Group Study Rooms Available, 5th floor Gumberg Library

Having difficulty finding group study space?

Gumberg Library has 3 group study rooms on the 5th floor for student and faculty use. Group study rooms are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Group study rooms can accommodate a minimum of 3 people and maximum of 7. Group study room keys may be checked out at the Circulation Desk for a three-hour (3) period, and are ­not renewable. A sign-up list is available at the Circulation Desk to indicate waiting status. For security purposes only first names and phone numbers are used on the waiting list.

Keys are not permitted to leave the building and must be returned to the Circulation Desk by the end of the loan period. A fine of $.50/hour will accrue for keys turned in late. Lost keys will be billed at $50.00. The person checking out the key will be held responsible for it; keys may not be loaned to other individuals.

Gumberg Library is not responsible for any private property, including personal or university-owned computers, left in the group study rooms. Private property and library materials must be removed upon vacating a group study room. Food is not permitted, but drinks may be consumed in the rooms, and all trash must be deposited in the respective waste or recycling containers on each floor. Smoking is not allowed.

Blinds must be open during use. Furniture should not be brought into the group study room nor removed from it.

All requests for special use of a group study room should be directed to the University Librarian.
Maintenance and housekeeping needs should be reported to the Circulation Desk.

Text a Librarian

Beginning October 5, 2009, you can ask a librarian your quick, simple questions using your cell phone. Send your text to 66746 and start the body of the test with keyword askduq, then a space, followed by your question. We will be phasing in this new service gradually. For more information on availability, when and how to use, and cost, please go to Text a Librarian.

October Back to Basics Series

Back to Basics Series: Google Scholar
Use Google for serious research. Learn how to search efficiently and link to Gumberg Library’s full text resources.

Friday, October 16, 11:00-noon
Gumberg Library Room 408


Back to Basics Series: 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.

October 12, 4-5 p.m.
Gumberg Library Room 408

October 14, 11a.m.-12 p.m.
Rockwell Hall Room 602

Back to Basics Series: RefWorks for Thesis and Dissertation Writers
Learn how to add in-text citations, and footnotes and how to format a paper and bibliography from within RefWorks.

October 19, 4-5 p.m.
Gumberg Library Room 408

RSVPs to Lisa Sciulli sciullie@duq.edu appreciated but not required. For a full listing of programs visit www.duq.edu/library and click Library Presentations.

Gumberg Library's Back to Basics Series - Google Scholar

Use Google for serious research. Learn how to search efficiently and link to Gumberg Library’s full text resources.

Friday October 16, 11:00-noon

Gumberg Library, Room 408

RSVPs to Lisa Sciulli sciullie@duq.edu appreciated but not required. For a full listing of programs visit www.duq.edu/library and click Library Presentations.

New PubMed @ Duquesne Interface

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is now making available a preview of the new version of PubMed at http://preview.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed. This change will affect PubMed @ Duquesne, which is available on the Gumberg Library website. Additional information about the new version is provided in the NLM Technical Bulletin at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so09/so09_pm_redesign.html

According to NLM, the update will likely take place in mid-October. If you have questions about searching the new interface, please contact David Nolfi, Health Sciences Librarian (nolfi@duq.edu, 412.396.4931).

Gumberg Library Adds New ScienceDirect E-books

In addition to numerous journal titles, ScienceDirect now offers a comprehensive collection of e-books covering a range of scientific disciplines. You can access eight new individual e-book titles by searching the library’s catalog, DuCat (http://ducat.library.duq.edu).

Clinical Immunology
Handbook of Constraint Programming
Handbook of Temporal Reasoning in Artificial Intelligence
Handbook of Knowledge Representation
Physician Assistant
Primary Care of the Premature Infant
The Sports Medicine Resource Manual
Whiplash, Headache, and Neck Pain

Use http://tinyurl.com/du-scidir-books to go directly to the ScienceDirect e-book collection and search the alphabetical title list.

Forthcoming Change to PubMed @ Duquesne

The National Library of Medicine recently made the following announcement about forthcoming changes to the PubMed interface:

Very soon a link on the PubMed homepage will connect to a preview version. The preview version will enable users to try out the new interface and is expected to run for at least two weeks after which PubMed will exist in the redesigned version. No changes to URLs will be necessary.

This change will affect PubMed @ Duquesne. If you have questions about searching the new interface, please contact David Nolfi, Health Sciences Librarian (nolfi@duq.edu, 412.396.4931).