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Linguistics Liaison

Gary Geer

garyg@mailbox.sc.edu

777-1953

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Spanish of the U.S. Southwest : a language in transition

Spanish of the U.S. Southwest:a language in transistion

P 40.45 .U5 S63 2010

Level 3

eRequest

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if you have an established account or would like to create one. Otherwise send your requests to your department's faculty representative or to

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February 2012

Hi,

As of February 2 there was a free balance of just under $2000 for new book requests. To make sure we spend this money by the end of the fiscal year, please send your requests to Tracey Weldon-Stewart, your Library Representative by March 15th. You can also use the Erequest system to request a book at http://erequest.tcl.sc.edu/

Gary Geer

LLBA - Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts

Covers three fundame For LLBA ntal areas of the nature and use of language: research in linguistics (the nature and structure of human speech); research in language (speech sounds, sentence and word structure, meaning in language forms, spelling, phonetics); and research in speech, language, and hearing pathology. Click here to access the database.

Check out an iPad

Student Government has partnered with Thomas Cooper Library to make 20 iPads available for checkout to students, staff and faculty. For more information about checkout click here.

ILL offers new online feature

Have you ever thought that a book you requested through ILL would make a good addition to our library collection? books

Now USC faculty who ask to borrow a book or other item from another institution through Interlibrary Loan (ILL) have the option to request that the item be purchased and added to the Libraries' collection. Find out how easy it is to request a purchase.

Are you getting the most out of

"My Account"?

All faculty members have access to the library through "My Account". "My Account" allows you to:

1) view and renew checked out materials

2) save "preferred searches" in the catalog and receive alerts when new materials are added that match your search

3) keep a record of the materials you have borrowed (optional).

You can do all of this without coming into the library! "My Account" is linked on the library's homepage and within the library's Catalog. Click here for help topics on using "My Account."

The results are in!

In the last newsletter we asked about your use of ebooks. The results are listed below.

for pleasure reading 31% ebooks

for research 0%

for both 23%

not at all 46%

Thanks to everyone who participated in our poll.