UA Facilities will be busy adding a new coat of paint to the Rotunda dome in Rodgers Library starting on Monday, August 10, 2009. The project will take about three days to complete. Rodgers Library will be closed to the public while the work is in progress. User can access some library resources from the Rodgers Library Web site during this period.
SMART Board at Rodgers
A new SMART Board, an interactive whiteboard, is ready for use by students and others. Installed in the Nightingale Group Study Room, the SMART Board is great for presentation and has all kinds of flashy features, such as touch screen navigation, intelligent drawing, color pens, and much more. The UF55 projector that’s a part of the system displays images with sharpness and clarity. A very nice set up!
New Titles Added to R2 Digital Library
R2 Digital Library is a web-based application that aggregates health sciences book content (Inter-disciplinary) from leading publishers on a single platform. Some of the e-books added to the platform recently are:
- Cultural Diversity in Health and Illness
- Health Promotion Srategies
- Intravenous Drug Guide 2009-210
- Math Basics for the Health Care Professional
- Nursing Leadership and Mangaement
GEOCHRON Global Time Machine
Is it daytime or nighttime in Fiji? What day is it in Mumbai? Where is the world illuminated by sunlight and obscured in darkness at any moment? You can learn more about these and other interesting geographic questions when viewing the new GEOCHRON on permanent display in Rodgers Library. If you are out and about the Campus sometime, stop by and see the GEOCHRON.
Springer E-books
The library purchased Springer e-books in Chemistry, Engineering and Computer Science last fall. Records are in the catalog and the books are available on SpringerLink. If you have used the electronic versions, let us know what you think. Open www.springerlink.com
Rodgers Library Publishes Photo Gallery
Photos are a good way to tell a story. Rodgers Library has developed an extra nice photo gallery to acquaint users with services, collections and facilities. Open this link and click on Slideshow to learn about all the library has to offer. Enjoy!
Social Bookmarking a Useful Tool
On the Internet, it’s very easy to find valuable information. And the process of discovery has become even more interesting with the arrival of Web 2.0 networking tools that allow for social bookmarking. Many faculty are engaged in social bookmarking. The possibilities seem endless. Social bookmarking can be used to improve instruction and research, even enhance professional development. Perhaps best of all, content in social bookmarking sites is easy to access. An RSS feed can push new content to your portal. And while on a site, search boxes and tags help find just the information you want to read, view, or listen to. The Rodgers Library Homepage features a handy Widget for social bookmarking. To see how this works, enter in the USER box the keyword RodgersLibrary (as a single word) and observe how finding pages on Rodgers Web site is made easier. If you want to learn more about social bookmarking, read “7 Things You Should Know about Social Bookmarking.” This Educause page explains how it all works.