Greetings!
There is a lot going on this semester at Smiley Library! As you may already know, we are in the midst of preparations for the renovation into an Information Commons. Preliminary construction on the second floor is scheduled to begin during Thanksgiving break and will continue throughout the holiday break. All materials on this floor will be relocated to the 1st and 3rd floors, and with no restricted access to materials. The student computers will be moved into the old campus computing offices, periodicals and Reference to the 3rd floor, and the circulating collection to the 1st floor. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, but we are doing our best to ensure access to materials is still available. Below is the preliminary design of the 2nd floor, which includes a computer center, increased soft seating, group study rooms, and an electronic collaborative classroom. All designs are based on feedback from the library survey conducted last spring. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. Thanks to the football and baseball teams and coaches for their help moving furniture!
Other new developments:
We have replaced ProQuest Psychology Journals database with the much more comprehensive Ovid PsychArticles. There is a separate link for off campus use for this database, located here: http://www.centralmethodist.edu/cmlibrary/catalogs.html#databases
I am launching a set of screencast tutorials for different library services. These should be up and running on the website before the end of October. They are aimed at distance learners without access to library instruction, but they should come in handy for CLAS students too.
The Faculty/Staff book clubs are steaming along. We have 7 groups with 35 students involved. Thanks so much to the faculty who have taken on this extra project! We can all look forward to the good works produced by each group!
We made over $400 at the Fall Booksale. Thanks to everyone who stopped by and supported us. We are planning another book sale in the spring.
And finally, I will be going on maternity leave around Thanksgiving (I hope!) so if there are any specific library needs you might have, please try and let me know ahead of time so we can plan accordingly.
Again, please let me know if there are any questions or concerns.
