Swain Library News

The Engineering Library is offering workshops on using citation management software, such as RefWorks, EndNote, and Zotero.

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Print jobs are billed in one of three ways (see below). It costs 10 cents per page to print and 13 cents per page to photocopy.

1. For everyone, but primarily for individuals not affiliated with Stanford

   You need to purchase a copy card. The card itself costs $1. Additional funds must be deposited onto the card to be available for printing. Select the printer called “ChemLib-KioskPrinter.” This printer is located on the right side when you enter the Swain Library.

   Please note that Swain’s cash-to-card dispenser machine does not accept any “new” bills (Green and Engineering Libraries dispenser machines will accept new bills). Please bring crisp $1 bills to add money to a dispenser card as Swain does not have any cash on hand to make change.

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I am very pleased to announce that Blandine Clausing will start work as Swain’s Library Specialist on Monday, October 26, 2009. Blandine is replacing Jonathan Hoffer who resigned in August to attend graduate school at UC-Davis. Blandine brings a wealth of experience to our position as she has worked as the Serials Specialist at the Engineering Library since 1993. At Swain, she will be the key contact for course reserves. Her duties will also include handling serials, acquisitions, circulation, web pages and last but not least assisting users at the circulation desk.

1) Linking Electronic Resources to Class Sites in CourseWork and CCNet

The Engineering Library is sponsoring a lunch-time workshop on how to link electronic content into your Coursework or CCNet class site. All faculty and teaching assistants are welcome to attend. The workshop will be offered Monday, 9/28, from 12 noon to 1 pm and will be held in Conference Room 105 in Y2E2 across from the Coupa Café. Refreshments provided.

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Graduate students and postdocs are eligible for 24-hour access to the library but must attend an orientation tour.

For more details about who’s eligible for 24-hour access, please see Swain’s After Hours Access page.

Please send RSVP to graceb[at]stanford[dot]edu to sign up for a session.

Green Library is the largest library on campus, and is home to the main humanities and social sciences collection, the Information Center, the Media Microtext Center, Special Collections and University Archives, and many other central library services and resources. The Library Privileges Desk is located at the Green Library.

New Students: The Information Center invites new students (and their parents) to tour Green Library, explore world class library collections, and find out how the library can support your research needs. All tours will last for 50 minutes.

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These sessions will be for all interested graduate students and will cover the wide variety of science and engineering sources available online and the branch libraries in the sciences. It will include demos of databases, e-journals, e-books and Q&A time. This event is being coordinated so that information won’t be repeated at sessions held earlier that same day at the Green Library. This event will provide attendees an opportunity to interact with other libraries and collections related to their major field. The Swain Librarian will be participating in this event. These sessions will be held at the Engineering Library, 2nd Floor, Terman Engineering Center on:

The Swain Library will be offering orientation tours in September and October at these times:

24-Hour Access to the Swain Library

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My apologies for the 11th hour notification, but access to OPPIE and FlashPoint from LANL will end on August 31, 2009.

The OPPIE platform has enabled users to search Biosis, Engineering Index, Inspec, and the three citation databases SciSearch, Social SciSearch, and Arts & Humanities. FlashPoint searched the databases on OPPIE plus MathSciNet and PubMet.

Access is ending from developments both at Stanford and at LANL.
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Due to an increase in SUNet IDs being stolen and then used to gain illegal access to library resources and software licensed by Swain, it has become necessary to require users to physically come into the Swain Library and show their Stanford ID in order to get a code or license key. Products affected include:

• ACD Spectral/Physical Properties Software
• Beilstein Crossfire
• Cambridge Structural Database
• DIADEM/DIPPR 801 Database

Exceptions:

• PyMOL only uses IP address to authenticate users.
• SciFinder Scholar site.prf files are available on the server when you download the client software.

We also ask that you do not redistribute passwords or license keys to others.