Costumes @ your library

If you're taking the Drama Production Lab: Costumes, make sure that you look at the new costume books we've got as well as the costume section of the Drama Pathfinder:

http://www.clunet.edu/iss/path/drama/wdrama.html#cost

Some books may be checked out (General Book Collection) and some are Reference Books; just ask at the Reference Desk if you need help.

Check out CollegeSource™ @ your library*

CollegeSource™ offers:

• over 21,033 College Catalogs in complete, cover-to-cover, original page format, representing 2-year, 4-year, graduate, professional (medical, law) and international schools
• link to college website
• link to Expedia Maps
• full printing capability
  
• weekly Updates
  

CollegeSource™ also includes a search feature. Find colleges by:

The site also includes a profile of every accredited college in the U.S. along with links to:

* This resource is available only to current CLU faculty, staff and students.

Put it in Writing @ your library™, a national essay contest for unpublished women writers, kicks off National Library Week, April 14-20, and runs through August 1, 2002.

Women writers are encouraged to send in essays to Woman's Day magazine that focus on subjects of interest to women. Essays may be submitted in any of three categories: Health, Essay and General Reporting. The grand-prize winner in each category will be published in the March 2003 issue of Woman's Day. Use the links below for more information.

National Contest Rules and Guidelines

A list of recommended resources for aspiring writers, including books, periodicals and Web sites

Creative Ways to Spark Writing
by the editors of Woman’s Day Magazine

How to Get Published in a Magazine
by the staff of Woman’s Day Magazine

Free Interlibrary Loan (ILL) Desktop Delivery!

Want to get your ILL articles faster & cheaper? How 'bout having them delivered to your desktop? How does free sound to you? All we need is your e-mail address and your ILL articles will be delivered to your desktop via our new, innovative document delivery service. In order to take advantage of this state-of-the-art technology at Pearson Library, please be sure to include your e-mail address on any article requests.

To download the documents, you must have Adobe® Acrobat® Reader® installed on your computer (most new computers already have it loaded in your Program File). Adobe® Acrobat® Reader® is free software that lets you view and print Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files. It's a quick and easy download from the following web page:

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

• If you need help, please call or e-mail the Help Desk: x 3698 or e-mail help@clunet.edu
• If you choose to have us print the articles for you, there will still be a $.10/page charge
• Of course books are still delivered via snail mail ;-)

Order ILLs From Your Desktop

Take advantage of the ease of ordering ILLs from your desktop:

1. From the family of FirstSearch Databases (PsycInfo, Medline,
   WorldCat and more), when you have the book/article record, click on the icon at the top of the page and fill in your name, address, phone number & e-mail address. Click submit and your request is e-mailed directly to our ILL & Document Delivery Coordinator, Kathy Horneck.
   
   
2. From other databases, open another browser window and go to the Library Home Page. Scroll down to the link for ILL and, from the ILL page, select Student/Faculty forms for books, articles or ERIC documents. Cut & paste all the required information in order to avoid typos, which may delay your order.

Problems????

Before making that call, try problem-solving from your desktop:

1. Problem: You don't have Acrobat Reader:

Solution: Look in your Programs file for Acrobat Reader; if it's
not there, follow the directions on the front side of this handout.

2. Problem: When you open the document, it's not readable or it's encrypted; your computer is not formatted to read PDFs in Acrobat Reader.

Solution:

• On your desktop, double click the My Computer icon.
• Click on Tools and Select Folder Options
• Click on File Types tab
• Scroll down to PDF extensions; File Type should be Adobe Acrobat Document
• If File Type is NOT be Adobe Acrobat Document, click on the File Type to highlight it and click the Change button
• Click on Acrobat Reader and click the OK button
• Close the windows and try opening your document again

If you need additional help, please call or e-mail the Help Desk: x 3698 or e-mail help@clunet.edu

OR

Call or e-mail our ILL & Document Delivery Coordinator, Kathy Horneck: x 3120 or e-mail kathy@clunet.edu

September 11, 2001: Deepening Your Understanding

Don't miss out … check it out @ your library™.

Looking for a video?

your library has a great new resource for CLU faculty and students: The PBS Video Database of America's History and Culture. This resource directs users to over 375 hours of PBS video programming. It offers direct access to an online index containing descriptions of over over 2,500 video chapters and 40,000 individual video segments.

It is the most extensive video archive ever assembled by any single AV resource provider, with a system to easily identify and locate video and audio resources covering the events, issues, places and people that shaped and defined America from its founding to the present. The videos cover interdisciplinary resources in art, history, science, English literature, economics, government and other subjects. You can also search for PBS & other videos in the Library Catalog using the drop-down menu By material type: Audio/Visual.

For example: if you needed to find video material in reference to George Washington and the Continental Congress, you would search the database using: 'george washington' and 'continental congress'. The database would then point you to any PBS video programs in the collection that contain information on this subject. But that's not all - it wouldn't simply tell you the name of the video, it will tell you at what point in the video this material is located. You find this material by using a small clock superimposed at the bottom of the screen. This on-screen clock is independent of any particular VCR clock, so you will not have to worry about it flashing 12:00!

These video segments are cross referenced to lesson plans and linked to related curriculum resources including primary source documents, maps, graphs, time lines and illustrations. All of these curricular resources can be downloaded or printed for classroom use.

The PBS videos are available for two-day checkout at the your library Circulation Desk.

NOTE: this database is only available to current CLU faculty, students, and staff, and may be accessed off campus via the CLU modem pool or EasyProxy. If you have any questions about using this resource, please take advantage of our online tutorial, PBS Video Database User's Guide. If, after using this tutorial, you still have questions please stop by or call your library Reference Desk at x 3255.

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