Bring Your Mug

 The DiPietro Library now comes with coffee!  A Keurig machine has been installed in the kitchenette on the lower level of the library.  Because we are so excited the library is offering our patrons a  FREE K-Cup on Monday morning, February 6th from 8am to 10am!

K-Cups are available for .75 at the Circulation Desk.  Available:  coffee, flavored coffee (variety pack), Swiss Miss Hot Chocolate, and Celestial Seasonings Tea (variety pack).  The library is supporting the University's green initiative so you will have to bring your own mug or travel mug. Cream and sugar are also available at the Circulation Desk.  You can bring and use your own K-cups in the machine for free.  

Let us know in the comments what you think!

Have a seat!

If you've been in the library recently you may have noticed a new seating area located just beyond the Reference Desk.  Over the winter break we removed some shelving, consolidated the books that were on it, and moved the chairs and study table that were between the Reference shelves up to the front of the library.

People have asked if we've gotten rid of anything, and the answer is 'no' (well, except for the atlas stand - atlases are now shelved at the beginning of the Reference collection.)  We are planning to add some shelving for newspapers and magazines in this area.  Hope you enjoy this new seating area!

P.S.  Thanks for all the participation on the coffee poll - we'll let you know as soon as it's available!

SOPA, and PIPA, and Blackouts! Oh my!

Curious about all the blacked-out web sites today? Trying to figure out what the alphabet soup of "SOPA" (Stop Online Piracy Act) and "PIPA" (Protect IP Act) are? Don't know which side makes more sense to you? Here are some helpful websites for figuring it out:

• A Technical Examination of SOPA and PIPA (from reddit)
• Stop Online Piracy Act (from the House Judiciary Committee)
• SOPA Explained (from CNNMoney.com)
• SOPA: The Internet Blacklist Bill  (from Stop American Censorship)
• All About PIPA and SOPA (from Lifehacker.org)
• House Introduces BiPartisan Legislation to Protect American IP Jobs (from the Recording Industry Association of America)
• Artists Against Digital Theft
• Viewpoint: For and Against Piracy Protest (from the BBC)

January's Featured Resource is Academic Search Premier

Our featured resource this month is one of our largest databases, Academic Search Premier. This scholarly resource contains indexing and abstracts for more than 8,500 journals, with full text for more than 4,600 of those titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. We recommend it as the best resource to begin most research projects. Additionally, you can make use of the MyEBSCOhost personalization features to save articles and citations, build lists, and share articles within a group.

Happy Holidays!

Whew!  We made it through finals!  The faculty and staff at the DiPietro Library would like to wish everyone a happy and safe holiday season.

The Rindge Campus, including the DiPietro Library, will be closed from December 23 - January 2.  We'll see you in the new year!

National Gaming Day @ your library

Join the Gamers Club from 11am -1pm this Saturday, November 12th as we participate in the 4th Annual National Gaming Day@your Library.  Fun! Games!  Fun AND games!  Here's a post from KQED on "Ten Surprising Truths about Video Games and Learning."

November's Featured Resource -- RavenRequest

This month's featured resource is RavenRequest - a web site that allows you to create online Interlibrary Loan requests.  RavenRequest is linked from the library's front page or can be accessed directly at http://ravenrequest.franklinpierce.edu.  RavenRequest can be accessed with your FPU network username and password. You will need to create an account upon your first login.  Once you have created an account you can track your interlibrary loans (both books and articles), find out when materials have arrived or are due back, see past interlibrary loan requests, and coming soon -- pick up articles directly through RavenRequest.

Several of our databases allow users to submit interlibrary loan requests directly to us, those can also be tracked via RavenRequest.  You can copy and paste author/title/journal information from websites directly into RavenRequest, saving you further time.  Give it a try!