On Exhibit -- Flannery O'Connor: Letters from Andalusia

Starting today, the exhibit "Flannery O'Connor: Letters from Andalusia" will be open in the Library's Ferguson Gallery, highlighting the writer's unique relationship with the College of Notre Dame of Maryland. It is free and open to the public, and can be viewed during the library’s regular hours. For a full description, as well as a list of related events, including short story discussion groups, lectures and a film screening, please see the exhibit website: http://flanneryoconnor.lndlibrary.org/.

Gift Funds Addition of the Saint John's Bible to LNDL's Collection

The Library is honored to announce the acquisition of the magnificent 7-volume Heritage Edition of the Saint John’s Bible for our permanent collection, thanks to a gift of $130,000 from Mary C. Mangione and her family in memory of her late husband Nicholas B. Mangione. For the full announcement, please see the press release issued by Loyola University Maryland.

Our newly acquired Heritage Edition will be on display at the Baltimore Basilica on Tuesday, April 5, from 7 – 9 p.m. during a Lenten celebration of Jesuit meditations, choir performances, and Benedictine chants in anticipation of the Easter holiday. For more information on this event, please contact Melinda Timlen at 410-532-3179 or mtimlen@ndm.edu.

Spring Semester Course Reserves

It is now time to plan reserves—both print and media—for your spring classes. The beginning of the semester is busy, and reserve requests are handled on a first-come/first-serve basis, so please plan accordingly. As the semester progresses, you may add material at any time, and we can usually make it available to students within 24 hours.

Reserve requests can be submitted through campus mail or via the Faculty Request form. For detailed information about submitting requests, electronic reserves, and reserves delivered through Blackboard, please visit our Faculty Resources page. If you have any questions or concerns about book or article reserves, please contact Linda Tanton, x6823, or ltanton@ndm.edu / ltanton@loyola.edu. For media reserves, please contact Pat Turkos, x6822, or pturkos@ndm.edu / ppturkos@loyola.edu.

Thanksgiving Hours

Thanksgiving will be here soon and we wanted to get the word out about our hours that week:

Tuesday, Nov. 23: 8am-5pm
Wednesday, Nov. 24 - Friday, Nov. 26: Closed
Saturday, Nov. 27: 10am - 8pm

Regular hours will resume on Sunday, November 28. Information about extended hours for final exams will be released in the next couple of weeks, so stay tuned!

Edited 11/22: We just realized there was an error on our Saturday hours -- we are open loger than was initially posted. This has been corrected in the information above.

Guest Access During Final Exams

Due to final exams, from Wednesday, December 1 through Wednesday, December 22, only students, faculty and staff from the College of Notre Dame and Loyola University will be admitted to the Library. Students from other institutions, as well as the general public, will not be admitted. We apologize for any inconvenience, and appreciate your understanding.

Text an LNDL Librarian

In December 2008, we debuted a new service -- you could send us a text to ask a question. The hack we used to capture and respond to text messages was buggy and difficult for customers to use, and over the summer we decided to try something new.

You can now text the Research Assistance desk at (410) 929-6876. You might notice this isn't quite a campus number -- that's because we're using Google Voice to provide this service. This is still a hack, rather than a fully-supported system, and so it's not perfect. The back-and-forth can be slow, and if we're closed you won't get a message back telling you that. But, we hope that it's at least easier to use!

Please keep in mind that we can only answer texts when the Research Assistance Desk is open. That's until 9:30pm, unless the whole library closes earlier that day. And remember that this is a text-only number. If you'd like to call us, you'll want to dial (410) 617-6802.

Please note that your carrier may charge you for text messages sent and received, and that the library is not responsible for these charges.

National Visionary Leadership Project

The Loyola ▪ Notre Dame Library is pleased to announce the donation of tapes and transcripts of interviews of many notable African American Visionaries that were recorded by the National Visionary Leadership Project. The subjects of these interviews have shaped American history in many different ways and come from all walks of life; some of these Visionaries are nationally recognized leaders, while others are known primarily in their local communities. LNDL is cataloging the materials and placing them on reserve for use by students, including those taking courses in Loyola’s new African and African American Studies minor.

The library’s holdings include videos of full-length interviews with Quincy Jones and Coretta Scott King (see clips below), among many others. Transcripts of many of the interviews are also available. The interviews cover everything from their thoughts on leadership and the civil rights movement, to anecdotes from childhood.

In addition to the acquisition of this collection, the faculty of the Loyola African and African American Studies minor are co-sponsoring an inaugural lecture by Benjamin Todd Jealous, President and CEO of NAACP, on September 29. For details and to RSVP, please visit the website for the AAAS minor.

Coretta Scott King on her childhood:


Quincy Jones on America’s racial future:

Change to Alumni & Community Borrowing

Beginning October 1, in order to borrow books, alumni and community borrowers will be required to obtain a library card by joining the Friends of the Loyola ▪ Notre Dame Library. A one-year membership begins at $25, and will enable you to check out up to 10 books for 6 weeks. It will also give you access to a variety of cultural programming throughout the year. For details and to obtain a card, please visit the Friends of LNDL webpage or stop at the Customer Services desk.

This change will not affect current students, faculty or staff of College of Notre Dame or Loyola University; nor will it impact students at local colleges and universities with whom we have reciprocal borrowing agreements. To check if your school offers reciprocal borrowing priveleges, please visit our Other MD Libraries contact page, and look to see if your institution is starred.

Course Reserves for Fall 2010

It is now time to plan reserves—both print and media—for your fall classes. Please try to submit your reserve requests to the by Library by August 16. Material requested by this date will be available to your students by the first day of classes. The beginning of the semester is busy, and reserve requests are handled on a first-come/first-serve basis. As the semester progresses, you may add material at any time, and we can make it available to students within 24 hours.

Reserve requests can be submitted through campus mail or via the Library Home Page. For detailed information about submitting requests for media items, books, electronic reserves, and reserves delivered through Blackboard, please see our Faculty Resources page. If you have any questions or concerns, contact Linda Tanton for print reserves (x6823—or ltanton@loyola.edu) or Pat Turkos concerning media reserves (x6822—or ppturkos@loyola.edu)

New Resources on the Renaissance

We are pleased to provide access to three new resources through Iter's Gateway to the Middle Ages & the Renaissance. Those researching the Renaissance and Middle Ages can now make use of:

Iter Bibliography
Secondary source material pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700), including citations for books, journal articles, dissertation abstracts, conference proceedings, festschriften, encyclopedias and exhibition catalogues.

Iter Italicum
Iter Italicum is a finding list of previously uncatalogued or incompletely catalogued Renaissance humanistic manuscripts found in libraries and collections around the world. It is a tool for any scholar working in the fields of classical, medieval and Renaissance studies.

Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Réforme
Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Réforme is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes articles and reviews on all aspects of the Renaissance, Reformation and Early Modern world: literature, geography, history, religion, art, music, society and economics.

You'll find Iter Bibliography and Iter Italicum listed in the Databases by Title list on the library homepage. Both of those, as well as Renaissance and Reformation, can be found on the appropriate subject guides on the Research Wiki. If you have any questions about these new resources, just ask!

Problems with the "Find E-Journals" search

We're currently experiencing some technical difficulties with the search that powers the "Find E-Journals" section of the homepage. Some patrons are being presented with a login screen instead of search results. In talking with people who have experienced this problem, we have determined that trying your search three times in a row will get you past the login screen, at which point you can proceed as usual. We realize this is an unorthodox approach, but while we work to diagnose the problem we wanted to share information about this workaround.

If you are experiencing this problem and you have a moment or two, we'd appreciate it if you could answer the following questions via an email to Charles Lockwood, our Digital Services Librarian (clockwood@loyola.edu):

1. Are you using a PC or a Mac?
2. What browser are you using? Explorer? Firefox? Something else? What version? (You can usually find this information in the "Help" menu by selecting the "About this browser" option.)
3. What is the computer's IP address? (Just visit WhatIsMyIP.com.)
4. Does this happen every time you try to access a journal this way, or just for a certain title? If so, please let us know which title.
5. Have you tried deleting cookies from the browser? If you have, did it solve the problem? (If you're not sure how to do this, search the help menu in your browser for instructions.)
   

If you encounter this problem and can't work through it, please don't hesitate to contact the Research Assistance Desk at (410) 617-6802.

New Database: PsychiatryOnline

We are happy to announce that we now have online access to the DSM-IV-TR, and the Handbook of Differential Diagnostics! This comes as part of the addition of a new database to our collection: PsychiatryOnline. In addition to the DSM, this also gives us online access to several other psychiatry textbooks and reference books, as well as five scholarly journals (American Journal of Psychiatry, Psychiatric Services, Academic Psychiatry, Neuropsychiatry & Clinical Neurosciences, Psychosomatics) and Psychiatric News, the newsletter of the American Psychiatry Association. (Full-text is available for a limited date range of these publications.)

We're still working on getting the links to these new resources in the library catalog and database list. For now, you can access everything from our subject guides, which are linked on our homepage. In the "Articles & Other Resources" section, use the subject menu and chose either Psychology or Pastoral Counseling. Click into the databases page, and you'll see PsychiatryOnline listed with the rest of our resources.

Summer Book Delivery Schedule

If you're taking a summer class, please make a note of this important information!

In the summer, the book delivery service provided by MIC -- the group of libraries with which we share our catalog (more here) -- is scaled back. This affects books that you find in our library catalog and request using the "Make a Request" link. Here is this summer's delivery schedule:

• Through Friday, June 18: Tuesday & Thursday only
• June 21 through July 9: Daily Monday through Friday (no delivery Monday, July 5)
• July 12 through August 20: Tuesday & Thursday
• Starting August 23: Daily Monday through Friday

If you have questions about what day a request you have made will arrive at your requested pickup point, please call the LNDL circulation desk at (410) 617-6801.

If you find yourself in a jam, don't forget that you can always go directly to the college that holds the book you need. You can also check the catalogs of other area libraries that offer LNDL patrons the ability to borrow material (they're the starred ones). And don't forget that the Enoch Pratt Free Library has extensive holdings that might just include what you're looking for. Get in touch with the LNDL reference desk if you need help figuring this out.

The regular delivery schedule -- daily, Monday through Friday -- will resume in the fall. We'll keep you posted!

Extended Hours for Final Exams

Once again, the main lobby area of the Loyola/Notre Dame Library will be open overnight on several days during finals. The rest of the library (book stacks, etc.) will remain open until 2am but will be closed off for the overnight hours. Overnight access will be limited to current students from Notre Dame and Loyola; all students will be required to show their institutional ID to enter. For security reasons, at 2am the entire building will be cleared, and those who wish to stay will have to show their IDs. (Think of it as a chance to stretch your legs and pick out a new seat!)

On the following days, the Ferguson Gallery at LNDL will be open from 2am - 8am:

Tuesday, April 27 - Saturday, May 1
Monday, May 3 - Thursday, May 6
Monday, May 10 - Thursday, May 13

This means that at least a portion of the building will be open continuously from:
8am on Monday, 4/26 through 8pm on Saturday, 5/1
and again from
10am on Sunday, 5/2 through 2am on Friday, 5/7
and finally, from
noon on Sunday, 5/9 through 2am on Friday, 5/14

In addition, the library will be open from 8am - 10pm on Friday, 5/7; 10:30am-8pm on Saturday, 5/8; and 8am-5pm on Friday, 5/14. (Please check the website for more information about library hours.)

Contemporary Catholic Writers Series: Colm Tóibín

The Loyola/Notre Dame Library is proud to announce the second lecture in our annual Contemporary Catholic Writers Series: Colm Tóibín, the award-winning author of Brooklyn.

Tóibín’s previous novels include The South and The Master, which won the 2006 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Most recently, Brooklyn was named the winner in the novels category of the 2010 Costa Book of the Year awards.

Colm Tóibín will be joining us on Thursday, April 15, 2010 at 6:30 p.m. in the library’s Ridley Auditorium. A reception will follow.

Space at the lecture is limited. Contact Alison Cody to reserve a free ticket: (410) 617-6835 or acody@ndm.edu/acody3@loyola.edu.

LNDL On the Go!

Ever wished the library website worked better on your smartphone? Well, we're happy to announce the debut of a mobile site made just for smartphones and other mobile devices — iPhones, iPod Touches, Android phones, Blackberries and more! The site is made to fit on your device’s screen, and presents the library’s crucial information right at your fingertips – hours, directions, events, contacts, the library catalog, and even mobile versions of some (but not all) research databases!

If you’re not taken to the library’s mobile site automatically on your mobile device, just click on the "mobile site" link at the top left corner of the library’s main page, or point your browser to http://mobile.lndlibrary.org/ to access the site. For your convenience, we've also provided a link to the full library site at the bottom of the mobile site. Check it out, and get access to the library’s services wherever you are.

We've tested this out on a few different devices, but if you try it and have any problems, please let us know! Send any comments, information on technical difficulties, or questions to askemail@loyola.edu.

Celebration of Faculty Scholarship -- Second Panel

The sixth annual Celebration of Faculty Scholarship will be held on Tuesday, March 23, from 2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. We are happy to announce the second faculty panel, taking place at 3:15pm and featuring two philosophers discussing their research and the publications being highlighted in this year's Celebration of Faculty Scholarship:

Desiree Melton, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, College of Notre Dame of Maryland, will discuss "The vulnerable self: Enabling the recognition of racial inequality," a chapter in the book Feminist Ethics and Social and Political Philosophy: Theorizing the non-ideal."

Nadja Germann, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Loyola University Maryland, will discuss her articles "Signification and truth: epistemology at the crossroads of semantics and ontology in Augustine's early philosophical writings" and "Philosophizing without philosophy? The concept of philosophy in Ibn Tufayl's Hayy Ibn Yaqzan."

Celebration of Faculty Scholarship -- First Panel

The sixth annual Celebration of Faculty Scholarship will be held on Tuesday, March 23, from 2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. We are happy to announce the first faculty panel, taking place at 2:30pm and featuring three historians discussing their research and the publications being highlighted in this year's Celebration of Faculty Scholarship:

Charles Ritter, Professor of History, and Susan Barber, Associate Professor of History, both of College of Notre Dame of Maryland, will discuss "Physical abuse . . . and rough handling: Race, gender, and sexual justice in the occupied South," a chapter in the book Occupied women: Gender, military occupation, and the American Civil War.

Matthew Mulcahy, Associate Professor of History and chair of the Department of History, Loyola University Maryland, will discuss his article "The Port Royal earthquake and the world of wonders in 17th century Jamaica," published in the journal Early American Studies.

Closed on Sunday, Feb. 7

LNDL will remain closed on Sunday, Feb. 7. All online resources are still available; for research assistance, please use the 24/7 Chat service.

Updated information about any additional changes to library hours will be posted to the library homepage.

Survival Skills Workshops

Have you taken a look at your syllabi and started wondering how you're going to find the information you need for your papers and other projects? If it doesn't look like your professor is bringing your class to the library for a workshop, you can drop in on one of our Survival Skills Workshops. In our General Research classes, we'll help you figure out the best way to get the research materials you need for your topic*. Come to a RefWorks class to learn about a tool that can help you track and manage the references for your projects, and can take some of the tedium out of making a list of works cited.

*We're holding a class with a special focus on social sciences research -- Saturday, March 13 at 11:30am.