• Library Display
  
  Grand Hallway: Celebrating the women's sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha. The organization assembled the display.
  Stairwell Exhibit: Documenting the history and achievements of UL Lafayette President Ray Authement.
  The public is invited to view these free exhibits, which will be on display until the end of the month. For more information about the exhibit, call 482-6031. For library and Louisiana Room hours, call 482-2665.

• SelfCheck System: A new SelfCheck System now offers users the option of checking out and renewing their own books. The system is easy to use, with step-by step directions displayed in English or Spanish on a touch screen above the scanner. It prints a receipt for every transaction. Using their Cajun Cards, students will be able to check out books 24/7 when the library is open for study purposes during finals week.
  
  Library Circulation Department staff will assist students who need help using this new equipment. Beate Kukainis, Head of Technical Services, submitted the grant proposal for the system, which is funded by STEP, the Student Technology Enhancement Program.

• Finals Hours: Open 24 hours during finals week. For building hours, check here. For Dupre STEP computer lab hours, check here.

• Copy Machines: All copy machines on the first and second floors now use the Cajun Card swipe cards. Users must have funds in their Cajun Card account to use the copy machines. To add funds to their card, students may deposit up to $20.00 using the debit machine located in the first floor copy center. The general public may obtain a blank swipe card at Circulation and add funds to it using the debit machine.

• New Look for Home Page: Our Library Home Page now has a new look -- we believe it has a more user-friendly interface! Navigating from the home page is now easier than ever. The home page offers quick access to the iLink online catalog, the new interactive Ask Reference service, and other library services. Check it out at: http://library.louisiana.edu.

• Comments Form: The library provides a form for comments. It is available for anyone to provide input, suggestions, criticisms, etc. Responses will be given if appropriate.

• Ask Reference Service:
  Dupré Library's Ask Reference Service Is Going Live!
  Dupré Library's Real-Time Reference Service is a way for users to Instant Message (IM) questions to reference librarians without having to download and install IM software. Now you can contact a librarian for help, using Instant Messaging, even if you have never used IM before!
  
  This service uses a website called Meebo that enables instant messaging between librarians and users of any of the major IM systems. It requires no downloading and it is accessible from anywhere. The URL is: http://library.louisiana.edu/Ref/askref.shtml

• Library Interactive Map: Need more information about the first floor services of the library? Want to know exactly where the Reference Online Center is? Now you can pinpoint this information with a new interactive map of the library's first floor. An easy to use Flash application displays the different locations and provides details about the different services. Lance Chance, BI/Distance Learning Librarian, created the design. Check it out at http://library.louisiana.edu/General/graphics/interactive_map1.swf

• WebFeat: Check out the new search engine that simultaneously searches many of the library's databases. WebFeat combines searches in the library catalog and in multiple library databases. WebFeat allows you to search on your desired topic for books and for articles in magazines, newspapers, and scholarly journals -- all at the same time. Access WebFeat from the Reference Online Center at http://library.louisiana.edu/Ref/Databases/.

• Tax Forms: Dupré Library participates in the Tax Forms Outlet Program, offering selected federal and state forms, with instruction booklets. The library is a distribution center for basic forms, schedules, and instructions, including 1040 NR and 1040 NR EZ. These items are located in the alcove off of the main hall in the library, behind the Bibliographic Instruction Lab.
  
  Copies of Publication 17, Your Federal Income Tax, and Publication 1194, volume 1 of the reproducible Taxpayer Information Publications, are available at the Reference Desk for use in the library.

• New Databases:
  
  African American Studies Center (AASC). The AASC provides students and scholars with online access to the finest reference resources in African American studies. Includes over 7500 articles from authoritative reference sources produced by Oxford University Press.
  CQ Researcher. Offers full-text, in-depth, non-biased coverage of today's most important issues. Each report is on a single topic-more than 12,000 words of text and extensive bibliographies. The database goes back to 1923 and also affords immediate access to the newest CQ Researcher reports as they are published.
  Communication and Mass Media Complete. Provides research in areas related to communication and mass media. The database includes full text for 285 journals.
  Credo Reference: Provides online access to around one hundred full-text reference titles. with links to images, dynamic tables, voice pronunciations, an interactive atlas, and concept maps.
  CSA Illustrata: Natural Sciences. Database of searchable tables, figures, graphs, charts and other illustrations from scholarly research and technical literature.
  GreenFILE. Covers all aspects of human impact to the environment. Scholarly, government, and general-interest titles include content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.
  Grove Music Online. Includes the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, with recent updates.
   Literature Criticism Online. The online version of several print series from Gale, with some overlap with Literature Resource Center. However, it represents hundreds of years of criticism NOT in LRC, especially from 1998 and before. Includes Literature Criticism from 1400-1800, Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism, Twentieth Century Literary Criticism, and Contemporary Literary Criticism.
  Nursing Reference Center - New Database. A point-of-care resource intended for staff nurses, nurse administrators, nursing students, nurse faculty, and hospital librarians. Delivers the best available and most recent clinical evidence and knowledge on conditions and diseases via a nursing-specific graphical interface.
  Oxford Art Online. Formerly known as Grove Art Online. The most comprehensive online reference resource for all aspects of the visual arts worldwide from prehistory to the present day. New enhanced searching. Expanded content includes the full text of The Dictionary of Art and The Oxford Companion to Western Art, with recent updates.
  Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection. Find a wealth of facts, figures, definitions, and translations from 170+ Oxford reference titles, including more than 50,000 additional in-depth, scholarly articles from titles in the acclaimed Oxford Companions series, plus all 20,000 quotations from the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.
  Project Muse. Provides full-text online access to over 300 humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers.
  ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source. Offers full-text information from leading nursing, allied health, and related publications.
  Teacher Reference Center (TRC). Provides indexing and abstracts, plus some full text, for more than 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines.
  Access these new databases from http://library.louisiana.edu/Ref/Databases/.

• Databases with new features:
  
  Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life: These databases now link to commercial full-text providers that are subscribed to by Dupre Library. Searchable cited references are also available for both databases.
  netLibrary: New interface.
  Enhancement of ISI Web of Knowledge: Offers a new easy-to-use tabular format for selecting databases. The multi-database search recognizes specialized subject terms from each database. More search filters for refining your search are offered, helping pinpoint the data needed. Citation results are clearly highlighted. The search results also lists related records to help find a wider variety of relevant articles. Coming soon on the platform: Zoological Record.
  Major upgrades to JSTOR and GroveArt: New features to JSTOR include enhancements to basic and advanced searches, simplified printing and viewing of PDF files, citation management via MyJSTOR accounts, and the ability to search within results. Links on the JSTOR homepage currently include "Information about the New JSTOR Platform" and "Sandbox," where users may register for webinars and access PowerPoint training programs. Grove Art Online is now Oxford Art Online. It also has a new platform that includes a new search interface and more content. See above description.
  EBSCO A to Z Language Enhancement: This full-text journal index may now be searched in non-English languages in various ways. For instance, end users may search and find results for non-English language titles that have been added to their institution's A-to-Z title list. Also, A-to-Z's existing alphabetic menu can now be customized to accommodate browsing titles in any of A-to-Z's supported languages.
  EBSCO Enhances Accessibility: EBSCOHost has been enhanced to exceed 508 compliance standards, thereby expanding the accessibility of its database research interfaces. This upgrade will enable visually and physically-impaired users to enjoy the features associated with the web-based version of EBSCOHost. In addition, users with slower Internet connections will realize improved performance, as a result of faster, more efficient EBSCOHost page downloads.
  WorldCat enhanced with Social-Networking Feature: Users across the Web can now add individual items cataloged in WorldCat to personalized lists. They can group items owned by Dupré Library and other WorldCat libraries, and share their lists with friends, colleagues and millions of site users.
  Users can add any book, video, article or another item to a list right from its WorldCat record, or use the checkboxes and "Save to" button in WorldCat search results.
  The new "Citations View" for a WorldCat list allows users to display citations of listed items in their choice of five common styles: APA, Chicago, Harvard, MLA or Turabian.
  Access these databases from the Reference Online Center at http://library.louisiana.edu/Ref/Databases/.

• New issue of Joie de Livres! The Fall 2007 issue of Joie de Livres is here.

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