Linscheid

September 2011

You Asked, We listened!

Coffee
Over the past year, the library has asked for input from you, our patrons. Youve filled out surveys, youve turned in comment cards, and youve answered questions on the librarys white board. At the library, we didnt just collect your suggestions we went to work! Heres what you asked for and what we did about it. Keep the suggestions for improvements to the library coming we promise to listen and implement your suggestions whenever we can! Thanks to a generous donation from the Linscheid Library Academic Friends, the library now sells coffee during the librarys business hours. You can purchase a cup of regular or decaffeinated coffee or espresso for 50 cents or a cup of hot water for 25 cents.

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Word has been added to all of the reference computers in the library, as well as Excel and PowerPoint.

Help on the 2nd Floor Pictures of You Animals Zip Line

If you need help with anything on the second floor, the library has added a desk that is staffed during the librarys business hours.

The library will be redesigning the librarys website this fall for roll-out in the spring, and we plan to include pictures of our patrons. Throughout the fall, keep an eye out for opportunities to have your picture taken at the library to be included on the new website! Unfortunately, because the library is closed for breaks (fall break, Christmas break, spring break), we dont have a way to keep an animal fed and cared for. So, although several of you suggested we have a library cat or other animal, we do not think we could be responsible pet owners. Specifically, a zip line from the library to Pontotoc Hall. Though this was, by far, the most original suggestion, we cant even list all the reasons why we cant do this!

The Parker Ethics Center collection has moved to the Linscheid Library. The collection is available on the third (main) floor of the library behind the music scores and near the Oklahoma Studies Collection. The collection of nearly 100 books covers ethics and business, including advertising, marketing and finance. Oscar L. Parker Center for the Advancement of Ethical Standards in Business and Society was

Parker Ethics Center Collection

founded in 1988 as a result of a trust agreement honoring Oscar L. Parker. Parker was a long-time employee of ECU and served in several key positions, including business manager, at East Central. The Parker Center provides a forum for discussing ethical issues of interest to the business community and the general public. The current director of the center is Dr.Thomas Lanis, associate professor of business administration.

The Journal and Pesagi Join the Digital Age

The Journal and Pesagi yearbook are now available from the Linscheid Library home page (http://library.ecok.edu). To access the files, search the library catalog by title (Pesagi) or Journal Title (The Journal). Click on the relevant title. You should then see a list of years available. Click on the relevant year and grab a snack while the file loads. These are all large files. So, whether you are downloading them for later use or viewing them in your browser, they will take a few minutes to load. You can search for words within the text using your Adobe Acrobat Reader. Accessibility is a high priority at Linscheid Library. The PDF files should be fully accessible to screen reader software, color filters and screen magnification utilities. Please contact Angie Brunk for assistance at 580.559.5308 or abrunk@ecok. edu. The library can produce copies of the files in multiple formats, including text to speech.

Where am I? Find out at the Library

You might not have realized it, but the Linscheid Library has a map collection. Actually, the library has thousands of maps, representing all kinds of information. Until recently, though, these maps couldnt be found in the librarys online catalog, so chances are you didnt even know they existed. To fix this problem, the library and the faculty in the Cartography & Geography Department worked together on a project both to better organize the map collection and to make it findable in the online catalog. As of this fall the project has been completed and now you can find Oklahoma maps, maps of the world, time zone maps, political maps, historical maps and other maps of all sorts. So keep an eye out for the map icon that will be showing up in the online catalog there are some interesting maps in the collection and they are well worth checking out!

Check out the new people @ Linscheid Library

Meet Chelsea Baker, our new Instruction and Circulation Librarian! Chelsea received her bachelor of arts degree from Oberlin College in Ohio with a major in anthropology and a minor in English. She received her master of library and information science degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in August 2010. In her free time, Chelsea likes to read, cook tasty vegetarian meals and walk around the park with her dog, Lilly. Chelsea is eager to get to know the members of the ECU community better, so stop in at the library to introduce yourself today! Destiny (Fergueson) Darbison is from the small town of Bennington, Okla., where she graduated from high school in 2006. She then attended East Central University and graduated with Scholastic Honors and a bachelors degree in English in the spring of 2010. She is now married to Kris Darbison and has two wonderful children, Ali and Jordan. Her hobbies include reading, writing and playing video games with her husband. In the near future she plans on working towards a master of education degree with a concentration in Library Media.

Find Fun @ the Library

Forrest Gump Remembering the Body American Ethics and Public Policy What do these titles all have in common? They are all part of the new featured lists on the librarys website! To help you look through the different collections at the library (everything from new books to DVDs to the new Parker Ethics Collection), weve put each collection in a list. So now, with a couple of clicks you can see what items are new each month or what DVDs you can check out at the library. These lists will be updated regularly, so keep checking them to see whats new! To access, these lists, go to the library home page (http://library.ecok.edu) and click on the featured lists button at the top.

The Linscheid Library News is produced monthly by Angie Brunk, Reference and Outreach Librarian at the Linscheid Library. Please direct all comments and inquires about the newsletter to her at abrunk (e-mail) or campus extension 308.

New! Public Scanner Available in the Library

3rd (main) floor of the library Available all hours the library is open You must have a flash drive to save your images Scans up to legal (8 x 14) documents Sheet feeder for multiple page documents

Come check it out!

Bach! Beetles! Broadway!

All music CDs at the Linshceid Library now circulate. Come to the library to find music to study for your lesson, for your ensembles, for class or just for fun! Search the catalog or ask the librarians for help.

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