University of the Pacific Library News

The University Library is reinstating 24/7 for 2009 School of Pharmacy finals.  We will open at 7:30 am Tuesday April 7 and remain open until 6:45 pm Friday April 10.  We will open at 7:30 am Monday April 13 and remain open until 12:45 am Thursday, April 16. 

 NOTE:  The University Library will be open from 12 Noon to 9:45 pm Saturday April 11 and closed in observance of the  Easter Holiday on Sunday April 12.           

 Regular hours will resume at 7:30 am Thursday April 16. 

We will also endeavor to accommodate College of the Pacific Finals in May.

Please thank Sia from Bon Appetit and Steve Jacobson for supplying free coffee for our students during the times we’re open all night.

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The University Library is pleased to announce the availability of electronic delivery of Interlibrary Loan articles to all faculty, staff and students on the Stockton campus. Instead of picking up the requested articles in person at the library, you can now retrieve the articles electronically from your desktop.

To take advantage of this convenient service, you will need to modify your ILLiad user information to indicate that you prefer your articles to be delivered electronically. You will need to change your “Preferred Delivery Method” to “electronic delivery”, and “Preferred Electronic Delivery if Possible” to “yes”. To help us make this implementation as smooth as possible, you will need to use your Pacific e-mail address (i.e. xxxxx@pacific.edu) as your “Preferred Notification Method” in your ILLiad Profile.

For further information or questions, please contact Monica at 209.946.2196 or e-mail ill@pacific.edu.

Through the end of October, the library has access to free trials of dozens of ProQuest databases. Selections include “20th-Century Drama,” “African Writers Series,” “Civil War Collection,” “Historical Newspapers: San Francisco Chronicle,” “Communication Abstracts,” “GenderWatch,” and many more.  Visit our trial page for the link.

The trial ends Wednesday, October 29, so be sure to tell us what you think!

It’s finals time again and the Library is your 24/7 friend! Spread the word that the Main Library will be open non-stop from Sunday May 4 at 11 am through Friday May 9 at 7 pm, and then again from Sunday May 11 at 11 am through Wednesday May 14 at 11 pm.

The library is pleased to announce the introduction of a new feature to the Pacificat catalog: book cover images and links to book previews at Google Book Search. The addition of these features makes Pacificat a more powerful searching tool and gives library users more information about items in our catalog.

Currently, cover images display for any book in Pacificat which have an ISBN that is included in Google’s ever-expanding database. Some books in Google’s database also have previews available, so you can browse portions of the text right from your web browser to see if the book might be useful to your search.

Additionally, we’ve made accessing ebooks even easier by moving the ebook link right to the search results page. Finally, all items in every search now display their complete title right on the search results page, a minor tweak which yields major dividends when you’re scanning through results.

We hope you enjoy these improvements!

The library is asking for everyone in the Pacific community to help determine how the library’s technology resources can best serve our patrons.

So, we’ve decided to do a survey. A quick survey. One where participants might win a new iPod Shuffle.

Interested? Proceed to the survey web site!

The survey is now closed.

Thanks to everyone who participated.

Now you can get access to PacifiCat, the library’s online catalog of books and multimedia materials, right from the search box in Firefox or Internet Explorer 7. It’s simple: just install the new “Search PacifiCat” plugin from the link on the library homepage. With one click the code automatically adds a “Search PacifiCat” option to the list of search engines available for your browser.

Firefox 2 or IE 7 required.

Enjoy!

The library will be on Intersession hours from January 2 to January 13, 2008. Regular hours will resume Monday, January 14, 2008.

Main Library
Regular Hours

Monday - Thursday 8:00 am - 9:45 pm
Friday 8:00 am - 4:45 pm
Saturday 1:00 pm - 4:45 pm
Sunday 1:00 pm - 9:45 pm

Reference Desk Hours

Monday - Friday 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Special Collections

Monday - Friday 10:00 am - 5:00 pm

Health Sciences Branch
Regular Hours

Monday - Thursday 8:00 am - 8:00 pm
Friday 8:00 am - 6:00 pm
Saturday - Sunday 1:00 pm - 6:00 pm
(Evening hours provided at main library)

The Main Library will become a 24 hour warm and safe study area on Dec 5 and Dec 12. While we normally close at 2 a.m. during finals, on these two nights the library will remain open for computer use and study space.

Please note - The Davey Cafe, the Circulation Desk, Reference Services and Information Commons personnel will not be available after regular hours.

Come on in. We look forward to helping you find a quiet place to study for your exams.

I want to share with you the exciting news that our Leisure Reading on the Go program has been selected as an Effective Practice by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) and will soon appear on their Effective Practices web site. I’ll provide the link as soon as it is live.

The idea came out of a lunch conversation I had with Edith Sparks and Douglas Tedards, two members of the teaching faculty, about the absence of reading materials in The Summit Cafe. But it was thanks to Gail Stovall and her excellent circulation team that this idea became a reality - thank you!

This is a wonderful honor for Pacific and for the University Library.