Thursday, June 28, 2007

Library Catalog -- We're Moving!

Actually, the term is 'migrating'. We are saying goodbye to Athena & hello to InfoCentre. Why??? you ask, because I know we were all so attached to our first online library catalog.

We were bored? No, that can't be it. Oh, yes, I remember...Athena will no longer be improved & we didn't want a library catalog that was so last century.

So, if you can't get to the library catalog today, no worries, you will tomorrow & it will be new and improved.

If you have and questions or need to renew a book, please call us: 441-2200 x1227.

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Internet Explorer's New Tabs Features & the Revolution in Homepages

Did you know that you can have more than one homepage using the new tab's in Internet Explorer?

From your Browser's menu, Click on Tools -- Internet Options -- in the Home Page box, copy the URLs (type each address on its own line) of the pages you want to open automatically in tabs each time you launch IE. Click on Apply & Save.

Library Application -- you knew this was coming...
1. Make the library's webpage an alternate homepage www.sdcc.edu/library
2. What about the Research Database page or Blackboard...
3. Or your favorite library comic strip? Oh, wait, that's just me.

Finding a Novel to Read Just got Easier!

Here's a another way to find the novel you want to read.


Earlier this summer I showed you Bowker's Fiction Connection (they do the Books in Print Database).

There's a new website created by OCLC (they bring us the WorldCat library database) called, Fiction Finder. You can browse for a book to [Photo]read using the Subject Clouds or search by genres, characters (real & fictional), settings (real & imaginary) or awards. AND it gets better.... Once you've found the book you want to read, since you are using a part of the WorldCat library catalog, all you have to do is click on

Find Any Edition or
Find This Edition

to locate the book in your local library. (OK, I'm trying not to say, "Neat" or "Cool").

Tuesday, June 05, 2007

BOOK Sale

The library is currently offering recently weeded books from our Theological collection for sale. 10 cents each. Choose from hundreds of books on non-Christian religions, Catholicism, church and demoninational history and even some Bible commentaries.