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Author and illustrator Maurice Sendak died on Tuesday, May 8.
His career spanned over half a century and produced such children’s literature classics as Where the Wild Things Are and In the Night Kitchen. He was also a fascinating, charmingly cranky man whose life and work are well worth exploring. Start with any of the links below, and stop by the Library and check out our display of his books, as well as books about him, located right by the front door. Sarah Negron and Cara McAuliffe are the winners of our Return Your Books, Win Prizes contest! Their names were selected from over 80 entries, and since they had both returned all Library materials by May 3, they received $25 Amazon gift cards. Thank you to everyone else who returned their books on time as well! Attention Wheelock students! All items checked out from the Library are due on Thursday, May 3. When you return your books, stop by the front desk and enter to win a $25 Amazon gift card! On May 4, we will randomly select and notify two winners. You must have zero items checked out and have no outstanding fines as of the 3rd to be eligible. Duplicate entries will be removed before the prize drawing is made. Enter to win at the Library front desk! Earth Day is coming up on April 22 along with a special Earth Day giveaway!
The Academic Resources staff are doing their part by making green pledges, small changes that they are making to lead more environmentally-conscious lives. Stop by and see what the staff are doing to ensure that the planet stays beautiful for future generations! Then, make your own green pledge and share it with us to be entered into an Ea For more information about Earth Day and protecting the environment everyday, check out these great resources. Wheelock College Library Research Guide – Environmental Studies Join the Wheelock College Library and Resource Center for our third annual Read Across America celebration, a national event that promotes the importance of reading in the lives of young children. The event will take place on Thursday, March 1st at the Campus Center. From 10:30 a.m. – 1 p.m., get your picture taken under the Truffula Trees at our Lorax-themed photo booth.
From 12:30 – 1:30 p.m., participate in our lunchtime trivia challenge in the Dining Room and put your Seuss smarts to the test. Teams of four or fewer people can participate, and the winners get $15 Amazon gift cards! Throughout the day, check out the Seuss-inspired menu items in the Dining Room. This is the third year that the Library is holding this event and it gets better every year. It has always been a lot of fun so please come out and join us. The support of the Wheelock community will help make a positive impact on literacy in the lives of young children! Fill out a short online survey and be entered into a drawing to win a $25 Amazon gift certificate! There will be 10 certificate prizes available so your odds are pretty good. Let us know your impressions of the Library online catalog, what works and doesn’t work, and what improvements you think we should work on. The survey should only take a few minutes. At the end of it, you may enter your email address and register to win one of the gift certificates. You may have already noticed the green button on the top left hand corner of the catalog. Clicking on it will bring you to the survey, but here is the survey link for your convenience: http://flo.org/sites/default/files/survey.html We hope to get your opinions, and good luck! Some of our Library’s online services will be not be available this weekend (2/3-2/5) from 9pm, Friday evening until 10am, Sunday morning. The Library Catalog and eJournal Finder will be unavailable during this time. Database access will be available, but at a limited capacity. The “Check SFX for full text” button
In particular, we placed the most used tools front and center so you don’t have to dig. The search box uses a tab system so you can conveniently navigate between resources available at the Library, Databases A-Z or Books & More, for example. For more details go to the Using the Search Box page. Other changes include better organized section per your feedback. For instance, the Technology contains information on all the technology and related services in the Library, including information on printing. We also conveniently placed the contact information for both the Library and the Resource Center on the front page, along with weekly updated Library hours for your convenience. Enjoy our new website. If at any point while using the site you have any suggestions or comments see the Suggestions and Comments? link located below Library Hours or at the bottom of the page. Or you can contact us at circulation@wheelock.edu or 617-879-2220 for any questions. Have some books you don’t need? Donate them to a good cause! The Wheelock Library is partnered with Better World Books, an organization that collects used books and sells them online to raise money for literacy initiatives worldwide. You can also purchase books through their site, and proceeds will support literacy foundations. Drop your books in one of the orange & green bins around campus, which are located:
We have selected the National Center for Family Literacy to benefit from the books left in the bins. If you can’t sell back your books, or have a pile to clear out of your dorm room, donate them and support a good cause!
Thanks for all your great feedback on the new Library website so far! Please continue to send us your thoughts or concerns. Again, our beta-site is available at the link below or from the banner on our current site. http://www.wheelock.edu/librarybeta/ We’ve made some changes based on the comments we’ve received. Below are a few examples: “The explanation on the Journals tab is somewhat confusing.”
The Research Help section lacks anything about writing resources.
“Hope you still implement chat with a librarian feature.”
Take a look at our progress and tell us what you think. We are also in the process of testing the new site with Wheelock community members to further fine-tune it. Look for additional improvements in the next month. |
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