��THE LIBRARY SCOOP Fall 2009 Volume 2, Issue 1 Orange County Community College Middletown & Newburgh campuses Newsletter of the Libraries of Orange County Community College Library Hours Middletown Monday - Friday 8 am 9 pm Saturday 9 am 3 pm Library Hours Newburgh Monday 9 am 8 pm Tuesday 9 am 8 pm Wednesday 9 am 5 pm Thursday 1 pm  8 pm Friday 9 am  5pm Phone Numbers: Middletown Circulation: 845-341-4855 Reference: 845-341-4260 Newburgh: 845-341-4542 The library staff is committed to providing helpful and friendly service. If you can t find a book, are having trouble formatting your paper or are wondering what books you have taken out please direct your questions to anyone at the front desk on the first floor. Turn It In The library will be hosting an information session that will allow you to test, examine, play and see for your self how Turnitin.com functions. Sessions in Middletown. Morning: Thu. Oct. 15 10am Afternoon: Tue. Oct. 13 3pm Evening: Wed. Oct. 14 7pm Sessions in Newburgh Afternoon: Tue. Oct . 20 3pm If you can t make any of these times contact Andy Heiz at extension 4253. NEWBURGH CAMPUS LIBRARY NEW LIBRARIAN & EXPANDED SERVICES Please welcome Debbie Canzano the Newburgh Campus Library s new supervisor. Debbie was most recently the library director at the Cohoes Public Library, a small library north of Albany. Before that she was the director of the Garfield Library (now known as the Brunswick Community Library) and has also worked at Albany Public Library. While a graduate student,� Debbie worked at the SUNY Albany library in� the Special Collections department where she spent a year in a sub-basement processing the Marcia Brown collection. Marcia Brown is an award winning author of children's books and her collection includes papers, stories and original artwork. Debbie has interned at the New York State Library and worked for the New York State Division of Library Development as a special grant librarian for a project with the New York State Developmental Disabilities Planning Council. Debbie� brings many years of experience in library service� to the Newburgh Campus library. Now that the library has two librarians the doors are open more hours. Debbie is encouraging faculty, students and staff to come in and look around. The current library location is bright and sunny and offers a great view of the Hudson. Expanded services include more books, both reference, non-fiction and fiction, a small magazine and journal collection,� four public computers, a printer, and WiFi. Reserve books are now available in the library and book deliveries between Newburgh and Middletown has improved Debbie will be leading the effort to transform the library from its present form to the new Kaplan Hall library. The library has grown from its beginning in a single room to its present form with an instruction room, quiet study room and computer area. Kaplan Hall may still be a hole in the ground the library s plan for expansion is in place. The expected date of first classes, set for Spring Semester 2011, is getting closer. By that time the library will be a fully functioning information commons with books, computers and other vital resources side by side. Students in Newburgh will have access to the same resources that are available in Middletown. Debbie is also at work on building the book collection to suit the needs of the faculty and students and expanding the reserve and periodicals collection. Stop by for a visit and find out how the library can be of use for you whether you are a student, faculty member or staff. Expanded Newburgh Library Hours Monday 9-8 Tuesday 9-8 Wednesday 9-5 Thursday 1-8 Friday 9-5 HENRY HUDSON S CRUISE IN THE NEW WORLD Take a look at history: Access to articles from the first Hudson-Fulton event in 1909 is available through OCCC databases JSTOR and HarpWeek. Search the NY Times on microfilm in the library or use NYtime.com s 1851 1980 archive for the original articles. Imagine a world where the space between the eastern and western coasts of the United States is largely unknown. Where explorers speculated that an unknown waterway would connect the two coasts. In that world it was thought that the river we know as the Hudson was such a waterway. Encyclopedia Britannica Hudson River entry tells us the river was known to the Mohican Indians as Muhheakunnuk ( Great Waters Constantly in Motion ). And that the river was known to European explorers as early as 1524. It wasn t until September 1609 that Henry Hudson sailed up the river, to where Albany is today, and discovered the river was not the way west. This September the Hudson Valley celebrates this voyage as the beginning of colonization of our home region. Hudson s voyage, on his ship the Half Moon, brought Europeans along with conflict over who lived where. The Hudson River was important to the colonies and the new nation that formed around it. Many of the battles during the revolution were over control of river navigation. It was as vital then as the Mississippi River is now. In the early 1800s artists, starting with Thomas Cole, flocked to the area and began the first truly American art style, The Hudson River School of Art. As a subject for scientific study the river has a few quirks. Its bends through the Hudson Highlands are unusual in an otherwise straight course and it is, arguably, a fjord (the most southern in the Northern Hemisphere). All these issues and more can be explored using the library s resources. From the original inhabitants to efforts to remediate pollution the library has the subject covered. New Software in the Library OFFICE 2007 has arrived All the computers in the library now have Office 2007. If you have difficulty working with these tools you can ask for help at the desk. Menus are replaced by the ribbon so let us know if you are confused. Your 2003 applications can open 2007 documents if you save them in the 2003 format. Some fancy formatting may be lost but this usually isn t a problem for school papers. NY Police Patrol Guide This authoritative volume is available at the print station. Search and print police procedures you need to know. Install your own software The library computers allow you to install software that you may need for your class. If you don t you have the disk download the software the net. Remember it will be deleted when the computer is turned off. SUNY Orange now subscribes to ARTstor digital image library. ARTstor is a comprehensive image collection of art from many cultures and eras. The image library is available through browsing or a keyword search. Advanced search options permit searching geographic regions, time periods and collections. Some of the collections that can be accessed include selections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Minneapolis Art Institute, Smithsonian American Art collection, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco and one hundred other worldwide collections. ARTstor is the place to go to find a specific image or to browse. ARTstor is available on all campus computers at artstor.org. For students and faculty who use ARTstor frequently can set up an account and save images for quick retrival. The account can be set up into categories for easy retrieval of images. The images in the library are usually high quality art slides. Once the image is on the screen the browser can zoom in and magnify specific areas of the image. If there are multiple images in ARTstor a simple click will display all the images. A very useful feature if you are interested in exploring sculpture. Come to the library for a demonstration of all the features ARTstor offers. GOT ART? Artstor search screen from artstor.org A Tree Grows in the Information Commons Are you doing your part to conserve paper? To demonstrate how much paper is used in the Information Commons a lush verdant tree has sprouted between the printer stations. The leaf clusters represent 50 gallons of paper sent to be recycled. For each load sent a leaf cluster is removed. Our goal is to have a healthy tree by the end of the semester. Our tree was created by local artist and former Goshen Intermediate School art teacher Arthur Ahr. The trunk and branches were carved out of a used packing box. The leaves were printed on paper recovered from the recycling bins and the backings were made out of newspaper. Paper saving tips are linked from the library s web site http://www.sunyorange.edu/lrc/docs/paper-saving-tips.pdf.