Marywood Library's Annual Fall Festival

Get Caught In The Web of Knowledge at the Library all this week (Oct. 27-Oct.31) and join the library in welcoming its first annual Fall Festival. Get informed while you enjoy food, fun and prizes!

Stop by for:
• Snacks and refreshments 9-11AM on Monday/Wednesday/Friday and 4-6 Tuesday and Thursday (while supplies last!)
• Halloween Candy Hunt - find the lucky candy to win a prize (Tuesday-Thursday)
• 20 minute information sessions on the library's new social sciences database Web of Knowledge, and Endnote Web, a program that helps cite and format your sources (ATTEND A SESSION AND YOU MAY WIN A PRIZE!)
• Live music provided by Marywood students Chris Errante and Paul Rosato.
• Halloween Costume Contest - THREE CASH PRIZES TO BE WON on Friday, Oct. 31.
For more information, please contact the library front desk at 961-4707.

Check Out Our Halloween Display!

Stop by the library and check out our display featuring Halloween books and movies. Some Halloween favorite movies we have are the following: The Exorcist, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Signs, The Sixth Sense, and some Alfred Hitchcock films!

Library Titles on Human Rights

Available here is a list of library items on Human Rights that have been published in the past five years.

Graduate Fair Winners!

We would like to announce the winners from this week's Graduate Fair! The following students have won a $20 copy card from our random drawing:

Melanie Clark
Liz Richmond
Mary Tupaj
Marguerite Innes
Amy Grocki
Tatiana

New Arrivals

Stop by and check out some of the new arrivals this week now on display:



Why there's antifreeze in your toothpaste : the chemistry of household ingredients 1st ed.
Field, Simon (Simon Quellen)

Senator Obama goes to Africa [DVD]

My stroke of insight : a brain scientist's personal journey 1st Viking ed.
Taylor, Jill Bolte

Apollo's fire : igniting America's clean-energy economy
Inslee, Jay

Sustainable ethanol : biofuels, biorefineries, cellulosic biomass, flex-fuel vehicles, and sustainable farming for energy independence
Goettemoeller, Jeffrey.

The serial killer files : the who, what, where, how, and why of the world's most terrifying murderers 1st ed.
Schechter, Harold

Electoral realignment and the outlook for American democracy
Paulson, Arthur C

Mediating American autobiography : photography in Emerson, Thoreau, Douglass, and Whitman
Meehan, Sean Ross

New Database: ISI Web of Knowledge

ISI Web of Knowledge contains:

• 13,000 journals
• 23 million patents
• 192,000 conference proceedings
• 9,100 Web sites
• 5,000 books
• 2 million chemical structures
• Over 100 years of backfiles
• 40 million cited references added annually
• 256 subject categories in Science, Social Sciences, and Arts and Humanities, covering the full range of scholarship and research.

ISI Web of Knowledge offers these benefits:

If you publish, you'll find high impact articles upon which to base your articles — increasing the quality and credibility of your published work, resulting in more publication in more prestigious sources.
If you research, you'll be able to quickly identify potential collaborators with prolific, significant citation record. And tracking your own citation record will help you demonstrate your work's impact on your field.
If you teach, your students will be assured of using the highest quality resources — finding valuable information in journals they may not have the knowledge and experience to seek on their own.

If you are on campus you can log in from ISI Web of Knowledge

Notable books for summer reading

In case you missed it, the American Library Association's review magazine, Booklist, announced its annual Notable Books for 2008 in March. Perhaps you will now have the time to dive into one or more of these wonderful works:

Nonfiction

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. By Barbara Kingsolver.

The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science. By Natalie Angier.

Einstein: His Life and Universe. By Walter Isaacson.

Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations. By Georgina Howell.

Oil on the Brain: Adventures from the Pump to the Pipeline. By Lisa Margonelli.

When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa. By Peter Godwin.

The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story. By Diane Ackerman.

How Doctors Think. By Jerome Groopman.

Super-Crunches: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart. By Ian Ayres.

The World without Us. By Alan Weisman.

Fiction

An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England. By Brock Clarke.

Cheating at Canasta. By William Trevor.

Finn. By Jon Clinch.

Five Skies. By Ron Carlson.

Mister Pip. By Lloyd Jones.

Out Stealing Horses. By Per Petterson. G

The Yiddish Policemen’s Union. By Michael Chabon.

Away. By Amy Bloom.

The Five-Forty-Five to Cannes. By Tess Uriza Holthe.

The Ministry of Special Cases. By Nathan Englander.

On Chesil Beach. By Ian McEwan.

The Pesthouse. By Jim Crace.

For more information on these books, please check out this link:
http://www.booklistonline.com/default.aspx?page=show_product&pid=2570577

Library in the summer

Summer time! Library summer hours have been posted. If you need help from a librarian, please don't hesitate to contact us or the library front desk.

Librarian availability in the summer:

May – June 15

Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays 8am-6pm

Tuesdays 8am-9pm

After these hours, please contact the front desk for assistance.

After June 15

Mondays, Thursdays 8am -6pm

Tuesdays, Wednesdays 8am-9pm

After these hours, please contact the front desk for assistance

Have an enjoyable summer!!

Ask Here Roadshow

The last stop of the semester for the Ask Here Roadshow will be on Monday, May 5 at Loughran Hall from 2:30 to 4:00 pm. If the weather cooperates, you will see me outside the main entrance of the hall. If not, I will be in the lobby. Either way, I hope that you will ask me any last minute research questions that you might have or simply say hello and pick up an Ask Here beach ball or pen.

I appreciate your support this semester, and I appreciate the fact that no one looked at me as if I were out of my mind hanging around on campus, waiting for research questions, and throwing beach balls at people. For those of you who are graduating and leaving Marywood, congratulations. I hope that all goes well for you. For those of you returning, keep an eye out for me around campus in the fall semester.

The Winners in the Barbara Hoffman English 160 Writing Award

Congratulations to the winners of the Barbara Hoffman English 160 Writing Award--this is the fifth year for the Award. The Award honors three students who have mastered the use of information including retrieval and evaluation coupled with excellent writing mechanics. For the third year in a row, Dr. Erin Sadlak's student is the first place winner.

First place winner with an award of $75. is Lisa Forcellini whose entry is entitled: "Why Child Obesity Should Not be Considered Parental Neglect." Dr. Erin Sadlak, professor, received $25.

Second place winner with an award of $50. is Deanna Grella whose entry is entitled: "Out with the Old, in with the New? Not this Time." Deanna's professor is Dr. Laurie McMillan.

Third place winner with an award of $25. is Christine Lauff whose entry is entitled: "Embryonic Stem Cell Research." Lisa's professor is David Wasson.

The judges for the Award, Carol Tome and Annette Fisher, librarians, and Dr. Helen Bittel, English professor, were pleased that the entries were excellent this year---it made judging that much tougher but it also showcased the writing and library research abilities of the students.

Final Exams and Library Help

It's Finals time. The library, as usual, has extended hours starting today till May 1st. Our Finals libray hours can be viewed by going to this link http://www.marywood.edu/library/Hours.htm.

And be sure to stop by the ASK HERE Desk on the main floor of the library if you need help with your final papers, assignments, projects, etc. A librarian is always available at the desk or on call when needed.

Also, online research help is available via email or chat at http://www.marywood.edu/library/asklibrarian.htm. Library chat hours are 2-4pm and 7-9pm during library operating hours.

We have the Winners!

• The grand prize winner for the digital camera is Theresa White.
• For the baseball tickets: Amy Owens and Araceli V.
• Cranium game: Kelley Teeple
• For the candy jars: Cooney, Jill Jones, Courtney
• For $20 copy cards: Manjusha Nalluru, Chrissa Fenner, Alyssa Robins, Jessica Zekus, and Britni Van De Linde
• For Blockbuster $5 gift cards: Diana Zarillo and Ludmila Racicka

We want to thank everybody who participated in the National Library Week Celebration at the Marywood Library!

Special thanks to SCRANTON ALL-STARS/THE LUMBERTRUCK Band: Shawn Caden, Greg Kondrat, Kevin Zwick. Check out their My Space site at http://www.myspace.com/thelumbertruck

We will conclude the celebration of the National Library Week with a bang!

Our festivities during National Library Week will draw to a close today with more fun and exciting happenings! Rita's Italian Ice will be served beginning at 11am today in front of the library's main entrance. Also beginning at 11am in front of the library's main entrance, there will be live music! The DAILY DRAWINGS, LIBRARY RAFFLE, LIBRARY TOUR and others will continue today. Winners for the Library Raffle, the Count the Candy contest, and the Grand Prize will be announced today at 4:30pm.
So enjoy the sunshine today and come out to the library and help us end our celebration of National Library Week with a bang!

Daily Door Prize winners for Friday:

Diana Polinsky ($20 Copy Card)
Sean Sicangoco (Flash Drive)

Friday's Question of the Day Winners (a Marywood mug filled with candies):
Lindsay Kolvik
Tom Korp

Thursday Celebration

Activities to celebrate National Library Week at Marywood Library on Thursday included a library Raffle for a chance to win two passes to the SWB Yankees vs. Rochester Red Wings game on Saturday April 19 and one Cranium Board Game. The library tent outside the LRC Building offered free treats and other giveaways today. The library book sale sold a good number of books. More people have participated our 5-minute library tours to win a digital camera.

Door Prize Winners for today:
Rahul Dani($20 Copy Card)
Angel Warren(Pair of movie tickets)

Question of the Day Winners (a Marywood mug filled with candies):
Noreen Kittrick
Bryna Richenbach

Congratulations!

NEW! Library of Congress Experience - an interactive site

Check out the new Library of Congress interactive site at http://www.loc.gov/experience/.

New technologies have allowed us to now experience the library's extensive collection first hand on your desk top! Some of the exhibits and collection you can access interactively include "Exploring the Early Americas", "The Jefferson Library" and "The Bible Collection"

This is a wonderful opportunity to delve into the treasures of one of our nation's greatest l resource.

National Library Week Festivities Continue

On the 3rd day of the National Library Week celebration our library set up a tent outside the LRC, and handed out popcorn and soft pretzels from 11-1. Students also entered to win door prizes, participated in library tours and took part in the question of the day challenge. The ongoing booksale was also a success and due to the nice weather, the sale will be set up outside and held until 6pm today.

Wednesday's daily door prize winners were:

Marie Fitzsimmons $20 copy card
Mark Granquist Pair of Movie Tickets

The winner's of the question of the day were:

Manjusha N.
Sejal Dedhia

Celebration Continues

On the 2nd day of the National Library Week celebration, our library set up a tent outside the Learning Resources Center. From 11-1pm, we served about 130 popcorn boxes, and gave away the beach balls and pens, and tickets for tours, and drawings. It was a success! The 5-minute tour of the library at 12 noon had almost 20 people, more than half were students! There is also the book sale.

Tuesday Winners:

Door Prizes Winners:
Matt Schlittler ($20 Copy Card)
Amy Owens ($20 Gift Certficate for Hank's Hoagies)

The Winners of the Question of the Day (a Marywood mug filled with candies):
Maria Hennigan
Jerry Hart

Congratulations to the Winners!

We are celebrating the National Library Week!

The Celebration of the National Library Week was launched at our library Monday with free coffee, snacks, daily door prizes and 5-minute tour of the library to win a digital camera. Other festivities that will continue through the week include popcorn, other giveaways, and testing your knowledge by answering our "Question of the Day". We also have a Library Book Sale!

The Winners on Monday

Question of the Day Winners (a Marywood mug filled with candies):
Charmaine Walker and Mark Baron

Daily Door Prizes:
Mark Baron ($20 Copy Card)
John Tyson (2 Movie Tickets)

Congratulations to the Winners!

Grove Art Dictionary now becomes Oxford Art Online

Oxford Art Online is a new gateway that offers users the ability to access and search the vast content of Grove Art Online and Oxford art reference in one location. With the 2007 complete redesign of Grove Art Online, as well as the addition of substantial new Oxford reference content, Oxford Art Online offers an extensive and easily searchable online art resource, a virtual art reference library of unparalleled scope and depth. Users can access to the more than 23,000 subject entries, 21,000 biographies, 500,000 bibliographic citations, 40,000 image links and 5,000 images contained within Grove Art Online.

Hello!

We'd like to launch this blog to coincide with National Library Week which takes place from April 13-19. So welcome to your library blog!

Marywood Library is celebrating National Library beginning Monday April 14 and continuing through Friday, April 18. Stay tuned to this blog for details on the festivities.

Also for this first entry, we would like to invite you to check us out. Then offer your comments, suggestions, ideas for the blog. Air your opinions. We hope to provide an informative, interactive, and lively space for everything library-related.