The next time you submit an interlibrary loan request you will see that the ILLiad web pages have a new look. In addition to the changed appearance, the form includes several new features.

A search box at the top of the initial screen now allows you to search by keyword for any past request, regardless of whether it is a current, canceled, or completed request. Another nice option is the ability to undelete “electronically received articles” that you might have unintentionally deleted. You will notice several other changes. We hope you find them useful. Have fun exploring!

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. . . and they began to cry!

Have you lost your mittens? Or umbrella, or scarf, or notebook, or keys, or . . . .

Visit the lost and found display near the stairs on the main floor of Hagerty Library and reclaim your long-lost stuff! The circulation desks at each library hold lost items to be reunited with their owners.

Our lost-and-found display celebrates National Poetry Month, with Elizabeth Bishop's "One Art".

One Art
Elizabeth Bishop
The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

--Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident
the art of losing's not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.

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Emanuel Kelly, FAIA, was raised in West Philadelphia and has been managing the design, documentation, and construction of architectural, urban design, and planning projects for thirty-six years. He graduated with a degree in architecture from Drexel University in 1971 and received his master’s degree in city planning and urban design from Harvard University in 1974. He returned to Philadelphia in 1976 and, along with Vincent Maiello, AIA, established the architectural and planning firm Kelly/Maiello, Inc.

The Drexel University Archives has created an online exhibit to honor the work of Drexel graduate Emanuel Kelly. This exhibit highlights just a few of the many projects completed by the Kelly/Maiello firm.

Questions or comments about this exhibit should be directed to the Drexel University Archives at archives@drexel.edu.

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Simply Map is a web-based application that allows you to quickly create attractive, information-rich maps from a wide variety of GIS data. Environmental, consumer, quality of life, and US Census data can all be mapped, exported, and analyzed. You can even import your own data sets. Spice up your presentations, locate new markets, decide what neighborhood to live in – it’s all easy with Simply Map.

SimplyMap has been added to our list of databases; give it a try today!

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Smoking - Critters - Firefox -- What are your fellow students saying about issues in the library?

The Suggestion Box is the Libraries' new online version of our popular Suggestion bulletin board. We'll post selected suggestions submitted online or in the libraries, with responses from library staff -- your comments on the postings are always welcome!

The Suggestion Box joins our Library Log and Medicine/Health Sciences news blog, as well as our new DrexelCareerLib blog for career resource news, and our many popular subject-related blogs. Add our blog feeds to your favorite feed reader to stay up-to-the minute with info about the libraries.

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Knovel, provider of nearly 1,000 e-books in our electronic collection, and one of the sponsors of our Scholarly Communication Symposium, is once again sponsoring the Knovel Challenge: use Knovel's online resources to answer 5 questions, and you'll be entered to win a $1500 scholarship, or 1 of 8 iPods.

Enter at http://info.knovel.com/challenge up until midnight on April 5th.

Knovel's online reference books and engineering handbooks are highly recommended by Engineering Librarian Jay Bhatt in his Research Guide, Fundamentals of Engineering Research.

Last Fall, College of Engineering student Sameer Kalghatgi was the lucky winner of an iPod Shuffle in one of Knovel's University Challenges -- will you be next?

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Spring term (for programs on the quarter-system) begins only one week after the end of finals week. This gives us all less time to kick back, relax, and perhaps most importantly, prepare the materials we need to put on reserve for next term.

Our Reserve Service will make every effort to handle your requests in a timely fashion, but we need your help:

• If you want a book from the collection put on reserve, please tell us now so we can hold it or recall it.
  
• If you want readings put on electronic reserve, send photocopies ASAP.
  
• Reserve Request forms can be found here:
  
  • Reserve Request form for electronic submission:
    http://www.library.drexel.edu/services/reserve_form/reserve_form.html
    
  • Printable Reserve Request form:
    http://www.library.drexel.edu/services/reserve_form/Rsrvreq.pdf
    

Those of you who have already handed in your materials have our gratitude, appreciation, and promise that your materials will be ready by the first day of classes.

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Look for new DVD choices in Hagerty Library, including more recent releases and classics. The new DVDs, coming to us through the same service from which we obtain our "leisure reading" books, will be shelved next to the Circulation Desk; the borrowing period will be 5 days. Take a study break, and enjoy a movie tonight!

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As renovation of the Hagerty systems offices begins, all checkout services are moving to the Circulation Desk on the 1st floor of the Library. Laptops can now be checked out and returned there; DVDs and VHS videotapes will move to reserve and open shelving on the 1st floor, and will also be checked out at the main Circulation Desk.

For a few weeks, while the DVDs and VHS tapes are being processed (which will include some reconditioning for damaged videos), they won't be available for browsing but can be requested through the Library Catalog.

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The Drexel College of Law Library is looking to hire a small staff of work-study students. Job duties include assisting library patrons at the User Services desk and on the phone as well as stack maintenance duties, including shelving, shelf-reading and shifting library collections as needed. Applicants must be customer service oriented with basic computer skills. Dependability, punctuality, good communication skills and the ability to lift heavy books are also musts.

If interested or for more information, please contact Mike Mellor at mbm53@drexel.edu or Katie Bray at knb29@drexel.edu. Unfortunately, only students with federal work-study grants can be accepted.

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African American architect William Sidney Pittman graduated from the Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry in 1900. Ten years later, a profile written on the young architect stated simply: “Mr. Pittman is considered the leading architect of his race.” Over the course of a relatively short career, Pittman is credited with forty designs or additions mainly in the vicinity of Washington D.C. and the state of Texas.

The Drexel University Archives has created an online exhibit focusing on W. Sidney Pittman’s time at Drexel. Most of what we know about Pittman’s student days comes from a series of letters he wrote to Booker T. Washington between 1897 and 1900. Those letters are part of the Booker T. Washington papers at the Library of Congress.

Questions or comments about this exhibit should be directed to the Drexel University Archives at archives@drexel.edu.

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A new research guide for Africana Studies is now available - http://www.library.drexel.edu/resources/guides/africana.html . The guide is intended to help "jump start" student research in Africana Studies by guiding them to some of the best library resources for their topics. Sources for finding background information, scholarly articles, biographical resources, and more are provided. 

Research guides on a variety of topics in all program areas are available at http://www.library.drexel.edu/resources/guides/subjectguides.html.

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Browse new books -- books added to the Hagerty Library and the Health Sciences Libraries collections in February.

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