We're moving!

The Sarah Lawrence Library News blog is moving to a new address! You can now find us at http://slclibrarynews.wordpress.com/. Please update your links!

We think this change will result in a cleaner design and better functionality on the back end for library staff. If you'd like to talk to us further about reasons for the switch, feel free to contact the reference staff at reference@slc.edu. We look forward to continuing to bring you news about goings-on in the library!

Happy end of the semester! (And the library's summer schedule.)

The library wishes all of the Sarah Lawrence College community a wonderful summer. We hope that you had an enjoyable and profitable semester and we will see returning students in the fall.

The library will be closed on Friday, May 23rd from 11-12:30 to allow the staff to honor our graduate students by observing commencement ceremonies. Graduating students, please remember that you will need to clear your library account in order to graduate. Stop by the library or call x2474 if you have any questions about your library account. You can also check your account online by clicking here.

The library will be closed from Saturday, May 24th to Monday, May 26th for Memorial Day. Summer hours will begin on Tuesday, May 27th.

The summer schedule is:
Monday to Friday 9:00 am - 4:30 pm
Closed Weekends and on the 4th of July

Due dates are upon us!

All books checked out for the fall semester are due by 5pm this Friday, May 16th. Please remember to return all materials by then! Fines for overdue books accrue at the rate of twenty cents a day, so don't be late!

Citation Station!

Choo choo! It's that time of year again--the conference paper train is pulling into Citation Station! Reference staff are ready to help you resolve RefWorks vexers, citation conundrums, and styling head-scratchers! We'll be staffing a desk on the main floor of the library next Monday, May 5, from 10am to noon, style guides in tow. And we'll be there every day at that time until the end of the term. Now, that's the ticket!

If you need citation assistance and you can't find us, there are plenty of other ways to reach us: send us an email at reference@slc.edu, fill out our online consultation request form (located here), call us at x2225, or check out a list of web guides on del.icio.us.

Back up your work!

Conference papers are almost due, which means now is the best time to back up your work. How?

You have a number of options:

* 100 MB of storage space on your H: Drive.
Find out more here: http://pages.slc.edu/~support/tag/h-drive
* Email it to yourself.
Your Gryphon Mail account has over 6 GB of space available. You could email your conference paper to yourself everyday and still have plenty of space for everything else.
* Use Gryphon Mail Documents.
Upload or email all your documents into your Gryphon Mail account. In Gryphon Mail, click Documents, then click Upload. Look for an email address in 'Email-In Your Documents and Files' and follow the instructions.
* A USB stick, thumb drive, flash drive.
It has many names but they all do the same thing. This will cost you some money, (around $30 for an 8 GB drive) but it will allow you access your work if you're not online.


A friendly reminder from the folks in Academic Computing/Help Desk.

The library celebrates Earth Day!

Earth Day is April 22nd. It is a day to celebrate our successes and progress in reducing our environmental impact and to reflect upon ways to improve in the future.

In honor of Earth Day, here are some of the ways in which libraries are environmentally friendly:

1. The library promotes resource sharing. This means that fewer books and journals have to be produced, which in turn means less stuff being thrown away.
2. Changing our light bulbs to energy-efficient compact fluorescent bulbs, where possible.
3. Libraries encourage free access to information. Everyone can use the information in the library to make informed decisions about their environmental impact.

This doesn't mean that we can rest on our laurels, however! We recognize that there is room for improvement. Some of the library's current initiatives are:

1. Reducing our building's energy usage. Compared to last year, the library reduced its energy consumption by nearly 10% - a significant achievement, but one that we are actively seeking to improve.
2. Reducing the amount of garbage that we produce.
3. Updating our printers so that they are both faster and more efficient. (Next academic year.)

We are always open to suggestions, so if you have some bright ideas about how to improve, please click here to send us an email.

For more information about Earth Day, please visit:
http://www.earthday.gov/
http://www.epa.gov/earthday/
http://www.earthsite.org/

Esther Goes 24/7

As of Sunday, April 27, the Library will be open for student use until the end of the semester. The circulation desk will close at 2 a.m. each evening, re-opening at 8:30 a.m. Please remember to limit food to snacks in bags and drinks in covered containers.

During the 24 hour period, it is especially important to remember that the Library is a shared community space, and we hope we'll all respect the needs of others for a clean and quiet space to complete conference and coursework. Please let library staff know of any problems you encounter during this busy time of year.