Extended Hours Start Friday May 3rd

Extended hours at the library for the end of classes and for exams begin Friday May 3rd and continue through Friday May 17th.

HOURS FOR END OF CLASSES & EXAM WEEK
Friday	May 3	7:30 a.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Saturday	May 4	11:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Sunday	May 5	1:00 p.m. - 2:00 a.m.
Monday - Thursday	May 6 - 9	7:00 a.m. - 2:00 a.m.
Friday	May 10	7:00 a.m. - Midnight
Saturday	May 11	9:00 a.m. - Midnight
Sunday	May 12	10:00 a.m. - 2:00 a.m.
Monday - Thursday	May 13 - 16	7:00 a.m. - 2:00 a.m.
Friday	May 17	7:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

If you have any questions, please contact the Circulation Desk at 301-687-4395.

Featured Online Resource: Google Scholar

Did you know you can easily search the library's research databases for full-text articles through a familiar user-friendly search engine interface? Google Scholar, this week's Featured Online Resource, indexes full-text scholarly literature across many disciplines and publishing formats.

As you use Google Scholar, "FindIt@Frostburg" links to the Ort Library's full-text content from up to 60 research databases will appear in the right margin of the search results page. Access is easy and automatic to our database articles via Google Scholar when you are on campus, but off campus, you have to take an extra step to get to this password-protected research material: Log in to your FSU library user account or Research Port first, and then start using Google Scholar. You will stay logged in for full access to the library's research articles as long as you keep your Internet browser open.

Even if you find an article listed in Google Scholar that is not available from our library, you can still read its abstract and request it through Interlibrary Loan as a Frostburg State University student, faculty or staff member.

Other things you can do with Google Scholar: 

• Explore related works, citations, authors, and publications
• Keep up with recent developments in your area of research
• If you're an author, you can check who's citing your publications and create a public author profile 

If you aren't a student, faculty or staff member at Frostburg State University but are affiliated with another college or university, explore how Google Scholar interacts with your academic library environment!

Three New Library Displays for April

The Ort Library is pleased to present three new displays for April.

To celebrate National Library Week, held April 14 – 20, 2013, the first display, titled "Highlighting the Variety of Resources in the Library" is available on the 3rd floor (main entrance).  The display highlights the many varieties of resources the library offers: books, DVDs, CDs, records, e-books, and much more. 

Did you know that the phrases "Makes your hair stand on end", "So-so", and "In a pickle" were all coined by Shakespeare?  The second display, also located on the 3rd floor (located between the 4 stand-up PCs), was created by Emily Zumbrun.  This display showcases Shakespeare and highlights the many phrases that are now common in the English Language all thanks to Shakespeare. 

The last display is located on the 5th floor and celebrates Maryland Archaeology Month.  This year's theme for Maryland Archaeology Month is "Points in Time: Formal Biface Typology in Maryland".  The display highlights some of the projectile points that have been recovered from different Maryland archaeological sites.

The displays will be up through the month of April.

If you have any questions about the displays, please contact Theresa Mastrodonato at ext. 4425 or tmmastrodonato@frostburg.edu or MaryJo Price at ext. 4889 or mprice@frostburg.edu.

Featured Online Resource: Crocodoc

This week’s Featured Online Resource is Crocodoc (http://personal.crocodoc.com) which allows users to view PDFs, MS Office documents, and images all from within the Crocodoc website.  Additionally, the website allows you to add comments, highlights, and drawings to any document or image, including PDFs.  It allows a group to collaborate in real-time to comment on a document.  This website is free to sign up and according to the website it helps to alleviate the “need to e-mail attachments back and forth, print, and pass around hard copies” (About Us, 2011, para. 1).

 

Every week, the Ort Library brings you a new and outstanding resource from the Web or from one of the library's databases. To get an archive of all FOR entries, click here. Also, you can suggest a website that provides well-organized access to useful info.

Reference:

About us (2011).  Retrieved March 27, 2013 from http://personal.crocodoc.com/about/

 

New Online Library Resource - Credo Reference

The Library now has access to a new resource, Credo Reference.  This package of over 600 full-text ready reference titles is searchable in a single database.

Credo Reference is available to the FSU students, faculty and staff through Research Port; this database is also a part of the Library's OneSearch system. 

Use the search box below to "test drive" Credo Reference (limited to FSU students, faculty, and staff):

 

Featured Online Resource: Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)

This week’s Featured Online Resource is the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) website.  This site provides access to online resources based on past and present exhibitions at the museum.  The site includes audio, video, and interactive sites that let you further explore the museum and its contents.

For example, the current exhibit, Edvard Munch: The Scream, has additional audio available that discusses how Munch created the painting.  The exhibit, Inventing Abstraction, 1910-1925, has an interactive website that allows you to see how early abstractionist artists are related to one another using a diagram of connectedness.  In addition, the site contains videos discussing the exhibit.

 Image retrieved from: http://www.moma.org/explore/multimedia/interactives/187/interactives-current-exhibitions

In addition, if you are going to be in the New York area, beginning in March, the MoMa will be installing 14 video games as part of their collection.  The video games include Pac-Man, Tetris, SimCity 2000, and 11 others.  The museum is going to increase the total number of video games to 40 in the near future.  The video games are in working order and patrons will be able to play the games for free.

Every week, the Ort Library brings you a new and outstanding resource from the Web or from one of the library's databases. To get an archive of all FOR entries, click here. Also, you can suggest a website that provides well-organized access to useful info.

Music 350 Classes Visit Library

Dr. Jim Lyons brought two Music 350 classes to the Ort Library on February 21 to explore the print resources available in the library. 

MaryJo Price, library liaison to the Music Department, accompanied the class to the STACKS on Floor 4 where they began searching for answers to a list of music questions. 

Dr. Lyons (center below) explains the Music segment of the Library of Congress Classification System to the group.