Now that our DVD collection has grown (more than 1,000 DVDs in the Leisure Collection) Hagerty Library has increased the borrowing limit for DVDs from 2 at a time to 3. You can also keep the DVDs for 5 days.

Enjoy -- but don't forget to save some time for studying!

Found the perfect book in the catalog but don't want to write down the call number? Now, you don't need to!

You can send a text message to yourself from the catalog. Find a book or DVD in the catalog, and simply click the "Send via Text Message" link. You'll receive a text message containing the title and call number.

Please note: this does not reserve the item for you. Instead, it sends you a text message so you know where to find it. If you'd like to reserve the item, please use the "Request Item" link.

Looking for a late-night cup of joe? The Café food service will be available from 3:00 pm until 10:00 pm Monday through Friday.

We hope you enjoy this wonderful space!

While our classrooms in the lower level are being renovated, we have relocated 14 computers to Room L01 (the glassed-in room at the bottom of the stairs in the lower level). There are also two flat-bed scanners available for use.

Renovations to the classrooms in the lower level should be completed by the start of the Fall Term. In the meantime, enjoy L01!

...a lot changed around here!

Air Handler Replacement

Wondering what the giant octopus is on 33rd Street? It's a temporary unit to help cool the building while crews are working to remove the old air handlers and install the new ones on the roof of Hagerty. During this time, there may need to be brief closures of various areas throughout the library, so stay tuned for more details.

Third Floor Renovations

Renovations on the third floor of Hagerty are winding down and the Law Library is moving in. Once the renovations are completed, the third floor will be open to the entire Drexel community except during School of Law review and finals periods.

Classroom Renovations

Renovations to the classrooms in the lower level are scheduled to begin this week and should be completed by the start of the Fall Term. This means that L13, L14, and L19 are currently closed. Due to space limitations, the computers formerly located in these rooms will not be available for use. We ask that patrons make use of the hub computers on the entrance level.

We appreciate your continued patience during these renovations and look forward to having a better library environment!

Visit here to reserve a room: http://www.library.drexel.edu/about/groupstudy.html#hagerty

Group study rooms will also be left unlocked, so students can use rooms without checking out a key from the Circulation Desk. Please be aware that students with reservations have priority.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact the Circulation Desk at 215-895-2767.

If you believe that something has been stolen from you, notify the security guard on the 1st floor immediately. If you've misplaced something, check with the Circulation Desk -- our Lost and Found collection includes flash drives, notebooks, glasses, keys, etc.

“a web based current awareness service designed to provide researchers and other members of the academic community with immediate access to new research and publications in their field - all within hours of being posted online. Providing one source for a variety of research data, RefAware constantly scours the internet for the latest information and automatically delivers new information directly to the user. Covering over 8,000 peer-reviewed sources and other non-refereed sources of information, RefAware provides a comprehensive, up-to-the minute picture of today's global research.”

It is an alerting service, but the breadth of information RefAware accesses for alerts is much more complete than other alerting services we’ve used in the past (i.e. Ingenta). The search results link directly to SFX for Drexel full text, and can also link to your Refworks account to your RefAware account for direct import of citations.

You can sign in to RefAware using your Drexel email address at http://www.refaware.com and try it out until the end of June. Please send feedback to erlib@drexel.edu.

With the Earl Mack School of Law Library closed temporarily for the final stages of renovation and expansion to the Hagerty third floor (see Law Library Renovation FAQ), Law Library staff will be joining us at the Reference Desk on the first floor of Hagerty Library, Monday-Friday 9 am - 5 pm. All circulation and reserve activity for the Law Library will also move to the Hagerty Circulation Desk on the first floor.

By discarding some materials that are available online, and moving others to the second floor, we have been able to open up some shelf space in our reference collection. Our student assistants are now working (very energetically!) to condense the remaining books on to the shelves closest to the 1st floor computer area.

Our goal is to clear -- and then remove -- the reference area shelving closest to the DVD shelves; furniture will then be moved to the newly cleared space providing additional study areas without obstructing access to reference materials.

The work is expected to be completed by the end of the week.

UPDATE: On Monday, May 19th, the scaffolding will come down -- hurray for atrium light on the 1st floor!

On Monday, May 19th, the air handlers will be turned off temporarily while work is completed on the roof. Temperatures are expected to remain cool over the weekend and on Monday, so we do not anticipate uncomfortable conditions in the library.

We thank all of our students an other library patrons for their continued patience as our renovations continue.

Want to see reference information without scrolling to the foot of an article? It is now possible to view reference information within the body of a paper when your cursor moves over a reference marker.

Want to quickly evaluate articles before reading them? You’ll find easy access to important article components including the abstract, figures/tables and references on the search results, table of contents and article pages.

You’ve evaluated and read the article, what now? You can take further action quickly and easily. A new article toolbox brings together all of the article-related functionality including "Cited By", "E-mail Article" and more, into one easy-to-find location.

While all search features are available in the web interface our Math Sciences Librarian, Peggy Dominy, has identified some functions -- primarily used by those doing bibliometric analysis -- for which the downloadable interface may be preferred, therefore we will continue to make this version available as well.

Chemical Abstracts covers the published scientific research in chemistry, and offers searching by author name, research topic, substance identifier, chemical structure, or chemical reaction. Now includes the Substructure Module (SSM). The limit of 4 simlutaneous users will continue to apply regardless of which interface is in use.

Look for both versions of Scifinder Scholar in our lists of databases.