News August 2008

Sport Discus is Now Available with Full Text

Sport Discus now includes full text. Sport Discus is a key database for sports, sports medicine, and physical education. It provides indexing and full text for more than 2,000 journals.

Loan Period Extended for DVD's and Laptops

Students, faculty, staff, and Academy Students may now borrow DVD's for 4 days. Digital equipment, such as laptops, projectors, digital cameras, etc. may now be kept for 6 hours. The equipment may be renewed online twice, or returned to Educational Resources by the closing time of the same calendar day, whichever comes first.

University Computing Services Lab Closed

The University Computing Services Lab in Bracken Library has been closed. In the winter of 2008-2009 the area will re-open as the "Helen B. and Martin D. Schwartz Special Collections and Global Digital Complex." The complex will provide state-of-the-art interactive equipment for collaboration.