Friday, September 21, 2012

Catching Up On Fall

I hope we see some colorful leaves this season, don't you?
Welcome to UCC, or for many of you, welcome back! The Library has been busy this summer, changing things around and adding services to help you be successful this fall. Here are a few of the newest things we have to offer:

More space! More quiet area study space!

We hear you on wanting more study areas! We’ve removed some of the shelves in the “Stacks” area on the east side of the library to give you more room to study.  The book stacks are a “Quiet Study” area, so no talking, cell phone conversations, music or video audio here, please. We’ve moved seating around in the main reading room to give you more social / group study space, too. Talking is allowed out in the reading room-- go, go study group!

New ways to ask us for research help-- chat reference online and text reference!

It's not always possible to stop by the library in-person. Now you can send us a question by text message via your cell phone. Send "uccLib" to 66749, then your question. If you save this number in your phone as a contact, you can send us questions directly in the future! We have chat reference available too. Just look for the green "Ask a Question" button on the right of every class LibGuide from the library.


eBooks available in all the places you are.
  
We added over 70,000 EBSCO eBooks to our collection this Spring, and you can find these titles through our catalog online.  You can get these from home or off-campus with the EBSCOhost username & password. If you need a copy of our off-campus access usernames & passwords, please contact us (lots of ways to do that above)! If your class is online through ANGEL / UCCOnline, the full list is available under the "Resources" tab.