Musselman Library News

Library Hours - Summer 2011

2011-05-05T11:52:00.003-04:00

Summer building hours are Monday-Friday, 8:00am-4:30pm, with the following exceptions:

Saturday, June 4th, 10:00am-4:00pm (Reunion weekend)

Sunday, June 5th, 10:00am-4:00pm (Reunion weekend)

Connect to the Library Website via Smartphone

2010-10-15T16:42:00.000-04:00

Musselman Library is going mobile! You can now access library information and services from your mobile devices. If you visit the Library homepage (www.gettysburg.edu/library) on your mobile device, you will automatically be redirected to a version of the site optimized for smartphones. There you will see quick links to hours, library contact information, MUSCAT, call number locations in the library and more. The mobile version of this page can be seen at www.gettysburg.edu/library/m. If you have suggestions on how we can improve our mobile site, please contact library_web@gettysburg.edu.

Students can now pay library fines through QuickPay

2010-09-28T12:47:00.002-04:00

This fall Musselman Library will join other campus departments in billing monthly through financial services. This means that students can now pay library fines through QuickPay online. No more cash only transactions at the Circulation Desk or fines that need to be settled at the end of the semester.

You can avoid fines by returning or renewing items on time.

Renew items.

Contact the Circulation Desk (717-337-7024) with any questions.

RSS feeds: Find out about new library books, dvds, and more!

2010-05-20T11:04:00.005-04:00

Want to know what DVDs we purchased recently? New CDs? Books in the Browsing Room?

If you're curious about which titles have been recently added to the Musselman Library collections, visit our Featured lists and RSS Feeds page.

You can view the lists online anytime. Or, subscribe to the RSS feed to have lists pushed to you regularly.

As with any RSS feed, you can view updated content in the feed reader of your choice (Google Reader, Bloglines). Lists are updated throughout the week.

To all campus library borrowers re: EZ Borrow

2010-05-12T15:45:00.004-04:00

On June 1 2010, Musselman Library will end its participation in the EZ Borrow loan service. PALCI (Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium, Inc.), the consortium that operates EZ Borrow, is changing its operating platform and the cost of the new system would more than double our expense for participating.

We currently run the EZ Borrow system in parallel with interlibrary loan. In short, we have two methods for obtaining books from other institutions at present. While we recognize that E-Z Borrow has been beneficial to many of you, we must cut costs and believe that having one streamlined interlibrary loan system for all book and article requests will provide better service and at the same time allow us to realize important savings.

We ask for your assistance by returning any EZ Borrow books by June 1. EZ books have a blue paper band. We cannot renew any EZ books you have checked out. While we are dropping our EZ Borrow contract, we are not leaving the PALCI consortium. We remain committed to resource sharing with other academic libraries in Pennsylvania and will continue to participate in other consortium initiatives that save the College money.

If you have any questions please call Mary Evangeliste at 337-7011. Thank you.

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Looking for something to read this summer?

2010-04-28T20:43:00.004-04:00

Musselman Library has recruited campus bibliophiles to help guide you to some wonderful, and occasionally wild, possibilities.

Check out our summer 2010 reading booklet.

Enjoy the summer. Happy reading. See you in the fall!

Do you use an iPhone, Blackberry, or other mobile device?

2010-03-18T11:00:00.005-04:00

Do you use an iPhone, Blackberry, or other mobile device to browse the Web? Musselman Library wants to know what library resources or services you'd like to access from your mobile device. Please take our brief survey.

Group Study Rooms: New and Improved

2010-01-15T11:33:00.002-05:00

The Library has two new group study rooms located on the ground floor, Rooms 003 and 004; they are equipped with large screens for DVD viewing or laptop hook-ups. Groups may reserve the space for up to 4 hours at a time using the sign-up sheet located on the wall outside the room. Dry-erase markers and erasers are available in each room. Please leave them for the next group when you are done. Stop by the circulation desk or call 337-7024 with questions.

Text a Call Number

2010-01-11T14:06:00.004-05:00

Found the perfect book for your research? You could grab a golf pencil and a scrap of paper; but, why not just text the call number to your cell phone? Simply click on the Text the Call Number button in MUSCAT and enter the 10 digits of the cell number (no hyphens or spaces) to send the location, call number and title of the item to your cell phone. Carrier charges may apply. The box also offers an option to send the info via email to your gettysburg.edu account.

Digital Postcard Collection

2009-12-09T15:54:00.000-05:00

December is always a busy month at the post office. To see postcards and holiday cards depicting the College and town that were being mailed 50 to 100 years ago, visit Musselman Library's digitized collection.

Office Supply Vending Machine

2009-10-30T14:12:00.000-04:00

It is after midnight in Musselman Library and you are seriously on deadline when suddenly your pen runs dry, your calculator croaks, or you run out of space on your CD. Not a problem. There is a new vending machine on the main floor containing a variety of supplies such as cough drops, pens, batteries, calculators, flash drives, blank CDs and more. The machine is located in the hall around the corner from the circulation desk. You can use cash or vending dollars on your student ID card. If you ever need it, the old typewriter that used to be in this location has been moved to the ground floor along the wall past the Reserves office. The food and drink vending machines remain on the ground floor in the stairwell.

New Asian Art Web Page

2009-10-07T12:28:00.000-04:00

A new web page makes it easier to browse the 2,000+ Asian artifacts in Special Collections. The artifacts are divided into 12 categories such as glass, bamboo, ceramics, cloisonné, lacquer and more. Just go to the library’s GettDigital Collections page, select Asian Art, then Browse.

New items lists are here

2009-09-24T18:41:00.000-04:00

We now have live links to items recently added to our collections. There are two ways to get to the lists: 1) From the library web site: Click the link for New Items in the What's New? section. 2) In MUSCAT: Click the link for New Items

Sign up for Interlibrary Loan services

2009-09-24T16:26:00.001-04:00

Sign up for an Interlibrary Loan account through ILLiad. Then use the account to request journal articles or or books that Musselman Library doesn't have and we will try to get it for you from another library.

New library homepage

2009-08-17T09:21:00.000-04:00

Over the course of last year, Gettysburg College students, faculty, and staff helped us assess our current home page in preparation for changes that were made this summer to our library homepage. Please send any comments or questions about the new page to Ronalee Ciocco, rciocco@gettysburg.edu.