What's new at the LIU Post Library

What's New at the Library?

Coming Events

05/23: Trip: Tall Ships in New York Harbor

05/28: Library Closed

06/10: Library Open 2:00-6:00

07/04: Library Closed

07/08: Library Open 2:00-6:00

07/15: Library Open 2:00-6:00

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News / Updates / Additions
05/15 : New Database, Library Workshop, Safety Testing, and Database Downtime
Our newest database is Scopus SciVerse which provides abstracts and citation data for peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources in the scientific, medical, social science, and humanities fields. It includes 19,000 journals from more than 5,000 international publishers, 400 trade publications, and 300 book series, as well as scientific web pages, patent records, and conference papers. Citation tracking features provide the number of citations an author, article, or journal has received each year and in total, along with who is citing them. An affiliation identifier automatically identifies and matches an organization with all of its research output.
The schedule of Library Competency Workshops for the fall semester has been posted.
On Thursday, routine annual testing of the fire alarms and smoke detectors in the library will take place between 9:00am and 3:00pm each day for the next few weeks.
Late Friday night, Ebsco will be performing scheduled maintenance from 11:00pm-3:00am which may cause intermittent interruptions with Ebsco A-to-Z and LinkSource. This may also cause you to have problems accessing the full text of some articles even if you are using a database produced by a different company that is not affiliated with Ebsco. We apologize for any inconvenience this maintenance causes.
The new exhibit in the library lobby, Anonymous and Anonymity, consists of originally designed posters and resources from the library's collections that explore several interesting themes such as anonymous literary and artistic works, anonymous gifts, anonymous biological donors, anonymous internet crimes, Alcoholics Anonymous, and more.

05/14 : New Exhibit, Safety Testing, and Database Downtime
The new exhibit in the library lobby, Anonymous and Anonymity, consists of originally designed posters and resources from the library's collections that explore several interesting themes such as anonymous literary and artistic works, anonymous gifts, anonymous biological donors, anonymous internet crimes, Alcoholics Anonymous, and more.
Normal summer hours have begun.
On Thursday, routine annual testing of the fire alarms and smoke detectors in the library will take place between 9:00am and 3:00pm each day for the next few weeks.
Late Friday night, Ebsco will be performing scheduled maintenance from 11:00pm-3:00am which may cause intermittent interruptions with Ebsco A-to-Z and LinkSource. This may also cause you to have problems accessing the full text of some articles even if you are using a database produced by a different company that is not affiliated with Ebsco. We apologize for any inconvenience this maintenance causes.

05/08 : Art Exhibit, New Materials, Summer Hours, Blackboard Downtime
The new art exhibit downstairs in the Hutchins Gallery is part of the 2012 New York Korea Art Festival.
At the LIU Brentwood library's website, the lists of new circulating books, children's books, and reference books have been updated. If you'd like see lists of the newest books, videos, music, and more added to our collections here at the LIU Post library, you can go to the New Library Materials RSS Feeds page. It can be browsed either by subject area (according to Library of Congress classifications) or by library department. You can also sign up for RSS feeds in your areas of interest to have monthly lists of new materials automatically sent to you.
The library will be open open 9:00-5:00 on Wednesday-Friday and open 9:00-4:00 on Saturday. We will be closed on Sunday.
Normal summer hours will begin on Monday, and the summer holiday hours have been posted.
From Information Technology: "Please know that on Thursday, May 10th, at 9am, Information Technology will be administering an essential Service Pack upgrade to the Blackboard server. This upgrade should take approximately two to three hours. During this time access to Blackboard will not be available. Course content will not be affected as a result of this upgrade. Access to all other systems will NOT be affected by this upgrade. Should you have any questions or concerns, please contact your local Information Technology Office. Thank you for your cooperation in this effort."
The LIU Brentwood Library's email address has been changed to Brentwood-Library@liu.edu. During the transition, there was a problem with their request forms for interlibrary loan, library instruction, and audio-visual equipment. The forms are working now, but if you made a request recently and have not heard back from them, you can resubmit it or contact the library directly at (631) 273-5112.

05/07 : Library Hours
The library will be open open 9:00-5:00 on Monday-Friday and open 9:00-4:00 on Saturday. We will be closed on Sunday.
The new exhibit in the back of Reference Commons is Christopher Columbus: An Ongoing Voyage. This exhibit, created by the Library of Congress from its collection of manuscripts, books, maps, and other artifacts, explores the encounters that changed the world in what came to be called America. It takes a look at the peoples of North and South America before their contact with Columbus and those who came after him, followed by the European incursions, claims, and conquests that would continue throughout the sixteenth century and beyond. There's also still time to catch our other exhibits, Black Women in American Culture and History and Archival Selections from the Joseph Cameron Cross Theatre Collection.
The LIU Brentwood Library's email address is being changed to Brentwood-Library@liu.edu. During the transition, there has been a problem with their request forms for interlibrary loan, library instruction, and audio-visual equipment. If you have made a request recently and have not heard back from them, you can contact them directly at (631) 273-5112.

05/03 : Congratulations Class of 2012!
The library will be open 8:00-4:00 on Friday and open 8:00-5:00 Saturday. We will be closed on Sunday. The Bookmark Café has closed for the summer.
Next week, the library will be open open 9:00-5:00 on Monday-Friday and open 9:00-4:00 on Saturday.
The new exhibit in the back of Reference Commons is Christopher Columbus: An Ongoing Voyage. This exhibit, created by the Library of Congress from its collection of manuscripts, books, maps, and other artifacts, explores the encounters that changed the world in what came to be called America. It takes a look at the peoples of North and South America before their contact with Columbus and those who came after him, followed by the European incursions, claims, and conquests that would continue throughout the sixteenth century and beyond. There's also still time to catch our other exhibits, Black Women in American Culture and History and Archival Selections from the Joseph Cameron Cross Theatre Collection.
The LIU Brentwood Library's email address is being changed to Brentwood-Library@liu.edu. During the transition, there has been a problem with their request forms for interlibrary loan, library instruction, and audio-visual equipment. If you have made a request recently and have not heard back from them, you can contact them directly at (631) 273-5112.
On May 23, the Post Library Association and the Oyster Bay Historical Society will be sponsoring a trip to View the Tall Ships in New York Harbor. From vantage points at Owl's Head Park and the Sixty-Ninth Street Pier in Bay Ridge, you'll have the opportunity to take in a historic moment as a parade of spectacular vessels sails into New York Harbor in celebration of the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812. The day will also include a guided tour of the nearby Narrows Botanical Garden and lunch. Please reserve your place before May 4.
From now on, the side door to the library (near the parking lot) will be kept locked at all times. Please enter and exit through the main entrance in the front. Only authorized staff will be able to swipe their LIU ID card and enter through the side door.

05/01 : Extended Hours, End of Semester Hours, and PLA Tall Ships Trip
The library has extended its hours for final exams. We will be open until 1:00 on Tuesday and Wednesday. The Interfaith Center lounge stays open all night. Hillwood Commons stays open until midnight. A PDF of the exam schedule has been posted.
On Thursday, the library will close after the last exam in the building is finished, possibly around 10:30. We will be open 8:00-4:00 on Friday and open 8:00-5:00 Saturday. We will be closed on Sunday. The Bookmark Café will close for the summer at 2:00 on Thursday.
Next week, the library will be open open 9:00-5:00 on Monday-Friday and open 9:00-4:00 on Saturday.
On May 23, the Post Library Association and the Oyster Bay Historical Society will be sponsoring a trip to View the Tall Ships in New York Harbor. From vantage points at Owl's Head Park and the Sixty-Ninth Street Pier in Bay Ridge, you'll have the opportunity to take in a historic moment as a parade of spectacular vessels sails into New York Harbor in celebration of the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812. The day will also include a guided tour of the nearby Narrows Botanical Garden and lunch. Please reserve your place before May 4.
From now on, the side door to the library (near the parking lot) will be kept locked at all times. Please enter and exit through the main entrance in the front. Only authorized staff will be able to swipe their LIU ID card and enter through the side door.

04/22 : Extended Hours and PLA Tall Ships Trip
The library has begun extended hours in preparation for final exams. We will be open until 1:00 on Mondays-Thursdays and open until midnight on Sundays. We will be open normal hours, until 5:00, on Fridays and Saturdays. Hillwood Commons stays open until midnight every day. Once exams begin, the Interfaith Center lounge usually stays open all night (more information about that after it has been officially announced). A PDF of the exam schedule has been posted.
On May 23, the Post Library Association and the Oyster Bay Historical Society will be sponsoring a trip to View the Tall Ships in New York Harbor. From vantage points at Owl's Head Park and the Sixty-Ninth Street Pier in Bay Ridge, you'll have the opportunity to take in a historic moment as a parade of spectacular vessels sails into New York Harbor in celebration of the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812. The day will also include a guided tour of the nearby Narrows Botanical Garden and lunch. Please reserve your place before May 4.
From now on, the side door to the library (near the parking lot) will be kept locked at all times. Please enter and exit through the main entrance in the front. Only authorized staff will be able to swipe their LIU ID card and enter through the side door.

04/19 : Last Competency Exam, NYC Sports Lecture, Downtime, Extended Hours, Tall Ships Trip
Friday, the last Library Competency Exam of the semester will take place in Humanities Hall, room 119, at 12:30. If you don't take the exam by the time you have earned 60 credits, you will be automatically enrolled to take the library workshop. Remember to bring a picture ID and know your student ID number. (Transfer students with an associate's degree or 60 transfer credits do not need not take the exam or workshop.)
On Friday evening, the Post Library Association will present Dr. Jeffrey Kroessler, author of The Greater New York Sports Chronology. Dr. Kroessler's comprehensive and entertaining time line stretches from the pastoral entertainments of the Dutch to the corporate captivity of professional sports. He chronicles events ranging from the truly heroic to the heartbreaking, from moments of municipal greatness to inescapable social change. Through it all, he plants the world of sport at the very center of New York's story. His book ranges from the spectacle of blood sports like bullbaiting to the birth of baseball and from the now-forgotten six-day pedestrian contests to today's New York City Marathon. Alongside great moments like the Mets' "amazin" World Series win in 1969, Joe Louis's historic bouts with Max Schmeling, Jackie Robinson's breaking of baseball's color line, and Secretariat's remarkable Triple Crown win at Belmont, Dr. Kroessler's lecture will encounter the point-shaving scandals of college basketball and the corrupting influence of organized crime in professional boxing. Everyone is welcome to this free event that will begin at 8:00 p.m. in the back of Reference Commons.
Late Friday night, Ebsco will be performing scheduled maintenance from 11:00pm-3:00am which may cause intermittent interruptions with Ebsco A-to-Z and LinkSource. This may also cause you to have problems accessing the full text of some articles even if you are using a database produced by a different company that is not affiliated with Ebsco. We apologize for any inconvenience this maintenance causes.
The library has begun extended hours in preparation for final exams. We will be open until 1:00 on Mondays-Thursdays and open until midnight on Sundays. We will be open normal hours, until 5:00, on Fridays and Saturdays. Hillwood Commons stays open until midnight every day. Once exams begin, the Interfaith Center lounge usually stays open all night (more information about that after it has been officially announced). A PDF of the exam schedule has been posted.
On May 23, the Post Library Association and the Oyster Bay Historical Society will be sponsoring a trip to View the Tall Ships in New York Harbor. From vantage points at Owl's Head Park and the Sixty-Ninth Street Pier in Bay Ridge, you'll have the opportunity to take in a historic moment as a parade of spectacular vessels sails into New York Harbor in celebration of the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812. The day will also include a guided tour of the nearby Narrows Botanical Garden and lunch. Please reserve your place before May 4.
From now on, the side door to the library (near the parking lot) will be kept locked at all times. Please enter and exit through the main entrance in the front. Only authorized staff will be able to swipe their LIU ID card and enter through the side door.

04/18 : Extended Hours, LinkSource Demo, Competency Exam, Sports Lecture, Tall Ships Trip
The library has begun extended hours in preparation for final exams. We will be open until 1:00 on Mondays-Thursdays and open until midnight on Sundays. We will be open normal hours, until 5:00, on Fridays and Saturdays. Hillwood Commons stays open until midnight every day. Once exams begin, the Interfaith Center lounge usually stays open all night (more information about that after it has been officially announced). A PDF of the exam schedule has been posted.
On May 23, the Post Library Association and the Oyster Bay Historical Society will be sponsoring a trip to View the Tall Ships in New York Harbor. From vantage points at Owl's Head Park and the Sixty-Ninth Street Pier in Bay Ridge, you'll have the opportunity to take in a historic moment as a parade of spectacular vessels sail into New York Harbor in celebration of the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812. The day will also include a guided tour of the nearby Narrows Botanical Garden and lunch. Please reserve your place before May 4.
On Thursday, please join us for a Library Brown Bag presentation on Ebsco's LinkSource. Professor Rob Battenfeld will lead a discussion on maximizing and troubleshooting this OpenURL link resolver which is available through our online database collection and allows users to connect from the citations in one database to the full-text in another, maximizing efficiency and making best use of our full-text collections. If you have recently experienced an issue with a LinkSource link, bring the search steps with you and we'll troubleshoot the problem. The program will begin at 10:30 in the Library Instruction Lab. All are welcome and light refreshments will be served - but in the spirit of a true brown bag please feel free to bring a snack. Please R.S.V.P. using this form.
On Friday, the last Library Competency Exam of the semester will take place in Humanities Hall, room 119, at 12:30. If you don't take the exam by the time you have earned 60 credits, you will be automatically enrolled to take the library workshop. Remember to bring a picture ID and know your student ID number. (Transfer students with an associate's degree or 60 transfer credits do not need not take the exam or workshop.)
On Friday, the Post Library Association will present Dr. Jeffrey Kroessler, author of The Greater New York Sports Chronology. Dr. Kroessler's comprehensive and entertaining time line stretches from the pastoral entertainments of the Dutch to the corporate captivity of professional sports. He chronicles events ranging from the truly heroic to the heartbreaking, from moments of municipal greatness to inescapable social change. Through it all, he plants the world of sport at the very center of New York's story. His book ranges from the spectacle of blood sports like bullbaiting to the birth of baseball and from the now-forgotten six-day pedestrian contests to today's New York City Marathon. Alongside great moments like the Mets' "amazin" World Series win in 1969, Joe Louis's historic bouts with Max Schmeling, Jackie Robinson's breaking of baseball's color line, and Secretariat's remarkable Triple Crown win at Belmont, Dr. Kroessler's lecture will encounter the point-shaving scandals of college basketball and the corrupting influence of organized crime in professional boxing. Everyone is welcome to this free event that will begin at 8:00 p.m. in the back of Reference Commons.
On Friday night, Ebsco will be performing scheduled maintenance from 11:00pm-3:00am which may cause intermittent interruptions with Ebsco A-to-Z and LinkSource. This may also cause you to have problems accessing the full text of some articles even if you are using a database produced by a different company that is not affiliated with Ebsco. We apologize for any inconvenience this maintenance causes.
From now on, the side door to the library (near the parking lot) will be kept locked at all times. Please enter and exit through the main entrance in the front. Only authorized staff will be able to swipe their LIU ID card and enter through the side door.

04/16 : LIUCat, Art Exhibit, eBooks, Voice Thread, Hours, LinkSource, Competency Exam, Sports Lecture
On Monday evening, an intermittent problem developed with accessing LIUCat from some computers. Hitting the "back" button and then re-clicking the LIUCat link can help in some cases. We apologize for the inconvenience.
The new exhibit downstairs in the Hutchins Gallery is a BFA Senior Exhibition featuring work by LIU Post Digital Arts and Design Program students David Aaron, Ali Jurgens, James Mato, Brooke Morgan, Evan Munoz, Benjamin Nissen, Brian Sander, and Kevin Schmidt. The artists' reception will be on Wednesday from 5:00-7:00.
Our newest trial database is Ebsco's eBook Academic Collection that enables you to search and view the full text of more than 265,000 eBook titles across all major subject areas. You can access the full text from your computer or download titles to most popular portable devices.
On Tuesday, the Instructional Media Center, in cooperation with the College of Education and Information Sciences, will present a hands-on, educational technology workshop on Voice Thread, software that "enables group conversations and comments to be collected and shared in one place from anywhere in the world. Voice Thread is a Web 2.0 collaborative multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos. Teachers can share their Voice Threads with students, and students can interact and leave their comments using voice, text, or video (via a webcam). Students can doodle and take on multiple identities." It will run downstairs in the IMC from 3:45-5:00. Please R.S.V.P. to the IMC at 516-299-2895.
On Wednesday, the library will begin extended hours in preparation for final exams. We will be open until 1:00 on Mondays-Thursdays and open until midnight on Sundays. We will be open normal hours, until 5:00, on Fridays and Saturdays. Hillwood Commons stays open until midnight every day. Once exams begin, the Interfaith Center lounge usually stays open all night (more information about that after it has been officially announced). A PDF of the exam schedule has been posted.
On Thursday, please join us for a Library Brown Bag presentation on Ebsco's LinkSource. Professor Rob Battenfeld will lead a discussion on maximizing and troubleshooting this OpenURL link resolver which is available through our online database collection and allows users to connect from the citations in one database to the full-text in another, maximizing efficiency and making best use of our full-text collections. If you have recently experienced an issue with a LinkSource link, bring the search steps with you and we'll troubleshoot the problem. The program will begin at 10:30 in the Library Instruction Lab. All are welcome and light refreshments will be served - but in the spirit of a true brown bag please feel free to bring a snack. Please R.S.V.P. using this form.
On Friday, the last Library Competency Exam of the semester will take place in Humanities Hall, room 119, at 12:30. If you don't take the exam by the time you have earned 60 credits, you will be automatically enrolled to take the library workshop. Remember to bring a picture ID and know your student ID number. (Transfer students with an associate's degree or 60 transfer credits do not need not take the exam or workshop.)
On Friday, the Post Library Association will present Dr. Jeffrey Kroessler, author of The Greater New York Sports Chronology. Dr. Kroessler's comprehensive and entertaining time line stretches from the pastoral entertainments of the Dutch to the corporate captivity of professional sports. He chronicles events ranging from the truly heroic to the heartbreaking, from moments of municipal greatness to inescapable social change. Through it all, he plants the world of sport at the very center of New York's story. His book ranges from the spectacle of blood sports like bullbaiting to the birth of baseball and from the now-forgotten six-day pedestrian contests to today's New York City Marathon. Alongside great moments like the Mets' "amazin" World Series win in 1969, Joe Louis's historic bouts with Max Schmeling, Jackie Robinson's breaking of baseball's color line, and Secretariat's remarkable Triple Crown win at Belmont, Dr. Kroessler's lecture will encounter the point-shaving scandals of college basketball and the corrupting influence of organized crime in professional boxing. Everyone is welcome to this free event that will begin at 8:00 p.m. in the back of Reference Commons.
On Friday night, Ebsco will be performing scheduled maintenance from 11:00pm-3:00am which may cause intermittent interruptions with Ebsco A-to-Z and LinkSource. This may also cause you to have problems accessing the full text of some articles even if you are using a database produced by a different company that is not affiliated with Ebsco. We apologize for any inconvenience this maintenance causes.
From now on, the side door to the library (near the parking lot) will be kept locked at all times. Please enter and exit through the main entrance in the front. Only authorized staff will be able to swipe their LIU ID card and enter through the side door.

04/15 : Online Teaching Forum, Voice Thread & LinkSource Demos, Competency Exam, Sports Lecture
There will be an Online Teaching Forum upstairs in room 351 from 3:30-5:30. "A faculty panel will discuss best practices for teaching blended and online courses at LIU Post. For more information, contact Amy Gaimaro, Instructional Designer, at amy.gaimaro@liu.edu."
Also on Monday, there will be a blood drive on Monday in the Hillwood Commons Pioneer Room from 10:00-4:00.
On Tuesday, the Instructional Media Center, in cooperation with the College of Education and Information Sciences, will present a hands-on, educational technology workshop on Voice Thread, software that "enables group conversations and comments to be collected and shared in one place from anywhere in the world. Voice Thread is a Web 2.0 collaborative multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos. Teachers can share their Voice Threads with students, and students can interact and leave their comments using voice, text, or video (via a webcam). Students can doodle and take on multiple identities." It will run downstairs in the IMC from 3:45-5:00. Please R.S.V.P. to the IMC at 516-299-2895.
On Wednesday, the library will begin extended hours in preparation for final exams. We will be open until 1:00 on Mondays-Thursdays and open until midnight on Sundays. We will be open normal hours, until 5:00, on Fridays and Saturdays. Hillwood Commons stays open until midnight every day. Once exams begin, the Interfaith Center lounge usually stays open all night (more information about that after it has been officially announced). A PDF of the exam schedule has been posted.
On Thursday, please join us for a Library Brown Bag presentation on Ebsco's LinkSource. Professor Rob Battenfeld will lead a discussion on maximizing and troubleshooting this OpenURL link resolver which is available through our online database collection and allows users to connect from the citations in one database to the full-text in another, maximizing efficiency and making best use of our full-text collections. If you have recently experienced an issue with a LinkSource link, bring the search steps with you and we'll troubleshoot the problem. The program will begin at 10:30 in the Library Instruction Lab. All are welcome and light refreshments will be served - but in the spirit of a true brown bag please feel free to bring a snack. Please R.S.V.P. using this form.
On Friday, the last Library Competency Exam of the semester will take place in Humanities Hall, room 119, at 12:30. If you don't take the exam by the time you have earned 60 credits, you will be automatically enrolled to take the library workshop. Remember to bring a picture ID and know your student ID number. (Transfer students with an associate's degree or 60 transfer credits do not need not take the exam or workshop.)
On Friday, the Post Library Association will present Dr. Jeffrey Kroessler, author of The Greater New York Sports Chronology. Dr. Kroessler's comprehensive and entertaining time line stretches from the pastoral entertainments of the Dutch to the corporate captivity of professional sports. He chronicles events ranging from the truly heroic to the heartbreaking, from moments of municipal greatness to inescapable social change. Through it all, he plants the world of sport at the very center of New York's story. His book ranges from the spectacle of blood sports like bullbaiting to the birth of baseball and from the now-forgotten six-day pedestrian contests to today's New York City Marathon. Alongside great moments like the Mets' "amazin" World Series win in 1969, Joe Louis's historic bouts with Max Schmeling, Jackie Robinson's breaking of baseball's color line, and Secretariat's remarkable Triple Crown win at Belmont, Dr. Kroessler's lecture will encounter the point-shaving scandals of college basketball and the corrupting influence of organized crime in professional boxing. Everyone is welcome to this free event that will begin at 8:00 p.m. in the back of Reference Commons.
On Friday night, Ebsco will be performing scheduled maintenance from 11:00pm-3:00am which may cause intermittent interruptions with Ebsco A-to-Z and LinkSource. This may also cause you to have problems accessing the full text of some articles even if you are using a database produced by a different company that is not affiliated with Ebsco. We apologize for any inconvenience this maintenance causes.
From now on, the side door to the library (near the parking lot) will be kept locked at all times. Please enter and exit through the main entrance in the front. Only authorized staff will be able to swipe their LIU ID card and enter through the side door.

04/12 : Book Collectors, Blood Drive, Online Teaching, Ed Tech Demo, LinkSource Demo
On Sunday, at 2:00, this month's meeting of the Long Island Book Collectors will be held in the Special Collections Department to view some of the treasures and new acquisitions that Conrad Schoeffling, Head of Special Collections, and Jarron Jewell, Rare Book Librarian and Archivist, have obtained since the LIBC's last visit. The department's holdings in French and Irish Literature and Children's Literature, not to mention Original Movie Posters, are spectacular. You will also be able to tour Special Collections' current exhibit on the main floor of the Library: Archival Selections from the Joseph Cameron Cross Collection. This will be a real treat. Seating is limited, so please R.S.V.P to mrosenth1@verizon.net or Jarron.Jewell@liu.edu to reserve a seat.
There will be a blood drive on Monday in the Hillwood Commons Pioneer Room from 10:00-4:00.
Also on Monday, there will be an Online Teaching Forum upstairs in room 351 from 3:30-5:30. "A faculty panel will discuss best practices for teaching blended and online courses at LIU Post. For more information, contact Amy Gaimaro, Instructional Designer, at amy.gaimaro@liu.edu."
On Tuesday, the Instructional Media Center, in cooperation with the College of Education and Information Sciences, will present a hands-on, educational technology workshop on Voice Thread, software that "enables group conversations and comments to be collected and shared in one place from anywhere in the world. Voice Thread is a Web 2.0 collaborative multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos. Teachers can share their Voice Threads with students, and students can interact and leave their comments using voice, text, or video (via a webcam). Students can doodle and take on multiple identities." It will run downstairs in the IMC from 3:45-5:00. Please R.S.V.P. to the IMC at 516-299-2895.
On Wednesday, the library will begin extended hours in preparation for final exams.
On Thursday, please join us for a Library Brown Bag presentation on Ebsco's LinkSource. Professor Rob Battenfeld will lead a discussion on maximizing and troubleshooting this OpenURL link resolver which is available through our online database collection and allows users to connect from the citations in one database to the full-text in another, maximizing efficiency and making best use of our full-text collections. If you have recently experienced an issue with a LinkSource link, bring the search steps with you and we'll troubleshoot the problem. The program will begin at 10:30 in the Library Instruction Lab. All are welcome and light refreshments will be served - but in the spirit of a true brown bag please feel free to bring a snack. Please R.S.V.P. using this form.
On April 19th, the Post Library Association will be sponsoring a trip to A Day In Brooklyn that will include tours of the Brooklyn Museum and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. The cost is $70 for PLA members and $90 for non-members. Please register before April 13th. A PDF flyer is available.
From now on, the side door to the library (near the parking lot) will be kept locked at all times. Please enter and exit through the main entrance in the front. Only authorized staff will be able to swipe their LIU ID card and enter through the side door.

04/11 : School Libraries, Jewish Music Concert/Lecture, Book Collectors Meeting
The newest online reference book that we've added to our collection is School Library Management: Just the Basics. Written for the first-year librarian, as well as library aides, paraprofessionals, and other noncertified personnel, this book presents a step-by-step guide to the setting up, operation, and management of a school library media center. It covers: storage - circulation - work areas - scheduling - privacy issues - activity centers - group activities - computer usage - professional materials - discipline, incentives, and rewards - and training student and parent volunteers. It includes passes, bookmarks, and other reproducibles.
On Thursday will be the closing ceremony of our month-long exhibit and celebration, A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs, 1910-1965. Moderated by provost Paul Forestell, it will feature Laughter and Lament: The Jewish Spirit in Music, a lecture/presentation and piano recital with Professor David Holzman in which varied works will be tied together both musically and spiritually. The repertoire will include music by Paul Ben-Haim, Aaron Copland, Stefan Wolpe, Leonard Bernstein, George Gershwin, Arthur Berger, and Josef Achron. In these varied works one finds not only direct and indirect allusions to popular culture, but also vivid expressions of the Jewish spirit in its ironic wit, its distance, and the melancholy sense of loss which all Jewish culture manifests. Hailed as "a master pianist", Professor Holzman's honors and awards include recording grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Alice B. Ditson Fund, and the Aaron Copland Foundation. His debut recording was called "one of the great piano discs of the decade", and his CD, Stefan Wolpe: Compositions for Piano, won a Grammy nomination as well as an Indie Award and an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for his liner notes. This event, which is free and open to the public, will run from 12:30-1:45 downstairs in the Hutchins Gallery. Space is limited, so please call 516-299-2895 for reservations. A PDF flyer is available.
On Sunday, at 2:00, this month's meeting of the Long Island Book Collectors will be held in the Special Collections Department to view some of the treasures and new acquisitions that Conrad Schoeffling, Head of Special Collections, and Jarron Jewell, Rare Book Librarian and Archivist, have obtained since the LIBC's last visit. The department's holdings in French and Irish Literature and Children's Literature, not to mention Original Movie Posters, are spectacular. You will also be able to tour Special Collections' current exhibit on the main floor of the Library: Archival Selections from the Joseph Cameron Cross Collection. This will be a real treat. Seating is limited, so please R.S.V.P to mrosenth1@verizon.net or Jarron.Jewell@liu.edu to reserve a seat.
On Monday, there will be an Online Teaching Forum upstairs in room 351 from 3:30-5:30. "A faculty panel will discuss best practices for teaching blended and online courses at LIU Post. For more information, contact Amy Gaimaro, Instructional Designer, at amy.gaimaro@liu.edu."
On Tuesday, the Instructional Media Center, in cooperation with the College of Education and Information Sciences, will present a hands-on, educational technology workshop on Voice Thread, software that "enables group conversations and comments to be collected and shared in one place from anywhere in the world. Voice Thread is a Web 2.0 collaborative multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos. Teachers can share their Voice Threads with students, and students can interact and leave their comments using voice, text, or video (via a webcam). Students can doodle and take on multiple identities." It will run downstairs in the IMC from 3:45-5:00. Please R.S.V.P. to the IMC at 516-299-2895.
Next Wednesday, the library will begin extended hours in preparation for final exams.
On April 19th, the Post Library Association will be sponsoring a trip to A Day In Brooklyn that will include tours of the Brooklyn Museum and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. The cost is $70 for PLA members and $90 for non-members. Please register before April 13th. A PDF flyer is available.
From now on, the side door to the library (near the parking lot) will be kept locked at all times. Please enter and exit through the main entrance in the front. Only authorized staff will be able to swipe their LIU ID card and enter through the side door.

04/09 : Art Database, SmartBoard Demo, Citation Style, Jewish Music, Book Collectors
A new database that we have for a brief trial period is the Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Made available as part of the Oxford Art Online database that we already subscribe to, it provides nearly 170,000 entries on both acclaimed and obscure artists from antiquity to the present day and across all media. It includes digital images of artists signatures, monograms, and stamps of sale, as well as museum listings, exhibition histories, historical auction records, and bibliographies.
On Tuesday, the Instructional Media Center, in cooperation with the College of Education and Information Sciences, will present the hands-on, educational technology workshop, Using SMART Boards in Diverse Classrooms. "This workshop addresses the variable needs of learners in today's classroom. It demonstrates the use of simple adaptive and assistive technologies that are found on any computer, effective SMART Board tools, and the use of free online tools on open access websites. The workshop will include the use and creation of SMART Board interactive activities to engage these learners." It will run downstairs in the IMC from 3:45-5:00. Please R.S.V.P. to the IMC at 516-299-2895.
On Wednesday, in response to the many requests for help with citing sources using the APA and MLA citation styles, the library will be holding a one-hour Styling Time Workshop in the Library Instruction Lab (LB220) at 12:30. You're encouraged to bring your lists of sources to get hands-on help with citing them.
On Thursday will be the closing ceremony of our month-long exhibit and celebration, A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs, 1910-1965. Moderated by provost Paul Forestell, it will feature Laughter and Lament: The Jewish Spirit in Music, a lecture/presentation and piano recital with Professor David Holzman in which varied works will be tied together both musically and spiritually. The repertoire will include music by Paul Ben-Haim, Aaron Copland, Stefan Wolpe, Leonard Bernstein, George Gershwin, Arthur Berger, and Josef Achron. In these varied works one finds not only direct and indirect allusions to popular culture, but also vivid expressions of the Jewish spirit in its ironic wit, its distance, and the melancholy sense of loss which all Jewish culture manifests. Hailed as "a master pianist", Professor Holzman's honors and awards include recording grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Alice B. Ditson Fund, and the Aaron Copland Foundation. His debut recording was called "one of the great piano discs of the decade", and his CD, Stefan Wolpe: Compositions for Piano, won a Grammy nomination as well as an Indie Award and an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for his liner notes. This event, which is free and open to the public, will run from 12:30-1:45 downstairs in the Hutchins Gallery. Space is limited, so please call 516-299-2895 for reservations. A PDF flyer is available.
On Sunday, at 2:00, this month's meeting of the Long Island Book Collectors will be held in the Special Collections Department to view some of the treasures and new acquisitions that Conrad Schoeffling, Head of Special Collections, and Jarron Jewell, Rare Book Librarian and Archivist, have obtained since the LIBC's last visit. The department's holdings in French and Irish Literature and Children's Literature, not to mention Original Movie Posters, are spectacular. You will also be able to tour Special Collections' current exhibit on the main floor of the Library: Archival Selections from the Joseph Cameron Cross Collection. This will be a real treat. Seating is limited, so please R.S.V.P to mrosenth1@verizon.net or Jarron.Jewell@liu.edu to reserve a seat.
On April 19th, the Post Library Association will be sponsoring a trip to A Day In Brooklyn that will include tours of the Brooklyn Museum and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. The cost is $70 for PLA members and $90 for non-members. Please register before April 13th. A PDF flyer is available.
From now on, the side door to the library (near the parking lot) will be kept locked at all times. Please enter and exit through the main entrance in the front. Only authorized staff will be able to swipe their LIU ID card and enter through the side door.

04/05 : Competency Exam, Holiday Hours, Marx Brothers, Citation & Ed Tech Workshops
On Friday, the next Library Competency Exam will take place in Humanities Hall, room 119, at 11:00. Remember to bring a picture ID and know your student ID number. If you don't take the exam by the time you have earned 60 credits, you will be automatically enrolled to take the library workshop. (Transfer students with an associate's degree or 60 transfer credits do not need not take the exam or workshop.)
The library will be open normal hours, 8:00-5:00, on Friday and Saturday and closed on Sunday.
On Monday, there will be a lecture and concert on Social Satire, from Vaudeville Music Revues to Broadway and Hollywood: The Marx Brothers and Their Musical Collaborators. Theatre professor, Rick DesRochers will discuss the Marx Brothers and the evolution of their career from 1905-1933 as satirical singer/songwriters and social critics. With the collaboration of composers, lyricists, and book writers such as Irving Berlin, George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby, the Marx Brothers created two hit Broadway shows which launched their now internationally recognized careers in comedy. Beginning with The Cocoanuts in 1925 and Animal Crackers in 1928, these Broadway successes went on to become successful Hollywood films, putting the Marx Brothers on the cultural map for posterity. Professor DesRochers will discuss the songs from these Broadway shows and their subsequent films (including Horse Feathers and Monkey Business) as social critique through satire, and how these songs challenged the values and ideals of a burgeoning middle-class America from stage to screen. He will be followed by a concert featuring Professor Richard Iacona and LIU Post music students. This event, which is free and open to the public and accompanies our exhibit, A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs, 1910-1965, will begin at 12:30 in the Hillwood Commons Lecture Hall. A PDF flyer is available.
On Monday and Wednesday, in response to the many requests for help with citing sources using the APA and MLA citation styles, the library will be holding two one-hour Styling Time Workshops in the Library Instruction Lab (LB220) at 12:30. You're encouraged to bring your lists of sources to get hands-on help with citing them. The same material will be covered in each session.
On Tuesday, the Instructional Media Center, in cooperation with the College of Education and Information Sciences, will present the hands-on, educational technology workshop, Using SMART Boards in Diverse Classrooms. "This workshop addresses the variable needs of learners in today's classroom. It demonstrates the use of simple adaptive and assistive technologies that are found on any computer, effective SMART Board tools, and the use of free online tools on open access websites. The workshop will include the use and creation of SMART Board interactive activities to engage these learners." It will run downstairs in the IMC from 3:45-5:00. Please R.S.V.P. to the IMC at 516-299-2895.
We have a brief trial subscription to CRCnetBASE, which provides the full text of over 8000 online handbooks and reference books that were published by CRC Press, Auerbach, and Chapman & Hall. Subject areas covered include science, technology, business, military, economics, project management, and public administration.
On April 19th, the Post Library Association will be sponsoring a trip to A Day In Brooklyn that will include tours of the Brooklyn Museum and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. The cost is $70 for PLA members and $90 for non-members. Please register before April 13th. A PDF flyer is available.
From now on, the side door to the library (near the parking lot) will be kept locked at all times. Please enter and exit through the main entrance in the front. Only authorized staff will be able to swipe their LIU ID card and enter through the side door.

04/03 : Ebooks, Tin Pan Alley, Citation Workshop, Competency Exam, Marx Brothers
We have a brief trial subscription to CRCnetBASE, which provides the full text of over 8000 online handbooks and reference books that were published by CRC Press, Auerbach, and Chapman & Hall. Subject areas covered include science, technology, business, military, economics, project management, and public administration.
On Wednesday, in response to the many requests for help with citing sources using the APA and MLA citation styles, the library will be holding a one-hour Styling Time Workshop in the Library Instruction Lab (LB220) at 5:00. You're encouraged to bring your lists of sources to get hands-on help with citing them. There will be additional workshops next Monday and Wednesday at 12:30.
Also on Wednesday will be the concert and lecture, Tin Pan Alley: Composers, Lyricists and Publishers. Where songwriting became a profession and where songs were made-to-order for the biggest stars, New York's Tin Pan Alley was the center of popular music publishing in this country from the ragtime era to the roaring twenties to the big band songs to the age of rock and roll. Author and media professor David Jasen's lecture will capture the spirit of this exciting period that included Broadway musicals, silent films, talkies, and the spectaculars of films and television. He will be followed by a concert featuring Professor Richard Iacona and LIU Post music students. This event, which is free and open to the public and accompanies our exhibit, A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs, 1910-1965, will begin at 12:30 in the Hillwood Commons Lecture Hall. A PDF flyer is available.
On Friday, the next Library Competency Exam will take place in Humanities Hall, room 119, at 11:00. Remember to bring a picture ID and know your student ID number. If you don't take the exam by the time you have earned 60 credits, you will be automatically enrolled to take the library workshop. (Transfer students with an associate's degree or 60 transfer credits do not need not take the exam or workshop.)
The library will be closed on Sunday.
On Monday, there will be a lecture and concert on Social Satire, from Vaudeville Music Revues to Broadway and Hollywood: The Marx Brothers and Their Musical Collaborators. Theatre professor, Rick DesRochers will discuss the Marx Brothers and the evolution of their career from 1905-1933 as satirical singer/songwriters and social critics. With the collaboration of composers, lyricists, and book writers such as Irving Berlin, George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby, the Marx Brothers created two hit Broadway shows which launched their now internationally recognized careers in comedy. Beginning with The Cocoanuts in 1925 and Animal Crackers in 1928, these Broadway successes went on to become successful Hollywood films, putting the Marx Brothers on the cultural map for posterity. Professor DesRochers will discuss the songs from these Broadway shows and their subsequent films (including Horse Feathers and Monkey Business) as social critique through satire, and how these songs challenged the values and ideals of a burgeoning middle-class America from stage to screen. He will be followed by a concert featuring Professor Richard Iacona and LIU Post music students. This event, which is free and open to the public and accompanies our exhibit, A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs, 1910-1965, will begin at 12:30 in the Hillwood Commons Lecture Hall. A PDF flyer is available.
On April 19th, the Post Library Association will be sponsoring a trip to A Day In Brooklyn that will include tours of the Brooklyn Museum and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. The cost is $70 for PLA members and $90 for non-members. Please register before April 13th. A PDF flyer is available.
From now on, the side door to the library (near the parking lot) will be kept locked at all times. Please enter and exit through the main entrance in the front. Only authorized staff will be able to swipe their LIU ID card and enter through the side door.

04/01 : Yip Harburg & Tin Pan Alley Concerts/Lectures, Citation Workshop, Competency Exam
Starting on Monday, the side door to the library (near the parking lot) will be kept locked at all times. Please enter and exit through the main entrance in the front. Only authorized staff will be able to swipe their LIU ID card and enter through the side door.
A copy of the poster that accompanies our current exhibit, Archival Selections from the Joseph Cameron Cross Theatre Collection has been added to the website. The exhibit includes signed letters and photographs from celebrities like Lillian Gish, John Gielgud, Ethel Merman, Alec Guinness, Richard Burton, Gloria Swanson, and more.
The end of semester hours for the library have been posted.
On Tuesday will be the concert and lecture, Riding the Rainbow / Writing the Rainbow: The Lyrics of Yip Harburg. Best remembered today for The Wizard of Oz, Finian's Rainbow, and "Brother Can You Lend a Dime", Harburg had a gift for writing both romantic ballads that deftly combine sentiment with wit and comic numbers of antic skepticism. He loved wordplay, but he could also write with utter simplicity. After a lecture by author and radio host, Michael Lasser, there will be a concert by professor, pianist, and composer, Richard Iacona, and jazz vocalist and bassist, Madeline Kole. This event, which is free and open to the public and accompanies our exhibit, A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs, 1910-1965, will begin at 6:00 in the Hillwood Commons Lecture Hall. Light refreshments will be served, courtesy of Post Library Association. A PDF flyer is available.
On Wednesday, in response to the many requests for help with citing sources using the APA and MLA citation styles, the library will be holding a one-hour Styling Time Workshop in the Library Instruction Lab (LB220). You're encouraged to bring your lists of sources to get hands-on help with citing them.
Also on Wednesday will be the concert and lecture, Tin Pan Alley: Composers, Lyricists and Publishers. Where songwriting became a profession and where songs were made-to-order for the biggest stars, New York's Tin Pan Alley was the center of popular music publishing in this country from the ragtime era to the roaring twenties to the big band songs to the age of rock and roll. Author and media professor David Jasen's lecture will capture the spirit of this exciting period that included Broadway musicals, silent films, talkies, and the spectaculars of films and television. He will be followed by a concert featuring Professor Richard Iacona and LIU Post music students. This event, which is free and open to the public and accompanies our exhibit, A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs, 1910-1965, will begin at 12:30 in the Hillwood Commons Lecture Hall. A PDF flyer is available.
On Friday, the next Library Competency Exam will take place in Humanities Hall, room 119, at 11:00. Remember to bring a picture ID and know your student ID number. If you don't take the exam by the time you have earned 60 credits, you will be automatically enrolled to take the library workshop. (Transfer students with an associate's degree or 60 transfer credits do not need not take the exam or workshop.)
The library will be closed on Sunday.
On April 19th, the Post Library Association will be sponsoring a trip to A Day In Brooklyn that will include tours of the Brooklyn Museum and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. The cost is $70 for PLA members and $90 for non-members. Please register before April 13th. A PDF flyer is available.

03/29 : ProQuest, Door, Warren/Mancini Concert, Jewish Songwriters Concert, Brooklyn Trip
On Thursday, there was an intermittent problem with accessing all of the databases from ProQuest from computers off campus. It was asking for both a username and a password instead of just the usual password (your library barcode number). If you find that you cannot get on, you can try browsing through our subject list of databases to see if any of the other databases that we subscribe to from other companies may cover the subject area that you are interested in. You can also always ask a librarian for help in getting the material that you need. We have set up an Outage Alerts and Known Issues page to keep you informed about the current status of our databases.
Starting on Monday, the side door to the library (near the parking lot) will be kept locked at all times. Please enter and exit through the main entrance in the front. Only authorized staff will be able to swipe their LIU ID card and enter through the side door.
All the 2011 postings to this page have been archived for posterity.
On Friday, the Post Library Association will present In The Italian Neighborhood: Two of America's Great Songwriters, Harry Warren and Henry Mancini, a lecture and performance with Professor Richard Iacona - an instructor of music theory, jazz piano, and the American popular song here at LIU Post - accompanied by his wife and songstress Ms. Madeline Kole. Professor Iacona has had the opportunity to perform or arrange for and with artists such as John Pizzerelli Jr., Clark Terry, Jerome Richardson, Urbie Green, Marilyn Michaels, Chuck Berry, Kate Baldwin, Gerry Niewood, Julius La Rosa, Charles Aznevour, Vic Damone, Liza Minelli, Scott Record, and many others. Everyone is welcome to this free event that will take place in the back of Reference Commons at 8:00.
On Sunday, there will be a concert featuring Songs by Long Island Jewish Composers. Presented by the Long Island Composers Alliance (LICA) and the Russian American Cultural Heritage Center, in conjunction with our current exhibit, A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs, 1910-1965, this concert, which is free and open to the public, also celebrates the first Russian American History Month designated by the NY State Legislature. It will begin at 3:00 in the Hillwood commons Lecture Hall, and light refreshments will be served, courtesy of Post Parent and Family Connection. A PDF flyer is available.
On April 19th, the Post Library Association will be sponsoring a trip to A Day In Brooklyn that will include tours of the Brooklyn Museum and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. The cost is $70 for PLA members and $90 for non-members. Please register before April 13th. A PDF flyer is available.

03/28 : New Materials, Warren/Mancini Concert, Jewish Songwriters Concert, Brooklyn Trip
At the LIU Brentwood library's website, the lists of new circulating books and children's books have been updated. If you'd like see lists of the newest books, videos, music, and more added to our collections here at the LIU Post library, you can go to the New Library Materials RSS Feeds page. It can be browsed either by subject area (according to Library of Congress classifications) or by library department. You can also sign up for RSS feeds in your areas of interest to have monthly lists of new materials automatically sent to you.
The problem with the databases from Ebsco has been resolved.
On Friday, the Post Library Association will present In The Italian Neighborhood: Two of America's Great Songwriters, Harry Warren and Henry Mancini, a lecture and performance with Professor Richard Iacona - an instructor of music theory, jazz piano, and the American popular song here at LIU Post - accompanied by his wife and songstress Ms. Madeline Kole. Professor Iacona has had the opportunity to perform or arrange for and with artists such as John Pizzerelli Jr., Clark Terry, Jerome Richardson, Urbie Green, Marilyn Michaels, Chuck Berry, Kate Baldwin, Gerry Niewood, Julius La Rosa, Charles Aznevour, Vic Damone, Liza Minelli, Scott Record, and many others. Everyone is welcome to this free event that will take place in the back of Reference Commons at 8:00.
On Sunday, there will be a concert featuring Songs by Long Island Jewish Composers. Presented by the Long Island Composers Alliance (LICA) and the Russian American Cultural Heritage Center, in conjunction with our current exhibit, A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs, 1910-1965, this concert, which is free and open to the public, also celebrates the first Russian American History Month designated by the NY State Legislature. It will begin at 3:00 in the Hillwood commons Lecture Hall, and light refreshments will be served, courtesy of Post Parent and Family Connection. A PDF flyer is available.
On April 19th, the Post Library Association will be sponsoring a trip to A Day In Brooklyn that will include tours of the Brooklyn Museum and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. The cost is $70 for PLA members and $90 for non-members. Please register before April 13th. A PDF flyer is available.

03/27 : Ebsco Database Problem, Library Exam, Poetry Reading, Two Weekend Concerts
On Tuesday morning, a problem developed with accessing all of the databases from Ebsco which is affecting all of Ebsco's customers. They are working to correct the problem, and we apologize for the inconvenience. In the meantime, you can browse through our subject list of databases to see if any of the other databases that we subscribe to from other companies may cover the subject area that you are interested in. You can also always ask a librarian for help in getting the material that you need. We have set up an Outage Alerts and Known Issues page to keep you informed about the current status of our databases.
The next Library Competency Exam will be on Wednesday at 12:30 in Life Sciences room 139. Remember to bring a picture ID and know your student ID number.
Also on Wednesday, will be David Lehman's poetry reading and lecture, The Influence of Jewish Songwriters on the Speaker's own poetry. Mr. Lehman is a highly acclaimed poet, critic, editor, and essayist. His expertise ranges from the avant-garde to mystery novels and popular songs. His book, A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs, inspired him to curate the exhibition that is the core of our two month festival. The program will begin at 12:30 in the Hutchins Gallery downstairs. Space is limited, so please call 516-299-2895 for reservations. A PDF flyer is available.
On Friday, the Post Library Association will present In The Italian Neighborhood: Two of America's Great Songwriters, Harry Warren and Henry Mancini, a lecture and performance with Professor Richard Iacona - an instructor of music theory, jazz piano, and the American popular song here at LIU Post - accompanied by his wife and songstress Ms. Madeline Kole. Professor Iacona has had the opportunity to perform or arrange for and with artists such as John Pizzerelli Jr., Clark Terry, Jerome Richardson, Urbie Green, Marilyn Michaels, Chuck Berry, Kate Baldwin, Gerry Niewood, Julius La Rosa, Charles Aznevour, Vic Damone, Liza Minelli, Scott Record, and many others. Everyone is welcome to this free event that will take place in the back of Reference Commons at 8:00.
On Sunday, there will be a concert featuring Songs by Long Island Jewish Composers. Presented by the Long Island Composers Alliance (LICA) and the Russian American Cultural Heritage Center, in conjunction with our current exhibit, A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs, 1910-1965, this concert, which is free and open to the public, also celebrates the first Russian American History Month designated by the NY State Legislature. It will begin at 3:00 in the Hillwood commons Lecture Hall, and light refreshments will be served, courtesy of Post Parent and Family Connection. A PDF flyer is available.
The new exhibit from the Special Collections Department, located in the back of Reference Commons, features Archival Selections from the Joseph Cameron Cross Theatre Collection. This collection contains over 300 letters written by such notables as the actors Viola Allen; John Gielgud; Richard Burton; ballet dancer Margot Fonteyn; comedian Fred Allen; and writers like Booth Tarkington. The collection also houses 50 theater programs, many Christmas cards, postcards, articles, and theatrical photographs. All chronicle the time periods of the early 20th century and the 1940's and 1950's.

03/25 : Listserv, Exhibit, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Exam, Poetry, Warren & Mancini
On Friday, a problem arose with the library listservs, and messages that were posted to them since then may not have gone through. This problem may also be affecting other campus listservs. We apologize for any inconvenience that this may be causing. Thank you for your patience and understanding while we work to resolve this matter. More information is on our alerts page.
On Monday, the Special Collections Department will present a new exhibit in the library lobby that will feature Archival Selections from the Joseph Cameron Cross Theatre Collection. This collection contains over 300 letters written by such notables as the actors Viola Allen; John Gielgud; Richard Burton; ballet dancer Margot Fonteyn; comedian Fred Allen; and writers like Booth Tarkington. The collection also houses 50 theater programs, many Christmas cards, postcards, articles, and theatrical photographs. All chronicle the time periods of the early 20th century and the 1940's and 1950's.
On Tuesday, there will be a concert and lecture entitled, The Rogers and Hammerstein Era: Reinventing Musical Theater. Beginning with 1943's Oklahoma!, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II changed the face of American musical theater. Has musical comedy evolved since, and is it still a measure of American society? Using musical examples, Professor Marc Courtade will explore the various Broadway musicals and analyze their similarities and differences in styles, as well as how they reflect American culture. The lecture will be followed by a performance with Professor Richard Iacona and LIU Post music students. This event, which is free and open to the public, begins at 12:30 in the Hillwood Commons Lecture Hall and is presented in cooperation with our exhibit, A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs, 1910-1965. A PDF flyer is available.
The next Library Competency Exam will be on Wednesday at 12:30 in Life Sciences room 139. Remember to bring a picture ID and know your student ID number.
Also on Wednesday, will be David Lehman's poetry reading and lecture, The Influence of Jewish Songwriters on the Speaker's own poetry. Mr. Lehman is a highly acclaimed poet, critic, editor, and essayist. His expertise ranges from the avant-garde to mystery novels and popular songs. His book, A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs, inspired him to curate the exhibition that is the core of our two month festival. The program will begin at 12:30 in the Hutchins Gallery downstairs. Space is limited, so please call 516-299-2895 for reservations. A PDF flyer is available.
On Friday, the Post Library Association will present In The Italian Neighborhood: Two of America's Great Songwriters, Harry Warren and Henry Mancini, a lecture and performance with Professor Richard Iacona - an instructor of music theory, jazz piano, and the American popular song here at LIU Post - accompanied by his wife and songstress Ms. Madeline Kole. Professor Iacona has had the opportunity to perform or arrange for and with artists such as John Pizzerelli Jr., Clark Terry, Jerome Richardson, Urbie Green, Marilyn Michaels, Chuck Berry, Kate Baldwin, Gerry Niewood, Julius La Rosa, Charles Aznevour, Vic Damone, Liza Minelli, Scott Record, and many others. Everyone is welcome to this free event that will take place in the back of Reference Commons at 8:00.

03/22 : Downtime, Theatre Exhibit, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Library Exam, Poetic Influences
On Friday, Ebsco will be performing scheduled maintenance from 11:00pm Friday night through 3:00am Saturday morning, causing Ebsco A-to-Z and LinkSource to experience intermittent interruptions. This may cause you to have problems accessing the full text of some articles even if you are using a database produced by a different company that is not affiliated with Ebsco. We apologize for any inconvenience this maintenance may cause.
On Monday, the Special Collections Department will present a new exhibit in the library lobby that will feature Archival Selections from the Joseph Cameron Cross Theatre Collection. This collection contains over 300 letters written by such notables as the actors Viola Allen; John Gielgud; Richard Burton; ballet dancer Margot Fonteyn; comedian Fred Allen; and writers like Booth Tarkington. The collection also houses 50 theater programs, many Christmas cards, postcards, articles, and theatrical photographs. All chronicle the time periods of the early 20th century and the 1940's and 1950's.
On Tuesday, there will be a concert and lecture entitled, The Rogers and Hammerstein Era: Reinventing Musical Theater. Beginning with 1943's Oklahoma!, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II changed the face of American musical theater. Has musical comedy evolved since, and is it still a measure of American society? Using musical examples, Professor Marc Courtade will explore the various Broadway musicals and analyze their similarities and differences in styles, as well as how they reflect American culture. The lecture will be followed by a performance with Professor Richard Iacona and LIU Post music students. This event, which is free and open to the public, begins at 12:30 in the Hillwood Commons Lecture Hall and is presented in cooperation with our exhibit, A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs, 1910-1965. A PDF flyer is available.
The next Library Competency Exam will be on Wednesday at 12:30 in Life Sciences room 139. Remember to bring a picture ID and know your student ID number.
Also on Wednesday, will be David Lehman's poetry reading and lecture, The Influence of Jewish Songwriters on the Speaker's own poetry. Mr. Lehman is a highly acclaimed poet, critic, editor, and essayist. His expertise ranges from the avant-garde to mystery novels and popular songs. His book, A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs, inspired him to curate the exhibition that is the core of our two month festival. The program will begin at 12:30 in the Hutchins Gallery downstairs. Space is limited, so please call 516-299-2895 for reservations. A PDF flyer is available.
In response to the many requests for help with citing sources using the APA or MLA citation styles, the library will be holding one-hour Styling Time workshops in the Library Instruction Lab (LB220) during April. The same material will be covered in each session. Students are encouraged to bring their lists of sources to get hands-on help with citing them.
You can now use your phone to Text a Librarian to ask brief reference questions. To sign up, just text the word "askpost" to 66746 and wait for the automated reply. You can then text your questions to that number.
In addition to this page, we've set up an Outage Alerts & Known Issues page for current information concerning the library's online resources, such as scheduled downtimes and solutions to technical problems that people have reported. You can also get to this page by clicking on one of the Alerts links on the library's homepage under "Databases" or "What's New".

03/21 : Irving Berlin Lecture/Concert, and Citation Style
On Thursday, in cooperation with our exhibit, A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs, 1910-1965, Professor John Koshel will present the lecture, Irving Berlin: His Music in Film, that will be followed by a performance by Professor Richard Iacona and LIU Post music students. Everyone is welcome to this free event that will run from 12:30-1:30 in the Hillwood Commons lecture hall. A PDF flyer is available.
In response to the many requests for help with citing sources using the APA or MLA citation styles, the library will be holding one-hour Styling Time workshops in the Library Instruction Lab (LB220) during April. The same material will be covered in each session. Students are encouraged to bring their lists of sources to get hands-on help with citing them.
On Friday, Ebsco will be performing scheduled maintenance from 11:00pm Friday night through 3:00am Saturday morning, causing Ebsco A-to-Z and LinkSource to experience intermittent interruptions. This may cause you to have problems accessing the full text of some articles even if you are using a database produced by a different company that is not affiliated with Ebsco. We apologize for any inconvenience this maintenance may cause.
In addition to this page, we've set up an Outage Alerts & Known Issues page for current information concerning the library's online resources, such as scheduled downtimes and solutions to technical problems that people have reported. You can also get to this page by clicking on one of the Alerts links on the library's homepage under "Databases" or "What's New".
You can now use your phone to Text a Librarian to ask brief reference questions. To sign up, just text the word "askpost" to 66746 and wait for the automated reply. You can then text your questions to that number.

03/19 : Database Problems, SmartBoard Workshop, Irving Berlin Lecture/Concert
In addition to this page, we've set up an Outage Alerts & Known Issues page for current information concerning the library's online resources, such as scheduled downtimes and solutions to technical problems that people have reported. You can also get to this page by clicking on one of the Alerts links on the library's homepage under "Databases" or "What's New".
Monday evening, there was a problem with reaching the Children's Literature Comprehensive Database website that seemd to clear up after midnight.
On Wednesday, the Instructional Media Center, in cooperation with the College of Education and Information Sciences, will present the special hands-on workshop, SMART Board Notebook and SMART Response PE - Interactive Response System (Clickers) for K-12. "Create your own assessments using SMART Notebook tools. A variety of question formats can be easily created such as: multiple choice, true/false, numeric, and short answer. Get students engaged and motivated using response pads or 'clickers'. These small, handheld devices enable students to quickly respond to questions asked verbally, on paper, or on screen. Teachers can create planned or spontaneous quizzes, instantly tally responses, and generate reports. Use these response pads with the SMART Notebook software, and add interactive and multimedia content to the assessment." It will run from 3:45-5:00 downstairs in the IMC. Please R.S.V.P. to ext. 2895 and indicate what grade you will be teaching when you register.
On Thursday, in cooperation with our exhibit, A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs, 1910-1965, Professor John Koshel will present the lecture, Irving Berlin: His Music in Film, that will be followed by a performance by Professor Richard Iacona and LIU Post music students. Everyone is welcome to this free event that will run from 12:30-1:30 in the Hillwood Commons lecture hall. A PDF flyer is available.
You can now use your phone to Text a Librarian to ask brief reference questions. To sign up, just text the word "askpost" to 66746 and wait for the automated reply. You can then text your questions to that number.
On Friday, Ebsco will be performing scheduled maintenance from 11:00pm Friday night through 3:00am Saturday morning, causing Ebsco A-to-Z and LinkSource to experience intermittent interruptions. This may cause you to have problems accessing the full text of some articles even if you are using a database produced by a different company that is not affiliated with Ebsco. We apologize for any inconvenience this maintenance may cause.

03/11 : Spring Break Hours
The library will be open 9:00-5:00 on Monday-Friday and closed Saturday-Sunday. The Bookmark Café will be closed.
Added the list of vintage movie posters that are on display with the exhibit, A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs, 1910-1965. They come from the Special Collections Department's Original Movie Poster Research Collection of over 6,000 posters covering the years 1940-1962. Posters from the top 100 films in the collection can be viewed on our website.
The Special Collections Department has made information about The Karl Otto Paetel Beat Generation Collection available on their website. Mr. Paetel was a prominent political journalist noted for his radical writings pre- and post-World War II. This collection contains many important works produced by Beat Generation authors such as William S. Burroughs, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Alan Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Philip Lamantia, and more during the 1950s-1960s. The website includes selected images, a holdings list, and more.
On March 22, the Post Library Association will be sponsoring a trip with More Fun on the East Side, featuring guided tours of exhibits at the Museum of the City of New York, El Museo del Barrio, and the Jewish Museum, along with lunch at Le Paris Bistrot. The cost is $75 for PLA members and $95 for non-members. Please R.S.V.P. before March 16 (printable flyer).

03/07 : Jewish Songwriters Event, Text a Librarian, Database News, Library Workshop
On Thursday, a new exhibit will open in the Hutchins Gallery downstairs. A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs, 1910-1965 is a colorful new exhibit that celebrates the many Jewish composers of the "American Songbook", such as Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, George and Ira Gershwin, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, and their great contributions to American popular culture. It is further enriched with a display of original movie posters from the library's Special Collections Department and original drawings by internationally renowned artist, Dan Christoffel. Kicking off a month long series of concerts and lectures, the opening reception will run from 5:30-8:00 and feature speakers Paul Forestell, Manju Prasad-Rao, Dan Chistoffel, Conrad Schoeffling, and James McRoy, along with presentations with music on America's Best Popular Songs and The Evolution of Jazz by Richard Iacona, T.K. Blue, Carlton Holmes, and LIU Post music students. Everyone is welcome, but space is limited, so please call 516-299-2895 for reservations.
You can now use your phone to Text a Librarian to ask brief reference questions. To sign up, just text the word "askpost" to 66746 and wait for the automated reply. You can then text your questions to that number.
The Academic Library Trends and Statistics database from ACRL has been absorbed into the ACRL Metrics database which no longer requires a password from computers on campus. Off campus, the only password that you will need is the library barcode number on the back of your LIU ID card. The database provides statistics on hours, serials, trends, faculty, holdings, reference, personnel, circulation, enrollment, instruction, expenditures, service points, selected ratios, interlibrary loan, digital collections, electronic resources, and more.
Sections 2 and 5 of the Library Workshop begin on Thursday at 12:30.
In partnership with our celebration of Jewish songwriters, on Friday at 12:10, the Port Washington Public Library will be presenting the lecture, Sandwiched in: The Ethnic Musicals, Assimilation and Integration by Marc Courtade, business manager of the Tilles Center.
On Friday, the women's restroom on the lower floor will be closed all day so that it can be painted. There are additional restrooms on the upper and main floors.
The library will be open 8:00-5:00 on Saturday and 12:00-8:00 on Sunday. During Spring Break, we will be open 9:00-5:00 on Monday-Friday and closed the following weekend. The Bookmark Café will be closed.
Final Exams will begin on April 27, and a PDF of the exam schedule has been posted. The library will begin extended hours on April 18.
The Special Collections Department has made information about The Karl Otto Paetel Beat Generation Collection available on their website. Mr. Paetel was a prominent political journalist noted for his radical writings pre- and post-World War II. This collection contains many important works produced by Beat Generation authors such as William S. Burroughs, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Alan Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Philip Lamantia, and more during the 1950s-1960s. The website includes selected images, a holdings list, and more.
On March 22, the Post Library Association will be sponsoring a trip with More Fun on the East Side, featuring guided tours of exhibits at the Museum of the City of New York, El Museo del Barrio, and the Jewish Museum, along with lunch at Le Paris Bistrot. The cost is $75 for PLA members and $95 for non-members. Please R.S.V.P. before March 16 (printable flyer).

03/06 : Beat Generation, Library Exam & Workshop, Jewish Songwriters Events, Spring Break
The Special Collections Department has made information about The Karl Otto Paetel Beat Generation Collection available on their website. Mr. Paetel was a prominent political journalist noted for his radical writings pre- and post-World War II. This collection contains many important works produced by Beat Generation authors such as William S. Burroughs, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Alan Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Philip Lamantia, and more during the 1950s-1960s. The website includes selected images, a holdings list, and more.
On Wednesday there will be a Blood Drive in the Hillwood Commons East/West Café from 9:30am-8:30pm. Please donate if you can.
The next Library Competency Exam will be on Wednesday at 12:30 in Life Sciences room 139. Remember to bring a picture ID and know your student ID number.
Sections 2 and 5 of the Library Workshop begin on Thursday at 12:30.
On Thursday, a new exhibit will open in the Hutchins Gallery downstairs. A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs, 1910-1965 is a colorful new exhibit that celebrates the many Jewish composers of the "American Songbook", such as Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, George and Ira Gershwin, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, and their great contributions to American popular culture. It is further enriched with a display of original movie posters from the library's Special Collections Department and original drawings by internationally renowned artist, Dan Christoffel. Kicking off a month long series of concerts and lectures, the opening reception will run from 5:30-8:30 and feature speakers Paul Forestell, Manju Prasad-Rao, Dan Chistoffel, Conrad Schoeffling, and James McRoy, along with presentations with music on America's Best Popular Songs and The Evolution of Jazz by Richard Iacona, T.K. Blue, Carlton Holmes, and LIU Post music students. Everyone is welcome, but space is limited, so please call 516-299-2895 for reservations.
In partnership with our celebration, on Friday at 12:10, the Port Washington Public Library will be presenting the lecture, Sandwiched in: The Ethnic Musicals, Assimilation and Integration by Marc Courtade, business manager of the Tilles Center.
On Friday, the women's restroom on the lower floor will be closed all day so that it can be painted. There are additional restrooms on the upper and main floors.
The library will be open 8:00-5:00 on Saturday and 12:00-8:00 on Sunday. During Spring Break, we will be open 9:00-5:00 on Monday-Friday and closed the following weekend. Final Exams will begin on April 27, and a PDF of the exam schedule has been posted. The library will begin extended hours on April 18.
There are free books available in the main hallway on the lower level. Come on in and help yourselves.
On March 22, the Post Library Association will be sponsoring a trip with More Fun on the East Side, featuring guided tours of exhibits at the Museum of the City of New York, El Museo del Barrio, and the Jewish Museum, along with lunch at Le Paris Bistrot. The cost is $75 for PLA members and $95 for non-members. Please R.S.V.P. before March 16 (printable flyer).

03/04 : Free Books, Competency Exam, Workshop, Coming Exhibit & Concerts, PLA Trip
There are free books available in the main hallway on the lower level. Come on in and help yourselves.
On Tuesday and Wednesday there will be a Blood Drive in the Hillwood Commons East/West Café from 9:00am-9:00pm. Please donate if you can.
The next Library Competency Exam will be on Wednesday at 12:30 in Life Sciences room 139. Remember to bring a picture ID and know your student ID number.
Sections 2 and 5 of the Library Workshop begin on Thursday at 12:30.
On Thursday, a new exhibit will open in the Hutchins Gallery downstairs. A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs, 1910-1965 is a colorful new exhibit that celebrates the many Jewish composers of the "American Songbook", such as Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, George and Ira Gershwin, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, and their great contributions to American popular culture. It is further enriched with a display of original movie posters from the library's Special Collections Department and original drawings by internationally renowned artist, Dan Christoffel. Kicking off a month long series of concerts and lectures, the opening reception will run from 5:30-8:00 and feature speakers Valeda Dent, Dan Chistoffel, and Conrad Schoeffling, along with presentations with music on America's Best Popular Songs and The Evolution of Jazz by Richard Iacona, T.K. Blue, and LIU Post music students. Everyone is welcome, but space is limited, so please call 516-299-2895 for reservations.
In partnership with our celebration, on Friday at 12:10, the Port Washington Public Library will be presenting the lecture, Sandwiched in: The Ethnic Musicals, Assimilation and Integration by Marc Courtade, business manager of the Tilles Center.
On Friday, the women's restroom on the lower floor will be closed all day so that it can be painted. There are additional restrooms on the upper and main floors.
On March 22, the Post Library Association will be sponsoring a trip with More Fun on the East Side, featuring guided tours of exhibits at the Museum of the City of New York, El Museo del Barrio, and the Jewish Museum, along with lunch at Le Paris Bistrot. The cost is $75 for PLA members and $95 for non-members. Please R.S.V.P. before March 16 (printable flyer).

03/01 : Database Problem, Booksale, Smart Board Demo, Competency Exam, PLA Trip
There are currently some problems with access to the Cataloger's Desktop database. We're working on the problems and apologize for the inconvenience.
The Post Library Association's annual booksale is here. It will run from 8:00am-8:00pm on Thursday downstairs in the Hutchins Gallery. Everybody is welcome.
On Friday, the women's restroom on the main floor will be closed all day so that it can be painted. There are additional restrooms on the upper and lower floors. Next Friday, March 9, the women's restroom on the lower floor will be closed.
On Saturday, the Instructional Media Center, in cooperation with the LIU Post Chapter of Phi Delta Kappa, will present the free educational technology workshop, Smart Board Technology and Integrated Programs Tools. It will run from 10:00-1:00 downstairs in the IMC and is open to graduate students, educators, administrators, and those interested in public education.
On Tuesday and Wednesday there will be a Blood Drive in the Hillwood Commons East/West Café from 9:00am-9:00pm. Please donate if you can.
The next Library Competency Exam will be on Wednesday at 12:30 in Life Sciences room 139. Remember to bring a picture ID and know your student ID number.
On March 22, the Post Library Association will be sponsoring a trip with More Fun on the East Side, featuring guided tours of exhibits at the Museum of the City of New York, El Museo del Barrio, and the Jewish Museum, along with lunch at Le Paris Bistrot. The cost is $75 for PLA members and $95 for non-members. Please R.S.V.P. before March 16 (printable flyer).

02/29 : Booksale, Storytelling Lecture, Smart Board Demo, Competency Exam, PLA Trip
The Post Library Association's annual booksale is here. It will run from 8:00am-8:00pm on Wednesday and Thursday downstairs in the Hutchins Gallery. Everybody is welcome.
On Thursday, Geoff Goodman, Valeda Dent (Dean of University Libraries), and Eric Yellin will present their ongoing research, "Studying the Effectiveness of a Storytelling/Story-Acting Activity on Preschool Children's School Readiness Skills in a Rural Ugandan Community Library". Accompanied by a short documentary, it will run from 12:30-2:00 in the Hillwood Cinema.
On Friday, the women's restroom on the main floor will be closed all day so that it can be painted. There are additional restrooms on the upper and lower floors. Next Friday, March 9, the women's restroom on the lower floor will be closed.
On Saturday, the Instructional Media Center, in cooperation with the LIU Post Chapter of Phi Delta Kappa, will present the free educational technology workshop, Smart Board Technology and Integrated Programs Tools. It will run from 10:00-1:00 downstairs in the IMC and is open to graduate students, educators, administrators, and those interested in public education.
The next Library Competency Exam will be on Wednesday at 12:30 in Life Sciences room 139. Remember to bring a picture ID and know your student ID number.
On March 22, the Post Library Association will be sponsoring a trip with More Fun on the East Side, featuring guided tours of exhibits at the Museum of the City of New York, El Museo del Barrio, and the Jewish Museum, along with lunch at Le Paris Bistrot. The cost is $75 for PLA members and $95 for non-members. Please R.S.V.P. before March 16 (printable flyer).

02/26 : Library Surveys Database, PLA Booksale, and New Materials
Our newest database, SPEC Kits, will be of interest to librarians, Library Science students and faculty. These research surveys examine the ever-changing challenges in library services regarding current practices, managing change, improving performance, and the implementation of new practices and technologies. Each kit includes an executive summary of the survey results, survey questions and responses, representative documents from the responding institutions (such as policies, procedures, handbooks, guidelines, websites, records, brochures, and statements), and a selected bibliography of books, journal articles, and websites.
The Post Library Association's annual booksale is coming. On Tuesday, it will be open to PLA members and LIU students, faculty, and staff. On Wednesday and Thursday, it will be open to everybody. It will run from 8:00am-8:00pm on all three days downstairs in the Hutchins Gallery.
At the LIU Brentwood library's website, the lists of new circulating books and children's books have been updated. If you'd like see lists of the newest books, videos, music, and more added to our collections here at the LIU Post library, you can go to the New Library Materials RSS Feeds page. It can be browsed either by subject area (according to Library of Congress classifications) or by library department. You can also sign up for RSS feeds in your areas of interest to have monthly lists of new materials automatically sent to you.
On Thursday, Geoff Goodman, Valeda Dent (Dean of University Libraries), and Eric Yellin will present their ongoing research, "Studying the Effectiveness of a Storytelling/Story-Acting Activity on Preschool Children's School Readiness Skills in a Rural Ugandan Community Library". Accompanied by a short documentary, it will run from 12:30-2:00 in the Hillwood Cinema.

02/23 : ProQuest Database Problem and PLA Booksale
We are experiencing intermittent problems with remote access to the ProQuest databases from computers off campus, although you can still use them from computers on campus. If you can't get into the database that you need, many of the subject areas covered by the ProQuest databases are also covered by databases listed on the pages for News, Business, Language, Environment, Health Science, Library Science, and General. In addition, journals that are available with full text from ProQuest may also be available from one of our other databases. To see if the journal that you need is available elsewhere, look for the journal name in Ebsco A to Z (you can also access this through the "Periodicals" link on the library's homepage).
The Post Library Association's annual booksale is coming. On Tuesday, it will be open to PLA members and LIU students, faculty, and staff. On Wednesday and Thursday, it will be open to everybody. It will run from 8:00am-8:00pm on all three days downstairs in the Hutchins Gallery.

02/21 : New Exhibits, Mobile Devices in Education, and Booksale
A new exhibit in the back of Reference Commons is Mottainai Means Maathai. Mottainai is a Japanese word that means "a sense of regret concerning waste when the intrinsic value of an object or resource is not properly utilized". It was internationally popularized by the Nobel Prize winning environmentalist and political activist, Wangari Maathai, to help promote "sustainable development, democracy, and peace". The exhibit features poetry and artwork by children that celebrate her ideals of courage, perseverance, and compassion. It relates to our current exhibit for African American History Month, Black Women in American Culture and History. Another new exhibit is The African-American Mosaic that was prepared by the Library of Congress from its collections and takes a look at the history of Africans in America from slavery through the civil rights movement.
On Thursday, the LIU Post Chapter of Phi Delta Kappa, in cooperation with the Instructional Media Center, will hold the free program, The Emergence of Mobile Devices in Education, with Ken Neveroski. It will run from 4:30-6:30 downstairs in the IMC and is open to graduate students, educators, administrators, and those interested in public education.
Start saving your money because the Post Library Association's annual booksale will be held next week.

02/20 : Competency Exam, Mobile Devices in Education, and Jewish Songwriters
The next Library Competency Exam will be on Tuesday at 12:30 in Life Sciences room 139.
On Thursday, the LIU Post Chapter of Phi Delta Kappa, in cooperation with the Instructional Media Center, will hold the free program, The Emergence of Mobile Devices in Education, with Ken Neveroski. It will run from 4:30-6:30 downstairs in the IMC and is open to graduate students, educators, administrators, and those interested in public education.
Coming in March, there will be lectures, concerts, and an exhibit celebrating A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs, and flyers for each have been added to the events page.
Section 4 of the Library Workshop has been cancelled, but a new Section 5 has been added.
The LIU Brentwood library has posted a new LibGuide to Juvenile Books for Counselors and their Students. This is only one of the many LibGuides to library resources that are available from the LIU Post and LIU Brentwood libraries to help make your research easier.

02/15 : Exhibit, Database, Children's Books, Camtasia Demo, Alyson Richman, Holiday Hours
In honor of African American History month, the new exhibit in the library lobby, Black Women in American Culture and History, profiles women who have made contributions in the fields of civil rights (Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Ida B. Wells Barnett, Mary McLeod Bethune), literature (Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou, Zora Neale Hurston, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper), music (Lena Horne, Pearl Bailey, Anita Baker, Josephine Baker, Marion Anderson, Whitney Houston), and more (Althea Gibson, Oprah Winfrey, Mae C. Jemison).
A new database that is available for a brief trial period is InfoSci-Books from IGI Global. This full text collection of over 40,000 chapters from over 1,700 scholarly books provides cutting-edge research in information technology and computer science along with their applications to over 200 disciplines relating to business, education, healthcare, engineering, environment, social science, library science, public administration, and more. Topics covered include: ethics, privacy, security, distance learning, web technologies, mobile computing, artificial intelligence, electronic commerce, health care information, knowledge management, social aspects of technology, and more.
The Special Collections Department has added the works of Marie Hall Ets to the highlighted authors and illustrators in the American Juvenile Collection, a research collection of children's fiction, folklore, and fairy tales printed in North America, covering the years 1910-1960, as well as some children's books in foreign languages. It includes an extensive reference collection and selected pre-1910 children's books published internationally.
On Thursday, there will be a Library Brown Bag demonstration of Camtasia Studio presented by Professor Eduardo Rivera. Camtasia Studio is a comprehensive software package which is designed to assist you in recording, editing, and publishing online tutorials and video presentations. Professor Rivera will also touch on uploading your finished product to the My LIU Video Streaming Service. The workshop will begin at 12:30 in the Library Instruction Lab. Light refreshments will be served, but, in the spirit of a true brown bag, feel free to bring your lunch. Please R.S.V.P. by Wednesday.
On Friday, February 17, the Post Library Association will present a lecture by Alyson Richman, author of the Long Island Reads selection, The Lost Wife, entitled The Power of the Artistic Spirit: The Artists of Terezin. Focusing on the research for her novel, Ms. Richman will speak about the artists of Terezin (the so-called "model" concentration camp located outside of Prague), who were forced to create technical or commercial drawings for the Nazis while simultaneously forging their own form of resistance against their captors. Ms. Richman will discuss her research, which involved going to the Czech Republic to interview artists who worked in the secretive Technical Department in Terezin almost 70 years ago. There these artists worked in the manner dictated by the Nazis, but also secretly provided stolen art supplies to the children in the camp to allow them to make their own art work under the teaching of the first art-therapist, Friedl Dicker Brandeis. The lecture will delve into philosophical discussions of how these artists risked their lives merely to accurately document their existence, and how art helped the children of the ghetto express their emotions. Everyone is welcome to this free event that will begin at 8:00 p.m. in the back of Reference Commons.
In observance of Presidents' Day, the library will be closed Saturday and Sunday and open 12:00-8:00 on Monday. The Bookmark Café will be closed.
The next Library Competency Exam will be on Tuesday at 12:30 in Life Sciences room 139.

02/14 : Bookbinding Lecture, Camtasia Demo, Alyson Richman, Holiday Hours
On Wednesday, the Special Collections Department will present Paul Bélard, one of the few fine bookbinders still actively working on Long Island, who will discuss and demonstrate The Intricate Art of Bookbinding. Mr. Bélard learned the art of bookbinding in Paris in the late 70's at the shop of renowned French bookbinder, Paule Ameline. He has been practicing fine bookbinding, repairs and restoration in the USA since 1980. He is also a book collector whose interests are nice bindings (art deco, art nouveau, inlaid bindings), explorations, American Civil War, books with steel engravings, history, fore-edge paintings, and books with original works by illustrators. In addition, Mr. Bélard has written three books, two published in France and one in the United States: La Ferme aux écrevisses, Moissons d'enfance, and A Summer in Eden. The lecture will run from 12:00-1:00 in the Library Instruction Lab. Please RSVP to Jarron.Jewell@liu.edu.
On Thursday, there will be a Library Brown Bag demonstration of Camtasia Studio presented by Professor Eduardo Rivera. Camtasia Studio is a comprehensive software package which is designed to assist you in recording, editing, and publishing online tutorials and video presentations. Professor Rivera will also touch on uploading your finished product to the My LIU Video Streaming Service. The workshop will begin at 12:30 in the Library Instruction Lab. Light refreshments will be served, but, in the spirit of a true brown bag, feel free to bring your lunch. Please R.S.V.P. by Wednesday.
On Friday, February 17, the Post Library Association will present a lecture by Alyson Richman, author of the Long Island Reads selection, The Lost Wife, entitled The Power of the Artistic Spirit: The Artists of Terezin. Focusing on the research for her novel, Ms. Richman will speak about the artists of Terezin (the so-called "model" concentration camp located outside of Prague), who were forced to create technical or commercial drawings for the Nazis while simultaneously forging their own form of resistance against their captors. Ms. Richman will discuss her research, which involved going to the Czech Republic to interview artists who worked in the secretive Technical Department in Terezin almost 70 years ago. There these artists worked in the manner dictated by the Nazis, but also secretly provided stolen art supplies to the children in the camp to allow them to make their own art work under the teaching of the first art-therapist, Friedl Dicker Brandeis. The lecture will delve into philosophical discussions of how these artists risked their lives merely to accurately document their existence, and how art helped the children of the ghetto express their emotions. Everyone is welcome to this free event that will begin at 8:00 p.m. in the back of Reference Commons.
In observance of Presidents' Day, the library will be closed Saturday and Sunday and open 12:00-8:00 on Monday. The Bookmark Café will be closed.
The next Library Competency Exam will be on Tuesday at 12:30 in Life Sciences room 139.

02/13 : SmartNotebook, Artist's Reception, Bookbinding, Camtasia, Alyson Richman, Holiday
On Tuesday, the Instructional Media Center and the College of Education and Information Sciences will present the special hands-on workshop, Enhancing Existing Documents: Multimedia and Interactivity in SMART Notebook. Integrate your work from a variety of applications into SMARTNotebook. Convert and enhance your Word document of PowerPoint into a SMART Notebook file. Add interactivity, visuals, audio, video, and flash animations, either from the SMART Gallery, other websites, or from your own files. It will run from 3:45-5:00 downstairs in the IMC. Please R.S.V.P. to Abir at ext. 2895 or abir.khoury@liu.edu.
Also on Tuesday, there will be an artist's reception for the new exhibit in the Hutchins Gallery downstairs, Smoke and Mirrors, featuring the work of He Jinwei. Hosted by the Art Department at LIU Post, "He Jinwei brings from China a compilation of 144 tiny paintings, each one delicately and lovingly composed upon hand mirrors. The lavishly framed paintings in this installation are complex and enigmatic, possessing a fresh contemporary feel despite their being rendered through classical painting techniques." The reception will begin at 5:00 and be followed by an artist lecture at 7:00.
On Wednesday, the Special Collections Department will present Paul Bélard, one of the few fine bookbinders still actively working on Long Island, who will discuss and demonstrate The Intricate Art of Bookbinding. Mr. Bélard learned the art of bookbinding in Paris in the late 70's at the shop of renowned French bookbinder, Paule Ameline. He has been practicing fine bookbinding, repairs and restoration in the USA since 1980. He is also a book collector whose interests are nice bindings (art deco, art nouveau, inlaid bindings), explorations, American Civil War, books with steel engravings, history, fore-edge paintings, and books with original works by illustrators. In addition, Mr. Bélard has written three books, two published in France and one in the United States: La Ferme aux écrevisses, Moissons d'enfance, and A Summer in Eden. The lecture will run from 12:00-1:00 in the Library Instruction Lab. Please RSVP to Jarron.Jewell@liu.edu.
On Thursday, there will be a Library Brown Bag demonstration of Camtasia Studio presented by Professor Eduardo Rivera. Camtasia Studio is a comprehensive software package which is designed to assist you in recording, editing, and publishing online tutorials and video presentations. Professor Rivera will also touch on uploading your finished product to the My LIU Video Streaming Service. The workshop will begin at 12:30 in the Library Instruction Lab. Light refreshments will be served, but, in the spirit of a true brown bag, feel free to bring your lunch. Please R.S.V.P. by Wednesday.
On Friday, February 17, the Post Library Association will present a lecture by Alyson Richman, author of the Long Island Reads selection, The Lost Wife, entitled The Power of the Artistic Spirit: The Artists of Terezin. Focusing on the research for her novel, Ms. Richman will speak about the artists of Terezin (the so-called "model" concentration camp located outside of Prague), who were forced to create technical or commercial drawings for the Nazis while simultaneously forging their own form of resistance against their captors. Ms. Richman will discuss her research, which involved going to the Czech Republic to interview artists who worked in the secretive Technical Department in Terezin almost 70 years ago. There these artists worked in the manner dictated by the Nazis, but also secretly provided stolen art supplies to the children in the camp to allow them to make their own art work under the teaching of the first art-therapist, Friedl Dicker Brandeis. The lecture will delve into philosophical discussions of how these artists risked their lives merely to accurately document their existence, and how art helped the children of the ghetto express their emotions. Everyone is welcome to this free event that will begin at 8:00 p.m. in the back of Reference Commons.
In observance of Presidents' Day, the library will be closed Saturday and Sunday and open 12:00-8:00 on Monday. The Bookmark Café will be closed.
A new Integrated Library System is coming soon to help make finding and accessing the resources you need a whole lot easier. You can read more about it here.

02/09 : System Downtime, Ed Tech Demos, Artist's Reception, Bookbinding, and More
From Information Technology: "The University has signed an agreement with Google Apps for Education, to migrate students' MyLIU e-mail to Google.... To facilitate this change, please be advised that MyLIU will be unavailable beginning Friday, February 17, at noon. By Monday morning, February 20, full functionality will be restored."
Due to system maintenance, the Credo Reference database will not be available from 11:00 Friday evening through 3:00 Saturday morning.
On Tuesday, the Instructional Media Center and the College of Education and Information Sciences will present the special hands-on workshop, Enhancing Existing Documents: Multimedia and Interactivity in SMART Notebook. Integrate your work from a variety of applications into SMARTNotebook. Convert and enhance your Word document of PowerPoint into a SMART Notebook file. Add interactivity, visuals, audio, video, and flash animations, either from the SMART Gallery, other websites, or from your own files. It will run from 3:45-5:00 downstairs in the IMC. Please R.S.V.P. to Abir at ext. 2895 or abir.khoury@liu.edu.
Also on Tuesday, there will be an artist's reception for the new exhibit in the Hutchins Gallery downstairs, Smoke and Mirrors, featuring the work of He Jinwei. Hosted by the Art Department at LIU Post, "He Jinwei brings from China a compilation of 144 tiny paintings, each one delicately and lovingly composed upon hand mirrors. The lavishly framed paintings in this installation are complex and enigmatic, possessing a fresh contemporary feel despite their being rendered through classical painting techniques." The reception will begin at 5:00 and be followed by an artist lecture at 7:00.
On Wednesday, the Special Collections Department will present Paul Bélard, one of the few fine bookbinders still actively working on Long Island, who will discuss and demonstrate The Intricate Art of Bookbinding. Mr. Bélard learned the art of bookbinding in Paris in the late 70's at the shop of renowned French bookbinder, Paule Ameline. He has been practicing fine bookbinding, repairs and restoration in the USA since 1980. He is also a book collector whose interests are nice bindings (art deco, art nouveau, inlaid bindings), explorations, American Civil War, books with steel engravings, history, fore-edge paintings, and books with original works by illustrators. In addition, Mr. Bélard has written three books, two published in France and one in the United States: La Ferme aux écrevisses, Moissons d'enfance, and A Summer in Eden. The lecture will run from 12:00-1:00 in the Library Instruction Lab. Please RSVP to Jarron.Jewell@liu.edu.
On Thursday, there will be a Library Brown Bag demonstration of Camtasia Studio presented by Professor Eduardo Rivera. Camtasia Studio is a comprehensive software package which is designed to assist you in recording, editing, and publishing online tutorials and video presentations. Professor Rivera will also touch on uploading your finished product to the My LIU Video Streaming Service. The workshop will begin at 12:30 in the Library Instruction Lab. Light refreshments will be served, but, in the spirit of a true brown bag, feel free to bring your lunch. Please R.S.V.P. by Wednesday.
On Friday, February 17, the Post Library Association will present a lecture by Alyson Richman, author of the Long Island Reads selection, The Lost Wife, entitled The Power of the Artistic Spirit: The Artists of Terezin. Focusing on the research for her novel, Ms. Richman will speak about the artists of Terezin (the so-called "model" concentration camp located outside of Prague), who were forced to create technical or commercial drawings for the Nazis while simultaneously forging their own form of resistance against their captors. Ms. Richman will discuss her research, which involved going to the Czech Republic to interview artists who worked in the secretive Technical Department in Terezin almost 70 years ago. There these artists worked in the manner dictated by the Nazis, but also secretly provided stolen art supplies to the children in the camp to allow them to make their own art work under the teaching of the first art-therapist, Friedl Dicker Brandeis. The lecture will delve into philosophical discussions of how these artists risked their lives merely to accurately document their existence, and how art helped the children of the ghetto express their emotions. Everyone is welcome to this free event that will begin at 8:00 p.m. in the back of Reference Commons.
A new Integrated Library System is coming soon to help make finding and accessing the resources you need a whole lot easier. You can read more about it here.

02/07 : Business, Economic, and Investment Data and Resources
Our newest database is The Conference Board Business & Economics Portfolio. It provides historical economic data from the indicators: Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) - The Conference Board Measure of CEO Confidence - The Conference Board Leading Economic Index (LEI) - and The Conference Board Employment Trends Index (ETI) - as well as the Total Economy Database macroeconomic time series on global output and productivity for over 100 countries. It includes: recorded webcasts - Executive Action reports - the Economics Watch suite of nine economic analyses and data sets - research reports on the latest issues in business management and US and global economics - and issues of Straighttalk that provide analysis and forecasts of US and international economic conditions.
A new LibGuide to help you make the most of library resources is Investment Information Sources. This is one of the many LibGuides and other pathfinders that will help you in getting started with your research.
"Please join us on February 16th for a Library Brown Bag demonstration of Camtasia Studio presented by Professor Eduardo Rivera. Camtasia Studio is a comprehensive software package which is designed to assist you in recording, editing, and publishing online tutorials and video presentations. Professor Rivera will also touch on uploading your finished product to the My LIU Video Streaming Service."
The new exhibit in the Hutchins Gallery downstairs is Smoke and Mirrors, featuring the work of He Jinwei. Hosted by the Art Department at LIU Post, "He Jinwei brings from China a compilation of 144 tiny paintings, each one delicately and lovingly composed upon hand mirrors. The lavishly framed paintings in this installation are complex and enigmatic, possessing a fresh contemporary feel despite their being rendered through classical painting techniques." The artist's reception will be on February 14, followed by an artist lecture.
A new Integrated Library System is coming soon to help make finding and accessing the resources you need a whole lot easier. You can read more about it here.

02/06 : Art Exhibit
The new exhibit in the Hutchins Gallery downstairs is Smoke and Mirrors, featuring the work of He Jinwei. Hosted by the Art Department at LIU Post, "He Jinwei brings from China a compilation of 144 tiny paintings, each one delicately and lovingly composed upon hand mirrors. The lavishly framed paintings in this installation are complex and enigmatic, possessing a fresh contemporary feel despite their being rendered through classical painting techniques." The artist's reception will be on February 14, followed by an artist lecture.
A new Integrated Library System is coming soon to help make finding and accessing the resources you need a whole lot easier. You can read more about it here.

02/01 : Databases and Bibles
There's been another corporate merger, and the Hoover's Online database is now available through Mergent Online. All the links have been updated.
The Special Collections Department has added seven more titles to their holdings list of Bibles and Christian liturgical texts, an exceptional collection that presents a pleasing variety of language, engraving, type style and binding. The volumes contain an impressive representation of the rich liturgical and scholastic traditions of Western Europe as well as examples from further afield.
A new Integrated Library System is coming soon to help make finding and accessing the resources you need a whole lot easier. You can read more about it here.

01/31 : Library Competency Exams and Wilson Databases
The schedule of Library Competency Exams for the semester has been posted. The first on will be on February 21. If you don't take the exam by the time you have earned 60 credits, you will be automatically enrolled to take the library workshop. Transfer students with an associate degree or 60 transfer credits do not have to take the exam or workshop.
Due to a corporate merger, all of the H.W. Wilson (WilsonWeb) databases are now available from Ebsco. All of the links on the library website have been changed. As of February 1, the WilsonWeb site will be shut down. If you have items stored in a MyWisonWeb account, you will need to set up a My EBSCOhost account and transfer your citations there. These items will not be automatically transferred to Ebsco when the changeover occurs.
There is currently a problem with access to the Hoover's Online database. We're looking into it.
A new Integrated Library System is coming soon to help make finding and accessing the resources you need a whole lot easier. You can read more about it here.

01/26 : Bibles and Liturgical Texts, Coming Attractions, MyLIU Downtime
The Special Collections Department is home to an exceptional collection of Bibles and Christian liturgical texts which present a pleasing variety of language, engraving, type style and binding. The volumes contain an impressive representation of the rich liturgical and scholastic traditions of Western Europe as well as examples from further afield. A holdings list of their collection has been added to the website.
A new Integrated Library System is coming soon to help make finding and accessing the resources you need a whole lot easier. You can read more about it here.
From Information Technology: "Please be advised that on Thursday, January 26th, from 10 PM - Friday, January 27th , 1 am, Information Technology will be installing updates to the University storage area network. These updates will enhance the security and stability of our systems. During this time, access to the PeopleSoft systems and MyLIU will be unavailable. Access to all other systems, including Email, will remain online and operational. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we continue to enhance the performance and security of our systems. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact your local Information Technology office."
Due to a corporate merger, all of the H.W. Wilson (WilsonWeb) databases are now available from Ebsco. The links on the alphabetic list and the vendor list have already been changed, and the other lists will be changed soon. As of February 1, the WilsonWeb site will be shut down. If you have items stored in a MyWisonWeb account, you will need to set up a My EBSCOhost account and transfer your citations there. These items will not be automatically transferred to Ebsco when the changeover occurs.

01/24 : New Materials, Research Guides, Database News, and Hearst Exhibit
At the LIU Brentwood library's website, the lists of new circulating books, children's books, and reference books have been updated. If you'd like see lists of the newest books, videos, music, and more added to our collections here at the LIU Post library, you can go to the New Library Materials RSS Feeds page. It can be browsed either by subject area (according to Library of Congress classifications) or by library department. You can also sign up for RSS feeds in your areas of interest to have monthly lists of new materials automatically sent to you.
The LIU Brentwood library has also posted a new LibGuide to library resources for Special Education. This is only one of the many LibGuides that are available from the LIU Post and LIU Brentwood libraries to help make your research easier.
The Books in Print database has redesigned its website.
Due to a corporate merger, all of the H.W. Wilson (WilsonWeb) databases are now available from Ebsco. The links on the alphabetic list and the vendor list have already been changed, and the other lists will be changed soon. As of February 1, the WilsonWeb site will be shut down. If you have items stored in a MyWisonWeb account, you will need to set up a My EBSCOhost account and transfer your citations there. These items will not be automatically transferred to Ebsco when the changeover occurs.
The new exhibit in the back of Reference Commons is The William Randolph Hearst Art Auction Catalogs: A Closer Look Inside and Out. Prepared by the Digital Initiatives Department from the library's collections, "this exhibition features art auction catalogs from the William Randolph Hearst Archive, which contains over 10,000 catalogs from 1884 through 1970. Selected highlights from the collection include: drawings suspected to be in Hearst's hand - purchase prices or recommendations - names of purchasers - business correspondence - and notations, sketches and photographs. These catalogs are considered useful tools for art historical and provenance research. Hearst's collection of catalogs provides insight into his unique method of art collecting." Other exhibits still on view are Andrew Carnegie: Library Advocate and Philanthropist and Grand Illusions: The Art and Practice of Magic.

01/23 : William Randolph Hearst Archive Exhibit and Database News
The new exhibit in the back of Reference Commons is The William Randolph Hearst Art Auction Catalogs: A Closer Look Inside and Out. Prepared by the Digital Initiatives Department from the library's collections, "this exhibition features art auction catalogs from the William Randolph Hearst Archive, which contains over 10,000 catalogs from 1884 through 1970. Selected highlights from the collection include: drawings suspected to be in Hearst's hand - purchase prices or recommendations - names of purchasers - business correspondence - and notations, sketches and photographs. These catalogs are considered useful tools for art historical and provenance research. Hearst's collection of catalogs provides insight into his unique method of art collecting." Other exhibits still on view are Andrew Carnegie: Library Advocate and Philanthropist and Grand Illusions: The Art and Practice of Magic.
Due to a corporate merger, all of the H.W. Wilson (WilsonWeb) databases are now available from Ebsco. The links on the vendor list have already been changed, and the other lists will be changed soon. As of February 1, the WilsonWeb site will be shut down. If you have items stored in a MyWisonWeb account, you will need to set up a My EBSCOhost account and transfer your citations there. These items will not be automatically transferred to Ebsco when the changeover occurs.
During the changeover period, we will also have trial access to Wilson's Readers' Guide Full Text Mega. It includes indexing of over 450 magazines published for the general public as far back as 1983 and searchable full text of articles from over 250 periodicals as far back as 1994. Subject coverage includes: antiques, arts, business, computers, education, entertainment, film, television, gardening, health, medicine, history, home improvement, literature, news, current events, photography, popular & classical music, politics, popular culture, religion, science, sports, fitness, transportation, travel, and more. When the changeover ends, we will no longer have access to Wilson's OmniFile Full Text Select.

01/22 : Educational Technology Workshops
Throughout the semester, the Instructional Media Center, in cooperation with the College of Education and Information Sciences, will present a series of hands-on educational technology workshops on topics such as SmartBoards, multimedia, interactive response systems, Voice Thread, and more. Their spring schedule has been posted.

01/18 : Coming Events, Holiday Hours, Library Workshop, Ph.D. Open House, Databases
The schedule of events and exhibits that are being sponsored by the Post Library Association has been posted.
The schedule of holiday and special hours for the spring semester has been posted.
Section 1 of the Library Workshop begins on Thursday at 2:00 in the Library Instruction Lab.
On Saturday, the Palmer School will be holding an open house for their Ph.D. in Information Studies program upstairs in room 362.
All the links to the ProQuest and Cambridge Scientific Abstracts databases should be working fine now. The EIS: Digests of Environmental Impact Statements database is no longer available, but there are still plenty of other environmental databases that you can use.

01/13 : Database Links, Library Hours, and Library Workshops
When ProQuest redesigned their website earlier this year, they also changed the direct links to their databases without telling us. This caused some of the links on our website to take you to their home page instead of to a specific database and caused many of the links not to work if you were trying to use them from a computer away from campus. They also merged all of the Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) databases into the ProQuest website. If you were having problems, this was the reason why. All of the links on the alphabetic list of databases and vendor list of databases have been fixed. The links on the subject lists of databases are in the process of being fixed. If you find that a link there is not working yet, you can get to the database from one of these other two pages. Sorry about the inconvenience.
The library will be open 9:00-5:00 on Friday and closed Saturday and Sunday. We will be open 9:00-5:00 on Monday. The library will resume normal hours on Tuesday. The Bookmark Café will be closed until the spring semester begins.
Section 3 of the Library Workshop begins on Wednesday at 12:30 in the Library Instruction Lab. Section 1 begins on Thursday at 2:00.

01/10 : Database Downtime, Children's Literature, Education Resources, and Hours
Due to the Fire Marshall's testing of the emergency lighting in the library, power to the building will be turned off Wednesday evening. We will be shutting down all library servers at 5:00pm and bringing them back up around 9:00pm. You will not have access to any of the LIU Post library systems or databases during these hours. We apologize for the inconvenience.
The Special Collections Department has added the works of Elizabeth Coatsworth to the highlighted authors and illustrators in the American Juvenile Collection, a research collection of children's fiction, folklore, and fairy tales printed in North America, covering the years 1910-1960, as well as some children's books in foreign languages. It includes an extensive reference collection and selected pre-1910 children's books published internationally.
The LIU Brentwood library has posted a new LibGuide to library resources for Primary and Secondary Education. This is only one of the many LibGuides that are available from LIU Post and LIU Brentwood.
The library will be open 9:00-5:00 on Wednesday-Friday. We will be closed Saturday and Sunday and open 9:00-5:00 on Monday. The library will resume normal hours on Tuesday. The Bookmark Café will be closed until the spring semester begins.

01/05 : Database News and Library Hours
The CCH Internet Tax Research NetWork database is no longer available, but you can get similar accounting and tax information from BNA Tax and Accounting Center, RIA Checkpoint Tax Service, and LexisNexis Accounting Publications.
The AP Images database is no longer available, but you can still get wire service photographs of current events from InfoTrac Newsstand, Points of View Reference Center, and Primary Search.
All the databases from ProQuest now have a new search interface. All the Cambridge Scientific Abstracts databases are now available through ProQuest, due to a corporate merger that took place several years ago, and are also using that new interface.
The library will be open 9:00-5:00 on Friday and open 9:00-4:00 on Saturday. We will be closed on Sunday. Reference Commons and the Circulation Desk will be open 9:00-8:00 on Monday-Tuesday, and the other departments will be open 9:00-5:00. The entire library will then be open 9:00-5:00 on Wednesday-Friday. The Bookmark Café will be closed until the spring semester begins.

01/03 : Happy New Year!
Reference Commons and the Circulation Desk will be open 9:00-8:00 on Tuesday-Thursday, and the other departments will be open 9:00-5:00. The library will be open 9:00-5:00 on Friday and open 9:00-4:00 on Saturday. We will be closed on Sunday. The Bookmark Café will be closed until the spring semester begins.
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