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Spring Reserves Deadline

Reserve requests for the Spring semester are due by December 4th. Please submit all reserve requests by this date to ensure that items are on reserve for your students by the start of the term. You can submit a request by filling out the electronic form under the Library tab at myneu.neu.edu or by turning in a manual request form, which is available at the Circulation Desk in Snell Library. If you would like to request an item for reserves that is not currently in the library’s collection, please see http://www.lib.neu.edu/services/course_reserves/documents/TextbooksCourseReserves.pdf. If you have any questions, please contact Reserves Supervisor Stephanie Knutson at s.knutson@neu.edu or 617-373-4646.

Making The Library Work For You

(This may Develop into a series depending on how daring I am.)

Hello Ladies and Gentlemen,

I’m just your friendly neighborhood Journalism major who works in one of the Library’s many offices. So, I find myself sitting here, clicking through the Library looking for something to write about; like many students I have the typical Generation-Y aversion to libraries. But, then I stumbled on something that made me realize I was wrong.

While there is a wealth of information available to us on the internet (I mean it’s even destroying my job prospects as I write this) there is some stuff you just can’t get. My first thought goes to older newspaper articles or back issues of magazines. And, while it is necessary to learn by doing, it is also pertinent to see what some of the greats have done to earn their stripes. Sadly, that is becoming more difficult.

The Library can actually be of tremendous help in that regard. The Library here at Northeastern maintains subscriptions to various databases that have newspapers dating back to 1690 and they have all the Papers of Record dating back until at least 1991(NYTimes, Boston Globe).  Added Bonus: It’s free for students!

So, not only can I meld my love of a good newspaper article with my love of the versatility of the internet, but I can also rid myself of a previously held, and somewhat misguided, notion that libraries are outdated.

As an added bonus, I’m going to read Distinguished Professor Walter V. Robinson’s article which brought the Catholic Church scandal into the limelight in 2002….See if you can find THAT on Boston.com.