New Library Staff
Marcus Banks, MLS, has joined the staff as the new Library Director. His most recent position was at the University of California San Francisco as Manager of Education and Research Services. Prior to that he was a Reference Librarian at the New York University Medical Center. He was awarded a postgraduate fellowship position at the National Library of Medicine and another one at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, DC.
Marcus's office is in the Founder’s Room in the Library. He can be reached at mbanks@samuelmerritt.edu or x5732 (from off campus dial 510-655-4000 x5732).
Jen Scolari, MLS, has succeeded Becky Boyd, our part-time librarian in Sacramento who has retired from SMU. Jen's also a librarian at Solano Community College, where she teaches an information competency class, and she also teaches an online information literacy class at the University of Maryland. Jen's most recent job was at the Solano County Public Library, where she was in charge of website design and implementation.
Jen can be reached at jscolari@samuelmerritt.edu or 916-646-2767.
LibGuides
The Library has acquired new software, called LibGuides, that allows librarians to create customized guides on general topics or specific courses. These guides can integrate existing subject guides, library-related course materials, handouts, and tutorials into a single online space. Faculty can request a guide for a specific course and have it embedded in their Blackboard course. Students and faculty can rate the usefulness of a guide and send suggestions for additions to them.
- To access all the guides go to http://samuelmerritt.libguides.com
- For Sacramento guides go to http://samuelmerritt.libguides.com/sacramento
- For San Francisco guides go to http://samuelmerritt.libguides.com/sflc
- For San Mateo guides go to http://samuelmerritt.libguides.com/smlc
Course Reserves
Course Reserves used to be buried in a drop-down menu. Now it's accessed via a link on the home page of the online catalog.
Once you've clicked that link, you can browse through a list of classes with course name, course number, department, location, and instructor name. Each course name is a link to a list of items on Reserve for that course. You can also search by course name, department, course number, or instructor name.
Export a Single Citation to RefWorks
You can now export single citations to RefWorks. If you are looking up an article in the Library’s Print & Electronic Journals list and find the citation, at the bottom you will see a link labelled "Export to RefWorks."
New Additions to the Collections
Here are items recently added to the library collections: In the Oakland library, newly received books (except those designated Reserve, Reference or Certification/Review) are shelved in the New Books bookcase until the end of the month in which they arrive.
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