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New Items Available

The list of new items added to Stafford Library’s collection in March 2009 is now available.

Janet Caruthers

New Items – February 2009

A list of new items added to the library’s collection in February 2009 is now available.

Janet Caruthers

RUCKUS – Closed for Business

Unfortunately, the music downloading company, RUCKUS, stopped operations in February 2009.  According to several articles I have read the business model was not working to sustain the company.

Stafford Library had access to RUCKUS from our list of available databases.  This database has been removed from the database list.

This article from Wired Campus provides more information.

Janet Caruthers

GreenFILE Database Available

Stafford Library recently added GreenFILE to its collection of electronic databases.  GreenFILE provides abstracts and some full text articles from scholarly journals, general interest magazines, and government documents.  Topics covered include global warming, recycling, and alternative fuels, focusing on how humans affect the environment.  Some titles in GreenFILE provide coverage back to the 1910s, 1940s, or 1960s.

GreenFILE can be found on the library resources page in both the subject and A-Z list.

Janet Caruthers

2 New Databases

Stafford Library has received free access to two databases until June 30, 2009.  The databases are: Research Starters – Business and Research Starters – Education.

Research Starters provides articles of discipline-specific topics to help students understand the subject.  Each article offers a keyword list, topic overview, glossary, bibliography, and suggested reading list.    Source: Ebsco Publishing.

Janet Caruthers

October 2008 New Items

A list of new books added to the Stafford Library collection in October 2008 can be found at http://arthur.missouri.edu/search~S2?/ftlist^bib195%2C1%2C0%2C95/mode=2.

Janet Caruthers

Recycling

Stafford Library is making a new year’s resolution to be more green by recycling more types of waste.

In addition to the office paper and newspapers and magazines we have recycled for many years, we will start recycling hard- and paper-back books that have not been selected from the library’s book sale shelves.

We will also recycle floppy disks, flash drives, VHS tapes, audio cassette tapes, compact discs, and DVDs.

The flash drives are sent to the Missouri State Library for use at the Wolfner Library for the Blind.  Recorded books are put on the flash drives to send to Wolfner Library patrons.

You too can help keep items out of the landfill.  Bring your unused and unneeded floppies, flash drives, tapes, CDs and DVDs to the library for recycling.

Janet Caruthers

RMA Annual Statements Online

Stafford Library’s Electronic Resources Team is looking at providing the RMA Annual Statements online.  A database trial will be done soon.

Janet Caruthers

Outlook RSS feeds

This is a test of the RSS feeds folder in MS Outlook. I am trying to see how quickly the fold will be updated.

Thanks,

Nason