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Argo Tea Coming Soon to Snell

We are excited to announce that Argo Tea will be replacing the Cyber Cafe on the first floor of Snell Library this Fall! As Dining Services has announced, construction will begin this month to ensure it is ready for the first day of classes in September. For those of you who haven’t heard of Argo Tea, the business originated in Chicago in 2003, and was created by Arsen Avakian, Daniel Lindwasser, and Simon Simonian. Their cafes offer a variety of black, white, green, and natural herbal teas, coffees, and an assortment of baked goods and small entrees. In addition to their healthy menu options, Argo Tea has made continuous donations of white teas to the University of Chicago’s Hospitals to contribute to Cancer Research efforts. To read more about Argo Tea and their menu offerings visit www.argotea.com. Stop by this fall and check it out!

IEEE Xplore upgrade brings new content and features

On Wednesday, IEEE upgraded the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Here are some of the new features: 1. Addition of VDE VERLAG Conference Proceedings: One of the largest technical and scientific associations in Europe, VDE VERLAG now integrates its conference proceedings into IEEE Xplore bringing new and important content that was not available to us before. There are 3,100 VDE conference papers from 20+ annual conference titles and 1,000 new articles anticipated to be added every year. 2. Sort search results by “Most Cited”: This new feature allows you to sort your search results by “Most Cited” and a citation count will be displayed on each article so you will be able to find articles of high impact quickly. 3. See more search results with scitopia.org: Scitopia.org is a search engine that surfaces content from 15 leading scholarly society publishers in science and technology. Now, when you perform your search in IEEE Xplore you will see additional relevant results from scitopia.org. Enjoy the new IEEEXplore upgrade, and we hope it makes your research easier!

Online book club @1book140

If you have ever joined a book club you know from experience that it is not easy to coordinate busy schedules, agree on next month’s book, or decide who will be next to host. Northeastern Journalism Professor, Jeffrey Howe, has created a book club that eliminates all of these troubles. Howe’s book club is on Twitter @1book140. The way it works is quite simple. 1book140 selects the book of the month by a majority vote of its Twitter followers. Once a book is selected members tweet their thoughts as they read, abiding by the month’s weekly schedule, and including the hashtag #1book140 so that their comments are collected on the site’s Twitter page. This month, readers have their noses in The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood. If you’re interested in joining you can view the weekly reading schedule for June and reserve The Blind Assassin at Snell Library to start your summer reading! For more information about @1book140 read this article from Marketplace Tech Report

Using Power to Get Things Done

Snell Library’s own Maria Carpenter recently presented at the 2011 Academic Library Advancement and Development Network Annual Conference in Flagstaff, Arizona. Maria, the Director of Advancement, Marketing, and Communications for Northeastern University Libraries, gave a presentation and a workshop on power theory and its use in different political and social organizations. Her sessions focused on examples of how leaders of organizations have successfully used power and how those examples can be applied to those in the library advancement field. Her presentation took place during a lunch session on May 17th where over 100 people were in attendance. The workshop that followed allowed attendees to take part in a more interactive q&a discussion about power and how to use it in the workplace. For more information or for questions about the topic please contact Maria Carpenter at m.carpenter@neu.edu.

Library Hours for Summer 2

Summer 2 is fast approaching (the first classes start on June 29th!) Snell will maintain the following hours for the rest of the summer (please note that Snell will be completely closed on Monday, July 4): Circulation Desk: Sunday: 10am – 11pm Monday through Thursday: 8am – 11pm Friday: 8am – 8pm Saturday: 9am – 5pm InfoCommons: Sunday through Friday: 7:30am – 11pm Saturday: 7:30am – 5pm Library Study: Open 24 Hours, but will close at 11pm on Sunday, July 3rd and will be closed all day Monday, July 4th. As always, you must show a current NU Student/Faculty/Staff ID after the Circulation Desk closes. Enjoy summer time at Snell!