Krieble Library's Desiderata

We have set up a Wish List for the library. It lists books, magazines, dvds and a variety of other resources that it would be helpful to add to our collections & facility. If you would like to consider helping the library with our acquisitions and development goals please take a look at the resources that we would appreicate recieving for our library.

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FYI--Opportunity to Serve on iCONN Advisory Board

Many of you already know that iCONN (the Connecticut Digital Library) is important to our campus community as well as the larger state-wide community!

Their advisory board has a carefully comprised membership and the state is seeking applications for anyone who could fill the "business community or library user" category for the Advisory Board for the Connecticut Digital Library.

This could be you!

On our campus, iCONN’s academic and full-text databases have greatly increased and improved our online support of our full curriculum. It provides significant access to quality databases and has been of solid support for our general-personal & course related (studio & academic alike) research needs. Are you familiar with how it serves your local communities too?

As the campus librarian, I feel compelled to encourage you to consider serving on this board. The iCONN board advises on the electronic databases that we can access via this state funded network.

Application forms and details of specific requirements are available online at: http://www.iconn.org/DigitalLibraryAdvisoryBoard.aspx.

If you or someone you know may be interested in serving on the iCONN Digital Library Advisor Board, please consider applying ASAP. The applications will be reviewed and membership selected during December. If you have questions about the Connecticut Digital Library Advisory Board please contact Jonas Zdanys (Department of Higher Education) at 860/947-1822 or Sharon Brettschneider (Connecticut State Library) at 860/757-6665.

This is a wonderful opportunity to serve in support of our state-wide library resources! On this board you will be in a position to strongly support your public libraries, local school systems and our state academic institutions!

Best regards,

Loree Bourgoin,
Librarian and Director of Krieble Library
Lyme Academy
College of Fine Arts

Computer Resources @ The Krieble Library

Our College's library currently serves at the "default" computer center for our campus.

Our public access workstations currently include several Dell PCs and two MacIntosh Power Mac G5 machines, plus several laptop computers. We're very please to announce that we will be adding a new MacIntosh iMac computer with the Intel Core 2 processor.

This growth in our computer resources was made possible with the generous support of the Bodenwein Public Benevolent Foundation. Look for this new workstation to be available the third week in October.

We are fortunate to receive the continued generous support of this foundation. Their aid in our college's technology growth greatly boost our ability to provide our academic community with the tools essential to access and use information resources; to produce quality academic achievements; and to facilitate meaningful connections with the outside world. Their support benefits all our library patrons immensely.

Look for more updates on our computer resources soon!

Columbus Day & Service Schedule for Week of October 8-14

There are some slight changes in the service schedule for next week. Here's the anticipated schedule for the Week of October 8-14, 2007 :

• Monday 8am - 9:30pm with a brief mid-day close to accomodate staff lunch
• Tuesday 8am - 9:30pm
• Wednesday 8am - 7pm
• Thursday 8am - 9:30pm
• Friday 8:30am - 5pm
• Saturday 1pm - 5pm
  

Make note that with the current reduced staff, our hours may change on a daily basis. We hope to be at full staff again by the end of October. We'll resume our regular schedule as soon as we're able. When making plans to use the library, please continue to make a habit of checking the posted schedule for updates.

Mac G5 & Epson Scanner/Copier Set-up in Library

Due to the steady increase in demands for the production of digital files & color copies we have set up another shared access workstation to meet the need of patrons with quick, "last minute" or otherwise unscheduled production needs.

This station is located inside the library, directly outside of our Visual Resources Center (VRC). We encourage you to stop by and acquaint yourself with this workstation.

Our VRC station will continue to be available for those patrons that want to guarantee computer time with an advance reservation. The availability of both stations should help better meet the needs during peak demand.

This new set-up is available on a first come, first serve basis. LACFA students, faculty and staff are welcome to make use of this additional workstation without an appointment.

The station is set up with a G5 MacIntosh computer, Epson RX700 scanner and software for image editing and production of digital presentations.

Among its many functions, the Epson RX700 can produce high resolution scans up to 48-bit, 3200 x 6400. It is outfitted with a flat bed scan surface that is standard letter size, slots for media cards, and a special carrier to allow users to scan 35mm slides and negatives to turn them into digital files. In addition the unit provides users with six-color printing and copying.

The Mac G5 computer can produce a variety of types of image file to best suit your needs. The most popular types have been .pdf and .jpg files. Additionally Internet, Apple & Microsoft Office software are accessible on this workstation. As this is a shared workstation, all users will need to save their work to their own portable storage. The library sells CDs for those that wish to save their files to disc.

ASK Proxima C310 - DLP Projector

Excellent NEWS to share!
Just this week we have added a DLP projector to our to our campus AV equipment. Our new projector offers our campus users:

• DLP™ Display Technology
• 3000 ANSI Lumens
• 1024 x 768 Native Resolution
• 4:3 Native Aspect Ratio
• 1000:1 Contrast Ratio

The support to purchase this new equipment came from the Bodenwein Public Benevolent Foundation. They are generous supporters of our continued growth. This equipment will benefit our entire campus by boosting our ability to support simultaneous & multiple classroom visual presentations. Now, we can provide projection in multiple rooms at the same time!

This is our second multi-media projector and there are future plans to install this projector with a ceiling mount in our academic center lecture hall.

The projector's 3000 Lumens provide for excellent illumination. The brightness and contrast ratio of this new projector will bring our campus' projection capabilities to a much improved level. Currently, this projector (and all other AV equipment) is avaiable for use only for on-campus use with advance reservations. Further details below:

Visual Resource Equipment Access & Policies

Our equipment is available to faculty, staff & students. The library provides lighting units for taking photos of student & faculty work, video cameras, VHS & DVD viewing equipment, multiple types of projectors (LCD, DLP, slide, overhead), laptops, and other slide viewing equipment, such as portable light boxes.

This library equipment is available for use by request at the library's main service desk. Registered students may use the lighting units, cameras, projectors, computers, slide & video viewing equipment and related facility resources on campus in rooms designated for equipment use.

Equipment needed for classroom or public presentations may be signed out by Faculty and Staff ONLY.

**It is strongly recommended that staff, faculty & students reserve equipment & space well in advance of the date equipment is needed **

To make a reservation stop by the library's main service desk and inquire with staff or call the library to discuss options by phone.

Krieble Library
860-434-5232 x130
library@lymeacademy.edu