NOTES FROM RAMSEY LIBRARY; 2011-1

NOTES FROM RAMSEY LIBRARY hopes that everyone enjoyed a safe and joyful holiday season and that your semester is off to a great start. NOTES also wants to thank the library staff who overcame the weather to make the library as available as possible over the past week. And, all the Ramsey Library folks are grateful to the Grounds and Facilities personnel who made the campus as safe as possible and who kept our buildings warm and the water flowing. To all of you and to those “critical personnel” we may not even know of, many, many thanks!!
BOOKS & LIBRARY CONTENT PURCHASES CONTINUE FOR NOW

While the latest budget news seems less than encouraging, we are still able to purchase books and other library materials to support students and faculty. Faculty who know of materials that they need please get that information to your librarian bibliographer and we will do everything we can to acquire the material before the budget doors close any tighter. Please contact or send your requests to your departmental bibliographer whose listed at:
http://bullpup.lib.unca.edu/library/libdir/bibliographers.html.
LYNDA.COM

If you haven’t tried it, do give LYNDA.COM a whirl. This online training library containing over 3,000 video tutorials on all types of software, and provides comprehensive training in office software, audio, video, photography, graphic design, web and interactive design, business, and development from expert instructors. We’ve been very pleased with the response to this investment and recently added several concurrent users to our license.
GRADUATE SCHOOL ENTRANCE EXAM PREP

As the semester begins many students turn their attention to thoughts of graduation and graduate school. NOTES FROM RAMSEY encourages students to take advantage of the expertise offered by the Career Center and the wisdom of their faculty. In addition, we offer access to interactive practice tests and tutorials for academic and licensing tests including the GRE, GMAT, LSAT, MCAT, and the Praxis. These materials can be accessed via the Ramsey Library web site by clicking Research Databases, then clicking Title List. Navigate to the L listing on the alphabetical title index and select Learning Express Library. Once on the Learning Express web site, click the College Students link under the heading “Learning Centers” on the left side of the page. From there click the Graduate School Entrance Exam Preparation link. A second list will appear. Select an exam preparation module. Click the Login to Add link to the right of the selection. You will be asked to create a unique user name and password for accessing scores and keeping track of progress. PLEASE MAKE NOTE OF THE USER NAME AND PASSWORD YOU SELECTED. Ramsey Library has no access to this information.

(Many thanks to Anita White-Carter for these directions!!)