Library News
- Legacy Library Homecoming Open House, October 17, 2009
- Legacy Library will be hosting an Open House
Saturday, October 17, 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. in celebration of Homecoming. Please join us
for light refreshments and a self-guided tour of the new facility.
- Legacy Library Special Collections
Acquisitions, July 31, 2009
- The Marietta College Library announces
recent acquisitions of interesting and important special collections.
Included are: Cornelius E. Dickinson Materials, a large collection of
materials of an early minister of the First Congregational Church of
Marietta and additions to the Samuel Hildreth collection and other early
documents of the Marietta area.
- Library Introduces New ILL
Request Form, July 15, 2009
- The Library has implemented a new Inter-Library
Loan request form on its web site. One difference from the previous
form is that you log in using your email username and password, rather
than your name and library barcode.
- Legacy
Library Summer Hours Change, June 22, 2009
- Effective Monday, July 6, 2009, the Legacy
Library's Summer Hours will be set as follows:
- Monday-Friday, 8:30am-5:00pm
- Saturday-Sunday, Closed.
The Legacy Library also will be closed on Friday, July 3, for the Independence
Day holiday.
- Director
of Worthington Center for Teaching Announced, June 1, 2009
- Dr. Bev Hogue's list of qualifications
as Marietta College's Director of the Worthington Center for Teaching
Excellence are a testament to her commitment to education.
- Ohio
Governor helps to formally dedicate Legacy Library, May 8, 2009
- It was a special moment in Marietta College's
history and a special group of people who bore witness to it.
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Legacy Library to be dedicated, May 8, 2009
- College
to host Ohio History Day competition for District 10, March
28, 2009
- The MC Library in partnership with the
MC History Department and Campus Martius will host history competition
for middle-school and high-school students.
- Electronic
Journal Center Now Fully Restored, March 18, 2009
- The OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center
has now been fully restored and once again provides access to more than
12.5 million articles.
-
Foundation Center workshop, March 12, 2009
- The class "How to Approach a Foundation"
will be presented by Foundation Center's David Holmes.
-
Prizes for Opening Week Activities : See the winners!, January
19, 2009
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Marietta’s legacy lives on, January 13, 2009
- College unveils new $17.5 million library
in time for spring semester.
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Legacy Library Opens Monday , January 7, 2009
- Students at Marietta College will be
returning to classes Monday, and they'll be coming back to a brand new
library.
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Join us for opening week activities and win prizes from local businesses.,
January 2, 2009
- Monday, January 12, 2009 2:00-4:00 p.m.
Book Brigade
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 2:00-4:00 p.m. Open House
Wednesday, January 14, 2009 Demonstration Day
Thursday, January 15, 2009 Fun & Prizes at the Cafe
Friday, January 16, 2009 7:00-10:00 p.m. Game Night
- Chinese
Language Journals, April 3, 2008
- The OhioLINK consortium recently purchased
a subscription to 257+ full-text Chinese language e-journals in the
China Online Journals collection from Wanfang. Faculty, students and
staff at OhioLINK member institutions can access these journals from
on or off-campus.
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Legacy Library adds new electronic books., March 24, 2008
- Thousands of new scholarly e-books, published
by Springer, are now available to students, faculty and staff at OhioLINK
member institutions. These are recent (2005-2007), high-quality scientific,
technological and medical books. Students can use these books to do
research anytime, anywhere. Faculty can use the books for research or
as course materials. Faculty can assign particular readings and link
to relevant chapters or sections from course pages or Web sites. New
Springer e-books will be added regularly. These recent additions bring
the total number of e-books offered by OhioLINK to 25,000.
- College
to host Ohio History Day competition for District 10, January
8, 2008
- The MC Library in partnership with the
MC History Department and Campus Martius will host history competition
for middle-school and high-school students.
- College
library offers classes for grantwriters, January 16, 2008
- Two classes will be offered: How to Approach
a Foundation and Proposal Writing Basics
- Watch Legacy Library Construction
Progress
- WebCam shows construction progress on
new library building 24 hours a day. The webcam image is refreshed every
15 seconds and also offers time-lapse views of the process.
- College
library provides new connection to Foundation Center, July 26,
2007
- The Marietta College Library was recently
selected to become a full Cooperating Collection of the Foundation Center—the
first in southeast Ohio.
- Library adds
to JSTOR subscriptions, July 26, 2007
- Several new collections were added to
the Library's JSTOR subscriptions. Over 375 new electronic journal backfiles
are added to our resources.
- New Search Tools Introduced , July
25, 2007
- Tools for adding MC Cat, the OhioLink
catalog, and OhioLink EJC to your FireFox search box have been developed.
- Legacy Library Construction
News
- Check here for the latest news from the
College about the Legacy Library.
- Legacy
Library Groundbreaking Photos, May 18, 2007
- More
Legacy Library Groundbreaking Photos, May 18, 2007
- Marietta
College's tradition, history honored in naming of new library,
May 18, 2007
- News release of the new library groundbreaking.
- Dobkins
donate $2M for library's Jack E. and Betty O. Prince Forum,
May 4, 2007
- College alumni support the construction
of the new library.
- Dawes
Memorial Library Move Photos, December 2006
- Library
re-discovers documents with Washington, Jefferson signatures,
November 14, 2006
- Report of an exciting find in the Library's
Special Collections.
- 3-D model, color
rendering gives glimpse of what College's new library will look like,
July 7, 2006
- Update on new Library planning.
- An
Interview with Provost Sue Dewine, July 7, 2006
- Provost DeWine's vision of a new library.
- View photos
from Operation Book Brigade., March 9, 2007
- College
has plan to keep library services available during construction,
March 9, 2006
- Interview with Director Douglas Anderson.
- MC
receives $10 million gift for Learning and Library Resource Center,
October 24, 2005
- News of the lead gifts by Laura Baudo
Sillerman and Rob Dyson that kicked off planning for the new library.
