Lafayette College Library

Three new laserjet printers have been installed in Skillman Library to replace older printers that were seeing increased breakages. Two are in Skillman's main floor Reference Studio and one is on the ground floor. The printers deliver a first page in as fast as 8.5 seconds and have the capacity to print up to 275,000 pages a month.

"Oops!" Late returning books or videos and owe the library fines? The library will observe Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week by accepting canned and dry goods to clear your overdue fees.

Between November 16 and 20, we will accept one can per dollar amount you owe in late fees (up to $15). This applies only to late fees; it does not apply to bills for lost or damaged materials nor to bills already paid prior to the event.

Suggested items:
Baby food, dry cereal, soup, canned juice, canned fruit, canned vegetables, peanut butter, crackers, rice, boxed dried pasta, pasta sauce, stuffing mix; also toothpaste, shampoo, soap, etc.

Please, no dented or squished goods, expired, opened, perishable or homemade items.

All proceeds go to the Landis Community Outreach Center.

The new JSTOR collection increases the coverage of core humanities disciplines including history, language & literature, art & art history, and education. Included in this set will be a group of rare 19th and early 20th century American Art periodicals digitized as part of a special project undertaken with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Frick Collection, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art. With a minimum of 140 titles by its completion in 2011, this collection will also include journals in philosophy, classical studies, and music.

Students are urged not to leave their belongings unattended in the Lafayette Libraries. This includes backpacks and bags, in addition to laptops and cell phones. Unattended belongings are an invitation to thieves.

Oxford Reference Online, which features electronic versions of Oxford dictionaries and other reference works in multiple disciplines, has been updated to include four new titles: The Oxford Book of Health Foods, The Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age, A Dictionary of Creation Myths, and The New Oxford Companion to Law. New editions have also been posted for The Oxford Companion to English Literature, The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, and A Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art (formerly A Dictionary of Twentieth Century Art).

October 19-23 marks the first international Open Access Week, a chance to learn more about the scholarly open access movement. Open Access is the principle that all research should be freely accessible online, immediately after publication. What makes it possible is the Internet and the consent of the author or copyright holder. Momentum for open access in science and scholarship has been growing, as evidenced by open access policies from research funders (such as the U.S. National Institutes of Health) and research producers on college and university campuses (such as Harvard University, MIT, University College London, the University of Kansas, and the University of Liege).

Read more about Open Access Week and the Open Access movement.

Read more about the Lafayette Digital Repository, which is designed to make accessible the scholarly work of Lafayette authors.

British History Online, to which the library subscribes, has just added the Parliament Rolls of Medieval England to the site. The series describes every parliament held between 1275 and 1504; where the rolls survive they have been fully transcribed and translated. Ten monarchs are represented, from Edward I to Henry VII. The text and its translation are available together in a new tabular format, making it easier to consult either version. The Rolls are fully cross-searchable with all British History Online’s other resources for medieval and early modern history, which include the Calendar of Close Rolls, the Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae, many volumes of the Victoria County History and hundreds more primary and secondary sources.

Access the Parliament Rolls of Medieval England.

The library is participating in a 30 day trial to Ebrary's Academic Complete collection of e-books. The collection provides access to more than 43,900 titles spanning 16 academic subject areas. Additional titles are available separately for subscription. The collection also includes a growing selection of maps, journals and reports.

Connect to Ebrary and to more details about this product from the Current Trials page

Please send comments about Ebrary to Amy Abruzzi, Reference Resources Librarian

The American Psychological Association (APA) has just published the sixth edition of their publication manual. It can be found in Skillman's Ref Desk section (behind the reference desk) at the following call number: BF76.7 .P83 2010.

Recognizing the importance of being able to navigate information in this "information age," President Obama has issued a proclamation declaring October National Information Literacy Month. In the proclamation, the President calls upon educational institutions to help Americans not just find, but evaluate, information--whether financial, medical, educational, or technical.

Here is an excerpt from the proclamation: "Every day, we are inundated with vast amounts of information. A 24-hour news cycle...coupled with an immense array of online resources have challenged our long-held perceptions of information management. Rather than merely possessing data, we must also learn the skills necessary to acquire, collate, and evaluate information for any situation."

Read the full proclamation.