This is not how we planned to send you off. We planned on 7 more weeks of jokes, annoying emails and last-minute schedule changes. We pictured a large end of year meal where staff and student employees could come together to wish you well, share stories and hear about your plans for your next chapter….Continue Reading A Tribute to Our Seniors
Several vendors have decided to make their journals, ebooks, videos, and other resources available for free or temporarily upgrading access models to provide to universities moving courses online. Below is a short list of vendors and publishers currently expanding access. Please remember these resources are only available temporarily. If you have questions about any of…Continue Reading Free Academic Resources During COVID-19 Pandemic
While our building is currently closed, Blough-Weis Library will continue to serve patrons by providing online access to important digital materials, assisting with research, and supporting faculty and students transitioning to online instruction. All of the digital collections will still be available to access, and the library staff and librarians are available to assist with…Continue Reading Support and Services at Blough-Weis Library
This year, students at Susquehanna University have expressed their concerns with how much book prices have gone up in the past few years. Students and faculty have been working together to find a solution to the problem and are promoting the idea for Open Textbooks. Open Textbooks have an open license which allows professors…Continue Reading Open Textbook Initiative
Here We Are by Aarti Namdev Shahani E184 .E2 S535 2019The Shahanis came to Queens—from India, by way of Casablanca—in the 1980s. They were undocumented for a few unsteady years and then, with the arrival of their green cards, they thought they’d made it. This is the story of how they did, and didn’t; the…Continue Reading New Books for your Wish List
Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber by Mike Isaac In June 2017, Travis Kalanick, the hard-charging CEO of Uber, was ousted in a boardroom coup that capped a brutal year for the transportation giant. Uber had catapulted to the top of the tech world, yet for many came to symbolize everything wrong with Silicon Valley.Award-winning New…Continue Reading Need a book for the weekend?
She Said by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey From the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters who broke the news of Harvey Weinstein’s sexual harassment and abuse for the New York Times, Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, the thrilling untold story of their investigation and its consequences for the #MeToo movement.For many years, reporters had tried to get to…Continue Reading New Additions – February 17th
This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger 1932, Minnesota—the Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to an orphan named Odie O’Banion, a lively boy whose exploits earn him the superintendent’s wrath. Forced to flee, he…Continue Reading New Books – February 4th
In December 2019, Blough-Weis Library moved to a mediated access model for streaming films through Kanopy. This new model will still allow members of the Susquehanna community to browse the entire Kanopy collection but will now require a request to be submitted before a film is viewable. This will give the library an opportunity to review all purchase requests before they happen. Why did we make this change? Kanopy’s…Continue Reading Recent Changes to Kanopy Streaming Service
Blough-Weis Library is pleased to announce the acquisition of over 16,000 Oxford University Press titles across 20 subjects, through the Oxford Scholarship Online platform. This deal provides perpetual access to all 16,000+ published titles, as well as all frontlist titles published through 2022. You can browse the collection by the following subjects: Biology Law Neuroscience…Continue Reading 16,000 Oxford eBooks Now Available at Susquehanna University
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