Subscribe to the New York Times, on your computer, iPad, and smartphone.
Just download the app, push the button, and voila, the New York Times, when and where you want it.
How do you find the Thrift Library's
200+ databases
Half million eBooks,
50,000 online journals,
263,000 streaming videos
2 million streaming audios?
Start with our new introductory video created by AU student - Bates Whitaker.
What do you mean it's all FREE? Are you kidding me?
Image Credit - United States: c. 1956..A woman expresses shock and surprise at what her friend has just said.. Photograph. Britannica ImageQuest, Encyclopædia Britannica, 25 May 2016. https://quest.eb.com/search/183_367389/1/183_367389/cite. Accessed 2 Nov 2019.
Charging cables and adapters for iPads, Smart Phones (Apple and Android), Apple pencils, etc.
Printing: Color = 25 cents a print B&W = 5 cents a print
Scanning to your AU email = FREE!
Copying = same as printing cost
Printing on Main Floor of the Library
Printing on second floor of library! Near the stairs as well as in Bunton.
3,507 active full-text journals and magazines
2,112 active full-text peer-reviewed journals
20% Bigger than its predecessor Business Source Complete.
Includes many EconLit Full Text Titles
The Chicago Manual of Style by 
