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Congratulations to our Survey Winners!
Congratulations to the winners from the Library Satisfaction Survey! Our grand prize winner has won a $100 Visa gift card and two runners-up have won $50 Visa gift cards: Grand Prize Winner: Theresa Rabbits Runner Up: Sharon Ostroski Runner Up: Brandon Miller Thank you to everyone who participated in our survey over the past weeks. …
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New Resource for Turning Your Ph.D. into a Full-time Tenure Track Position
Karen Kelsky, Ph.D., offers first-hand advice on how to navigate the academic job search from start to finish in her book, The professor is in: the essential guide to turning your Ph.D. into a job. (LB 1778 .K45 2015 Faculty Resources Collection). Her plan for success addresses issues regarding the CV, references, preparing a diversity…
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Wayne College Library Needs Your Feedback: Participate in our Survey
Are you a current Wayne College student, faculty, or staff member? If so, please consider participating in our library satisfaction survey. Your feedback will help us improve our library’s resources, facilities, and services. The survey should take less than 10 minutes to complete. All of your answers will be kept strictly confidential. If you are…
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New Computers in the Library Lab
Stop by the library lab to check out the new computers that recently replaced the laptops: Students will enjoy the larger screens as they work individually, in groups, or as part of scheduled library hands-on activities. A schedule outside the door will list any booked reservations in this space. The room is available as an…
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E-textbooks
Are you using an e-textbook this semester? If so, both instructors and students can expect to reap the benefits. A recent study conducted by Andrew Feldstein of Virginia State University reveals that e-textbooks offer many advantages over traditional hardcopy texts. Below are a few. •E-textbooks feature rich content that is readily available and accessible. Students…
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Library is Closed Friday, August 21st
The library will be closed on Friday, August 21, 2015 while the library staff are working off-site. We will be having our annual strategic planning meeting over at Heartland Point. We’ll be back next week: Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. We resume our normal hours when the fall semester starts on…
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Advice for the first day of the class
There are many good ideas on how to get off on the right foot with students on the first day of class in this blog by Maryellen Weimer on the Teaching Professor Blog: “The First Day of Class: A Once-a-Semester Opportunity“
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Information Literacy Workshop Changes Coming This Fall
The library is working over the summer to make a number of changes to the information literacy program at Wayne College. There are two primary reasons for the change: We anticipate the advent of the GenEd Core online courses will increase the number of students needing information literacy instruction. We want to offer these online…
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Learning Express Library to be cancelled
The Learning Express Library resource is being cancelled for OhioLINK and INFOhio libraries. We will loose access on Monday, August 10, 2015. The good news is that many of the components (but not all) are still available to everyone via the Ohio Means Jobs website. Select the “Assessment and Testing” portion to see which assessments…
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Welcome!
Welcome to Wayne College Library’s new blog!