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Don’t forget to make time to attend a library workshop! Most occur during the lunch hour from 12-1 in Alden Library Rm 323. Library workshops are FREE and no registration is required. Open to all faculty, staff and students.
Of note this week, Graduate Research — Thurs Feb 1, noon-1pm, Alden 323
designed for [...]

The OAK I.D. may be used for logging into library services such as Interlibrary Loan,  Document Delivery and My InfoTree.
Now the OAK I.D. may be used to log in from off-campus when accessing library databases such as Lexis-Nexis, etc. In addition, once logged in, users may navigate to other databases and library services such [...]

For those of you looking for world news from publications and news wires across the globe, try these resources, as a supplement to Lexis-Nexis:
World News Connection — Full text translated and English-language news from foreign media generaly available with 24 – 72 hours from the time of the original publication or broadcast
PAIS (Public Affairs [...]

Some of you may have noticed that the web interface for the OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center has changed. There are many new features which you can read about here.
If you have stored searches or alerts in the EJC, you will need to migrate them to the new interface by Jan. 31. See the [...]

There is a new web page for displaying library workshops. This is a big improvement to the old web page for many reasons:

workshops offered by different library departments and non-library depts are located centrally on one page (Reference & Instruction, Information Technology, Academic Advancement Center*, Learning Commons Multimedia Center)
there is no longer any registration [...]