Memorial Library

Month: April 2015

  • Preservation Week April 26-May 3

    Libraries, museums, archives and other organizations work every day to preserve cultural history.  Over 4.8 billion artifacts are held in public trust by more than 30,000 archives, historical societies, libraries, museums, scientific research collections and archaeological repositories in the United States. Key environmental factors that place collections at risk: Light: Ultraviolet rays from natural and…

  • Featured Database: Films on Demand

    The library provides access to Films on Demand, a streaming educational video collection containing over 20,203 full-length videos and 233,239 video clips. These videos cover all subjects from the hard sciences to the humanities and are from producers such as Films for the Humanities, the History Channel, National Geographic and the BBC. Collections within Films on…

  • MacBook Pros @ The Help Center

    THE HELP CENTER has 8 MacBook Pros now Available!   They can be loaned for a 3-hour period.

  • National Library Week

    In honor of National Library Week 2015, we will be giving away prizes to the correct responses to trivia questions on our library’s facebook page! Just reply to our upcoming questions and the first right answer wins it!

  • National Poetry Month

    Students, faculty and staff, please join Memorial Library in celebrating National Poetry Month, April 2015. Come check out our displays, including an Exquisite Corpse* poem and Book Spine Poetry**. Also, we have an interactive display—magnetic poetry—for you to try your hand at and have a little fun! All of this is located in our lobby—we…

  • Database Trial: “Statista”

    Currently, we have access to Statista, http://www.statista.com  an online statistics database that  provides access to data from market and opinion research institutions, as well as from business organizations and government . Data and statistics can be exported in the following formats: JPEG, PDF, and XLS. 1 million statistics from over 18,000 sources (including both national and…