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Spring 2008 Vol. 10, no. 2

Past achievements point to future challenges

by Annette Newman, Donna Fournier, and Meg Spencer In preparation for the upcoming Middle States accreditation process, the Library embarked on an extensive self-study looking at its past, present, and future. We want to share with you what we believe are the highlights of our achievements and what we hope to make happen in the future.

Here are some of our areas of achievement of the past ten years that we are especially proud of: Tri-College Library Collaboration: Our work on the TriCollege joint collection development has attracted attention on the national level, inspiring other consortia to try similar projects and garnering continued support from the Mellon Foundation. The continual development of Tripod has resulted in improved access to collections across the TriColleges and the consolidation of circulation policies. Collaborative purchasing has allowed us to provide a broader range of materials. We implemented and improved the breadth and depth of print,

video, and digital resources. Through systems and applications, such as the Subject Portal, Blackboard, ContentDM, and DSpace, we have enhanced exposure of these resources.

Improved Access and Digital Resources: Have you used InterLibrary loan lately? Tools such as SFX (Find It), EZborrow, and WorldCat have changed the face of ILL. These tools have made an enormous contribution to our patrons’ ability to get the materials they need for their research. Implementation of the proxy server has allowed our users anytime/anywhere access to e-reserves, e-journals, e-reference and e-book collections, fulltext indexes, primary source materials, and digital audio and image collections.

Instruction, Outreach, and Communication: We have made the library a more approachable, amiable, and interesting place to be. By increasing communication with our patrons, via methods such as the suggestion book and Toilet Papers, we now respond more readily to requests and better publicize new continued on page 3

“Please allow sleepovers!” - Inside the McCabe suggestion book

by Amanda Watson Stop at the circulation desk in McCabe Library and chances are you’ll see someone pausing to write in a wirebound black notebook - either a patron making a comment about the library or a librarian leaving a response. This fall was the semester when commenters finally filled the last pages of the McCabe suggestion book, which has provided a low-tech forum for library users since 2005. But never fear: there’s a new comment book where the old one used to be, rapidly filling up with questions, criticisms, and witticisms.

Once upon a time, McCabe patrons who wanted to leave a comment about the library had to drop it into a suggestion box. The suggestion book debuted in 2005, when thenReference and Instruction Intern Ann Wheeler set out a blank notebook on the circulation desk. One of the very first comments to appear was “Why did you get rid of the box? Why a book?” Ann’s reply, the first of many, reads: “We wanted to create a dialog with our patrons, and thought a book would be

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more useful for everyone than a box where comments ‘disappear’.” Our users took to it right away, and we’ve found it a terrific way to stay in informal contact with the Swarthmore community.

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Screencasting tutorials coming to Tripod

by Spencer Lamm As libraries continue to expand their digital collections with new information resources, students engaged in research are faced with an increasingly cluttered and complicated landscape of online reference books, e-books, databases, and web-accessible journals. The diversity of these tools and the relatively advanced searching skills required to make use of them must compete with the singular and simple-to-use sources of information that dominate the public web. In this environment, focused instructional tools that teach students how to use library resources will go a long way toward promoting solid research techniques, especially if students can get assistance when and where they need it the most.

McCabe staying open until 2 am, Sun.-Thurs.

by Terry Heinrichs McCabe Library will be open for additional hours this spring as part of a semester-long pilot program.

Student Council proposed the changes and discussed them with Dean of the College Jim Larimore and College Librarian Peggy Seiden.

Comparison with some similar colleges like Reed, Wesleyan, Amherst, and Carleton, showed McCabe being open fewer hours than them. McCabe’s functions as social center, library, and study space, its unique resources, and its many public computers were viewed as additional reasons to extend the library hours.

Closing time will now be an hour later Sunday through Friday and two hours later on Saturday.

Underhill Music Library is also extending its hours by opening earlier on Saturdays. Cornell Science Library hours remain the same as last semester’s.

McCabe Library hours are: Sunday: 10 am - 2 am Monday-Thursday: 8 am - 2 am Friday: 8 am - 11 pm Saturday: 10 am - 8 pm Underhill Library hours are: Sunday: 11:30 am – 1 am Monday-Thursday: 9 am – 1 am Friday: 9 am – 6 pm Saturday: 10 am – 6 pm Cornell Library hours are: Sunday: 11:30 am - midnight Monday-Friday: 8:15 am – midnight Saturday: 10 am – 10 pm

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To help students learn about the information resources available to them through the TriCollege system, Swarthmore, Haverford, and Bryn Mawr Libraries are using screencasting software as a way to create instructional videos for their patrons. Screencasting is the creation of a real-time video capture of the computer screen based on the actions of the computer user. It also allows for the addition of graphics and voiceover narration. With this functionality we will be able to create short videos that will show students how to use some of our most popular resources by literally walking them through the processes for searching, browsing, and retrieving documents.

For example, our screencast on ISI’s Web of Knowledge database will demonstrate the exact processes for conducting a search, narrowing the search based on facets, making use of citation indexes, and retrieving full-text articles. We will also be making videos that cover broader search and information literacy concepts, such as Boolean searching, and videos that cover more general uses of the library, such as how to locate a book in the stacks based on the call number.

One of the strong advantages of screencasting software is that the videos will be on the library website for students to use when they need them the most. 2:00 am on a Sunday night when there’s no librarian on staff and a student is trying to use EndNoteWeb for the first time? Screencasts will be available to explain the necessary steps. Because they will be accessible to students whether they need a quick brush up or a full tutorial, they will also serve as an excellent supplement to the beginning of term bibliographic instruction provided by professors and librarians.

Currently, we are in the process of getting videos ready to launch on our shared online catalog, Tripod. We are looking at how best to market them across the campuses, what tools we should create videos for, and where we should provide access to the videos on Tripod; and we are developing consistent standards for the recording and production of videos. We will also be vetting the script for each video with a representative from each of the three campuses to ensure that the videos will be applicable and accurate for all TriCollege members.

@library.edu Editors: Pam Harris, Terry Heinrichs, Annette Newman, Amanda Watson Thank you to all who contributed comments about the library’s past achivevments.

Email: libnews@swarthmore.edu Swarthmore College Library 500 College Avenue, Swarthmore PA 19081

Past achievements point to future challenges continued from page 1 library services and products. Our newsletter reaches a wide audience both on and off campus, stimulating interest in the library. The reference staff provides more consultations, library instruction, thesis support, library workshops, and online course guides. 24/7 reference services are now available to students across campus via chat reference (AskHere PA), as well as the traditional reference desk.

Students now are more involved in the work of the library than ever before. Through the Mellon Library Internship program, they explore the potential of library careers and get involved in our current projects. Individuals, student groups, and classes curate exhibits incorporating the library’s specialized collections and contributing to programming. We have opened the library to student-sponsored study breaks and poetry readings, hoping to make the library feel a little bit more like home.

Staffing: Job descriptions have been updated to reflect the need for flexibility in our staffing configurations and the increasing complexity of library work. We continually adapt positions to reflect changes in the way libraries do their work and the needs of our patrons. Our reference department is now a self-managed team with rotating administrative duties fostering a more collegial and flexible work group. Student consultants from ITS are now available in the library to help with technology issues.

Facilities: Slowly but surely, we are making improvements to McCabe Library to make it a physically more comfortable and inviting space. We have reconfigured the main level public and staff areas, installing comfortable furniture and offering free coffee and snacks late at night. A current journal reading room was created in a previously underused area on the second level, offering browsing of scholarly journals and group study space.

The Cornell Science Library has been integrated with the new science center, and the Underhill Music and Dance Library has been renovated and redecorated. We have more computers and offer laptops for students to check out. In order to accommodate the expanding use of video, new individual and group viewing areas have been created in McCabe, Cornell, and Underhill. And compact shelving installations in selected areas of McCabe, Cornell, and Underhill have allowed us to make fuller use of our limited space.

What we are committed to make happen in the future: Facilities: The McCabe Library is the heart of Swarthmore, serving as the nexus of intellectual and social life. Since 1967 there have been very few changes to the building. Various assessments point to shortcomings related to functionality, comfort, and overall aesthetics of the building. Not only do we need to improve McCabe’s outdated HVAC systems and lighting, we also need to design new spaces which will reflect the way technology is changing styles of research, learning, and content cre-

ation for both individuals and groups. There are also acute needs for additional collection space for the library.

Staffing: To support increased need for instruction and collection development, we need an additional reference librarian/subject specialist. The driving forces behind this recommendation are the demand by our users for more one-on-one research consultations and the shift from faculty-driven to librarian-driven collection development.

Materials Budget: In the past decade, the College has added new departments and major concentrations of study.

Supporting these new areas has put great stress on our acquisitions budget. While the College provides start-up funds on an ad hoc basis, we would like a more systematic consideration of resource needs as well as additional funds for the ongoing costs of maintaining and adding to these collections.

Additionally, we need a way to provide materials for new courses developed by current, newly hired, and visiting faculty. The College has lagged behind peers in terms of its monographs and video resources. We are hopeful that we can address some of the weaknesses in our collections.

Digital Collections: Our patrons expect the library to have available online most of the resources they need for their research. Therefore, we need to continue to migrate our journal collections from print to online and purchase e-books as they become available. We also need to allocate more resources towards digitizing our image, audio, video, and unique print collections, while keeping abreast of changing copyright regulations.

Technology: The Library needs to continue to investigate, embrace, and incorporate developing technologies that will better enable its users to discover, access, and use resources. By strengthening our partnership with ITS, we can provide seamless support for emerging digital scholarship while continuing to maintain current technology. Projects on the horizon that will need support include a next generation catalog, video streaming, and an institutional repository.

Information Literacy: Based on the faculty’s goals for students’ information literacy at different points in their Swarthmore career, we need to develop in collaboration with faculty an approach that ensures students have opportunities for scaffolding information concepts, building upon knowledge both general (strategies for research) and specific (use of particular tools), as well as understanding the creation and dissemination of scholarship in their major disciplines.

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Student exhibits wanted and welcomed

by Pam Harris Exploring a rich variety of topics, images, and materials from libraries, archives, and historical societies can be part of any ordinary visit to our library. Stepping into McCabe, library patrons can be unexpectedly inspired by the changing visual display of our ongoing exhibit schedule.

Capturing the interest of the serendipitous passers-by and drawing them unexpectedly into the items on display in a case is the goal of most curators. Many students have been visitors to the library exhibits; it is our goal to give students the opportunity to design their own exhibitions.

Fostering student curatorial opportunities has only recently become an important part of the library’s exhibition and programming goals. In collaboration with Will Gardner, assisIn conjunction with a student exhibit, Morgan Beard demonstrated a Japanesse tant professor of Japanese, three stutea ceremony in McCabe lobby, March 2006. dents designed and installed Cultural Imports: From Pokemon to Hello Kitty. Many successful exhibitions have followed, notably had to communicate their ideas and objectives to a general pubCrafting Nature: the Art of Japanese Tea Ceremony (spring lic. This required the students to really understand the material 2006); Black Philadelphia: A Literary History (spring 2007); and concepts.” and Modern Musings: Treasures from the Lieberman Collection Sarah Burford ’08 had a different kind of exhibit experience. (fall 2007).

She first began working on Modern Musings as a Mellon Crafting Nature, sponsored by Assistant Professor of Art Library intern the spring of her junior year. Her interest in History Tomoko Sakomura, and Black Philadelphia, by designing an exhibit led to a summer internship in McCabe durAssistant Professor of English Anthony Foy, are examples of ing which she completed work on the exhibition. About the exhibits that were the culminating student projects for these experience she says, “This internship gave me great curatorial courses. Graded for their projects, students were given display experience - I had worked on different portions of arranging an cases for which they had to plan, design, and choose objects for exhibition in previous internships, but this was my first opportudisplay, then write the label texts. Professor Foy found this to be nity to curate an exhibit entirely on my own. It further conan extremely valuable experience for his students to present vinced me that this is a profession I am quite passionate about their research in a unique format and hopes to incorporate this pursuing, but also opened me up to the similarities between kind of project in a future course syllabus. libraries and museums that I had not given much thought to Professor Sakomura recommends other faculty incorporate beforehand. In addition, having the opportunity to meet with a library exhibits in their courses; she has incorporated a visual curator from the Metropolitan Museum of Art through my work presentation (using Artstor or Powerpoint) ever since. She says, in this internship is an incredible way to obtain contacts that can “The exhibit was critical for the students’ learning experience. help me in my future professional endeavors.”

The fact that they could apply knowledge garnered from texts to The future holds many opportunities for students to gain actual practice (designing a tea gathering themselves) made a important experience in the curatorial world of library/museum huge difference in their mastery and understanding of course exhibition design and creation. McCabe plans to advertise for an material. The exhibition process took the students’ knowledge of assistant curator student employee position for the 2008-09 acaJapanese tea culture to a whole different level, from something demic year. We also anticipate mounting our exhibitions online, conceptual to something concrete. And writing the project stateand we continually seek faculty collaboration for end of term ment and labels was also an important exercise as the students projects that can be realized in a three-dimensional space.

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Making Connections: From the Underground Railroad to the Lang Center

by Christopher Densmore, FHL Curator In October, several boxes arrived at Friends Historical Library containing papers of the Jackson family. These family papers, some dating from the 1690s, had been preserved by George B. Jackson, a member of the Swarthmore Class of 1921. Included was a manuscript draft of Reminiscences of his grandfather, William M. Jackson (1837-1919), a member of the Board of Managers of Swarthmore College.

The Reminiscences were written, probably about 1918, on lined paper in a pair of three-ring binder notebooks. Here William wrote his recollections of his life growing up in Quakertown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and his early career as a teacher in Quaker schools in New York and Indiana.

William describes himself as an irreligious youth who occupied himself in Quaker meeting by listening to the birds sing outside and by carving his name on the bench before him. His own religious awakening came, he describes, when he began teaching.

“I was taught the folly of the attempt to preserve order by force, and the efficacy of self-control and kindness instead. [This] gave me the first intimation of a reserve power that one can call upon that touches the heart…”

Personal accounts often contain the unexpected details. The passage on William Jackson’s religious awakening is followed by his account of the influence of Charles Darwin, whose Origins of the Species he purchased soon after its publication in 1859. This made much more sense to him than Biblical history as his father, a farmer and nurseryman, had developed new varieties of plants on his farm at Quakertown. His father’s farm journals, documenting an avid interest in scientific agriculture, are also included in the Jackson papers.

William’s father James was also an abolitionist, “in association with Isaac T. Hopper, James Mott, Caleb Clothier, George Truman, Dillwyn Parrish, Edwin Atlee and other Friends.”

Isaac Hopper’s portrait hangs in one of the front parlors in Parrish Hall; James Mott with his wife Lucretia was a founder of Swarthmore College; the Clothier family were benefactors of the college; George Truman and Dillwyn Parrish (President Edward Parrish’s brother) were on the original committee to raise money for the establishment of the college. Like several of those individuals, the Jackson family was also engaged in the work of the Underground Railroad.

William M. Jackson’s interests included scientific education, social reform, and Swarthmore. William and his wife Ann worked with another Swarthmore-related Quaker, Marianna Wright Chapman in the women’s rights movement in the early 1900s. The papers of Marianna Wright Chapman were donated to Friends Historical Library in 2006.

The Lang connection? William M. Jackson was on the Board of Swarthmore College. The first member of his immediate family to go to the college was his grandson, George B. Jackson, who graduated in 1921, and went to work for the family firm in New York City. In 1934, George was eating in a New York restaurant, and there struck up a conversation with a teen-aged restaurant worker who was planning to attend City College.

George was impressed with the young man’s drive, and convinced him to attend Swarthmore College. That young man was Eugene Lang, Class of 1938, whose later contributions to Swarthmore College include the Lang Center and the George B. Jackson Scholarship, named in honor of the man who guided him to Swarthmore.

“Please allow sleepovers!” - Inside the McCabe suggestion book continued from page 1 comments, from requests for books and DVDs (“Seriously, The L Word, you guys. SERIOUSLY.”) to original artwork in ballpoint pen. Patrons have alerted us to maintenance and technological problems, begged us to stay open later, written in praise of Mac laptops, and suggested some highly original library amenities - including sleeping bags, hair-cutting supplies, lifesized cutouts of hockey players, and green tea ice cream.

Controversies have broken out: “Change the red rug!” was an early comment, followed later by “Keep the red carpet” and “don’t choose some crappy gray-blue-green patterned thing that makes us look like an ad agency.” (We ended up choosing tan when we got rid of the old red carpet.) We respond to most of the comments we get - though we don’t really have an answer for the person who wondered “How on earth did a pair of pants land in the McCabe lost and found?”

Our all-time favorite request came from the person who asked for “a puppy” and drew us a picture of a dog at the circulation desk. We pasted a picture of our serials specialist’s dog on the next page, with the caption “Puppy request? Done! But you missed it.” While we may not be able to supply puppies (not every day, at least), we have replaced the old red carpet, started lending new video equipment and lightweight headphones, and purchased many new titles suggested by commenters. So keep the suggestions coming - we love hearing from you!

By the way, if you want to see the old suggestion book, we’re keeping it as a record for posterity. Its current home is in the circulation office - if you’re curious, just talk to Access and Lending Supervisor Alison Masterpasqua. You can also leave a comment electronically at our online suggestion book: http://trilogy.brynmawr.edu/mt/trinews/2007/01/library_suggesti on_book_online.html. @library.edu Spring 2008

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staff news Chris Gebert joined the access and lending department in McCabe Library in December. In addition to general circulation duties, he provides support for reserves, Blackboard, laptops, and public computing. Currently enrolled in the MLIS and MIS program at Drexel University, he received an undergraduate degree from the University of Delaware.

Chris previously worked at A.D. Marble, an archaeology and environmental services firm, and at the Schwenkfelder Library and Heritage Center in Pennsburg. He replaces Ted Diederich, who left to be a stay-at-home father to Jake, born in September to Ted and his wife Gina.

After working on a temporary basis in McCabe Library for the summer, Roxanne Lucchesi was hired as a technical services specialist in the fall.

Her responsibilities include ordering in several funds, general cataloging, and cataloging DVDs from new orders and from the backlog of DVD replacements ordered last spring. Over 22 years of library experience include working at West Chester University, Cabrini College, the Art Institute of Philadelphia, and Moore College of Art and Design. A bibliophile by nature, there are few things that Roxanne enjoys more than reading. She also loves languages and has studied German and Spanish, is learning Korean, and plans to study Arabic.

Dorothy Valencia is McCabe’s late night supervisor in the access and lending department. She received the MM in music performance/percussion last spring from Temple University. Her library job experience includes working at Temple’s Paley Library and at the library of the University of Arkansas, where she earned a bachelor’s degree. In the daytime, Dorothy keeps busy practicing in preparation for professional orchestra auditions.

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Events and exhibits at the library A. Edward Newton Student Book Collection Award Monday, January 28 - Friday, February 29 Religion and Spirituality Week Exhibition February 1 - 29 Student display sponsored by the Interfaith Center.

McCabe Library 2nd floor lounge Elizabeth McFarland: A Poet Who Brought Poetry to the Millions Wednesday, March 5 - Friday, April 4 Wednesday, March 5, 4:30 pm - Opening reception and poetry reading with former Poet Laureate Daniel Hoffman and Professor of English Nathalie Anderson.

Multi Week Celebration Exhibit Monday, March 17 - Friday, March 28 Sponsored by the MULTI student group (multi-racial students).

McCabe Library 2nd floor lounge Michael J. Durkan Irish Poetry Reading with Eamon Grennan Wednesday, April 16, 7:00 pm Pushcart Prize winner and the Dexter M. Ferry Jr. Professor of English at Vassar College.

Sponsored by the English Department and Swarthmore College Library.

To the Moon and Back: Books by Enid Mark Wednesday, April 9 - Friday, June 6 Thursday, April 24, 4:30 pm - Talk and poetry reading with Enid Mark, book artist, and poets Nathalie Anderson, Daisy Fried, Susan Stewart, and Eleanor Wilner.

Spring Book Sale Family Weekend Friday, April 11, 12:00 - 6:00 pm - Swarthmore College faculty/ staff/students and their families only.

Saturday, April 12, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm - Open to the public.

Sunday, April 13, 12:00 - 5:00 pm - Open to the public.

Persons with disabilities who anticipate needing accommodations or who have questions about physical access may contact the office of the librarian, 610-328-8489, in advance of any library program.

Winning book collections on display The 2008 A. Edward Newton Award winners have been chosen. Each year, the Newton competition recognizes the work of student book collectors and culminates in an exhibit of selected titles from the winners’ collections.

This year, the first prize goes to Jake Brunkard ‘08 for “Collecting the Underground: Black Sparrow Press.” Mark Kharas ‘08 won the second prize for “Quakerism: An Academic and Devotional Analysis of a Religion.” Third prize went to Trude Raizen ‘08 for “Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend: Assorted Baseball Books.”

The exhibit will run from January 28 to February 29 in the McCabe lobby.

Elizabeth McFarland: A poet who brought poetry to the millions Examine a life well-lived through a montage of poetry, photographs, letters, and memorabilia in celebration of poet and editor Elizabeth McFarland (1922 – 2005). The exhibit comprises photographs belonging to Elizabeth McFarland and letters by the eminent poets whom she published. Her recently published collection of lyrical and romantic poetry, Over the Summer Water, resonates with a voice that is as clear and fresh today as when first penned between 1946 and 1960. Written when she was 19, this poem, titled “Myself,” alludes to the poet losing herself in meditation, becoming one with nature, as her language is alive and winged: I have stood so long in this place I have lost account of my face.

I have stared so long at this tree I am grown blossomy.

In my branches, words Bicker like birds.

As poetry editor of The Ladies’ Home Journal from 1948 to 1961, she published some of the most eminent poets of the last century, among them W.H. Auden, Marianne Moore, Richard Eberhart, Theodore Roethke, Walter De la Mare, Sylvia Plath, and John Updike. As noted by her husband, Daniel Hoffman, professor of English at Swarthmore College for nine years, former Poet Laureate, and recipient of an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Swarthmore College, “No wide-circulation magazine since has published poems as did the LHJ when Elizabeth McFarland …influenced the taste of millions of readers.”

Eamon Grennan poetry reading Eamon Grennan, the Dexter M. Ferry Jr. Professor of English at Vassar College, will read his poems for this year’s Michael J. Durkan Irish Poetry Reading. Grennan is the author of seven collections of poetry and the recipient of numerous awards, including several Pushcart Prizes, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. In 2003, his Still Life with Waterfall received the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. His newest volume of poems, The Quick of It, was published by Graywolf Press in 2005. Praised for bringing a sense of the divine to the commonplace, his work is powerful and evocative.

To the moon and back: Books by Enid Mark In a world geared to mass production and computerization, I seek to make limited edition books In an individual and personal way.

Dedicated to the tradition of creating books using hand-lithography, letterpress printing, and archival hand binding techniques, Philadelphia book artist Enid Mark beguiles and entrances her audience with a feast of text and image in beautifully hand-crafted structures. Enid explores the relationship between text and image, searching for connections between the visual and verbal, resulting in books that blur the distinction between text and art The Swarthmore College Library has in its rare book collection all 11 of Enid Mark’s limited edition books: from the first ELM Press book, The Bewildering Thread, an anthology that binds a collection of contemporary poems through the use of weaving as metaphor, to The Inconstant Moon, an evocative visual and poetic exploration of the moon. Best described in her own words, the artist writes, “I imagine the book as a continuous picture plane on which word, image, sequence, and structure all reinforce each other. What interests me most is the relationship between word and image. I plan no hierarchy of them.

An artist’s book is a unique form of visual disclosure. It must be slowly savored. It should be held in the hand and carefully considered. Only then are its contents fully revealed.”

These fine creations in particular, and artists’ books in general, are meant to be carefully explored one-by-one. For an appointment to see these books or others in the Rare Book Room, or for more information, contact the librarian’s office, 610-328-8489.

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Library workshops - Spring 2008 EndNoteWeb Meg Spencer and Bronwen Densmore Monday, February 4 3:00-4:00 pm Love your microforms: Microform open house Thursday, February 14 12:30-1:30 pm The Mark of Zotero Amanda Watson Tuesday, February 19 4:15-5:00 pm

Finding book, movie, and theater reviews Anne Garrison Monday, March 3 12:30-1:15 pm

Ride the Underground Railroad FHL Family Weekend Chris Densmore Friday, April 11 1-2 pm

TOCs: Journal alerts workshop for faculty/staff Pam Harris and Bronwen Densmore Tuesday, March 11 1:00-1:45 pm

Spinning Webs: Web of Science and EndNoteWeb Meg Spencer Wednesday, April 16 12:30-1:45 pm

The Free and the Brave: Online music Donna Fournier and Ben Mazer (Free Culture) Tuesday, April 1 1:00-1:45 pm

Rare books workshop Pam Harris, Bronwen Densmore, Daisy Larios Thursday, May 1 1:00-1:45 pm

Unless otherwise noted, all workshops will be held in the McCabe computer classroom.

RSVP to awatson1@swarthmore.edu..

Persons with disabilities who anticipate needing accommodations or who have questions about physical access may contact the office of the librarian, 610-328-8489, in advance of any library program.

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