Wellness Resources

Did you miss last week's health information clinic?
In support of the 7^th Annual HWS Wellness Week, the HWS reference librarians have put together a few key resources to support your health:

Beyond WebMD – Health Resources You Need to Know -

Discover freely available quality resources that cover a variety of health topics. Everyone has questions about their health. This clinic will introduce you to resources you can rely on when it matters most.

Google's New Privacy Policy

Starting Thursday, March 1, 2012. Google’s new privacy policy will go into effect.

Find out what you need to know and how to protect yourself. If you have a YouTube, Gmail, or Picasa account, or simply use Google as your search engine, this will affect you!

Listen to a summary of the changes, and how you can protect yourself:

http://www.npr.org/2012/02/29/147617359/users-can-control-what-google-knows-about-them (NPR - Morning Edition, 2/29/12)

Read and follow these steps to protect yourself:

http://www.npr.org/2012/02/29/147643649/protecting-your-privacy-amid-google-policy-changes (NPR - Tell Me More, 2/29/12)

Use these tips to take your privacy to the next level:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2012/02/29/147596859/how-to-adjust-your-privacy-settings-before-googles-big-shift (NPR - all tech CONSIDERED)

Emily Hart, Reference and Instruction Librarian

New Arrival: Cut & Paste

For the D-I-Y-ers out there, this is a wonderful collection compiled by Richard Brereton with Caroline Roberts. Subtitled 21st Century Collage, it contains biographical text and lots of full-color reproductions. This collection reminds us of the multidimensional medium of the mind.

Artists represented include:

Ashkan Honarvar
Julien Pacaud
James Dawe
Theo Mercier
Drew Beckmeyer

and many more...

~Jennifer, Reference and Instruction Librarian

Spotlight on...

Joshua Serrano, Class of 2015, works on a collaborative project for BIDS 229: Two Cities.

He says that the library's first floor is a nice space for the size of this kind of project and that it combines a social and academic atmosphere where you can talk to your group members and concentrate.

For more information about this course and the Urban Studies Program:
http://www.hws.edu/academics/urban/two_cities.aspx

Want to know more about Ebrary?

The ebrary link is on the library’s home page http://library.hws.edu/
~or~
you can search the catalog for individual titles http://voyager.hws.edu/

Once you have found a title that is of interest:

· Navigate the book’s pages using the left and right arrows

· Search for terms within the entire book using keywords or phrases in “” and by utilizing Boolean (AND, OR, NOT must be in all caps)

· Browse the book’s index if you need ideas on what to search

· Print: Up to 60 pages per request

· Download: Up to 60 pages in pdf format (yours to keep) or the entire document (up to 14 days)

· Set up a free personal account to:

o Create a Bookshelf and automatically save and organize bookmarks, annotations and highlighting within the documents

o Enable downloading

o Need more assistance? Download the full guide: http://www.ebrary.com/corp/collateral/en/Quick_Guides/Quick_Guide.pdf

Welcome Back!

We hope that you had a nice winter break. You may notice a change or two in the library. The shift of the quartos (the coffee table sized books) has been completed.
From now on, you'll be looking for the quartos on the second floor (see map below) and not on the third floor.
It will look like this in the catalog:
Location: Main Collection, Quarto Section -- 2nd Floor

Enjoy the snow!

Reminder 3rd Floor Silent Level

If you are looking for a quiet place to study, this is a reminder that the third floor of the library is the silent level.