From Your Libraries . . . (amended newsletter)

History Liaison

Kathy

Kathy Snediker

snediker@mailbox.sc.edu 777-2346

Featured Item

An army of lions : the civil rights struggle before the NAACP

E 185.61 .A437 2012

Level 2

Digital Collection

Ariail exhibit

The Robert B. Ariail Collection of Historical Astronomy

Over the past half-century, Mr. Ariail built a collection that encompassed both historic telescopes and astronomical instruments, now at the State Museum, and more than 5,000 rare books and other published items, now housed in the University's Irvin Department of Rare Books & Special Collections.

eRequest

Use 'eRequest' for book requests. Remember to continue submitting requests for books you would like the library to add to the collection.

Click here

if you have an established account or would like to create one. If not, send your requests to your department's faculty representative or to

your liaison.

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April 2012

Even as the semester is winding down, the library continues to introduce new services, like our Book a Librarian consultation service and our new mobile app. Read on for more info!

And as you start thinking ahead to summer and fall courses, I'm available to help you with any library needs, including class instruction sessions, customized research guides for courses, and requests for new materials for the library collection. Please feel welcome to send me questions or suggestions any time.

Best wishes for the summer ahead,

Kathy

The South Carolina Digital Newspaper Program

Makes select historic newspapers in South Carolina fully SC Digital Newspaper Program

accessible and full-text searchable through a partnership with the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress (LC). So far SCDNP has digitized 103,352 newspaper images from 1860 to 1922, which are accessible from Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers.

Get personal research assistance with

"Book A Librarian"

USC students, faculty and staff who want help with their research can make an appointment for a free consultation service that provides a person-to-person session with a librarian. The sessions can help identify ways to access and navigate electronic resources; develop search strategies; discover and locate primary source materials; search the web for relevant and reliable information; and locate materials for a literature review.

Schedule a consultation.

Carry the library in your pocket Mobile App

University Libraries has introduced a mobile version of its website. The site includes mobile-friendly applications for some of the library's most used resources, such as the library catalog, Ask a Librarian, the computer availability page and some library databases. The site is optimized for viewing on a wide range of mobile devices.

To experience the site's full potential, use your smartphone or tablet to view our site at http://m.library.sc.edu

Planning for technology-based class projects?

To paraphrase Tom Cruise in the movie Jerry Maguire-- "Help us help you." Or more precisely, help us help your students succeed. If you plan to assign technology-based class projects, then you need to read this!

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