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ConnectNY Expands!
If you've used Connect NY to borrow books, you know what a great service it is to choose from the shared catalog of 18 academic libraries. This month, three new academic libraries joined the consortia: Skidmore, Hobart and William Smith and Hamilton. This brings the shared holdings in our ConnectNY catalog to 10 million! What an incredible resource to have right at our fingertips.
Additonally, ConnectNY is now embarking on a project to share eBooks as a consortia. The project officially launched March 15,2012 and will be available to us here at Le Moyne after we add the 30,000 ebooks to our catalog.
The ebook process is unique because purchase of the ebooks will be Patron Driven -- you get to decide what to buy! This means that the entire inventory of EBL (the chosen ebook vendor) will be viewable in our catalog, but ebooks will only be purchased after particular triggers are reached. We feel this is an effective use of our available funds and are eager for you to try out the ebook system.
Stay tuned as we load these records and let us know what you think as you begin to utilize these ebooks!
Students speak up about the library!
According to Spring 2011 survey results, the Noreen Reale Falcone Library offers the key elements that are important to students. The results of the library survey, conducted by the Office of Institutional Research (in consultation with the Library Advisory Board), indicated that 89% of student respondents at Le Moyne College feel that the Falcone Library is a safe, comfortable place whose hours serve their needs.
Through the survey, students said that they want a library with quiet & group spaces, computers, books, and printing capability. Computers (35%), books (31%), and databases (23%) ranked as the most important resources, indicating that they want a traditional library with the latest technology. The Falcone Library offers these key elements that are important to students in a library. Students also value a quiet place to study and to obtain books, and remote access to use the databases and obtain journal articles without coming to the library.
Judging from the written comments from respondents, more group study space is needed, lighting is inadequate, the building needs plugs for laptops, and some bemoan the lack of the ability to print in color. The couches are a much-desired type of furniture, but some note that these are uncomfortable, as are the seats that are wooden, reinforcing the library staff's awareness of these issues from past surveys. More clearly defined and enforced quiet areas, and a lack of cleanliness and outdated look were also mentioned.
Survey results are being used for current and future library planning, and our immense thanks to all that spoke up through the survey!
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