Lafayette College Library

Some recent journals that have been added to the JSTOR archive are Dante Studies, James Joyce Quarterly, Religion and Literature, College Teaching, Current Directions in Psychological Science, The International History Review, and Social Indicators Research. For a full list of titles recently added to JSTOR's archive, visit the announcements on JSTOR's web site.

Information literacy interviews that have appeared excerpted in Bytes & Books, the newsletter of the Libraries and Information Technology Services, can now be viewed in full online. In these interviews, professors talk about incorporating information literacy into their courses. The latest interview is with Kira Lawrence, Assistant Professor of Geology and Environmental Geosciences.

Connect to information literacy interviews.

The Lafayette Libraries and the Provost's Office will again this year sponsor Information Literacy Grants for faculty who wish to add an information literacy component to one of their upper level classes. To be eligible, the class must include projects in which students gather, evaluate, and use information; involve collaboration with a librarian; and provide opportunities for students to do at least one of the following:

1. Discover that the information they use exists within a framework
developed to record, store, and access it and that research allows them to
tap into an ongoing conversation among scholars;
2. Critically examine the research process;
3. Explore the economic, social, legal, and ethical issues
surrounding information in today's society.

The application deadline is December 15, 2009. Those who are considering applying should contact Lijuan Xu ASAP (xul@lafayette.edu or extension 5152).

The revamped Special Collections site is now streamlined in look and management with the Libraries’ and ITS site and features significantly increased and enhanced online finding aids for its manuscript collections and College Archives. Throughout the academic year, the home page will highlight a rotating selection of rare book and manuscript collections and acquisitions, exhibitions and related programming. Connect to the new Special Collections site.

Educational Environments No. 4, Vol. 4 surveys the design and architecture of new educational facilities. Lafayette's Skillman Library was singled out for the cover of this beautiful display book, which will soon be available in the library. The accompanying text describes the interior design of Skillman as "exhilarating."

On September 9, over forty students came to Skillman and Kirby libraries to learn the libraries' secrets in the annual Open House. Everyone who participated was entered into a random prize drawing, and the winners have just been announced. They are:

Alex Smith: gift certificate for one instructional program at Kirby Sports Center
Jessica London: $10 gift certificate to dining services
Christopher Yarnell: 2 tickets to the Lafayette-Lehigh game
Mahmoud Djindjiev: $50 gift certificate to the College Store

Congratulations!

Lafayette Library users now have access to an electronic edition of Grand Dictionnaire universel du 19e siècle, an important French reference work published from 1865-1890 that combines the features of a dictionary and encyclopedia. Connect to Grand Dictionnaire.

Kirby Library now has six Lenovo laptops available for check out and use within the library. To borrow a laptop, present your Lafayette ID at the Circulation Desk. The loan period for all laptops is three hours.

We're gathering your library secrets to share with incoming first years during their Library Open House on 09/09/09. Tweet your library secrets to @laflibsecrets.

Lafayette's subscription to Literature Resource Center, a database that contains extensive biographical information on authors as well as literary criticism, book reviews, and plot summaries, continues but the database looks different. The interface is now similar to that of Academic OneFile.

Connect to Literature Resource Center