Halloween Film Viewing

The Library and Student Services will be hosting a lunch time viewing of a film on the artist Munch in the Academic Center Lecture Hall. Bring your lunch and enjoy!

Today's Film: Munch. West Long Branch, NJ : Kultur, 2000. In 1893, a Norwegian artist created a masterpiece which became a definihs image of the 20th century: "The Scream". All his life, Edvard Munch suffered the consequences of a childhood surrounded by maddness and death. By middle-age his own being broke down completely. His pictures, by then, had gained him fame across Europe. As a young man he left Norway to live the Bohemian life.

Hands-on Class with Wireless

Let me share some good news!

Last Thursday I conducted our first in-classroom hands-on library instruction class!

I made use of our 3 wireless Mac laptops (and borrowed another), to provide Brian C’s class of 15, four group workstations.

The session was to introduce the class to our new infoAnytime service and database searching.

The students were able to share the workstations and actively experience using library resources. This is a major step forward from our more passive look-view demonstrations of the past. I look forward to continuing our development of library classes in this same hands-on mode!

I am thankful for the generosity of the Bodenwein Public Benevolent Foundation and other private benefactors for their support which has enabled us to bring as needed wireless and Mac laptops to this campus.

I look forward to advancing our development of our classroom instruction resources and the future establishment of permanent wireless access across campus.

My experience yesterday was inspiring! Inital feedback from the students and instructor was that the hands-on mode is far better!

Loree Bourgoin

Librarian and Director of Krieble Library

"What the Krieble Library has for YOU…"

Dear Students and Faculty of the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts:

1. Staff… to answer questions & help you find what you need. Contact us anytime, in person, by phone or email. 860 434.5232 ext. 130 or Library@lymeacademy.edu

2. Books, articles & visual resources… to support your curricular studies for your general study and studio courses.

3. Collection Search tool (OPAC)… our library collections: books | videos | magazines & journals … are searchable in our online public access catalog(OPAC) which is available at library workstations or on the web at: http://follett.lymeacademy.edu/webopac/main

4. Photocopier & Scanner… to reproduce | reduce | enlarge | capture images…

5. Course Reserves … books | articles | images … readings assigned by your faculty and made accessible in the library.

6. Reference Services + Instruction … Ask the librarian or attend a class or workshop offered in the library to learn to efficiently search online, conduct research and locate images… learn about what resources are available to you.

7. Computers… for research | Internet | email | word processing …

8. Online Access to Resources… for quick facts, starting points or for in-depth research. See the online access listings on our library webpage. Note: some resources accessible off-campus with proper registration.

9. Periodical Articles… seek articles for your latest studies in the liberal arts & sciences & studio arts… use our periodical indexes & databases to locate essays and full text articles to match your topic of research.

10. Interlibrary Loan… a service to assist you to gain access to resources from other libraries without having to travel.

Review additional details on the library website. http://www.lymeacademy.edu/The_Library/libhome.htm

Library Methods and Materials 101

Experiences the first year on campus vary for each student. The Library Methods and Materials Seminar is designed to help introduce the library and encourage the use of it and its resources. This seminar is formally offered to all first year students as an opportunity to start learning about what is avaialble and to encourage the understanding of what research provides and how to do it well.

Fall 2006's Library Methods and Materials Seminar was offered on September 14, 2006

Students attending where asked to consider the library in respect to how it relates to their work in the studios and classrooms. That when using the library their work would be similar to the work in the studios in that there are methods and materials to learn for the library. Also that their library research could follow similar and creative paths, that what they discovered in the library could play and interactive role in their class and studio assignments.

The lesson objectives that day were for each student to start to understand:

• the layout of the library and basic locations of resources
• their responsibilities as students using the library AND finally …
• to come away with the idea that the library will play both a creative and educational role in their time as a student at our college.

Further students were asked to engage in exploring the library. Lesson handouts were provided. For copies please stop by my office.

The next Library Methods and Materials 101 seminar will be offer during the Spring 2007 semester. -- Loree Bourgoin, Librarian.