Library News

Goin' Mobile with IEEE

IEEE mobile IEEE has just launched their new IEEE Xplore MobileBeta. With this service, anyone can search articles in the IEEE Xplore digital library from any Web-enabled phone. IEEE is looking for opinions on the site and ideas on how to improve it. Go to http://m.ieeexplore.ieee.org to start searching on any internet-enabled mobile device, try the new site, and send feedback via the link at the bottom of the mobile Web page. You can email the article link to yourself for future viewing of the full-text, or read the abstracts right on your phone. Using  the IEEE Xplore® Mobile Beta, you can do a basic search, display the top 10 results by relevancy, and view abstracts and citations. To view the full-text of an article, the user can email the link to any email address and then view the article directly from the main IEEE Xplore Web site when they are on their personal computer.  All Northeastern students, faculty and staff have access to the IEEE Xplore Library. IEEE Xplore Mobile is viewable on all Web-enabled mobile devices. It has been optimized for newer mobile devices (i.e., Apple iPhone, Blackberry Storm). When using older mobile devices (i.e., Blackberry 8360, Blackberry Curve), you may be able to choose “Internet Browser” as your default browser in your device’s options for optimal viewing. Try it out and let IEEE know what you think.

When you need something from another library

worldcat_textside_120You’re probably already familiar with the interlibrary loan system: Snell Library doesn’t have a book (or video or cd) that you want, so you order it, and we get it for you from another library. An email tells you when it arrives at Snell, you pick it up, take it home, and return it to Snell when you’re done. Beginning today, Northeastern and the member libraries of the Boston Library Consortium offer you a new way to quickly search all our catalogs at once, and easily make interlibrary loan requests for the books and audiovisual items you need. Called “WorldCat Local” , this web-based mega-catalog searches across the Boston Library Consortium and beyond, and uses your myNEU login for placing orders. Of course, not everything you see in WorldCat Local can be ordered; you’ll still have to visit the member libraries in person for things like rare and archival materials, reference encyclopedias, and journals. But with WorldCat Local, it’s a snap to see exactly which library has what you need before you make the trek, and the ILLiad and Nexpress systems remain available for ordering individual article pdf’s. To try WCL, go to http://northeastern.worldcat.org or look for the link in Nucat or on our “Borrowing from other libraries” pages.  WorldCat Local is available to any member of the public for searching. Current NU faculty, staff and students with myNEU accounts may place orders. Please let us know what you think of WorldCat Local!

Get Started today with SimplyMap-A New Snell Library Trial

simplymap SimplyMap is a very exciting new web-based mapping application that lets you quickly create professional-quality thematic maps and reports, using thousands of US demographic, business and marketing data variables. Want to know the top 10 wealthiest ZIP codes in Massachusetts or Maine? How about the top 25 counties in California with the most elderly residents? With SimplyMap, the answers are at your fingertips. SimplyMap includes all kinds of variables such as consumer expenditures, quality of life, retail sales, CPI, employment, education, income, housing, population, race, language, ethnicity, ancestry and transportation.  All can be built into your map! Note: In order to save your work on SimplyMap, you need to create a free account.  All Northeastern students, faculty and staff are welcome this month to get started and create their accounts and save their work, or download it!  Please create your accounts from on-campus to get started, and then you will be able to use it from home. To get started today, visit the Library’s trial page for SimplyMap

Great Name = $100!

Win $100 for the NU Bookstore in a naming contest for a new comfy reading area in Snell Library. Thanks for your interest, but as of midnight December 9th we are no longer accepting submissions. We’ll choose a new name and notify the winner by December 21st, and please come visit the new collection when it’s done! We’re excited to announce a new better-than-ever leisure reading collection right in the heart of Snell Library. Coming in Spring 2010, you will star gaze upon bestsellers, literary fiction, graphic novels, DVDs, and prize-winning non-fiction all in the same place. We hope this new area becomes your first stop when you need an ohhhm break, are searching for that special book to challenge you, expand your horizons, or simply to make you laugh out loud. The winning name will be used on the Library’s website as well as on signs. The winner receives: A) immense personal satisfaction and B) $100 gift card to the NU Bookstore. To enter, see rules and submission form at http://www.lib.neu.edu/namingcontest. Thanks for your participation! Questions? Contact Maria Carpenter at m.carpenter@neu.edu or 617-373-2821.

Is Everything Black and White?: Art Exhibit Nov. 12

The pleasure of your company is requested at the opening of the art exhibition:

IS EVERYTHING BLACK AND WHITE?

Selected works from the Arthur S. Goldberg Collection

 Thursday, November 12 @ 6 pm

 Gallery tour with Arthur S. Goldberg, MEd’65

Gallery 360, Ell Hall

Art preview and reception at 421 Snell Library to follow

Complimentary parking validation will be provided for the Gainsborough Parking Garage.  

Please reply to Sylvette Di Martino at 617.373.7630 or s.dimartino@neu.edu.

Visit http://www.northeastern.edu/campusmap/ for directions.  

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