NOTES FROM RAMSEY LIBRARY; 2010-5

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NOTES FROM RAMSEY LIBRARY; 2010-5

7 October 2010
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“Where books are burnt, in the end people are also burnt.”

~ Heinrich Heine

Ramsey Library Hours Extended

In response to student requests and long-running assessment, and enabled by an increase in this year’s E&T fees, Ramsey Library is pleased to announce that beginning Tuesday, October 12 the library will remain open until 1 AM, Sunday through Thursday. This will be will be the library’s regular schedule and represents an additional hour on those days. We will continue to extend hours to 2 AM for the period preceding final exams.

Effective 10/12/10, the library’s weekly schedule will be:

Monday – Thursday, 8 AM to 1 AM
Friday, 8 AM to 6 PM
Saturday, 10 AM to 6 PM
Sunday, 1 PM to 1 AM

For detailed hours info, please check http://bullpup.lib.unca.edu/library/cal/index.html.

Coffee & Hot Chocolate Now Available in the Library

In response to requests of student focus groups last summer, Ramsey Library is very pleased to announce the installation of a coffee/hot chocolate machine in the library. This makes at least a limited selection of hot beverages available during those late evening and weekend hours when Café Ramsey is closed. The machine is located on the main floor in the area of stairwell to the right of the Information & Technology Desk. Initial reports are that the coffee’s pretty good!! We hope you enjoy it and that you’ll help us keep the library neat and well-maintained. We hope to have a juice and water machine in the near future.

Featured Resource

Ramsey Library is pleased to welcome back a great electronic resource that had somehow escaped from our corral. For a number of years, the library provided access to EconLit on a “per search” basis. Recently, that means of access was disabled and that escaped our attention. Now we have a full subscription to EconLit, the American Economic Association’s electronic bibliography indexing more than thirty years of economics literature from around the world. Compiled and abstracted in an easily searchable format, EconLit is a comprehensive index of journal articles, books, book reviews, collective volume articles, working papers and dissertations. The direct link (from on campus only) is http://0-web.ebscohost.com.wncln.wncln.org/ehost/search?vid=1&hid=113&sid=4303ca4a-5e21-4a0a-8f87-9ea66913cf42%40sessionmgr114. It can be accessed remotely by going through the library’s web site and selecting EconLit from among our collection of electronic resources at http://libguides.unca.edu/content.php?pid=81370. You can find a downloadable desktop link at http://www.aeaweb.org/econlit/icon.php.

More on Free & Discounted Software

With apologies to any and all I may have confused, it turns out the link to the site with information about the free and discounted software that I distributed earlier was to a site not ready for publication. And, it went away. It will eventually return on the new ITS web site, but till then I’ve created a Google site with the same info and the link to Microsoft for their discounted software. Please note that you have to go to that site, pay the discounted price, and download the software to your computer. It’s NOT available in the library like the free packages. The Google site for software info ishttps://sites.google.com/a/unca.edu/jim_kuhlman/software.