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GSLIS Toolkit Spring: Foundations

Library Skills for Life

The GSLIS Toolkit is a workshop series that will help you as a GSLIS student establish a firm foundation for the skills you will build upon throughout your academic career at Simmons at beyond in your professional lives.

Foundations is a day of workshops designed to get you jump-started by introducing you to features of the Simmons catalog, the Boolean logic, search strategies, the major LIS databases, and more. It is geared for first term students, but if you missed these before and need a refresher, you are welcome to join us.

We will meet in the GSLIS West office at the Village Common, directly beneath the Tower Theater at 9:15 for coffee and Munchkins. We'll finish up by 3:30, so you have plenty of time to get home before kickoff and root for the Patriots.

Check out the full schedule here. Questions or comments? Contact Dixie, GSLIS West Library Assistant, at:
Phone: 617-521-2828
Email: dixie@simmons.edu
Skype: DixieAtSimmons

The Adjunct Life

Reflections from one of our own

Have you ever wondered why they do it? The adjuncts, that is.

They already have full time jobs and a degree or two under their belts. But they willingly give up their Saturdays and many hours of leisure to plow their time and talent back into the field. According to LJ Online, “Adjunct teaching is both personally and professionally taxing, but also remarkably rewarding. Self-proclaimed library evangelist Stephanie Willen Brown unfurls the life of an adjunct junkie.” Read the article from the June 15 issue of Library Journal

Reserves and Article Requests

Reminder! Honor reserves

Summer term print reserves are available in the GSLIS West office in the Village Commons.

To see what is on reserve for your course, go to the Simmons OPAC at http://library.simmons.edu/ and select Course or Professor. All GSLIS West courses will look like this: LIS 403-20 Mount Holyoke.

Please remember to track your usage on the bookstrap. It gives us an idea of how effective the reserve program is for you.

Questions, comments, suggestions? Email dixie@simmons.edu.

Reminder! Request ALL print articles with ILL

As distance learners, GSLIS West students may use the Library’s new ILLiad software to request all articles, Simmons-owned or otherwise. The following instructions reflect the new procedures.

  1. Determine whether or not Simmons owns the journal you need through the Simmons Library online catalog or through WorldCat. (Access WorldCat via the Quicklist on the GSLIS Collection home page.)
  2. Click on the Request Interlibrary Loan link from the OPAC home page or directly from the WorldCat entry.
  3. Log in to your ILL account using your Simmons network user name and password.
    • The first time you access ILLiad, you will be asked to create an account. Make sure to select “Graduate Student - Distance Learner” from the Status dropdown and “Graduate School of Library & Information Science - Mt. Holyoke” from the Department dropdown.
    • Once you account is created, you need only log into ILL
  4. At the main menu you will have two options for requesting articles. Select either Request an Article Not Owned by Simmons or Request an Article Owned by Simmons and fill in the citation information. Requests for Simmons-owned items will be routed to the GSLIS West Library Assistant; all others will be routed to ILL.
  5. A scanned copy of the article will be e-mailed to you as soon as it is available.

For more details, contact Dixie Foster at dixie@simmons.edu, call 617-521-2828, or Skype DixieAtSimmons.

 

Reference opportunities

AskNow!

ask a librarian now for help

Three ways to get help from Simmons Reference AskNow!

  • Phone call
    • Call Dixie at 617-521-2828
    • Call the Simmons Reference Desk at 617-521-2784
  • Email
  • Live chat

Skype!

Skype VoiP

Skype (rhymes with “type”) is a very popular internet communication tool that, according to Wikipedia, “is notable for its broad range of features, including free voice and video conferencing....” GSLIS West is offering a prototype for Web-based voice reference services using this safe, secure tool. Add DixieAtSimmons to your contact list.

Page updated: January 24, 2008

 

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