New A&E Titles in Films on Demand

This month, Films Media Group has added new titles from A&E to Films On Demand. Titles include programs from the A&E series Biography, Declassified, Evolve, Great Blunders of the 20th Century, How the Earth Was Made, In Search of History, Investigative Reports, The Korean War, Save Our History, 10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America, The Universe, World War II in HD, and A&E Specials that revisit important events and experiences from the annals of history.

To see a list of new titles, go to Films on Demand and click on left sidebar link to Recently Added Videos.

New Look for Web Site

The library home page has many new features to help students and faculty use library resources:

• Tabbed interface for Books, Articles, and Video
• Video tab has a search box for our physical video collection AND a search box for Films on Demand
• Patron Info is now on the left side and is called “Your Library Account”
• Ask A Librarian box on the right with phone, email and texting options
  
• New pages for Library Instruction, Citation Styles, Mobile Access to Library Resources and Services for Faculty.
• New Databases by Subject page on the Articles tab, and Databases A-Z list is now a true A-Z list, moving the EBSCO and Gale databases out to where they belong alphabetically. You can still go to EBSCO or Gale in the list to cross search EBSCO or Gale databases.

We hope these changes make using the library easier. Please email any comments or suggestions to askalibrarian@century.edu.

Interested in Photography?

The library display case for January is featuring a variety of photography books. Whether photography is a hobby or a profession, we have great books to help improve your skills. Take better pictures and improve the quality of your photos with helpful tips and techniques.

Many photography styles are featured including digital, black and white, nature, action, and more.

A collection of famous photographs is also included in the display.

Reference Collection Move

In order to better serve students, we've moved the Reference Collection to be right behind the Reference Desk, visible when you enter the library. The popular fiction and audiobooks are now located near the fireplace, perfect for a cozy break. Back issues of periodicals are now located on the low shelves near the south facing windows where the Reference Collection used to be.

We hope that these changes will make the collection easier for everyone to use.

Winter Break Library Hours

The Library will be closed from December 20-January 2.

If you need to pay a fine, call (651) 779-3263 for assistance. You can return library materials in the book return.

During the week of January 3-7, we will be open from 7:30 AM to 4:00 PM. We will be closed on Saturday, January 8.

Regular hours will resume on January 10, 2011.

Salem Health and Salem Literature

Salem Press provides online access to their titles that we buy in print, so we have added links in our catalog to Salem titles like Magill's Medical Guide. We've also added Salem Health and Salem Literature to our Databases A-Z list.

New Electronic Reference Books

The following new Gale virtual reference books have been loaded and are available in both our Gale Virtual Reference Library collection and our library catalog:

• Additional volumes of Encyclopedia of World Biography
• Supplements to the New Catholic Encyclopedia
• Encyclopedia of Modern China
• A Student Guide to Climate and Weather
• Encyclopedia of Pestilence, Pandemics, and Plagues
• Encyclopedia of the Peoples of Asia and Oceania
• Encyclopedia of U.S. Campaigns, Elections, and Electoral Behavior
• Student’s Guide to the Presidency
• Encyclopedia of Gender and Society

We have also grouped our Gale Virtual Reference Library books by subject and made a keyword search box in many of our subject guides. See our History Subject Guide for an example.