A Map, a Clue, and a Treasure Hunt

A local genealogist, Valerie Perry, points readers to the Bloomsburg University's online digital repository map collection. Read her article in the Pocono Record.

New Accounting Research Guide

Need to find International Accounting Standards?  Need to find a company's balance sheet?  Need to find IRS tax codes?  The Library has an Accounting LibGuide that can help.  Go to: http://guides.library.bloomu.edu/accounting for resources and guidance in Accounting-related research.

Andruss Library Newsletter

View the Andruss Library Newsletter 2010-2011 online for the year in review.

Read all about the changes in the Library and its services and collections.

Open publication - Free publishing - More library

Extended library hours for class makeup times

To accommodate students taking makeup classes on Friday nights, the Library will remain open Fridays beginning 10/7 until 11/18, from 4:30 pm until 9:00 pm. If you have any questions, ask at the Circulation Desk or call 389-4205.

Enter the essay contest

The Andrus Library government documents unit is sponsoring the 2011/2012 Sunshine Week essay contest. Sunshine Week is a national initiative to increase the public's awareness of their right to know about what their government is doing. To enter the contest, right 600-700 words on the topic of "WikiLeaks: Responsible Journalism or Dangerous Leaks?" The deadline is November 28. Cash prizes run $100-$250.  The winning essay will be published in the Press Enterprise during Sunshine Week, in March 2012.  For more information, contact Katie Yelinek, government documents coordinator, at kyelinek@bloomu.edu or visit http://guides.library.bloomu.edu/sunshineweek.

What Students Don't Know

from What Students Don't Know - Inside Higher Ed:

The ERIAL (Ethnographic Research in Illinois Academic Libraries) project -- a series of studies conducted at Illinois Wesleyan, DePaul University, and Northeastern Illinois University, and the University of Illinois’s Chicago and Springfield campuses -- was a meta-exercise for the librarians in practicing the sort of deep research they champion. Instead of relying on surveys, the libraries enlisted two anthropologists, along with their own staff members, to collect data using open-ended interviews and direct observation, among other methods.

The goal was to generate data that, rather than being statistically significant yet shallow, would provide deep, subjective accounts of what students, librarians and professors think of the library and each other at those five institutions. The resulting papers are scheduled to be published by the American Library Association this fall, under the title: “Libraries and Student Culture: What We Now Know.”

One thing the librarians now know is that their students' research habits are worse than they thought.
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Ebrary ebooks in the classroom

The Library has published a brand new subject guide on how to use ebrary ebooks for educational and instructional purposes. Chockful of helpful information, the sections include:

• What is ebrary?
• Searching ebrary
• Navigating an ebook
• Personal Bookshelf & Managing the Bookshelf
• For Faculty: Linking to ebrary
• Highlighting & notes
• Citing in ebrary
• Ebrary Reader
• InfoTools

If you've been thinking of using ebrary but were unsure how it works, then this guide will answer your questions!