Coffee and Donuts with the Research Community

Beginning in September, OIT, in conjunction with the Division of Research and Economic Development and Albertsons Library, will host a community event for researchers and their graduate assistants on a monthly basis.

Please join us on the first Thursday of each month at the Environmental Research Building (ERB), first floor conference room and atrium from 9 am – 11 am. The forum will include brief presentations of resources, support and contact information provided by the Research Computing Department, the Library, and the Division of Research and Economic Development, at 9 am and then again at 10 am.

In between presentations, coffee, tea and donuts are available as well as opportunities for introductions to other university researchers.

For more information:
wiki.boisestate.edu
researchcomputing@boisestate.edu

or contact

Michelle Armstrong, Scholarly Communications and Data Management Librarian michellearmstrong1@boisestate.edu

Reserve a Study Room at Albertsons Library!

Reserve me! http://goo.gl/6EsfO6

Based on student feedback, Albertsons Library has increased the number of group study rooms that can be reserved by students.

The six study rooms, located on all four floors of the library can be reserved via the online reservation form, or students can continue to place reservations at the Circulation or CRC (2nd floor) Desk.

Rooms can be reserved by current Boise State students for 3 hours at a time, 2 reservations a week, and 1 week in advance.

In addition, faculty, staff, and graduate students can reserve private study rooms on the 4th floor. Two rooms, 401 K and 401 L, are small study rooms with one desk and chair.

These offices are ideal for working in a quiet space, away from interruptions. These rooms can be reserved for 8 hours at a time, 3 time slots a week, 1 month in advance. Keys to the room must be checked out at the Circulation Desk. Reservations can be made via our online form, or at the Circulation and CRC Desks.

Other study rooms on the 3rd and 4th floor are first-come first-served. Visit the library’s Library Space page to learn more about the various study and collaborative spaces in the building.

Mary Aagard
Access Services

Your library, Fall 2014 edition

The Boise State campus and your library have gone through many changes these past few months--from a new look in the Quad, to a new entrance to the library's Starbucks. But what about inside the library? Come check out the following: :

• Hundreds of computers running Microsoft Office suite
• Check out Macs and PC laptops, including netbooks & iPads
• Access Boise State scholarship, university documents and more via ScholarWorks
• Multiple BroncoPrint stations, including wireless printing from your laptop, including color printing
• Access thousands of articles from our 320+ research databases, many which are mobile-friendly
• Access the Internet from anywhere in the building on guest and BroncoWeb accounts
• Watch online content via our streaming video databases on a wide range of subjects
• Extensive subject guides in fields such as Public Administration, Radiologic Sciences, Kinesiology, Educational Technology and many more, via the library's subject guides
• Thousands of eBooks to read online or download to your portable device
• Check out headphones, portable chargers, or sweet Raspberry Pi kits
• Group projects? Use the collaboration lab in room L109C, equipped with dual monitors and scanners

Have questions about research, campus, or anything at all? We’re available to help you via our Help page, on Facebook, and on Twitter. We're well represented on Pinterest and Instagram too. Or you can text us your questions at (208) 546-9982

 We hope you have a fantastic Fall semester!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US!

Eddie Vedder, Sandra Bullock, Rob Lowe, Stephen Colbert, Courtney Love, Bobby Flay, Sarah Palin, Michelle Obama… Albertsons Library? We were all born in 1964! Well, construction on the new building started in 1963, but the library held its first open house for the public in August, 1964. The library was not named Albertsons until 1995, after Albertsons Inc. donated six million dollars toward the library expansion and renovation. Still, we’ve decided to celebrate our Golden Anniversary this year, and you can expect a number of opportunities to join in the festivities.

To commemorate the event we’re producing a publication that will be hosted on ScholarWorks, and we welcome your contributions to that publication. If you have an anecdote, fact or photo about the library in the past fifty years, please send it to the library’s Outreach Coordinator, Elizabeth Ramsey at elizabethramsey@boisestate.edu. As part of the celebration we currently have a great photo exhibit up on the 2nd floor of the library from Special Collections, Broncos Through the Decades, and Special Collections will also be creating new exhibits monthly from the University archives.

We’ll be keeping you up-to-date on all the groovy anniversary happenings throughout our social media outlets. You can join the conversation on Twitter, where we’re using the hashtag #BoiseStLibraryat50. We’ll also be posting regularly on:

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/albertsonslibrary?ref=hl

Instagram http://instagram.com/albertsonslibrary

Pinterest http://www.pinterest.com/albertsonslib/

and this blog, so stay tuned! Here’s to fifty years of knowledge, growth and innovation!

This blog post is the third in a series, produced in coordination with the celebration of Albertsons Library’s 50th Anniversary.

Introducing LibChat!

You probably already know how much we love to help people here at Albertsons Library, so it won’t come as a surprise that we’ve introduced a new way for you to get in touch called Chat with us! 

Use Chat with us! to chat live with an Albertsons Library expert anytime we’re open (see the library calendar for hours).

You can find Chat with us! on the library website (shown below) as well as on our subject and topic guides.

We look forward to chatting with you!

Library resources for faculty

Did you know the Albertsons Library has a page for faculty resources & services? Well, you do now! Go to http://library.boisestate.edu/facultyservices/index.php and let us know how we can help.

Long Live the King!

Some rights reserved by pagedooley through Flickr CC

Elvis Week is an annual 10-day celebration of the “King of Rock-n-Roll” in Memphis, TN. According to the official Elvis page, Elvis Presley went from a two room shack in Tupelo, MS to become a cultural phenomenon, starring in 33 films, selling a billion records(?!), and breaking records with his sold out live performances regularly. Although he died August 16, 1977, Elvis has remained a global pop icon to this day.

How about checking out a DVD to see the King in action: 
Elvis ‘56  http://boisestate.worldcat.org/oclc/45761422

Or some CDs to hear his music:
Elvis Up Close  (includes booklet with some awesome Elvis photos) http://boisestate.worldcat.org/oclc/52607109

Albertsons Library also has Elvis’ music in streaming format:
http://muco.alexanderstreet.com/search/elvis

Here’s one of several Elvis books available in the library.
Elvis Presley: The man. The life. The legend. Photos too. http://boisestate.worldcat.org/oclc/55044675

And you can take a virtual tour of Elvis’ home with the app, Hidden Mysteries: Gates of Graceland. Go through Graceland room by room and discover trivia about Elvis while looking for parts of an unrecorded song by him. Enjoy Elvis music and film clips along the way.  

Finally, in a little piece of Boise State University history related to Elvis; Dr. Sandra Schackel, who taught History at Boise State University, dressed up as Elvis for her classes. You can see Dr. Schackel with the King and learn more about her in the story Women Making Herstory in a publication from the Women’s History Center available through ScholarWorks: http://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/wmh/5/

Audrey Williams, Elizabeth Ramsey