Interlibrary Loan Holiday Submission Deadline

To increase the likelihood of delivery of Interlibrary Loan materials to Duquesne University users prior to holiday closures, please submit requests through ILLiad by Sunday, December 12, 2010. Materials received for Duquesne University users will be posted electronically or available for pick-up at the library until 4 p.m. on Wednesday, December 22, 2010. Processing of requests received during the holiday break will resume on Tuesday, January 4, 2011. Please contact the Interlibrary Loan Department by telephone at 412.396.5341 or via email at illservice@duq.edu with any questions. Happy Holidays!

24 hour study for finals @ Gumberg Library

In response to student requests, Gumberg Library will be open continuously from 7 a.m. Monday Dec. 6 through 9 p.m. Wednesday Dec. 15. Card swipe entry will be required, and only individuals affiliated with Duquesne will be permitted in the building between 9 p.m. and 7 a.m. daily. Library services and the Curriculum Center will close at 1 a.m. Duquesne Public Safety officers will remain in the building from 1 a.m. till 7 a.m.

The first, second, and third floors will be designated for quiet study. The fourth and fifth floors will be designated for group study and computer use. The fourth floor classroom/lab will be open. Online research assistance is always available 24 x 7 at http://www.duq.edu/library/ask/.

Need Ideas for Holiday Gifts? Stop by the Scholastic Book Fair!

The Scholastic Book Fair has some exciting changes this year!

The 9^th annual fundraiser for the Maureen Sullivan Curriculum Center in the Gumberg Library will be held on the 2^nd floor of the Student Union in the PNC Atrium.

The sale will run from Monday, November 29^th through Friday, December 3^rd. Monday through Thursday from 10:00am – 8:00pm. Friday from 10:00am – 4:00pm.

There will be a free gift with purchase (while supplies last).

Merchandise includes board books for infants, children’s and young adult literature, stocking stuffers, posters, Christmas and winter holiday gifts, teacher resources, New York Times bestsellers, cookbooks, science, history, music, and art books, and much, much more!

Cash and all major credit cards accepted. Please contact Danielle Buck at buck@duq.edu or at X1858 for more information.

December Information Sessions- Ref Works

Getting Started with RefWorks

Keep track of your research and create bibliographies with RefWorks, an online bibliographic management tool that is FREE to all Duquesne users. We'll show you how to create an account, create and input references, and generate a bibliography.

Thursday, December 2, 3-4 p.m.

ROCKWELL HALL, 601

Presenter: Emily Cantin

Advanced RefWorks

After attending "Getting Started with RefWorks," come to learn more about additional features, adding in-text citations and footnotes, and how to format a paper and bibliography from within RefWorks.

Monday, December 6, 4-5 p.m.

GUMBERG LIBRARY, 408

Presenter: Julie Motyka

Limited Time Only! Adopt JSTOR Duplicate Print Journals

With the addition of the JSTOR Arts and Sciences V and VI Collections, Gumberg Library will be withdrawing corresponding print journal titles. Because JSTOR is committed to providing stable access in perpetuity to the titles in its collections, we are confident that we can trust JSTOR as a reliable and sustainable archive of scholarly journals. This allows us to reduce our print journal holdings and repurpose space.

For a limited time only, Duquesne University faculty have the opportunity to “adopt” duplicate print journal titles. The title list is available at http://www.duq.edu/library/research/jstor.cfm.

Requests for all volumes of a particular title(s) will receive priority and will be filled on a first come, first served basis, immediately upon receipt. Requests for selected volumes or years will be held until December 3, and then filled in order of date received.

Send all requests to Carmel Yurochko, Serials/Electronic Resources Librarian, yurochko@duq.edu , by December 3, 2010. You may also call Carmel at x5233 if you have questions.

All adoptions are final. Journals not claimed will be recycled.

Gumberg Librarians Present at Prestigious Conference and Win Best Poster

Gumberg Library’s David Nolfi, Tracie Ballock, and Carmel Yurochko presented a poster at the Association of Research Libraries’ biennial Library Assessment Conference in Baltimore, Maryland on October 25. The conference included librarians, information professionals, and researchers from universities in North America, Europe, and Australia. Conference judges selected their poster, “When Numbers Don’t Tell the Whole Story: Using Meta-Analysis to Create an Effective, Sustainable Electronic Resource Assessment Process” as one of twelve finalists among the 82 posters submitted. All conference participants were then invited to vote for best poster among the twelve finalists. The following day, the conference organizers announced the Duquesne poster had been voted the overall best poster.

Gumberg Library also had a second poster accepted at the conference. Nolfi and Ballock partnered with Allison Brungard and Bridget Euliano to present “Qualitative Analysis on a Shoestring: Developing a Cost Effective Strategy to Analyze LibQUAL+ Comments.” This poster highlighted the methodology used to analyze student, faculty, and staff comments from Gumberg Library’s 2009 LibQUAL+ survey.

View more information on the poster session at www.duq.edu/library/presentations/LAC2010.cfm.