Library News

 

Photocopiers Allow Free Scanning to USB Drive

Posted May 15, 2012

Now you can photocopy for free if you save to a USB drive rather than print. Our new photocopiers have the option to "Scan" as well as copy.

How? Press the "Scan" button before you start. (The default is "Copy".)
On the screen, select "USB". Choose a file format: PDF, TIFF, or XPS.
Insert your USB stick in the slot to the left of the screen.
Scan just as you would copy, but instead of a paper copy, a digital copy is placed on your USB stick.

Please ignore the "Email" option, as it has not been activated.

Most of our photocopiers are in the Multimedia Room on the Main Floor of Bata Library. If you need assistance, ask at the door at the back of the room.

 

 

Information Session: University Press Scholarship Online

Posted May 10, 2012

 

 

Power Outage on Symons Campus

Posted May 2, 2012

A MESSAGE FROM THE PHYSICAL RESOURCES DEPARTMENT

Please be advised that the Physical Resources Department (PRD) will be performing maintenance and upgrades to the electrical services at the University, which will require power outages over the summer period.

A power outage is planned for Sunday, May 6 starting at 8 p.m. with the outage lasting until 6 a.m. on Monday, May 7. This outage will affect buildings on the West Bank of Symons campus only, with the exception of Blackburn Hall.

The University data centre, including all e-mail, file (H: and S: drives), web servers, instructional delivery, and library servers, will be shut down beginning at 6 p.m. on Sunday, May 6, and will return to normal operational status by 8 a.m. on Monday, May 7.
This includes off-campus access to library resources that require the proxy server.

Safety phones and emergency paging systems will not be available on the West Bank. Telephone service in Blackburn Hall and the Oshawa campus only will function normally, though voicemail service throughout the Symons campus will continue to operate as usual.

Client access to e-mail, including Groupwise, web access, and Blackberry will not be available during the outage, however, all incoming e-mail will continue to be accepted by our backup system, and no e-mails will be lost as a result of this shutdown.

Internet access, including wireless, will be unavailable in the affected buildings.

A temporary web page at www.trentu.ca will advise visitors that our web site is unavailable due to maintenance.

Thanking you in advance for your anticipated co-operation.

 

 

New E-Books from University Press

Posted May 1, 2012

Trent University Library is pleased to announce the acquisition of University Press Scholarship Online (UPSO) acquired through an OCUL consortial purchase with Oxford University Press.

UPSO is a collection of over 8,000 scholarly ebooks in 23 subject areas from the following nine leading university presses:

Oxford University Press - 7000+ - titles
PLUS
Cairo University Press - 57 titles
Edinburgh University Press - 261 titles
Florida University Press - 171 titles
Fordham University Press - 204 titles
Hong Kong University Press - 118 titles
Kentucky University Press - 111 titles
The Policy Press (Bristol) - 291 titles
University of California Press - 411 titles

The majority of the books in the OCUL licensed UPSO collection are published between the mid 2000s to March 2012. This is a tremendous addition to our holdings, highly relevant to Trent's academic programmes, filling gaps in our monograph collection -- particulary in the humanities and social sciences.

These ebooks are currently available on the UPSO platform. They will soon be added to TOPCAT and Scholarsportal Books.

 

 

Library Hours

Posted March 29, 2012

New hours are posted for Bata Library for Easter weekend, examination period, and summer. See the hours page.

New hours are also posted for Oshawa Campus Library.

 

 

Three Group Study Rooms Added at Bata

Posted March 8, 2012

Three new  Group Study Rooms are ready for student use via the Library Room Booking system; find the link to "Book a Group Study Room" on the library homepage.
Rooms may be booked up to a week ahead of time.

The new rooms are on the 1st (lower) floor:

• 106.11 maximum 4 people (not lockable due to fire hose cabinet)
• 106.10 maximum 4 people (keypad code on door - ask for code at the Circulation Desk if it's locked)
• 106.1 maximum 8 people (not locked)

This brings the number of bookable study rooms to seven: five at Bata and two at Oshawa.

Book these new rooms online, then go directly to the room at the time you've booked. Since no key is required for the new rooms, there's no need to stop at the Circulation Desk.
For the time being, keys are still required for rooms 309 and 207.

Using the Library Room Booking system provides consistency for the scheduling of Library spaces, enables students to plan their work
and promotes accountability for the condition of the rooms. Rooms are booked using a valid Trent account username.
Circulation staff also use the booking system to solve disputes and to ensure that no group is abusing the 2-hour limit.

Signs are posted on the doors.
Since these rooms are located in a Red (silent) Zone, you are asked to keep noise levels to a moderate level and close the door.
The Bata Library will re-evaluate the Learning Zones designations in the near future.

 

MLA Bibliography Now on GALE Platform

Posted March 6, 2012

The MLA Bibliography (previous accessed through EBSCO) is now available through the GALE platform, making it searchable alongside the Literature Resource Center. The MLA Bibliography is a popular database for finding articles dealing with literature topics in scholarly books and journals. In moving our subscription to the GALE plaform, we've made it easier to find more information on literary topics with a single search.

Search for a keyword, a person, or a work. Results are sorted into tabs for:

• criticisms,
• biographies,
• overviews,
• reviews,
• primary sources,
• multimedia, and
• MLA Bibliography results.

There are embedded links to full text resources, as well as a button for linking to our online journals and searching TOPCAT (for book chapters).

GALE also has a mobile app for accessing all GALE databases on the go. (iPad, iPhone, iPod, Android)

Link to the MLA and Literature Resource Center here.

Give it a try and send us your comments.

 

 

TOPCAT Notice

Posted Monday February 6, 2012

Today we are experiencing some technical difficulties with TOPCAT - our library catalogue.

Due to indexing problems, searches may not return reliable results.

We are working on the problem, and TOPCAT remains available when possible.
There may be times when it is temporarily unavailable, especially overnight.

Meanwhile, you may experience unusual results in your searches.

We realize that this is a serious inconvenience and we apologize for the disruption.

 

 

Trial: U.S. News Databases

Posted January 20, 2012

Until February 25, 2012 the Trent Library has trial access to the following U.S. newspapers online:

Los Angeles Times (1881 to current)
The Christian Science Monitor (1908 to current)
The New York Times (1851 to current)
Wall Street Journal (1889 to current)
The Washington Post (1877 to current)

These newspapers are access on the ProQuest interface. Click here.

Please send us your comments.

 

 

Installation/Art Performance : Wendy Trusler

Posted January 19, 2012

February 1, 10am-3pm
Artist-in-Residence (Gzowski College) Wendy Trusler will be in the central atrium of Bata Library.

Wendy Trusler is a visual artist who creates site-responsive installations that incorporate various media, including drawing, painting, sculpture and film. Her installations have been presented in a variety of contexts, from galleries to storefront windows, industrial spaces to parks. Her interest in the roles that symbol and language play in coding memory continues with Voices at Hand.

Voices at Hand by Wendy Trusler will take place at Trent University, February 1 - 8, 2012. Described on her blog as "part art installation, part performance & part travelling archive," Wendy examines the essence of why we keep letters. Included in her collection of over 3,300 letters are copies of nineteenth-century items from Trent University Archives.

Events will take place at Bata Library on February 1 and at Gzowski College on February 2-8. Voices at Hand is co-sponsored by Bata Library and Gzowski College.

Throughout her Trent residency Trusler will liaise with students and faculty, read aloud on request from the collection and bring letters from the Trent University Archives to life. New submissions from the public are also welcome and can be delivered to the Peter Gzowski College office (GSC-214) after January 23 or delivered to Trusler on site during the run.

 

 

Trial: PsycINFO on PsycNET

Posted January 16, 2012

The Trent Library already subscribes to PsycINFO, on the ProQuest interface. The same database (with all the same information) is also available on the PsycNET interface, from APA.

For a limited time - until February 28, 2012 - we have access to this database through both sites.
The two sites provide different search engines for the same data. Try out the PsycNET interface, and let us know what you think.

PsycINFO on PsycNET (trial until Feb 28)
PsycINFO on ProQuest

 

 

New Service: Streaming Films @ Trent Library

Posted January 12, 2012

The Trent Library has arranged to have a small number of our purchased films licensed, digitized, and hosted for streaming over the internet. A company called McNabb Connolly is providing this service. Titles were selected based on circulation activity, demand for materials moving between Peterborough and Oshawa, and availability of streaming rights.

Streaming videos/films provide enormous flexibility over DVD and VHS formats. Intended to be viewed from personal computers and tablets, streaming films can be watched at any time from any location. Showings need not be limited to class periods.

You can access these streaming films on the McNabb Connolly website.

Links can also be found on our website:

• on our E-Resources webpage under "Video and Film",
• through TOPCAT, the Library catalogue (under individual titles), and
• on our Directory of Online Databases.

The titles currently available (listed alphabetically) are:

GOD SLEEPS IN RWANDA
IF ONLY I WERE AN INDIAN
KEEPERS OF THE FIRE
LIFE AND DEBT
MAQUILOPOLIS
MUFFINS FOR GRANNY
RACE: THE POWER OF AN ILLUSION
SON OF AFRICA
STERILIZATION OF LEILANI MUIR
THIRST
UNNATURAL CAUSES: IS INEQUALITY MAKING US SICK?

Note that admission fees may NOT be charged for screening of these streaming resources.
The full terms and conditions of license agreements for individual streaming films are available from the Trent University Library.

Feedback on this service is invited at libraryhelp@trentu.ca.

 

 

 

MLA Bibliography on Gale

Posted December 13, 2011

We've subscribed to the MLA Bibliography for many years. Now it's also available through Gale, integrated into the Literature Resource Center.

Try it out during our free trial period, until January 8, 2012. Send your comments to libraryhelp@trentu.ca.

Connect to MLA through Gale.

 

 

Trial Database: PsycTESTS and PsycTHERAPY

Posted November 16, 2011

PsycTESTS™ is a research database that provides access to psychological tests, measures, scales, surveys, and other assessments as well as descriptive information about the test and its development and administration.

PsycTHERAPY™ is a database containing more than 300 videos featuring therapy demonstrations showing clinicians working with individuals, couples, and families.

These two databases from APA are available to us until December 8.

Try them out and let us know if you find them helpful.

 

 

Trial Database: Book Citation Index in Web of Knowledge

Posted November 16, 2011

The Book Citation Index allows you to search for books (series and non-series) and book chapters using all of the fields and features available in Web of Science. Two new indexes have been added to our existing Web of Knowledge searches:

• Book Citation Index– Science (BKCI-S) -- 2005-present, and
• Book Citation Index– Social Sciences & Humanities (BKCI-SSH) -- 2005-present.

Now authors and researchers can analyze the citation network between books and the wider world of scholarly research.
(from the website)

The Books Citation Index is available only until November 30.

Try it out and let us know if you find it helpful.

 

 

 

GIS DAY: 18 November 2011

Posted November 15, 2011

Please join us in celebrating GIS Day at Trent University!

As part of its ongoing commitment to support the development and integration of geospatial technologies across academic disciplines, Trent University Library's Maps, Data and Government Information Centre (MaDGIC) is celebrating GIS Day with a series of events. These include research talks by faculty and graduate students, a discussion about GIS research needs and potential for collaborations, and a map exhibit featuring some of the best GIS work by students and faculty across many disciplines.

GIS Day provides a great opportunity to learn more about the work being done on campus by our diverse community of researchers.

Events Schedule:

EXHIBIT: Between November 14th and 18th, in the main foyer of Bata Library

RESEARCH TALKS AND DISCUSSION:
Date: Friday, November 18, 2011
Time: 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Where: A.J.M. Smith Conference Room, First Floor, Thomas J. Bata Library

See a Schedule of Talks and Speakers.

Everyone Welcome!

 

 

E-Books On ebrary Can Now Be Downloaded

Posted November 9, 2011

The ebrary site provides access to e-book collections on a wide variety of scholarly topics, including titles from the following publishers:

• Cambridge University Press
• Canadian Health Research Collection
• Canadian Publishers Collection
• Duke University Press
• Oxford University Press
• Springer
• Taylor & Francis

In all, there are over 20,000 books available at this site.

Most of our e-books must be accessed from a provider's website and cannot be downloaded to your computer. Now ebrary allows you to download select books to your desktop, laptop, e-book reader, or mobile device.
The book remains on your device for 14 days, and then it is deleted.
See more information on the ebrary help page or our Mobile Access to Library Resources page.

Search ebrary for books now!

 

 

New Resource: Literature Resource Center

Posted September 28, 2011

Starting this month, as part of the Knowledge Ontario group, the library subscribes to Gale's Literature Resource Center online.

This resource provides up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.

It replaces three print titles from our Reference collection:

• Contemporary Authors Online, offering biographical coverage of more than 130,000 writers;
• Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, featuring entries on all authors appearing in CLC since vol. 95 of the print series and complete profiles of 266 most studied authors from editions prior to vol. 95; and
• Dictionary of Literary Biography Online, containing more than 13,000 biocritical essays on authors and their works written by academic scholars.

Find out more on our database information page.

 

 

New Hours at Bata Library

Posted August 29, 2011

Bata Library will have longer hours beginning this Fall.
Sunday - Thursday the Library will be open until Midnight; Friday and Saturdays until 9pm. On weekends we open at 10am.
Similar to the extended service during exams, during the later hours we will provide limited services: access to the main collections, computers and study space; self checkout; and security.

See the new Hours.

 

 

New Watmedia Site

Posted August 24, 2011

From the University of Waterloo:

Some of you may have noticed that Watmedia has not been available at times recently.  It is being moved to Dymaxion's "Medianet In The Cloud service", which means Dymaxion will be hosting our Medianet service (Medianet is the software that runs the Watmedia catalogue).  

Update September 16, 2011
The new site is now available at: http://media.dymaxion.ca/htbin/wwform/082/wwk770

 

 

RefWorks Update

Posted August 18, 2011 (Updated, December 7th)

If RefWorks or Write N Cite are not working properly you may be experiencing compatibility issues. Click here for more information.

As of September 1st, 2011, RefWorks 2.0 will be the default version for new users. Current account holders will see the last version they logged into. Use the buttons in the upper right hand corner to toggle between RefWorks 2.0 and RefWorks Classic.

RefWorks Classic will only be available until the end of the year.

RefWorks 2.0 Enhancements

RefWorks 2.0 Quick Start Guide

 

 

Interlibrary Loans Policy Changes

Posted August 4, 2011

Starting September 1, 2011, the following Interlibrary Loan (ILL) policy changes below are in effect.
The Library has instituted these policies in an effort to balance our consortium responsibilities with our clients’ needs.

• Interlibrary Loan Grace Period is 2 (two) days (reduced from 4 days) for all ILL material except Media. The ILL media policy remains unchanged with no grace period.
• ILL Recalled Items Due in 5 (five) days (increased from due immediately) in cases where the lending library recalls the material at any time, resulting in the original due date being reduced. Previously, recalled material was due immediately and this did not provide sufficient time for return of items.

 

 

ProQuest Has a New Interface

Posted July 26, 2011

All our ProQuest databases are now coming to us through a new interface. The interface controls how databases look, how they're searched, and how the results are displayed and manipulated. ProQuest has created a look that's clean and bright, with features that are easy to find and use.

See the description of new features from ProQuest.

As of this week, all ProQuest and Scholars Portal Search databases are using this new interface.
Contact libraryhelp if you have any questions.

 

 

Important Announcement Regarding Faculty & Staff RACER Logins

Posted July 25, 2011

In an effort to maintain consistency with Trent University Human Resources Department’s numbering system, ILL staff are currently undertaking a project to change faculty & staff RACER login numbers, from the current employee number to the Datatel number.

This change will not affect your password, current requests or request history.
Each user will be sent an email containing their new login number immediately after their login has been changed.

Kindly accept our apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.

 

 

Scholars Portal Guest Speaker

Posted July 22, 2011

Alan Darnell, Manager, Scholars Portal Services
Thursday July 28, 2011 at 1:00 p.m.
A.J.M. Smith Room (BL 107.2) Bata Library Building, Trent University

Scholars Portal provides the technological infrastructure that preserves and provides access to information resources collected and shared
by the consortium of 21 partners in the Ontario Council of University Libraries.

Through Scholars Portal’s online services, Trent students, faculty and researchers have access to millions of e-journal articles and an extensive collection
of e-books and social science data sets. Scholars Portal also offers an online interlibrary loan platform as well as providing support for the
RefWorks citation management system and other tools designed to aid and enhance academic research for Trent scholars.
Find more information about Scholars Portal at www.scholarsportal.info/

Alan Darnell, Manager, Scholars Portal Services, will discuss recent developments at Scholars Portal and its vision for the future.
Join us for an in-depth look at Scholars Portal.

For more information, contact Carmen Gelette in Library Administration or call 705-748-1011 x7414

 

 

 

Web of Science Has a New Interface

Posted July 18, 2011

Web of Science/Knowledge released their new web interface today. The new look is cleaner and simpler, making it easier to use and navigate through the database.

A richer display of cited reference search results allows user to view full title and source information, times cited counts for cited references, and navigate to full text. Improved flexibility in cited reference searching and simplified display of the Lookup Table makes it easier to view and identify relevant results.

Now includes "lemmatization": spelling variations (such as US and UK spelling differences) in topic and title search terms are found automatically (for example, behavior and behaviour).

More information on changes is available here.

See our Help page on Cited Reference Searching to understand how to use this resources more completely.

 

 

NetLibrary E-Books Move to EBSCO

Posted July 13, 2011

NetLibrary has been purchased by EBSCO. Now all our NetLibrary books are available ONLY through EBSCO eBooks.

UPDATE: EBSCO eBooks is now live.
Check it out!

During the week of July 18, 2011 our NetLibrary e-books will cease to be available through the NetLibrary site, and the new EBSCO site will be launched.
Going forward, all our NetLibrary books will be available through EBSCO.

If you are an active NetLibrary user with a personalized account, please take note of this announcement from EBSCO:

Your Favorites & Notes information on NetLibrary will be replaced by a free, versatile folder option as soon as the transition from NetLibrary to eBooks on EBSCOhost is complete.  This means that items saved prior to the transition will not be saved.  Please ensure that you save any information you do not want to lose locally, before the migration takes place. The My EBSCOhost folder will provide users with a wide variety of personalization options, such as the ability to save: Downloaded books Check out books Holds Notes Articles Images Journal Alerts Saved Searches and more!

Stay tuned for further information on EBSCO E-Books as the new site becomes available.

 

 

Switching Political Science Databases

Posted July 7, 2011

The Library regularly evaluates our online resources in terms of their suitability for Trent's teaching and research needs. We recently switched from PAIS and Worldwide Political Science Abstracts to EBSCO's Political Science Complete and Public Affairs Index.

Political Science Complete contains full text for more than 520 journals, and indexing and abstracts for over 2,900 titles. Researchers also have access to more than 340 full text reference books and monographs, as well as over 36,000 full text conference papers.

Public Affairs Index covers aspects of contemporary public policy issues. These include banking and finance, criminal justice, education, energy, humanitarian issues, politics and elections, etc.

Because these political science products are on the EBSCO search platform, researchers will be able to cross search these databases with Academic Search Elite and other EBSCO databases to which the Library already subscribes.

 

 

 

Bata Library Update from the University Librarian – Summer 2011

Posted July 5, 2011

As announced at the end of April, this summer the Trent University Library has embarked upon a project to re-organize the Bata Library stack collection so that it is shelved in sequential Library of Congress call number order from A to Z on the 3rd and 4th floors of the Library.

The project is proceeding on schedule. As of June 30th, about 55% of the collection had been reorganized and moved. The remaining parts of the collection are either in temporary locations in the Bata Library, or waiting to be relocated to their permanent location as shifting continues.

During the reorganization, the Library continues to follow the established policy of removing print journals that are available through a trusted digital repository*. This summer, the Library is removing print equivalents of JSTOR and Annual Reviews collections.

For more information on the current status of the Bata Library stack reorganization, please consult the Library webpage.

* A trusted digital repository is one whose mission is to provide reliable, long-term access to managed digital resources to its designated community, now and in the future.
Source: Trusted Digital Repositories: Attributes and Responsibilities. An RLG-OCLC Report. Mountain View, CA. Research Libraries Group, May 2002, p.5.
http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/past/rlg/trustedrep/repositories.pdf. Accessed July 3, 2011.

 

 

Taylor & Francis Move

Posted July 4, 2011

Taylor & Francis is a publishing company which supplies Trent with online journals. Until now we've had access through an interface called Informaworld. The journals have recently moved to a new home on the Taylor & Francis Online site.

Taylor & Francis migrated the journals beginning June 27, and some unexpected problems have been encountered. They hope to resolve outstanding issues by July 8.

If you have trouble accessing any Taylor & Francis journals, either through Informaworld or Taylor & Francis Online, please send the details to libraryhelp@trentu.ca and we'll sort it out for you.

 

 

Scholars Portal Search Engine Retires

Posted July 4, 2011

After many successful years of service, the Scholars Portal Search engine is being retired. This interface has been heavily used by Ontario University students and faculty for many years as a popular starting point for research in our Scholars Portal index databases. However, it has become outdated. It's being replaced by a new ProQuest interface.

Trent currently has access to 77 index databases on the Scholars Portal platform, covering almost every subject area.
The majority of these database will now be searchable via the new ProQuest interface (search engine).
Those that are not searchable via the ProQuest interface will be searchable on their own native interface.

See the new ProQuest interface. We think you'll like the new look and features.

Over the coming weeks you'll see changes in the search screens and options in Scholars Portal databases, as we make the move to the new interface - database by database. Instead of "Scholars Portal Search", you'll see "ProQuest Databases", but the content will be much the same as it was with Scholars Portal.
These changes should be complete by July 15, 2011.

Scholars Portal has NOT gone away.
The majority of our e-journals are still accessed on the Scholars Portal servers, linked through and also searchable directly as the Scholars Portal Journals database (with 22,383,238 articles from over 8,925 full text journals covering every academic discipline - at last count).
We look forward to seeing plans for a new search engine to our index databases soon.

Please contact libraryhelp@trentu.ca if you experience any difficulties with the new ProQuest interface.

 

 

Update: The project was completed on August 19! About 400,000 books were moved by 5 student workers,
under the direction of Library Facilities and Collections Coordinator, Jeff Domm.

This summer Bata Library reorganized the stack collection.
It is now shelved in sequential order by Library of Congress call number (A-Z), from the 3rd Floor to the 4th Floor.

We now have:

A - PR on the 3rd Floor
and
PS - ZA on the 4th Floor.

This photo shows the last book being moved to its new location, on August 19.
Left to right: Autumn McConkey, Jason Dos Reis, Maureen Heffernan, William MacMillan, and Jeff Domm. Missing for the photo was Rebeca Cudd.

 

During part of this period call numbers starting with PQ will be unavailable; these items may be ordered via ILL.
Other material may be intermittently relocated or unavailable as it is shifted.
Most of the 3rd Floor is being used for temporary storage locations while we make room for permanent locations; all of the study areas in the corners are now storage areas.
The 3rd Floor cannot serve as a silent study floor during this project.

We'll keep the latest changes posted on our homepage and on a sign in the Bata Library atrium.
We're doing our best to post signs in locations where items have been moved, directing you to their current location.
Staff members working on the relocation are happy to direct you to the new or temporary location of items you can't find.

We understand that this project will inconvenience library patrons over the summer, and we apologize for the disturbance.
It's a large project, but we expect the resulting consistency and organization to be a great improvement.

 

 

• The daily fine rate increases to $.50 per day (from $.40 per day).
  
• The number of items patrons can borrow increases:
  • Undergraduate students may borrow up to 25 stack items (previously 17 items).
  • Graduate students. staff and faculty may borrow up to 50 stack items (previously 25).
    
• The number of renewals on an item increases to 3 (from 1).
  • Patrons are reminded to use the HOLD feature if an item they need is currently signed out, and items with a HOLD continue to be non-renewable.
    
• The loan period for media is 1 night for everyone (previously 7 nights for faculty, staff, and graduate students).

Posted September 3, 2010

Look for these symbols in the Bata Library. Choose your study spot accordingly.