Circulation & Shelving Department at Addlestone Library

March 19-25 is World Water week, and your chance to aid the UNICEF Tap Project in its effort to bring clean and accessible water to millions of children around the world. The Hindi classes at the College of Charleston are spearheading campus-wide participation in this very important cause, and have placed a donation box at the Circulation desk in Addlestone Library. Just $1 provides safe water for a child for 40 days. The 2012 UNICEF Tap Project Funds will specifically target Togo, Vietnam, Mauritania, and Cameroon. Thank you for your support.

College of Charleston’s Addlestone Library is hosting a school supply drive from November 14 thru November 23, 2011.  All donations will go to the Teachers’ Supply Closet, a local community benefit organization that provides classroom materials to the tri-county schools with the highest poverty rates.

The top 10 needs of the Teachers’ Supply Closet are: pencils, copy paper, glue sticks, crayons (24 pack), composition notebooks, dry erase markers, pink erasers, Kleenex, hand sanitizer, and scissors.  However, any donations, from new to gently-used, will be accepted.  Donations can be brought to the library’s Circulation desk, or placed by the schoolhouse in the rotunda, pictured below.  Thank you for supporting Charleston’s teachers and students in need.

We are pleased to announce a new proxy card service for our faculty. If you have any questions about the new Proxy Card Service, please do not hesitate to contact the Circulation Department at circle@cofc.edu or 953-8001.

Proxy Card Service Policy

The proxy card service is a service intended for members of the College of Charleston faculty to   facilitate faculty research by extending library privileges to authorized individuals on behalf of the faculty member.

Faculty members may authorize designated students, graduate assistants and research assistants of their choosing to check out library books, media, print microfilm copies and place items on reserve, using the faculty member’s library account(s).

The faculty member granting proxy permission will be held accountable for any microfilm copies produced by the proxy and charged to the faculty member’s departmental account.    Lost or damaged library items will be the faculty member’s responsibility and will be charged to the faculty member’s library account.

Faculty members using the service are encouraged to periodically monitor his/her borrower’s account.  You may monitor your account at:  http://libcat.cofc.edu/#tabs-8.  The proxy card holder will not receive notices or correspondence regarding the faculty member’s account, nor will the proxy card holder be responsible for recalled items that become overdue.

The proxy card holder must provide a valid proxy card at the time of checkout and must be listed as a proxy on the faculty member’s library account.  The faculty member may restrict full disclosure of his/her library account to the proxy.

Online Proxy Request Form

The faculty member should complete a proxy request form for each cardholder at: http://cofc.edu/library/libraries/proxy/ .  Proxy cards expire at the end of each semester.  Cards will be processed within 48 hours.  If the faculty member needs the card immediately, please contact Sherry Gadsden at gadsdens@cofc.edu or call 953.8001.  The faculty member may contact the Circulation Department to extend or revoke cardholder’s privileges at any time.  Also, the card will be mailed to the faculty member, unless specified otherwise.

The Addlestone Library Circulation department is collecting Yoplait lids to support the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure campaign during the months of October to December 2010. Last year the organization reached their goal, raising $1.5 million for the cure.

Yoplait will donate $.10 to the Susan G. Komen foundation–up to $1.6 million dollars for every pink lid collected and mailed to Yoplait by December 31, 2010.  Come join us in supporting of Cancer Research.

Bring your clean, pink Yoplait lids to the Circulation desk  in the Addlestone Library and place them in the pink Yoplait box on the Circulation desk.

Dear faculty,

We are ready to begin processing “electronic and hard copy” reserve materials for the fall.  I hope this letter finds each of you well, as we prepare to move from summer break into the fall semester.  The library and the Circulation department want to ensure that you are well informed of updates and changes made to our electronic and traditional reserve services before we transition into another academic semester.  Also, we hope you will find these updates and changes to be timely, efficient and helpful.

The Reserve Process

Please bring the separate collated articles along with citations since all paper documents must be scanned before they can appear on your electronic course page.   Please bring the best quality copy to be scanned.  Also, be sure to include the title as it appears on the course syllabus.  Although, we try to process reserves as quickly as we receive them, please keep in mind there is a 72 hour processing period.  Due to the number of reserves we receive at the beginning of a semester, it may be even longer.  It is very important that you submit the electronic reserve form before sending your reserve documents.  You may access the reserve form at http://www.cofc.edu/library/faculty/eres/course/index.php.  Sending the documents before submitting the form will delay processing.  For those who may want to put articles from microfilm on reserve, the library has added a state of the art microfilm scanner. Please be advised due to time constraints we are unable to scan your microfilm documents.

Also, in the summer of 2009 the Shelving Department merged with the Circulation Department.   As a result of the merger, we are pleased to offer you some additional services.   We are prepared, upon request, to retrieve books from the library’s collection to be processed for faculty hard copy reserves.  However, we are unable to make photo copies from books or journals at this time.

If you are using our electronic reserve system for the first time or have in the past and wish to manage and maintain your own course page, you may do so by contacting the Circulation Department and scheduling an appointment.  Faculty members who manage their own electronic reserve pages are responsible for adhering to copyright guidelines.

Students can request and purchase course packs thru the College bookstore or an outside company such as SasE-ink, A&E, etc.  A percentage of the revenue generated from course packs requested and sold thru the bookstore goes toward CofC scholarships.

If you are not in position to bring your reserve material at this time, please bring reserve items to be processed to the Circulation desk before 08.16.2010.  This will allow us to process your request more quickly and accurately.  Our objective is to have your material processed and available for your students the first week of classes.  Receiving reserve materials after 08.16.2010 may delay the processing and completion of your e-reserve course page.

We look forward to assisting you with your reserve materials this fall semester.  If you have any questions, please feel free to email us at reserves@cofc.edu or contact us at 953-8001.

Thank you.

With the growing demand for innovative technology and prompt efficient service, the library has added a state of the art microfilm scanner.  The new Scan Pro desk top compact microfilm machine is a high resolution, fast speed machine that will support all type of microforms.  The Scan Pro is connected to a windows PC.  You have the option to save images to the computer hard drive or you can save to a thumb drive.   Also, images may be sent across the network to a distant device or even sent via email.   “Its software automatically applies filters to enhance the image and remove the effect of scratches and other blemishes on your microfilm images, quickly and efficiently”.  The Scan Pro is located near the color printer in the Addlestone computer lab.  In addition, there are two Minolta microfilm machines and a laser printer in the open space near the microfilm cabinets on the second floor.  The microfilm room on the second has been re-purposed and is now being used as a study room for students.

Better World Books (www.betterworldbooks.com) is a national organization that hosts student-run book drives on various university and college campuses. Upon singing up to participate, all the required materials are sent directly to the individuals organizing the book drive (i.e. all flyers, donation boxes, shipping boxers). The donated books are then either sold online, with all profit going to one of five charities, or the books are directly donated to one of the literacy charities. Currently, Better World Books is affiliated with these five charity programs: Books for Africa, Room to Read, Worldfund, the National Center for Family Literacy, and Invisible Children.

The box to donate the books is on the first floor near the main staircase in the alcove.

Pass the message along!

Dont’ forget that you can renew your books three different ways:

1. Online: log into “My library account” under Quick Links. If you renew online, make sure that you do it before the due date. Otherwise, call or come to the desk.

2. In person: just bring your CofC ID.

3. Over the phone–call 953.8001.

If you have any questions or have problems renewing, call 953.8001.