The SMCM Library now has two Chromebooks available for students to borrow, in addition to the laptops we already loan.
Archives for December 2014
Full Access to The Chronicle of Higher Education
It’s a new year and with is comes all of the promises we make to ourselves. I’ll go to the gym at least 3 times a week. I’ll stop eating potato chips. I’ll be a more informed citizen/student/professor!
We might not be able to help you shed those pesky pounds of “holiday weight,” but we can help you stay better informed about news, events, and issues in higher education. The Library maintains a College-wide subscription to The Chronicle of Higher Education. To access all articles, opinion pieces, and writing about academia you could ever want, just visit The Chronicle online and sign up for a free account using your St. Mary’s email address.
Now you can cross at least one thing off of your New Year’s resolution list.
A New Look for the Library Website
As you may have already noticed, the Library website, like the rest of the St. Mary’s College website, has a new look! Over the past few months the librarians and the amazing Web Services team have been working hard to create website for the Library, Archives, and Media Center that are
- easy to use
- attractive to view
- informative
- and responsive, meaning you can view and interact with the site effectively regardless of the size of your screen.
We know that most people come to our Library’s website to access research resources, so we’ve featured OneSearch and all of our research tools like the catalog, ejournals, databases, and interlibrary loan prominently on the Library’s homepage. Our menu options stayed the same (About, Services, Research), so most of our information is in familiar places. We’re also starting to feature different, lesser known library items in our In the Collection feature. Take a look! You just might find your new favorite journal, book, or database.
I know some of you may be asking yourselves: Why the change? Why so drastic?
The biggest push for this dramatic change is in the responsive nature of our new library website. As I mentioned above, this means that you’ll be able to access the library website from any device–laptop, tablet, smartphone, etc.–and have the display be optimized for your screen. No more zooming in or excessive scrolling. Our old library website layout didn’t meet responsive web guidelines, so we used this change as an opportunity to make some big changes.
We’re excited about our new website and we hope you are too!
Crafting Conundrums: Puzzles and Patterns for the Bead Crochet Artist
Crafting Conundrums: Puzzles and Patterns for the Bead Crochet Artist is a new book from CRC Press featuring the stunning bead jewelry designs of St. Mary’s mathematics professor Dr. Susan Goldstine.
Drawing from her love of math, crochet, jewelry-making and puzzles, Dr. Goldstine and co-author Dr. Ellie Baker have put together a book designed for crafters, puzzle lovers, and pattern designers.
You can find Crafting Conundrums in the stacks on the 2nd floor of the Library.
MathSciNet
Published by the American Mathematical Society, MathSciNet is a searchable electronic database that contains reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for literature in mathematics. It contains over 3 million items and is pretty much THE disciplinary research tool (along with ArXiv) in mathematics. It’s now celebrating its 75th year of publication. Needless to say, that’s a lot of math over the years.
Involve: a Journal of Mathematics
The mathematical journal Involve features research that, at a minimum, contains one-third student authorship. It’s aim is to “showcase and encourage high-quality mathematical research involving students from all academic levels.” Published by Mathematical Sciences Publishers, Involve is an Open Access journal, which means all articles are available to read and download for free on the journal website.