Monday, July 21, 2014

New Library Copiers Scan to your USB Drive.



Quick Start: How to Scan-to-USB Drive:


1. Insert USB drive into copier.

2. Document face-down on upper left corner of glass.

3. Touch-screen button: SCAN

4. Touch-screen button (lower left of screen): SEND FILE TYPE / NAME

5. Choose unique title for saving document to USB.

6. START button to scan. Continue placing pages on glass as prompted.

7. Press # to finish and save document to USB.

8. WAIT to remove USB until document saving is complete.


For more information, check out our LibAnswers entry on scanning in Sawyer Library.


Thursday, July 17, 2014

"New Books" Display

Here is an alphabetical list of the titles currently in the New Book display. Click the hyperlink to see if the item is available, or already checked-out. Please be assured that the books in the display case are not the actual books!





Bees : a natural history | Christopher O'Toole; featuring photographs by Edward Ross

Christopher Tolkien


Between Pagan and Christian | Christopher P. Jones



Boston : a visual history | Jonathan M. Beagle, Ph.D


Collective genius : the art and practice of leading innovation | Linda A. Hill, Greg Brandeau, Emily Truelove, Kent Lineback

Congo : the epic history of a people | David van Reybrouck ; translated from the Dutch by Sam Garrett




The divide : American injustice in the age of the wealth gap | Matt Taibbi ; illustrations by Molly Crabapple




GPS declassified : from smart bombs to smartphones | Richard D. Easton and Eric F. Frazier ; foreword by Rick W. Sturdevant


Histories of victimhood | edited by Steffen Jensen and Henrik Ronsbo



The impacts of lasting occupation : lessons from Israeli society | edited by Daniel Bar-Tal and Izhak Schnell











Richard Wagner : a life in music | Martin Geck ; translated by Stewart Spencer

The roots of cognitive neuroscience : behavioral neurology and neuropsychology | edited by Anjan Chatterjee and H. Branch Coslett





The soft edge : where great companies find lasting success | Rich Karlgaard ; foreword by Tom Peters ; afterword by Clayton M. Christensen

Titian | edited by Giovanni Carlo Federico Villa




What is chemistry? | Peter Atkins

Why hell stinks of sulfur : mythology and geology of the underworld | Salomon Kroonenberg ; translated by Andy Brown



Tuesday, July 8, 2014

PrivCo Trial


According to the vendor, PrivCo "is the premier source for business and financial data on major, non-publicly traded corporations, including family owned, private equity owned, venture backed, and international unlisted companies." The PrivCo database’s coverage focuses on U.S. Major Private Companies (MPCs) but also provides coverage on what PrivCo considers to be smaller but high-value private companies.   Financial data includes revenue, sales growth rates, total employee size, ownership structure, bankruptcies and restructurings.   Try it out!

Thursday, July 3, 2014

July 4th Holiday Weekend Hours

Thursday July 3rd: The library will CLOSE at 4:00 p.m. (The University closes at 2:00 p.m.)

Friday July 4th: CLOSED

Saturday July 5th: 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Sunday July 6th: CLOSED