Yearly Archives: 2007

Extreme Googling Workshop – April 11

Extreme Googling WorkshopWednesday, April 11, 2007Central Reading Room, classroom A12 PM

Posted in Library Instruction

Xrefer Reference E-Books Trial thru April 30.

Melville Library currently subscribes to sets of multidisciplinary reference books in electronic format via the Gale Virtual Reference Library and Oxford Reference Online. Through April 30th we have trial access to XreferPlus – a competing set of online reference ebooks

Posted in Database Trials, Reference

Melville Library Author Series Shirley Lim to Discuss “A Feeling of Belonging: Asian American Women’s Popular Culture, 1930-1960”

Wednesday, April 11 at 7 p.m. – Javits Room, Melville Library (second floor) In A Feeling of Belonging, Shirley Lim highlights the cultural activities of young, predominantly unmarried Asian American women from 1930 to 1960. This period marks a crucial

Posted in Author Series

Melville Library Author Series Stephen Spector to Discuss “Operation Solomon: The Daring Rescue of Ethiopian Jews”

Wednesday, March 28 at 4 p.m. – Javits Room, Melville Library (second floor) “Operation Solomon” was one of the most remarkable rescue efforts in modern history, in which more than 14,000 Ethiopian Jews were airlifted to Israel in little more

Posted in Author Series

Education Literature Databases

A reload and data format change for ERIC has been completed and the up-to-date version of the database is now available on the EBSCOhost platform. Records marked by ERIC as “peer-reviewed” can be easily accessed via a new check-box limiter.

Posted in Databases, Education

Recent eResource additions

The four most recent additions to our e-Resource collection illustrate the wide variety in the types of information the library makes available to you in a digital format. HSUS: Historical Statistics of the United States: Millennial EditionHSUS is a source

Posted in Databases

DSpace scheduled downtime Jan 27-28

The SUNY Digital Repository (aka “Dspace”) http://dspace.sunyconnect.suny.edu/ will be unavailable January 27-28, 2007 while they migrate the system to new hardware.

Posted in Digital Collections