Cookie Break Tonight in the LITC

Tonight...WE WILL HAVE COOKIES!

Yes, we will have cookies, milk, and other treats to help get you through exams.  Look for the cookie table out well before we close at 1 AM.  Yes, we are open until 1 AM!

And good luck with exams!

Writer's Studio Exam Hours and other stuff

The Writer's Studio will be open for exams!

Wednesday, 4/25: 4:00-10:00 PM
Thursday, 4/26:     4:00-10:00 PM
Friday, 4/27:         4:00-10:00 PM
Monday, 4/30:      4:00-10:00 PM
Tuesday, 5/1:        4:00-10:00 PM

Databases
We are working on restoring "normal" access to databases, but it will be a potentially slow process.  All databases ARE available, but access is difficult due to an internal server issue.  Stick with the links in earlier blog posts or ask a library staff member for assistance.  Once again, we apologize for this untimely inconvenience.

Library Hours 
Due to popular request (via our library survey), we will expanding our hours during exams.

Thursday, 4/26: 7:00 AM - 1 AM (Friday)
Friday, 4/27:     7:00 AM - 1 AM (Saturday)
Saturday, 4/28  8:00 AM - 8 PM
Sunday, 4/29    1:00 PM - 1:00 AM (Monday)
Monday, 4/30:  7:45 AM - 1:00 AM (Tuesday)
Tuesday, 5/1:    7:45 AM - 11:00 PM

We are open on Thursday and Friday early due to the Coker College Board of Trustees Meeting.

The server is still down. Here are links to LexisNexis and eBooks.

NexisLexis Academic http://www.lexisnexis.com/hottopics/lnacademic/

EBSCOhost eBook Collection  web.ebscohost.com/ehost/search/advanced?sid=c91f7fe9-13f8-4581-95f3-9677beeb7382%40sessionmgr112&vid=4&hid=122

One of the servers is down and access to our online resources are not available from the links on our web site. Below are direct links that will work on campus.

http://scdiscus.org/ - DISCUS/Gale databases

http://pascalsc.org/content/view/39/57/ - EBSCOHost

http://www.noodletools.com/login.php - NoodleBib

http://www.jstor.org/  - JSTOR

http://www.sciencedirect.com/  -  Science Direct

Encyclopedia Britannica stops the presses

 

 This poor guy will be so depressed.

After 244 years, the venerable Encyclopedia Britannica will stop publication of its printed edition soon. As many of you that have had me (or other librarians) for COM 101 classes know, the minute an encyclopedia is printed (and actually, during the final editing process) it is out of date. Sales of the printed Encyclopedia Britannica have been falling since the 1990s, with information seekers heading to Google and Wikipedia.

The good news is that we have a better product - the online edition of Britannica, which has already been updated to reflect the deaths of Whitney Houston, the Monkees' Davy Jones and other (more) important timely information.

If you are feeling nostalgic, you can look at our copy of the Encyclopedia Britannica from 1959, donated by a Coker alumna.  The volumes are located on the landing between the first and second floors.

Check out the printed edition of Encyclopedia Britannica's obituary from the New York Times.

Extended Hours on Sunday

Beginning on Sunday, February 26th, the library will open at 1 PM (instead of 2 PM)!  We will remain open until midnight.

Want to see the rest of our hours?  Click here: Coker LITC Hours

Book Talk - Unbroken

Professor Todd Rix will be discussing Laura Hillenbrand' s latest book, Unbroken. Published in November 2010 to rave reviews, this book will stay with you for a long time. Join us on March 22 at 11am in LITC217. This is a book you will want to read and talk about.

Caroline Leavitte from People said of the book,"Any one of the threads in Hillenbrand's monumental new book could be a page-turner all its own. There's the staggering story of Olympic runner and Air Force bombardier Louis Zamperini, terrifyingly stranded in 1943 on a life raft for 47 days, battling sharks, a typhoon and enemy gunfire. Then there's the story of his two years in a brutal Japanese POW camp run by the sadistic Mutsuhiro Watanabe, who beats, starves and humiliates the prisoners beyond endurance. And finally there's the aftermath, when the haunted, broken Zamperini tries to make sense of his life after the war. Zamperini's story, which Hillenbrand first came across in the sports pages while researching her previous book Seabiscuit, is as mesmerizing as it is gut-wrenching. And Hillenbrand's writing is so ferociously cinematic, the events she describes so incredible, you don't dare take your eyes off the page. Though the book centers on Zamperini, we meet other WWII heroes as well: POWs who risked their lives and then battled post-traumatic shock. Unbroken is a devastating story of the unforgivable, and of one extraordinary man who forgave."

Leavitt, Caroline. "Unbroken." People 74.19 (2010): 45. Academic Search Premier. Web. 22 Feb. 2012.